Polarization is not static; it moves along society's fabric.

Bubbles inside a shared space will grow & evolve until something breaks, and the bubbles become spaces of their own.

When new unarguable principles are found, new bubbles will be born. And we're back to square one.

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1597223051904548870

It happened to other social networks (along different dimensions), FB being the oldest mainstream example.

For FB, it may have been users age (which then basically correlated with politics).

For Twitter, it's political views from the start.

Good? Bad?
Both I guess.

→Local net positive: people are gonna be happier to be in their tribe, feeling surrounded by peers only.
→ Global net negative: empathy loss from both sides, less understanding of different views, reasons, and lives.

So what?

So I have no idea what.

I think I'll just be happy to ask myself more questions about this for now, and most importantly I'll try to fight the urge of having answers for them (especially if quick, easy, absolute answers).

If you have thoughts on this, please share them.

I think it's an interesting and obscure topic, and we'd all benefit from being intentional about our choices, and trying to understand the whole thing.

Even if it's on idiotic stuff like what social you're on atm.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/albigiu/mjPAbjW

Polarization moves, and you move with it

do you think it's okay (or legal) if I take essays written by interesting people, run them through a good text-to-speech engine and publish them as a podcast?

it'd be free, and they would be obviously credited.

- Searched for TTS tools. Ended up with Google TTS Wavenet voices
- Took Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale"
- Cleaned it up a bit and generated an MP3
- Recorded an intro putting the iPhone inside the closet. 
- Edited with Audacity
- Uploaded everything to Anchor FM
- ✅

Published, and now live!

This was a super fun 2-hour prod build &amp; ofc this is all very experimental and subject to change. 

I want this podcast to be an audio archive of very good essays, and I might start with focusing on Paul Graham.

Hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NnjAJzQBVoWD2hDjPiMli?si=3910770702a94caa

2 hour build: an automated podcast

I've been banging my head at making a custom behaviour for a rich text editor for the past 3 days.

There's SO much we give for granted when we *just type* on our keyboard.

And I also declare rich text is my new worst enemy.

And surfing green waves for the first time in my life was the least mind-blowing thing of the week. https://twitter.com/mikerubini/status/1464543271024312320

During University I had 2h/day train commutes where I probably studied, learned, and created more than during University itself. 

And I've been thinking about this 👇 ever since.

Forced slowness by ⁦@frankdilo⁩  https://francescodilorenzo.com/forced-slowness

Was in Zurich yesterday, and wow. It's gonna take a while to fully process that place ✨ 

Also yes, with those pics and edits I'm trying to pull a @sdw vibe and failing, but maybe getting a bit better (?), maybe 🤏

A beautiful day in beautiful Zurich

Still feels unreal but here we are. 
I'm beyond excited for what's to come 🙆‍♂️ https://twitter.com/linuz90/status/1435158403496570882

After almost 3 years I decided to leave @bendingspoons. This company gave me truly the best first work experience I could have ever wished for.

And of course, I basically gave them memes in exchange 👌 https://twitter.com/albigiu/status/1082397020399259649