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Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
Fascinating story: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.
"It was just the beginning.
They asked for more footage, now from the entire day’s worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."
“So let’s be clear about what Abbott, Carlson and other MAGA types are advocating here. In pushing a pardon for Perry, they’re stating they believe that if someone plows his vehicle into a crowd of protesters, the protesters have no right to self-defense.”
I think this is steelmanning the actual conservative belief.
The thing they actually believe is that it's okay to kill liberals.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smearing-of-garrett-foster?utm_medium=email
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Once again, @JuliusGoat has written something worth reading.
"It’s almost gotten to be boring, the degree to which people believe that what they refer to as 'free speech' should not only allow them to say whatever they want (which it does), but should also prevent other people from understanding them to be the sort of person who says those things."
"People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood."
The Dominion suit establishes that Fox stars (like Tucker Carlson) and executives (like CEO Suzanne Scott) were fearful and enraged when some of their own people blundered into delivering a true and accurate report about the 2020 election.
Think about that for a moment. When its own talent reported the facts truthfully, the result was an atmosphere of crisis in the company.
This is one way we know that Fox is not specifically a news organization.
There are others... 2/
What can/should Big Journalism do? For starters:
-- Fox "News" and its employees should be kicked out of any press organization or association in which they hold official status or membership.
-- News organizations that care about journalistic integrity should announce publicly that they will not hire from Fox.
Treating Fox as a legitimate news organization should have ended long ago. Better late than never, but if the craft won't do the right thing now, it never will.
Somewhat disappointed in the people who are so quick to say that we need to reform Section 230 because "big tech companies are bad," without considering whether or not it would even fix the problem. Too many of my mentions are people who seem to not care about the consequences (and whether or not such reforms would help fix any perceived problem). It's just "company bad, therefore, 230 must be bad."
Think through the details, people.
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