I am so stressed about today being January 6th, that I haven't been able to finish Act I. But final edits ARE on Scene 3, so we're close.

At the end of Scene 2, you get Maxx waxing frustrated at U.S. politics from the POV of a FFXIV original character.

So please enjoy while I finish the rest! 💙

THE LINE

I will this night
In several posts upon his pad alight,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings, all tending to the great opinion
Allag holds of his name, wherein obscurely
Kæsar’s ambition shall be glancèd at
And after this, let Kæsar seat him sure,
For we will shake him, or worse days endure.

THE FOOTNOTE

This is all a very pretty way of saying, “I’mma do a social media misinformation campaign!” And I think we all have a lot to be grateful for that social media’s only just starting to be a thing for us. Pray for your players, though; they’ve gotten so good at misinformation, some of them elected a Spongebob Squarepants-shaped Roegadyn who dyes his marmot-fur toupee every Loporrit’s favorite color to be their head of state.

Humans are a problem in every multiverse, I swear.

#FFXIV #FFXIVRP #BardOfSagon #KeeperOfTheMoon #Shakespearean #IambicPentameter #Allag #CalamityJan6 #SocialMediaMisinformation #WritingCommunity #LiamMeriaMorvelet #WorldBuilding #OCRP

Online reports claimed ocean current near Antarctica 'reversed direction.' Research didn't show that

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details wrong.

Snopes

#ReformTheMedia: While CIS and FAIR regularly circulate #whitenationalist and often #racist content, many major #media outlets have cited them and refuse to call them what they are: #hategroups. For example, in a recent article, POLITICO referred to them as, “one of the leading think tanks

#SocialMediaMisinformation #PriveledgeWitness #WhoseHiStory #MainstreamMedia

https://open.substack.com/pub/extremearturo/p/a-white-man-wants-to-convince-black?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

A White Man Wants to Convince Black People to Be Xenophobes

William W. Chip is a board member at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a group that uses misinformation to stoke xenophobia

Decolonizing Journalism