The media machinery is so obsessed with explaining the mechanics of laws and legal proceedings, which ultimately matter very little. What matters a lot is interests. This is something Trump understands in such a base level way that he can actually ‘articulate’ it even in that media environment.

I think he’s made it per course what he thinks that destiny is. Capital. Capital. Capital

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Something that I think is missing from a lot of the discourse around the modern internet is the simple fact that if a community cannot organise to pursue mutual interest, it is not a community, it’s a support group. Flashmobs, chart attacks were the dead cat bounce of spontaneous organisation.

Do we think that Zuck announced all the anti-DEI stuff to tamp avoid media reporting on them inserting ads into the Messenger feed? Had never seen them before and now they’ve popped up.

Very proud of our society for creating a vast and efficient media machine that enables natural disasters to be flattened into bias confirming media events within hours of occurring. Truely impressive the speed with which we all pitch in to make it happen.

Zuck just wants to be Rupert Murdoch. So blowing with the political wind and becoming more conservative as your user base ages. I think Fox News distorts our image of what Murdoch was like back in the day. He just owned the right wing rags, but he had a ‘cool’ aura above them. Sound familiar?

Why is the Whatsapp desktop app the most updated piece of software on planet earth? Nothing ever changes and it still sucks but every time I open it I have to download an update.

It’s kind of amazing that we’ve managed to maintain and entrench inter-disciplinary siloing and conflict despite turning 80% of jobs into entering text into different interfaces.

My favorite sports podcasters have revealed that they actually have big substantial roles in teams within that sport. I’m now dealing with the cognitive dissonance of them losing credibility in my mind despite that fact actually giving them substantially more credibility.

Starting a thread of all the worst things to do when reacting to news 🧵

Has anyone made a bot yet that allows me to block all accounts that have ever posted an image with just the word ‘this’?

It’s been interesting watching a bunch of people find out in real time that a significant part of Musk (and his sect of online posters) schtick and appeal has been about playing to disenfranchised Indian men