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Are you standing on the right side of history? #MuskVTrump RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
The Great Grifter Schism is happening and it’s only on X, The Everything App. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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The Great Grifter Schism is happening and it’s only on X, The Everything App. RE:
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Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
I wonder which direction the Musk stans who made their money off Elon go — the X influencers who get their $$ by monetizing tweets that he boosts...
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I wonder which direction the Musk stans who made their money off Elon go — the X influencers who get their $$ by monetizing tweets that he boosts. Or grifters like Shellenberger, who owe everything to the ridiculous Twitter Files that they sold as gospel primarily to right wing rubes. RE:
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Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social)
a pretty great admission by Musk that, despite being a mega donor and shadow president for a month there, he's completely unaware of the dynamics o...
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“Context collapse” but for people. Maybe “chronically-online cognition” … it’s a kind of interpretive illiteracy not uncommon in conspiratorial thinking, just far more prevalent now RE:
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Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social)
Idk what the term is but we need something like illiteracy for people who can like, read words but whose ability to interpret facts and context has...
Here is a Vox explainer on how a bizarre "civilizational allies" post showed up on the State Department substack -- that post, as this explainer explains, provides a philosophical underpinning and justification for some of the policy shifts we're seeing -- incl in tech [www.vox.com/on-the-right...](
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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post
How a Catholic theocrat started speaking for Trump’s State Department.
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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post
How a Catholic theocrat started speaking for Trump’s State Department.
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Prof Shaw does very well here and gives exactly the right answer and Fleeing Josh Hawley, who fled Congress during a riot incited by the president (how many past presidents have done that?), tries to turn Trump and Republicans into victims again anyway. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KA...
But funny that it’s now public how long he’s been influencing Marc Andreessen 🥚 while also saying things like this RE:
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Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com)
If you’ve been aware of Curtis Yarvin for years, you probably know how disheartening it is to find out that an absolute bottom feeding jackweasel...
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It’s important to understand the moral panic they’re spinning up around “social media censorship” — which was v effective here in the US! Tech oligarchs wanting to get out of regulation + Trumpists helping the global far right. [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...](
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Ro Khanna: "Now they want to censor everyone's social media. And then they're lecturing the foreign countries about free speech?"
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Regulation or Repression? How the Right Hijacked the DSA Debate
The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?
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