yep this is basically where we are i think. unsustainable and maybe an existential threat.
the reason why it feels existential rn is because selling alternate realities is a growth hack for people to acquire attention and even power

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16 Nov
you don’t have to retweet our lame duck president for many reasons but especially because he lost and it’s over and he’s a lame duck president and did i mention he lost the election and will no longer be president?
imo what is way more fun than dunking on the lame duck president is treating him like the lame duck president that he is
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13 Nov
reading this makes me just achingly sad. i get concerns about shutdowns and fears about the economy. i get that this feels unfair and oppressive and painful. i am scared & sad, too. but the anti-mask behavior is effectively holding the country hostage to score culture war points
i've reached the point where i don't know what to do about any of it. there are so many heroic healthcare workers who are ringing the alarm bell as loud as they can. they're saying we're entering a living nightmare that could dwarf the spring. we seem determined to ignore them
i spent 3 weeks this summer talking to people about the best way to reach anti-maskers. and how to treat people with empathy and dignity. but when this becomes wrapped up in political identity it seems almost impossible to bridge the gap. dunno what to do nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opi…
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10 Nov
why must the news now always be both dumber and more serious than whatever scenario my brain was anticipating
just once i wanna be like...'lol this is so dumb...im gonna never think about this dumb thing again!' w/o worrying that it will metastasize into something that threatens to erode our shared reality or democracy
you need a phd in 'the dumbest shit on the internet' to really understand like a 1/3 of what's happening in the country at a given time. my personal wish for a biden presidency is to not have to care abt the dumbest shit imaginable. to be clear i dont think my wish will come true
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7 Nov
i listened to a montana court hearing in late sept where the trump campaign was trying to sue to stop mail in voting in the state and what struck me was how the legal team barely provided a legal argument and weren’t really even trying beyond complaining that it didn’t feel fair.
i feel like the answer to @ezraklein's question here on how to cover this rn is to report on the actual legal challenges. show how the campaign is unable to marshal credible arguments/facts. and then give no oxygen to it beyond that. vox.com/2020-president…
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21 Oct
reason why this is so big is obvious and that is that @AOC is doing what she wants earnestly and without spending so much time worrying about/focus grouping it that it becomes cringey. its just somebody who gets that the fundamental thing online is authenticity
basically comes down to the fact that it (at least appears) that this is what she wants to be doing tonight & that rules/ is basically the secret of ppl who are good at being themselves online. they do what’s fun/interesting (its hard work but diff from thinking too hard bout it)
like, is how i feel right now the way maga folks feel when trump’s account posts a gif of him from an old wwe event but the wrestlers’ faces are superimposed with msm logos? help me out
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14 Oct
part of the problem of the "immense, unaccountable power" is that it's hard to fit into a simple good/bad framework. im as guilty of this as anyone. but this tweet is right. there's no golden age of 'they just let er rip and nothing bad ever happened!'
think it's somewhat fair for ppl to knock journalists for giving contradictory advice to the platforms (why didn't they stop this from going viral vs. did they stop this too soon?) but that also ignores that the platforms largely ignored this and the effects were disastrous
i think it's also worth noting that a lot of the journalism on platform accountability/moderation started with a pretty narrow focus on the platforms clearly violating their own rules that they wrote around harassment of vulnerable groups and lack of transparency around decisions
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