phiHello, I’m more on threads these days…
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Joe GregorioThe more history I learn and the more I watch our current dystopia play out, the more I believe that fascism is a corporate elite undertaking, and not a political one, which isn't what our history books would have us believe.
omPeople make the platform. Community is the platform.
Time and again social platforms assume that because they own the platform they own the community. Every time they forget they erode the trust of the community. And once that trust goes, so does the unfettered loyalty. People start looking for options.
It happened with MySpace. It happened with Twitter. It is happening with Reddit. They never learn from the past mistakes.
Reddark https://reddark.untone.uk/
Qasim Rashid, Esq.First they came for Michael Flynn and I said nothing, because I'm not a traitor and fascist.
Then they came for Roger Stone and I said nothing, for pretty much the exact same reasons.
Then they came for Alex Jones and I said nothing, except you know, this whole justice thing is pretty awesome.
Then they came for Donald Trump, and I'm not gonna lie, I'm trying not to get my hopes up.
Ken WhiteJack boosting the lunatic RFK Jr. Is no surprise. Entrepreneurs, and particularly techbrahs, are vulnerable to the great-man-outsider narratives because they see it as resonating with their own stories. They’re suckers for all sorts of Kirkland-brand Ubermensch poseurs.
Flipboard Culture DeskThe opening theme of "Succession," with its dissonant chords, dramatic strings and 808 beats, has been an earworm since the show launched in 2018. Here, composer Nicholas Britell talks about how he wrote it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178008172/nicholas-britell-succession
Philip BumpDeSantis kept coming back to DEI and ESG and CRT for the same reason he always invokes "wokeness" — they're vague umbrella terms that appeal to the in-group and mask the specific things he's altering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/desantis-diversity-woke-campaign/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/desantis-diversity-woke-campaign/
Steve Randy Waldman"during the decade-plus in which Uber was pissing away the Saudi royal family's billions subsidizing rides, cities dismantled their public transit, even as residents made decisions about where to live and work based on the presumption that Uber was charging a fair, sustainable price for rides." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/
Tim Bray“Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” by Ted Chiang, is bursting with mind bombs: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
He says “We should all strive to be Luddites” and he’s right. [Narrator: “Luddite” doesn’t mean what you think.]
Casey NewtonPLUS: Coming up this weekend, my first story for This American Life. It’s a story about Yoel Roth’s time at Twitter, both before and after Elon Musk took over, and about the sacrifices that people working in trust and safety make in order to build a safer internet.
You can get the podcast here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/listen
