Algorithm and blues: a watershed social-media verdict

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  As the war in Iran is making crystal clear once again, geography really matters to geopolitics.

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  We go around the globe looking at the maritime bottlenecks

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  that have the power to shape both commerce and conflict.

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  And animated films used to be a tiny part of the broader cinema diet.

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  Not so anymore.

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  Kids love them, adults love them, studios love them.

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  We ask why they've become so reliably popular and lucrative.

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  But first,

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  As social media platforms have proliferated and consolidated and honed their games,

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  a whole new vocabulary has developed around them.

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  In web and then app design, the infinite scroll was an innovation.

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  No more clicking through pages that loaded one by one.

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  By the late 2010s came doom scrolling,

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  a sense that as users were compelled to slide further into that infinitude,

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  existential dread came along for the ride.

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  This one pan chicken and potatoes is my kids' favorite dinner.

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