aidanwalker.bsky.social
internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
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At a certain point, the more negligent thing is not calling it what it is in the headline, and preserving a hedge that makes you look at best cowardly and at worst complicit
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and your elders said that about your generation too, probably
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broker the alliance between do-something millennial twitter and unhinged gen z shitposters, we need this pact, we need this union
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imagine your posting skills melded with @junlper.beer such an iron fromt would truly be unstoppable
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brother the “left” is not a cohesive group, and neither are “liberals.” 2016 was like a decade ago also. you dont have to surrender to them or whatever, just be polite. we are nothing without each other
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thank you so much for saying that. it’s what i’m aiming and wishing to do, and to find it for myself. glad to connect here and work on this together
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Yes! Curtis is so good
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omg! thank you so much :)
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Do what McConnell did to us, please. Obstruct as much as possible and don’t give them a single inch on anything, because they’ll take a mile. Please.
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Love that you’re a john ganz reader. this is a positive development for all of us
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they were so refreshingly clear and direct about their mission. people just arent funny like this anymore
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University of Washington for the win!!! First and best lecture :)
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“Decant”
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Wow, paging Dr. Vance:
"Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came."
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and also distracted boyfriend. proof:
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The issue isn’t that alt media is less true or professional — stuff like UndertheDesk news does a great job. And Parnas Perspective should exist. It’s just that we need a tighter, more structured community that has power, so it isn’t platforms like Substack that define the limits and winners
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I say this understanding that I also yap about news I don’t report on TikTok, so the irony doesnt escape me. But we need to develop an ecosystem/norms of productively critiquing alt media, and community around improving and building it together
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My latest on Substack about this:
open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...
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There is no viable route but the digital one for the scale of change and mobilization we need. Whatever a true peoples’ movement looks like, it will require these digital citizenship/production skills. So build them.
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So be a producer, not a consumer here. Support the creators you care about. Be a mod or an admin. Repost, troll the bad guys, participate in the comments.
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Despite media narratives which highlight the agency of founders, regulators, and algorithms, the real thing that steers the ship of the internet is users. My work is about trying to write a user-centric history of the internet through memes.
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and what makes the web run is user-generated content. Zuck & co. are parasites on your curiosity, creativity, and communities. We have more power than they want us to think.
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If there’s two things we know for sure about the internet, it’s that radical change is the norm here (remember AOL? Vine?)