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Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't need no article to tell me hwat.

Sort of like how toxic 'Valley-Girl speak' became the accent-standard across the States, similarly MTV led the charge upon pandering to viewers' toddler-ish, short-term viewing instincts. And it worked!

And when something works ("makes money" in this case) you can safely go all-in on the short-term betting upon that... leading in the end (upon this and lots of other shizzle) upon society and economics being dictated by a bag of asshole billionaires.

And now here we are.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you mean, Johnny Enzyme? What is your take on attention spans?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago