This. All of this.

"... Another beautiful reason to create is because it reclaims your most valuable resource which has been robbed of us and that's our #attention.

In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to #art is a rebellious act.

That means when you write that little piece of #poetry, it isn't just a nice thing to do with your time. It is a revolutionary thing to do with your time."

https://youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0

https://time.com/7276807/why-students-using-ai-avoid-learning/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"While she acknowledged that her grades are climbing higher, she wasn’t particularly proud. She didn’t sound like someone who was ever looking for an easy shortcut. She sounded like someone waving a white flag." #AI #Learning #Education #Motivation #Attention #AttentionEconomy #SocialMedia #Cognition

#web #attention #focus #MentalHealth

'Purpose Mode gives users the flexibility to opt out of viewing ACDPs with a few clicks of a mouse button or trackpad. For example, Purpose Mode allows users to disable infinite scroll and replace it with a “show more” button that the user has to click to see more posts. It also gives users the opportunity to disable video autoplay and remove peripheral content on the sidebars of a social media platform home page.'

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2025/april/purpose-mode-helps-social-media-users-stay-focused

"One Call Away" is a song by American singer-songwriter #CharliePuth. It was released on August 20, 2015, by #AtlanticRecords as the second single from his debut studio album, #NineTrackMind (2016). "One Call Away" is a #gospel-infused #pop-#soul song. It reached number 12 on the #Billboard Hot 100, making it Puth's third top 40 single in the US and his third highest-charting single as a lead artist to date, behind "#WeDontTalkAnymore" and "#Attention".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuY9FET9Y4

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_impossible_task_of_famousing_myself

Another very good essay by @Daojoan:

»The economy of attention doesn’t ask what you think; it asks how fast you can say it, how loud, and how often.«

»And here’s the irony: when I stopped chasing eyeballs, I started building trust. When I ditched the algorithm, I found an audience. Not a crowd—an audience. People who don’t just scroll past, but actually stop. Read. Think. Reply.«

Certainly worth your attention

#socialmedia #attention #economy #write #sosollweb

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/notes-from-the-exit-why-i-left-the-attention-economy/

‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’

an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/

#GVerse #Attention #FuckMusk

https://bsky.app/profile/gmf1369.bsky.social/post/3lmwsz7ntqk2t

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_impossible_task_of_famousing_myself

Un témoin clé des « viols de masse » du 7 octobre dénoncé comme menteur par un journaliste israélien
https://investigaction.net/un-temoin-cle-des-viols-de-masse-du-7-octobre-denonce-comme-menteur-par-un-journaliste-israelien/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-temoin-cle-des-viols-de-masse-du-7-octobre-denonce-comme-menteur-par-un-journaliste-israelien
Un Israélien qui prétendait avoir héroïquement sauvé des centaines de personnes des combattants du Hamas le 7 octobre 2023 a été démasqué comme étant un menteur invétéré qui a inventé […]
#Politique #Attention,Médias #MoyenOrient #Médiamensonges

Thought-provoking: "What if we taxed advertising?" https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-advertising

« Bannie » de Xenia Fedorova ou la mise à mort d’une voix alternative
https://investigaction.net/bannie-de-xenia-fedorova-ou-la-mise-a-mort-dune-voix-alternative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bannie-de-xenia-fedorova-ou-la-mise-a-mort-dune-voix-alternative
Bannie. Liberté d’expression sous condition est le titre de l’ouvrage de l’ancienne présidente de RT France Xenia Fedorova. Celle-ci raconte l’histoire d’une atteinte grave à la liberté d’expression dans un […]
#Politique #Attention,Médias #GuerreEnUkraine #LibertéDExpression #LibertéDeLaPresse #Otan #RussiaToday #Russie #UnionEuropéenne #XeniaFedorova

Continuing to try to figure out the internet and information in 2025. Access to information has changed a lot in 20 years—it now seems that individuals have an intense responsibility as "executives" of their own attention.

I'm threading together my new place online: for my art, for my political discourse, for my support of quality press institutions, etc.

Mastadon is a decentralized social network: let's not let that mean "siloed."

#attention : the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought

- French: Attention

- German: die Achtung/die Vorsicht

- Italian: attenzione

- Portuguese: atenção

- Spanish: atención

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_impossible_task_of_famousing_myself

Sometimes, with social media, I feel like I could be the first person to sprout wings and fly—announce it to the world across platforms—yet still get no attention.

That's the battle.