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What these rising apps and platforms all share is fragmentation. Whether it’s intentional self-sorting into like-minded or community-moderated groups, or the natural fragmentation that comes from a bunch of different people watching their own algorithmically curated video feeds, these apps all have a way of separating people based on who they want to talk to and what they want to be exposed to.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
We live in a country undergoing a severe case of ancestor worship (a symptom of insecurity and fear of the future), which is exacerbated by an absurdly unworkable and manipulable doctrine called originalism.
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic
newyorker.com
Apple defines those metrics separately. For the purgeable space given in the Get Info dialog and Disk Utility, it writes that “purgeable space” is “space that macOS can free up when needed by removing files from your computer (you can’t manually remove the files that are designated purgeable, but macOS removes them as space is required)”.
What Is Purgeable Disk Space?
eclecticlight.co
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