ynnope.bsky.social
USN, USN/R UChicago, SAIS, here and there. Yankee in dc. Anti fascist. Striving to be and do good.
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I say "antimemetic" rather than "self-censoring" because there is no unspoken taboo that you cannot say these facts.
People who go on mainstream media have stated this fact and have gotten their counterparts to acknowledge it but the instant the conversation completes, the knowledge evaporates
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What many of us warned, & what is unavoidably clear now, is that there is no privileged sphere of "real life" that is sheltered, separate from the information environment. It's narratives all the way down -- even to the point that they shape *how people experience their own material circumstances*.
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With obituaries of DOGE and Elon Musk's political career circulating prematurely, @brbarrett.bsky.social is must read:
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Hell no
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Man, those scholars that had careers in the Cold War just don’t know how lucky they were.
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He does this because he is unpopular and therefore is not ensuring he is empowered to do what he wants by doing what he wants when he wants to. It’s very simple, actually.
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I love ya, Mike
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Cannot make this up. The head guy for the airline company trafficking these immigrants to South Sudan on behalf of the Trump administration is Igor Smirnov, a Russian who started his career flying for Aeroflot Soviet Airlines in 1986.
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The depths of our national unserious know no bounds, it seems: