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Jonathan Brownson's avatar

I'm skeptical...

Rather than following Musk's "simple plan" that helped elect an autocrat out to "robin hood" the poor and give more to the rich, maybe there is something better...

I don't know like loving your neighbor...

Efforts to share only "good news" sound to me suspiciously like Trump rewriting slavery out of our history.

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Austin Tindle's avatar

Better book publisher and better studio are exciting ideas!

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Marty Neumeier's avatar

I just joined the paid community on the strength of this. Right now I'm helping reinvent publishing, and I'm interested in seeing something similar happen with moviemaking. Onward, Elle!

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Elle Griffin's avatar

Thanks Marty!

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Claudia Befu's avatar

Congratulations, Elle! This is huge 👏

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Ketzirah haMa’agelet's avatar

Tesla? Let’s not follow Elon’s lead on anything.

Step 1: Build a half decent car

Step 2: Build a worse car

Step 3: build a cyber truck?

Step 4: do a LOT Of ketamine

Step 5: become a total fascist who helped destroy American democracy.

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Austin Tindle's avatar

The model is still useful, separated from the personality!

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

No, the NYT should not be dreaming up solutions. The job of the NYT is to cover the news. That's why I subscribe to them.

Sure, their OpEds can offer analysis and solutions etc. but I don't want them to tell us what we need to do. I want us to be informed citizens and then decide on our own what we want to do with that information.

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Elle Griffin's avatar

We need news, but too much of our media is news! We have plenty of reporting on what's going wrong, and not enough thinking through how we could improve it!

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Karena's avatar
7hEdited

Congratulations on the OSV grant, Elle! And here is to a better ecosystem for media distribution!

Have you read Science of Scaling? It nods to the question .. how can I do this in 6 months?

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Graeme Brandham's avatar

I am very eager to see how you go with this. I have always wondered about, and sought the same thing. I believe your idea that visuals as well can help this is apparent. Words by their own nature chop the lived world up into definitions and ideas by which people can argue over. Visuals have a wholeness, at least within the bounds of the frame. Though inherently, they are still somewhat of an act of holding a fishing net up over the world and capturing each square.

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ssri's avatar

" Imagine if social media systems like Twitter fostered social cohesion, instead of division?"

But division itself is not necessarily bad. Don't forget that (civil) adversarial contention and competition is how the better ideas are brought to the forefront. This is what happens (or should happen) in scientific, legal, and political "contests"; as well as in business.

Check out Dr. David Brin's adage CITOKATE: criticism is the only known antidote to error.

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Elle Griffin's avatar

We need to be able to discourse and disagree, but we don't need to devolve into division to do it. The word "civil" is playing an important role in your above sentence that a lot of our social media platforms don't have. We can design for civility.

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Tom Buffo's avatar

We definitely need a much better media ecosystem which benefits society by incentivizing the right outcomes - positive engagement, balanced news, and focused solution development.

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Camille Dawnier's avatar

I love this world you are building. Fair, respectful, enabling, inspiring! It is everything I dreamed of, and in my biased opinion, everything it should be. I admire your commitment and your research. Thank you for being so passionate. I'll be watching you change the world and participate wherever I can.

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Mary Elzey's avatar

I am here for this. What a great vision, and congratulations on the O’Shaughnessy award! - Mary Elzey, WoP#13

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Elle Griffin's avatar

Thanks Mary!

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