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What are your favourite sites where you procrastinate? Sites without political trolls are preferred.
Could you tell more. Maybe gist of the book. Thanks
//reading "Mindf*ck"// Could you tell more. Maybe gist of the book. Thanks
The story tells story of Cambridge Analytica. Author describes how it all started, how they gathered data and influenced people. Also he describes how it affected politics. It is very well written and feels like really good political-fiction. Unfortunately his descriptions match how last two political campaigns run in my country. Same approaches were used to get people votes. I rarely used my social media accounts but after reading this piece I decided it is the right time to leave all of them.
It is amazing how everyone's address was part of the story until about 1970. The stories of people who lived in our house before us would bring you to tears, along with joy.
If you're into genealogy, it is a good resource to tie threads together with. Turns out my grandparents were the first ones married in a new church, back in the day, for example.
The Economist. (I prefer to read it on paper though.)
Metafilter is also quite good.
Or subscribe to one or more newspapers.