jozimeister.bsky.social
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The US corporate media just doesn't have any interest in making anyone so uncomfortable that they'd think twice before coming on their show.
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No. The most powerful version of Twitter was the original 140-character limit.
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No. The most powerful version of Twitter was the original 140-character limit. It challenged your creativity, sharpened your wit, and made brevity an art form. We even crafted our own shorthand—it felt like being part of something special. Now it’s just full sentences, like writing emails.
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Americans—even liberals—default to imperialism. Sorry if that’s triggering; it’s not meant to be. But viewing America through almost any lens always seems to circle back to imperialism.
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I think the real lesson is that the idea of “liberal billionaires” is a myth. And oh, let's not forget the deeply evil Jeff Bezos in all this.
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Need this fed to me intravenously. 😍
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Why isn’t regulation on the table for social media platforms? They wield far more power than radio or television ever did, yet we regulated those technologies with far less hesitation.
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We aren't smarter. Trump and the media are locked in a symbiotic dance to raise everyone's blood pressure. No soul will be spared.
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The Meta changes are so wild that we have even forgotten that a violent, vulgar man like Dana White is now on the board of Meta.
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I feel like we need a term for the yassification of fascism.
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True. Oligarchs are our friends.
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Yup. I always find it funny that Watergate is mythologized as this great moment for America when its main perpetrator walked, built presidential libraries, lived to old age on a presidential pension and even got a state funeral when he died. There is no accountability for the powerful in America.
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Is it ever as easy as you describe it? Even great writers seem to accept that writing well is daunting.
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If I do pick up something from Pen Swap, I'll remember to put up a picture. 👊🏿
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Is the KOP writing experience really out of this world? Apparently, it's truly something special. Same for the M1000. I don't hear so many people talk up the 149 as they do these other two.
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Yeah. Reading all the reviews online a Pelikan M100 and an Ebonite KOP are levels above even the MB149 and Visconti Home Sapien. I don't own any of these pens yet lol. I am not rich enough.
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Thank you. I need to try it out.
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Where do you pick up antique Pelikans that you can trust? eBay can be so scammy.
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Not that it's possible, but if you could, which would you say is the best pen regardless of price, prestige, nib material all that jazz. Just pure writing enjoyment.
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LOL @ the "do the dinosaur"
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Yes, I do realize this. But in the name of “national security” we have discarded our First Amendment rights, which is what the ban would amount to, as I see it. Then there is the small problem of handing the US public conversation to a handful of oligarchs who own all the platforms we use.
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A continuation of the pattern set after subprime/global financial crisis (or perhaps earlier): The US justice system does not hold the wealthy and powerful accountable. The “end of history,” apparently, is oligarchy.
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How is this any different from the data-sharing going on between Silicon Valley and the U.S. Government? Do you really think all they do is “make money” in Silicon Valley?
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Like, literally, the US has been running a surveillance system via social media since at least 9/11. This is on record yet Americans seem to be perfectly fine to spy and be spied on by their state, but draw a line when China does this.
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Also, why is TikTok being singled out for this accusation? How has it “rotted everyone's brains” any more than Facebook or Twitter or any of a handful of social media apps? This is a dishonest conversation.
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The billionaires realise that save for these grumbles of discontent little is likely to come of all this. I doubt that many people at these companies will risk their comfortable jobs in this employment market to fight for this or any cause.
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The Overton window is so far right and so pro-capital at the moment that even in the midst of a massive realignment in the platforms on which all public conversations are being had, none of our public representatives seem to think regulating social media is necessary. The entire system is captured.
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I also find it curious that Americans are prepared to forgo their beloved First Amendment rights on the vaguest suggestion of a connection between an app and the CCP, all the while their entire public conversation on social media is being “regulated” by private corporations owned by oligarchs.