Phil Stewart

Compressed.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@BPantzzz @ericowensdc @lllatan @ericgeller Whoa now Parmenides! I'm talking about this Owens & Radkey business. Usually they seem to comprehend things better than are doing today. But we all have our not-well-meaning sides - don't we? 😎

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@BPantzzz @ericowensdc @lllatan @ericgeller Into which I think the stupid meming & the stupid likes it gets are beneath what I expect of these people. A bum will at least throw a physical plastic bottle at you on a public street.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@BPantzzz @ericowensdc @lllatan @ericgeller On one side: well-meaning conservatives who momentarily miss the frame of reference & by habit lean into particulars & adversions to corporate freedom, assuming it to be immutable.

On the other: belittling expansion beyond the scope suggested.

Love this medium & its affect.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@alice_radley @ericowensdc You just responded so plainly you do,

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc Oh I am SO ignorant. 🙄

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc I also would think a politically engaged & observant person like you would avoid sophistically overparticularizing in the present environment when the whole system that makes the first amendment have force & sense is at risk of being sacked by Trumpists & Q types.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc The attitude is more broadly distributed than the weirdos you comment on.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc @alice_radley You think if local library censors get their Christian theocracy, they won't tinker with Amazon's market freedom? I'm not talking about Amazon as presently run.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc Does not merit comment.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@NatashaBertrand @joshtpm A country whose leadership imagination comes down to jealousy about ability to bomb middle eastern countries.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@joshtpm @TPM Now "who threatens the threateners?"

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericgeller @joshtpm Also look to popular attitudes in major metros, & not just to obviously nasty practices of trying to eliminate knowledge. This strikes me as an easily categorized & recognizable version of behaviors we may not see as clearly or easily name. A lot of little dictators arising.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc @lllatan @ericgeller Amazon has the power to decide what to sell & are a site of potential mass censorship. Watch for it. Not now, but wait. The local libraries are a harbinger pointing to a desire that will expand its scope with rising political power.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@ericowensdc @ericgeller Or: maybe the broad digital availability of information gives the sense that "analog" materials are superfluous & like cash, somehow uncontrolled, anonymous, & suspect. A broad suspicion of things not digitally mediated or AI-directed like paper map-reading is developing.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@annamerlan @joshtpm In bankruptcy maybe plaintiffs should be made first in line to receive payouts & escrow funds IMMEDIATELY collected by the courts so that they are held undiverted.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

@RadioFreeTom I just talked to a guy who asked me to tell him what Trump ever did as president that did any harm to our country.

[Phil Stewart @Retinalia]

Too dumb to win a Darwin Award

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Natural selection finds a way.