Social media is giving us Trypophobia

Re:Social media is giving us Trypophobia by wmccullough on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:14PM (#16249111)

An awfully sesquipedalian way of saying what could be said much more succinctly. Social media is an echo chamber that surrounds us with information that confirms our biases.

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Re:Social media is giving us Trypophobia by skosch on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:04PM (#16249527)

You misunderstand the raison d'être for pieces like this.

AI-powered filter bubbles are a problem with massive consequences, and op-eds like this one are an important part of the broader discourse; not only for casual readers (the wordy but poignant imagery is for them) but more importantly for legislators and corporations to whom, in the context of other such opinion pieces across the publication landscape, such pieces signal political will for regulation in this space. That's what matters: that people are out there are articulating these arguments, trivial though they may seem to tech folk like us.

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Re:Social media is giving us Trypophobia by imron on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:38PM (#16249203)

> sesquipedalian

This is my new favourite word.

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Re:Social media is giving us Trypophobia by rdruxn on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:41PM (#16249660)

One of my favorite irony words. Like monosyllabic or ineffable.

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Re:Social media is giving us Trypophobia by durge on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:05PM (#16249530)

Indeed, it is a pleonastic bit.

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