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[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Master thread on the 2015-2022 closure of the Internet, the process by which every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

There is something about the structure of interaction on Twitter that encourages dunking, sniping, snark—its strange

[O.W. Root @owroot]

If the worst characterization of IG is that it’s vapid, the worse characterization of Twitter is that it’s toxic.

If IG incentivizes surface level normie-ism, twitter incentivizes hate and anger.

I have a friend who has a big account here and he told me a few months back he is just sick of it and honestly feels better when he is on IG.

It’s true that it’s possible for people to get real nasty and mean here and it can get people seeing only the darker side of the world and it’s not good for people, we’ve all seen it.

We choose what we want to see and what we want to feel, we can choose to follow more thoughtful and optimistic accounts here and less vapid ones on IG.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

Immediate follow

[Nathan Covey @nathan_covey]

https://t.co/WOU6VtYECT

[hsuso @hsuso3]

Find that I spend most of my time THINKING about how to read, write more…

[hsuso @hsuso3]

Home book
Move book
Wait book

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

You should always be reading 3 books at a time:

A print book for when you’re home.

An audiobook for when you’re commuting.

An ebook on your phone for when you’re waiting.

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

@BumpkinEsq i think the present political fate of the right has a lot to do with dominance of people within the right who want to define their political movement as contrary to the major centres of wealth and power and their cultural expressions.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

Dude relax.
1) yes, zoning, codes and regs make it impossible to build the way people have always built in most places today
2) no one is asking for grants or subsidies, just the freedom for private enterprise and development to build this way
3) this has zero connection to communism (and in fact is most strongly aligned with free market capitalism and conversation design principles in the strict sense)

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 Who is building or advocating for anti car communism?!? These things are not connected.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@e_cdalton Bring back the Stammitsch!

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@SandyofCthulhu @SyntheticAnima Did you ever reas Blish’ “Black Mass”?

[hsuso @hsuso3]

You really need to step away from the culture war koolaid. As far as I can tell your argument is: this sort of urban development is blue coded (according to my algorithm), therefore bad and gay. No one is talking about confiscating cars, or herding people into WHO death camps.

No one is even talking about forcing cities to be built like this. The argument is about ALLOWING people to build cities in the way they have always been built, which actually leads to maximal economic productivity and (wait for it) personal liberty.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 I’m talking about Savannah, Charleston, Philly, New Orleans etc

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 People drive and own cars in all of the aforementioned cities.

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@paulg Not an endorsement for or against, but I don’t think autocracy is uniquely vulnerable to studied persuasion

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 Do you think these places are communist shitholes?

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 What point are you trying to refute?

[hsuso @hsuso3]

@ATX_fight_club @ZacharySisson3 Yes, but it can and does clearly coexist with it.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Meanwhile in Tobleronistan

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Children can't handle social media, unlike me, a 35-year-old man who has already spent this morning browsing a message board devoted to hating a marginal podcaster and watching videos of random Slavic men being attacked by drones.