Tag: into the void

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Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.

It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.

Read More 2024-11-21

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Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

Read More 2023-10-25

Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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Shitposting into a void

2023-10-03

Read More 2023-10-03