Sublime

Kuleshov discovered that the extraordinary new medium of film took advantage of the human need to impose order on the world.

The problem at the root of such calamities is that humans evolved for millions of years in small bands of a few dozen individuals.

average network size was around 125, with a distinct ∩-shape against age: networks initially increase in size as we age, reach a peak between the mid-twenties and early thirties and then decline steadily into old age

located two Facebook datasets, one small and one large (and, no, they didn’t get either of them from Cambridge Analytica . . . both are publicly available), and downloaded a large sample of Twitter traffic (if you know how to do this, it is easy to do and, because Twitter is publicly accessible, it is perfectly legal).