Logging in to say how happy and grateful I am to be able to make annotations on #EPUB on my e-reader running #KOReader, and to then be able to import and read those same EPUBs and annotations on my laptop in @zotero

💌 💌 💌

This allows me to read long-form (I really struggle to do so on my laptop) and still take digital notes (not having to manually copy afterwards.)

#FOSS #focus #attention #reading #ereader

Henry Farrell's consideration of the attention economy & political science's failure to really see it, is an important read; he asks

'How might the attention economy remake the underlying structures of democracy? If there is a political scientist who predicted how Musk could effectively leverage his position to eliminate US-AID despite the legal and political barriers, I don’t know who she or he is'!

The political economy of attention *needs* our attention!

#attention
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-attention-economy-is-devouring

I wrote a Google doc and invited editing on social media literacies for high school.

It needs updating, but it's still there, more than a decade later.

#attention #media #literacy #education #socialmedia

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UH8VDvVBJWj14PdWG_ENoTLa0sKhghLlHwFeRsCgdJQ/mobilebasic?pli=1

I taught Social Media Literacies at Stanford 2012-2015. Does anyone know of courses about attention and/or other contemporary media literacies?

#attention #media #literacy #education #socialmedia

https://stanforddaily.com/2012/04/06/rheingold/

I wrote about attention and other social media literacies 15 years ago. Clearly, edu institutions have failed toeven try to teach attention control, crap detection, etc. The online commons might be a very different place if a larger population had learned to use it without damaging/deceiving themselves and others.

#attention #media #literacy #education #socialmedia

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies

Every time I want to search for something, I'm showed the trends and inevitably lose 5 minutes and 10 #attention hitpoints.

Can I switch it off? Default off toggle? Using mastodon web-app, could change.

#mindfulness #digitalmindfulness #calmtech

#Guerre au #Proche- #Orient : les propos de #DonaldTrump ( rhe #chaos #orange #fool ) sur #Gaza éclipsent les #dossiers #chauds aux #États- #Unis #US #USA C'est vieux comme le monde : c'est le #principe de l' #enfumage, de la #déviation de l' #attention .. www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/pr...

Guerre au Proche-Orient : les ...

#Guerre au #Proche- #Orient : les propos de #DonaldTrump ( the #chaos #orange #fool ) sur #Gaza éclipsent les #dossiers #chauds aux #États- #Unis #US #USA

C'est vieux comme le monde : c'est le #principe de l' #enfumage, de la #déviation de l' #attention ..

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle/donald-trump/guerre-au-proche-orient-quand-les-propos-de-donald-trump-sur-gaza-eclipsent-les-dossiers-chauds-aux-etats-unis_7058327.html

Many thanks to the CJR's Jake Lahut for revealing the self-serving and clueless nature of the White House Press Corps. Billy Wilder's great movie ACE IN THE HOLE was intended as a bitter warning about everything wrong with media, about not viewing the subjects impacted by your story as people. But these arrogant attention whores can't and never will.

https://www.cjr.org/political_press/white-house-press-corps-gears-up-second-trump-term-lahut.php

Cc: @jeffjarvis

#journalism #media #Trump #attention #hubris

"I don't notice the ads" is for #attention what

"I don't have anything to hide" is for #privacy

Why were Hillary's emails an issue? because rabid GOP scumbags made them an issue. The same with Benghazi, and Hunter Biden, and so on.

Why wasn't the orange freak's crime spree an issue? because Pelosi chose to ignore it.

#TheCons #Journalism #Media #Attention #Bias #Clowns #USpol #USpolitics #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover

Elected Democrats like Pelosi refused to fight. They made no effort to exploit his scandals. They made no effort to dominate news cycles. They didn't bother to try to set the narrative or frame the debate. The last 20 years have been a boxing match where the Dems didn't even throw a punch.

#TheCons #Journalism #Media #Attention #Bias #Clowns #USpol #USpolitics #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover

People don't respond to the boring, the expected. They respond to the surprising, the sensational, the outrageous.

That includes people in legacy media, on TikTok, on social media.

That's why the CNN debate coverage was the way it was.

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#TheCons #Journalism #Media #Attention #Bias #Clowns #USpol #USpolitics #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover

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Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy #journalism #attention

https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in

i'm doing it

closing all tabs on browser close (option)

#tabzero #attention

Despite a mild sense of anxiety that I'll forget something, I'm loving the "close all tabs when closing browser" option (mobile)

Feels like going into a freshly made bed.

#attention #focus #mindfulness

Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

#attention #focus #firefox #youtube

Ukraine itself is not our enemy whereas those who want to destroy Russian statehood and to achieve, as they say, a strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield, are mainly in the West, but still, there are different people there. There are people who sympathise with us and who are with us at heart. But there are the elites who think the existence of Russia (at least in its current state and size) is unacceptable. They want to disintegrate it. As a matter of fact, you are young people, some have read about this, perhaps: they do not hide it. They speak and write about this publicly, and have been doing it for decades, if we are talking about contemporary history. For decades, they have simply been writing frankly about it: divide Russia into five parts, one is too much. I can talk about this till morning, but it is obvious.

Therefore, they have been nurturing the Kiev regime for quite a long time, precisely to create this conflict. Unfortunately for us, they have achieved this: they started this conflict and are trying to achieve their objective, namely the task of fighting Russia, with the help of Ukrainians.

You probably see on the battlefield that they are gradually losing their zest. When a projectile flies, it is difficult to understand whether they are losing it or not, but in general you probably know that the situation on the battlefield is changing. This is despite the fact that the entire “civilised” West is fighting us.

#ukrainian #vassalage #cannon-fodder

I like logging out of mastodon (web-app) when I go, to increase the barrier of distraction.

But then, when I go back to the web-app to ask a question, post some info, etc, I'm confronted with the extremely distracting trending toots on the home page.

what do 🤔

#attention #digitaldetox

#Attention is the fundamental event. Anything that happens outside it, does not enter your experience. Attention is a tube that directs sunlight on some part of your inner garden, and not on others. It is how you cultivate yourself. You are what you attend to. There is nothing more serious.

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2021/06/10/good-bye-harajuku

#tiktok #instagram #whatsapp #posttruth #socialmedia