So. Let's set the stage...
President Trump has chosen as the venue for his first rally in months, Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of a horrific massacre of African Americans. And he has set the date for June 19th, Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.
Steven Mnuchin is refusing to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds.
He claims the info is "confidential" and "proprietary"
4.5 million businesses received government funds. Zero transparency.
The corruption is staggering.
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Ux also leading to dehumanizing gestures (left swipes; double taps), plus the pure ephemerality of content (don’t like something, pretend it never happened and delete) works in conjunction with data + analytics (show us more of us) has us in a living in a loop. How do we get out?
In 3 days, Trump put up 1.7 miles of new White House barriers to shield himself from citizens
In 1,231 days, Trump put up 3 miles of border wall where there was no previously existing barrier
WH barrier went up 230 times faster than border wall.
#babygate
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Others have said this, and now driving through downtown Manhattan and seeing shops rushing to board up their stores, I get it: They are more worried about protecting their goods than they were about the employees they wanted to bring back to work.
Are you kidding me ?? We would have seen and read about it on platforms + places that gave us time to process vs a platform that encourages frenetic reactions. A place that has trained us to look at content for how long before double tapping and moving on? Dehumanizing AF
"Would you have seen the video of George Floyd without social media? I think the answer is likely no." Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom explains at #WSJTechHealth how he feels about the power of social media and it being a force for good.