is it just me or is the new iphone update extremely confusing?
why did anyone think that swapping the location of mute and speaker would be a good thing? 🧐
"the shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist, and artist into a single notion of caregiving + creativity."
- Terence McKenna
The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel
I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.
"The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities."
Incredibly important piece from @EliLake in @TheFP:
https://t.co/8k5aNg3SDd
By any objective standards, Hamas is a far-right, reactionary, theocratic, fascist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, antisemitic group.
The fact that many Western Leftists sympathize with it, promote its propaganda, repeat its talking points, and/or make excuses for it, will be remembered by future historians as one of the most bizarre features of the 2020s.
The mainstream media insist that the Censorship Industrial Complex is a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's real. And, now, 138 artists, journalists, and public intellectuals from around the world, and from Left to Right, are calling on governments to dismantle it.
It’s been amazing this week to watch the left invert every rhetorical device they’ve used since 2020, all to avoid having to criticize terrorists dedicated to Jewish genocide. It would be hilarious, if it weren’t so reprehensible.
2020: Silence is violence.
2023: People can’t be expected to comment on every situation. It’s okay to just keep silent, especially while events are still unfolding.
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2020: If you’re nitpicking small details instead of focusing on the big picture, you’re doing so to avoid your complicity in atrocities.
2023: 40 babies weren’t actually beheaded. 40 babies may have been killed, and some of them may have been beheaded, but that’s not the same as 40 getting beheaded. Details matter.
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2020: Universities must proactively take a stand and speak out in opposition to racism. “Academic freedom” is a false concept used to enforce oppression.
2023: Universities need to maintain neutrality and ensure that they do not make any statements that jeopardize the principle of academic freedom, which is a paramount virtue in the realm of scholarship.
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2020: You must immediately and forcefully condemn an attack, even if investigations are ongoing.
2023: You can’t expect us to release statements opposing an attack within four days, when the facts are still being discovered. Israel hasn’t even allowed UN investigators at the scenes of these “alleged massacres.”
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2020: People are responsible for their words, even if they are just working-class teenagers in small towns. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
2023: Graduate students at the most prestigious university in the world are just kids and cannot be held accountable for statements they sign. This is cancel culture.
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2020: Believe all women.
2023: Where is the physical evidence of these “alleged rapes”?
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2020: It’s not enough to be non-racist. If you are not actively anti-racist, it means that you are, in fact, racist.
2023: How dare you question whether I support terrorists just because I haven’t actively spoken out against Hamas freedom fighters.
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2020: We don’t get to tell people in affected communities how to deal with their pain in the aftermath of violence.
2023: It is Israel’s responsibility to ensure that violence doesn��t escalate.
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2020: Anything that disproportionately affects one group of people is oppression and must be condemned.
2023: Settlers—a term that includes all Israeli Jews—are not civilians and are therefore all valid targets for attacks.
The arrow of time is a befuddling concept: non-existent per Newton, emergent per thermodynamics, or an illusion per Einstein. Here’s a new idea: Assembly Theory which unifies time with evolution. Mind bending! https://t.co/J59Ds3yGsG
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