TOTW: Dinner and a Movie

After some years thinking about this, it seems to me like most people enjoy dinner. I’ve also discovered that a lot of them tend to like pictures that move …moving pictures, “movies.” The social sciences suggest that human beings have been doing something like the two things together for a while. Creating and consuming food while creating and consuming passive entertainment. 

Getting Pushed Around By the News

from Scholium

As information technology penetrates deeper into our lives, the news cycle increasingly takes center stage in the public mind. Because we always carry little internet machines with us, we get news beamed to us at all times. In social media, the place we go to socialize, we are bombarded with articles, reactions, and news-related memes. In text group and loops, our friends and family share articles with us that stirred some emotion in them, hoping they will do the same for us. Everywhere we go, there is no escape, we are followed by the news.

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