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Video Links

• Video 1: “YouTube’s Messy Fight With Its Most Extreme Creators” by Vox: YouTube has to appeal to advertisers to make money, but its most extreme creators are pushing the video platform into a tough debate and censorship and free speech on the internet.

• Video 2: “Why We Should Not Watch Quite So Much News” by The School of Life: We’re always being told that the sign of a good and intelligent person is someone who keeps up with the news. But this addiction to the latest events may be a kind of illness that cuts us off from the real insights and information we need to lead good lives.

Web Resource

• Web 1: The Book of Life: “We know that we must, to lay claim to any respectability or competence, keep up with the news. That’s why we’ve ringed the earth with satellites, crisscrossed it with fiber optic cables, and created networks of bureaus that inform us with maniacal urgency of pretty much any event to have unfolded anywhere on the planet in the last few moments. We are, furthermore, equipped with tiny devices that we keep very close to hand, and which we tend to check at intervals of between 1 and 5 min (rarely longer) so as to monitor all unfolding stories in close to real time. We have been granted a ringside seat on the second by second flow of history . . .”

Audio Links

• Audio 1: Radiolab, More or Less Human: Investigating the role these robotic bits of code play in our lives, and the effects they’re having on our lives. Clear from the pervasiveness of code, the line between technology and humanity becomes blurrier than ever before.

• Audio 2: Radiolab, Blame: We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But why do we need blame and how is new technology complicating accountability?