Friends, Musk/Twitter headlines are all variants of ‘what will Elon do?’ It’s a signal of how lost we are. We obsess over one man and his whims because we don’t yet have the democratic rule of law needed to govern our information spaces. Without law power is dangerous.🧵[1/8]
Platforms and toxic feedback loops have photographers scared of being photographers. Content is safe, it’s measured, it’s predictable. Photography is unpredictable, its evolving, it’s chaos, just as life is chaotic and ever-changing. Your art deserves to be more than content.
In any event, the kind of racism Tucker is throwing at KBJ happens to Black people *all the time* in the legal profession. We're constantly asked to *re*prove that we're "qualified" by white people who are never satisfied no way.
And all of us develop different strats to deal...
Look around your environment.
Rather than seeing items as objects, see them as magnets for your attention. Each object gently pulls a certain amount of your attention toward it.
Whenever you discard something, the tug of that object is released. You get some attention back.