Can’t emphasize enough how important it is now for all in particpatory democracy to become literate about the politics of Cyberlibertarianism. It has caught people off guard including most in #civictech and #publicinteresttech, some of which have aided Musk due to a lack of literacy. Wiser liberation requires updated literacy.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/

Spatial metaphors abound these days but remember these are digital communications tools, not “places.” Wiser digital communication requires seeing clearly beyond non-digital metaphors.

“It’s like when the tree on the corner goes down in the neighborhood. All of a sudden, you find yourself a little bit sad and you don’t know why.”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-26/twitter-x-elon-musk-bird-logo

Still hold the hypothesis that Musk’s plan all along is to ruin Twitter. To spoil the waters. In order to undercut journalistic accountability and mass demos organizing against oligarchy.

All the staff cuts and limitations are similar to “starving the beast” in right wing politics cutting funding and killing public departments in their seeking to undermine public services and accelerate privatization & increase private control.