Thread by @tressiemcphd

This is a lot.

https://twitter.com/hillibusterr/status/1499446554033283076

The networks are like a secular version of the moral right-alt-tech networks, down to the fake think tanks

And I don’t know how the writer wrangled this narrative. I need margins and a pencil just to follow it. It’s a lot.

@anildash you know what I’m thinking of

My instinct says that this is how ideas are being exchanged though. It has fingerprints all over everything from policy to media discourse. These elite margins where the venn of 20 different circles overlap at a Russian bar.

This turn in the argument…

And that’s just fine writing

It’s tough to write clearly with this much data. Timelines, relations, networks, dates, personalities, niche terminology. There is a lot in here.

I won’t spoil it for you. Just a fascinating snapshot of the culture non-industry industry, I guess you could call it.

I know I’m the punchline of every joke this crowd makes — and a crass structuralist to boot - but all I can think is that it was easier for this kid to get ogliarch money for a festival that it was for him to get his meds and a bed. That seems like a different kind of failure