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Why social media turns complex people into predictable personas

I can predict exactly what every person I follow will say about any news story and I'm starting to think we're all just playing characters instead of thinking.

Laozi
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Platform dynamics reward consistency over growth, creating incentives to perform static identity rather than evolve authentic understanding.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Twitter and X — the politics of outrage?”

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