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Some articles related to social media and how it may affect our brains.

I was an Emacs user for several years before switching to Neovim, and then recently switched to Kakoune. I've been getting more serious about using the note-taking app Obsidian as an editor-agnostic replacement for org-mode, and so far it has filled that role nicely.

It's not a cure for social media's problems, but it's a huge step in the right direction. Profit-driven, centralized social networks can boost profitability through bad practices. Mastodon can fix a lot of that.

May 30th, 2023 update: A show on NPR today aired an episode about our attention spans and how they can be affected be social media. You can give it a listen here: https://the1a.org/segments/how-much-are-we-paying-attention-really-2/.