Eric Blair
“Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you.
Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control.”
Right on, about Big Tech.
By @catvalente in Dec
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Eric Blair
A few weeks ago @heidilifeldman wrote about the German Nazis coming to power:
“Today’s American Nazis are gaining the same kind of power the German Nazis did in the 1930s.”
And the #media parallels are also strong. The publisher of the Daily Mail in the 1930s was an explicit fascist, a member of a British fascist party. There is strong similarity to Murdoch and Wilks and Koch and Singer.
Political fascism hasn’t changed much—billionaires to dangerous lickspittles. https://www.notesfromcalicomanor.com/2023/01/07/todays-american-nazis-are-gaining-the-same-kind-of-power-the-german-nazis-did-in-the-1930s/
Eric Blair
On science communication:
Today Elon Musk attacked Anthony Fauci. The post got at least 600,000 likes.
Whatever this means for #TwitterMigration (should be: let's leave!),
it also means many have been radicalized against Fauci and science and gov't. While many of us have been carrying about our business, rightwing media has been creating vast hate for science. Vast.
There's only one solution: FIGHT. (more below) /1
Before about 1950 many US papers had a point of view.Big Media, led by Henry Luce, moved toward neutral journalism, which is profitable for big media corporations.Let’s build a better media: revive media policy.Searchable by tootfinder.
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