definition of "community" from Wendy H.K Chun's Discriminating Data: as "angry microidentities" assembled through data analysis and algorithmic recommendation seems relevant to web3 paeans to "community": crypto becomes a means to ground these "communities" and incentivize them toward ever-more-insular antagonism

the article about ruining the "best burger" place reminds me of the broccoli tree
petapixel.com/2018/03/08/bro… massively iconic things (Eiffel Tower) serve as a kind of buffer; they are built to absorb attention at scale, and gain more aura from more attention

why is taking photos and not looking at them later considered a problem? A problem for who? Who benefits when we are forcibly reminded to consume our "past" in the form of AI-curated images? Taking a photo of something is not automatically an expression of a wish to save it for later; sometimes it is simply a way of framing your attention in the present moment

the logic of ad targeting works is not persuasion; the ads aren't meant to change your mind but unobtrusively confirm your sense of who you are If the targets are convinced of anything, it's that they are immune to persuasion, that their identity is already realized