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Suprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

Tim Hwang

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
On the one hand, I enjoyed, and learned from, the rather caustic presentation of how online advertising works as a business, and how ineffective such advertising is. (I'd actually be sort of interested to read a debate on this point between Hwang and, say, Shoshana Zuboff.)

on bactra.org · 31 Dec 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.