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Technology companies are not just exercising a form of sovereignty over how citizens behave on digital platforms; they are also shaping behaviors and interactions.
The Technopolar Moment
foreignaffairs.com
My father once told me that the three topics people are the most irrational about are religion, politics, and nutrition. While you may or may not agree with this, these topics have two things in common that favor misinformation: They relate strongly to our identities, and they’re hard to get definitive answers about.
Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation—Asterisk
asteriskmag.com
This song is not one song but many songs. Since the show’s debut in 2006, its intro has been updated every year, and, within a given season, the song mutates constantly: Each week incorporates a different rhyming line tailored to the current matchup. A schedule may announce a contest between the Colts and the Cowboys; only Carrie Underwood reveals if this promises to be a “righteous showdown” or a “nasty showdown,” or that the teams are “about to throw down” or are “breaking new ground,” and so on. According to representatives from NBC Sports, Underwood annually records 85 permutations of this line back to back in a single session.
Football Gave Us a Carrie Underwood-Based Solution to Existential Dread - The New York Times
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