I Wish Medium Would Dial Down the Partisan Brainwashing

You’ve maybe noticed Medium has scrambled to make changes lately. I’m quite satisfied with how the new front page focuses much more on what I care about now than the latest scandalous hashtag.

The newsletters need tweaking yet. These are from the first ones I got after re-subscribing in September (did so because I wanted to read Scott Galloway), after Evan’s post about a more personal Medium:

‘Here’s some #MeToo with your #BLM’, I’m fairly certain the one with the not-so-obvious title also won’t be able to avoid the topic du jour somehow.

Small break reading FIRE porn, then back to #BLM we go.

‘We see you’re from Eastern Europe, here’s some more of them American Politics’.

‘In case you missed it’.

Have I really clapped so much for stuff like this? Shouldn’t Medium’s blockchain-AI-quantum-social-algorithm be trapping me in my ‘personal filter bubble’?