🌱 52 things Kottke learned in 2021

America’s anti-democratic Senate, in one number. “Once Warnock and Ossoff take their seats, the Democratic half of the Senate will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”

In the past 45 years, the top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%.

“It takes about 200 hours of investment in the space of a few months to move a stranger into being a good friend.”

How algorithms radicalize the users of social media platforms. “Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it.”