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@mstem It’s almost as if there was an opportunistic, longer term strategy involving major conservative donors, media consolidation, and disinformation 🤔
Too often people jump from pure learning mode to scaling (or "hit revenue projections) mode too fast and too early (of course the opposite happens as well)
My 21 year old producer cannot and will not accept the fact that as a young teenager I had a black & white TV in my room.
I continued to add 'you also had to tune it in' and he replied with an expletive. He genuinely doesn't believe me.
Shall I tell him about rewinding tapes?
If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of the Iowa Caucus app you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it.
Also, what Wired is calling "relational organizing" is actually not really about building relationships so much as it is about exploiting them. That’s what you get when political tech is developed for top-down, short-term campaigns rather than horizontal, community organizing.
@twobitidiot Would be great to hear your positions knowing that decentralization takes many forms. Less open questions and more how this beautiful technology might rewrite capitalism to suck less