Psychologists have figured out why you get so bored scrolling through TikTok and Instagram – Fast Company
A fear of missing out or looking for the next best thing is keeping us in unhealthy cycles. “Boredom is… read more
Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads – 404 Media
Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its… read more
What can we learn from millions of high school yearbook photos? – NPR
In a recent paper titled “Image(s),” economists Hans-Joachim Voth and David Yanagizawa-Drott analyzed 14.5 million high school yearbook photos from… read more
Name, Image, Likeness: What College Athletes Should Know About NCAA Rules – US News & World Report
Some observers have expressed concern that athletes at mid-tier schools and outside of NCAA Division I sports would see little… read more
Algorithms for College Admissions: What to Know – US News & World Report
Much like companies mining data on a consumer’s behavior when binge-watching a show or shopping online, colleges are also tracking… read more
Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans – Rest of World
Such takedowns have become par for the course for Brazilian Indigenous content creators like Kalapalo who have taken to social… read more
Lenses [poem] – Dan Chelotti
Humans haven’t been able to look at each other without lenses for a while now, but as each of us… read more
Clearance [poem] – Angela Eun Ji (EJ) Koh
[The CIA spied on me for twelve months] They found I watched more porn than most women They found I… read more
The Future of Writing in English [poem] – Jennifer Kronovet
II In 2013, a Canadian company released the program ToneCheck that screens emails for potentially conflict-causing language. Post-meeting anger: alert…. read more
Cloud of Mexico Pork [poem] – Robert Pinsky
Too easy to laugh at the list of trigger words In the Analyst’s Security Binder as revealed By a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. …… read more