Tag: socialmedia

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Philosophy

Regulating Social Media

Regulation of social media is sold as public hygiene but functions more like selective pruning in a forest that no one understands. Bureaucracies and their corporate partners operate under a control logic shaped by short-term optics rather than systemic insight. In Australia, as elsewhere, the expertise required to manage such vast, self-amplifying communication networks barely […]

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cybernetics

The Sum of all (us) Fools: Social Media

The dominance of simplistic narratives—and the minds they shape—emerges as a statistical inevitability in high-entropy communication systems. Trillions of micro-interactions cascade through socialmedia daily, drifting toward (those) system attractors that recursively reinforce themselves. Complexity collapses into maximally transmissible, low-dimensional projections.