The fog of war is bad, ya'll and the fake videos are getting better. If you see something ... intense, upsetting, something that gives you an emotional reaction and either solidifies your views or makes you question them... hit pause.

I don't care how media savvy you are.

Especially if it's something that confirms your worst fears. Especially that one.

Hit pause. Check the sources. Check them direct from the source site, don't trust thumbnails, or watermarks.

"I have spent decades looking for examples of Google putting its enormous thumb on the scale to censor or amplify certain results, and it hadn’t even occurred to me that Google just flat out deletes queries and replaces them with ones that monetize better.”

Absolutely bonkers. The Google antitrust trial discovered that Google is actually *changing user queries* in order to generate results that give more sponsored ads

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

#Google #Antitrust #Fraud

For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.

It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.

In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.