The largest, most monolithic internet giants today run on incalculable troves of user info to do the most basic of human activities: sell, sell, sell!
Tag - social media
From the 24-hour news cycle to constant doom-scrolling on social media, the world is awash in negative thinking and the mentality that the next crisis is right around the corner.
As the kids now say, IYKYK.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
War Propaganda and the Information State | Guest: Brandan P. Buck | Ep 241
The release of the Twitter Files revealed that defense agencies are censoring social media platforms to promote a certain agenda, making the war on so-called COVID misinformation look more like a national security issue than a public health one.
Presidential politics is a stale affair—particularly this sultry season.
While humming “Pomp and Circumstance” coming out of the shower the other morning, as one does in late May, I had one of those Proustian moments of long-forgotten remembrance: the final episode of Nickelodeon’s “Doug.”
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Stop Using Children to Justify Censorship | Guest: Shoshana Weissmann | Ep 231
Won’t someone please think of the children? From time immemorial, this has been the battle cry of the moral guardians who want to control what you’re allowed to see, hear, or think.
Have you heard? Art is arid, the culture is crumbs, and everything is bromidic bilge
The internet’s fast-moving, even-faster-profit-ringing nature guarantees more Buzzfeeds and Vices will sprout up, vying for our attention, baiting our worst instincts.
Musk didn’t really muck it up until he started tweaking the power symbol that was Twitter’s driving force: the infamous bluetick.