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šŸ§˜ Resisting the Fracking of Attention

Strother School of Radical Attention
A non-profit organization dedicated to ATTENTION ACTIVISM: the movement to push back against the fracking of human attention by coercive digital technologies.
The Strother School of Radical Attentionschoolofattention.org

Recently I came across the Strother School of Radical Attention - a non-profit organisation, fuelling a ā€œmovement to push back against the fracking of human attention by coercive digital technologiesā€.

Even reading the schoolā€™s purpose is a great reminder to me of how comprehensively my attention is fracked every single day.

With this awareness, I will try to be curious about whatā€™s drawing my attention and to actively resisting the algorithms which are really great, big, open-cut attention mines.

Found and shared by Ember Parkin on the Grokkist Network.

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