signs of the times
This is the intentional design of our current commercialized media ecosystem: to shift our time, attention, experiences, and very humanity from the real world to the digital world. Since the introduction of the television, local civic life has been fighting to survive.
Presser and Duggan on synthetic connection https://open.substack.com/pub/connectivetissue/p/from-organic-community-to-synthetic?r=1i623&utm_medium=ios
From Mike Pepi
It has become increasingly indefensible to plot ideas, people, or organizations across our existing political spectrum. The traditional left/right and authoritarian/libertarian models are outdated and misleading. Though they might have been useful in the twilight of the 20th Century, they ignore the complexities of today’s digital, networked economy. We need a new framework to grasp emerging powers and their political risks.
At the risk-averse Gates Foundation, officials have asked aides to put next to nothing in emails or other written materials, especially anything that Trump officials could take out of context. Some employees have locked down public social media accounts and shifted much of their work to Telegram or Signal, encrypted messaging apps. (Alex Reid, a... See more
Gates Foundation Is Rattled by Trump’s Threat to Its Mission
nothing in writing
Today, states are turning to a corporate-owned media system called AI and deploying it in ways that undermine or replace political decision-making about laws and policy. In that light, this is not helpful at all. It is a fundamentally corrosive concentration of power into the hands of technicians.
Democracy & the AI Question
Political divide based on income.
"President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.
It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a... See more
It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a... See more