@matthewstoller@whiffle_frog@gelliottmorris Google & Big Tech have helped poison our information environment, which in turn has weakened US democracy.
Trump attempted a coup on January 6th, 2021.
@_glorianas I’ve somewhat cooled off, knowing that this is all baked in now. But I was pretty manic for the 8 or so years we spent trying to avoid this.
@1mfslw@NoahPasternak The 2016 election was the driver of it, a news cycle dominated by two unpopular and polarizing candidates. The other stuff was just sprinkled on.
I disagree with the idea Trump’s madness of yesteryear doesn’t matter anymore. We’re still living through this psychosis today.
There’s all sorts of people I would consider smarter than myself who also can’t seem to see certain perspectives which are maddeningly obvious to me.
It’s better to be wise than intelligent.
@robinsonmeyer If the current imbalances in the earth’s atmosphere were driven by centuries long changes of the industrial revolution, perhaps we should consider more thoroughly the effects that building thousands of energy-draining-supercomputers could have on the future. (2/2)
@robinsonmeyer Everyone seems to be looking for the “specific” reason why, but I feel if you look at all the bullshit going on in our modern era it’s actually very easy to understand the skepticism. (1/2)
All of NY sports radio just 2 weeks ago was proclaiming how the Yankees wouldn’t be able to catch the Rays, I thought it was asinine then and look where we are now.
It’s not even like I thought it was gonna happen so much as it was obviously possible it could! They were 6 games backs with 6 weeks to play and a 3 game set in the final week. It’s a rather simple hypothesis.
Honestly I’m the idiot for taking sports radio seriously.