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    "text": "I wrote about context and fragmentation online this week, but after I sent it out I realized I hadn't finished these two paragraphs so if you are a subscriber, please click through to read the updated version! Also, @darthbluesky.bsky.social mentioned\n\nwww.leahreich.com/we-just-were...",
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          "alt": "What do you need to do this with humans? You need context. You need to know something about me or about The New Yorker. That's why when a rando busts into your mentions with a link, you're like, who the hell is this and why would I click on that? The bigger things get, the more fragmented and fractured our contexts, the more randos and the more we're like, who do I trust? Verifiable identity isn't, in my view, the most useful tool for creating context. You don't have to have someone's actual identity to learn to trust them, either. One of the most trusted people I know on the internet is a user named Darth who is represented by the image of a red panda and whom very few people actually know, so their identity is a mystery. And yet, over time, hundreds of thousands of people have learned to trust and adore them. Similarly, actual real people with their names and photos are now willing to post the ugliest, most racist, most homophobic shit imaginable, and to say it in public while being filmed. People don't necessarily hide behind anonymity in the same way they did before, or for the same reasons. ",
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