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YouTube video by People Make Games Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

This has been an under-the-radar, slow-moving tragedy for a long time. Look at the timestamp on this expose video...

just plain evil...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF...

We're in the EndgAIme, Now Soon, AI Bots Could Have More Rights Than You Do

SMH at Tristan Harris's segment Maher's 8/1 show, alluding that AI chatbots are conscious/acting out of self-preservation.

No.

We deep dive this exact claim—another example of mixing warnings with stock-price hype-bubble ("doomvertising")—here: markharbinger.substack.com/p/were-in-th...

#AIscam

bsky.app/profile/tank...

#DumbestTimeline

IMO, Ironic discourse was key. E.g, Archie Bunker wasn't an endorsement. He (and research showed, the viewers, too) evolved

In mid-80s only 1-of-50 teens use mental health srvcs. It's up 10X (!!) that, since—Now ~1-in-5.

More brutal comedy roasts & fewer DEI discussions might be healthier for all

Gary Larson did it better...

#MediaLiteracy
#PropagandaModel
#Chomsky

Trump's Women Four categories.

I have a theory after being in contact with Trump-voting White women for nine years. I have divided them into four categories. This is not at all scientific, and there are likely more categories, but I can only give you the narratives of the women I know…

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The #MCU could have maybe hooked an entirely new generation of fans if—instead of some old grandpa activity like surfing—the #Movie had featured instead:
*The Silver Podcaster*

"Does Earth maybe wAnT to be eaten? I don't know, I'm just asking questions..."

#Comics 
#FunWriting

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

It's useful to publish a splash of sanity like this, from time to time.

truthout.org/articles/reg...

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

Meanwhile, the "scam of unbiased journalism" is alive and well. #MediaLiteracy

popular.info/p/axios-and-...

One thing that's striking about Ozzy Osborne's death is how difficult it is to imagine the music industry producing another figure like him. The barriers to working class people are so great, and there's a related attitude to culture that is neutered as a result.

This is so freaking adorable…. 🫠
Snuggles… 🥰
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The pundit class puts a lot of energy into being gobsmacked.

I'm just saying:

It's not new media > legacy media;
It's democratic institutions (incl. legacy ones) > technofeudalism

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That's good, I know. But at the end of the day, Bluesky is just another Techbro fiefdom (See Cory Doctorow on this, below).

IMO any kind of democratic future is ultimately going to have to include democratized/public owned & managed online spaces. #MediaLiteracy

pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...

Looks like Meidas hasn't posted anything in their Mastodon account in nearly two years (?).

Seems like taking part in the Fediverse would be part of being non-complicit, for an org like that. 🤔

To commemorate the historic event, WXPN presents Live Aid 40th Anniversary: a chronological playback of live recordings from Live Aid on Sunday, July 13th. Listen live:

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I'd do better with character limits if my cutting/pasting errors didn't create entire extra words, sigh. l😂

#MSM has been abysmal. They've submarined even the most jaded predictions about their sycophancy. But, to my surprise, indy media hasn't done much better, overall...

bsky.app/profile/mark...

Are indy journalism orgs reporting Trump's explicitly reporting fascist 2nd-term dom. policies?

Searching for "Trump" + "Fascism/st" on their websites—from the last 12 mo.s:

@truthout.org 11 stories, 8 or 9 making the connection
@propublica.org 2, neither connect
@gijn.org 0

#MediaLiteracy

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Except, I wonder: shouldn't any #movie that is "the ultimate _____ movie", by definition, be given #5stars ?

Or else what's that 5th star for?

How I feel after world press tour. Thank you to everyone I’ve been able to spend time with. #Superman is playing in theaters!

With an "AI" propeller on top.

Irony Deficiency On Superman, Comments, Art, and Why Everyone Else’s Media Literacy is “Cringe” (Trigger Warning: Funny Videos)

Our latest Substack on #MediaLiteracy

markharbinger.substack.com/p/irony-defi...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Don't forget- they make up for their ugliness and lack of vibe by being totally unsafe!

This is an amazing book. Highly recommend.

#MentalHealth #Codependancy #EmotionalAbuse

#MediaLiteracy and why #The21stCenturySucks in one post.