Where’s Clint Eastwood & his Grand Torino when ya need him?

But…. You could put stuff in them some day… and become so organized.
Info not necessarily coming from a garage with an allegedly inappropriate qty of peanut butter jars.

Spoonfuls of tech-boosted, high-octane, addictive, vindictive, rage-based, belonging, tribalism, dignity being injected into the veins of followers by the entertaining carnival… helps the ‘medicine’ go down. Folks seem hooked enough to take homelessness before rehab.

Chris Arnade speaks much on these points. You were college bound or, if not, preparing to think the college folk / perceived elites were always looking down on you… even if they weren’t. …so ripe for some radio / 24hr news entertainment / podcasts to trade your attention for some vibes of dignity.

Sad Al Franken was rejected …similar is needed …gotta be able to dance around the ring …stick & move …somewhere between WWE kayfabe & MMA theatre or you’re ‘just a buncha nerds’

👍 need machismo / slightly mean-girl zingers - today’s ADHD market feeds on WWE style theatre …new twist would be to avoid taking things out of context & looking silly …somehow can’t be looking like smug elitist educated types ….gotta be the legit correct yet entertaining bs’r at the local rural pub

💪 need to lean into some kinda THEATRE, with SNL-ish factual twists …we the ADHD people do need our addictions satisfied

Some entity needs to roll out FB / TT replacements, with info / algorithms controlled by team of not-for-profit grownups.
…somehow needs to avoid takeover / shutdowns by the profit / influence mafia.
Maybe Canada based, eh?

Wonder if this cat, w/near 2M Insta followers, has made a funny on this point yet… e.g., pretend WWE is real, be a man

Can see in that clip somewhat successful channeling of Johnny Carson’s style, albeit w/the attractive-to-many twist of demeaning others.
‘though you folks wouldn’t be allowed in to our OWB club, I snuck you in & we’ll pretend for a minute that we’re friends’

🤔 So lesson learned = Sway the masses via attention grabbing entertainment w/vibes of revenge, outrage, porn & somebody getting punched.

…brainy dialogue about facts & truth & stuff is a turn off.
🎶 Macho macho man 🎶
7 degrees of Village People

NEVER would’ve been one to pay a subscription fee for a social media app… 🤔
Until taking in how rare it will be to keep a global town square simple, not controlled by one person/entity, not controlling what we see to maximize profits or agendas.
Fair winds
Following seas
Blue Skies

Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Susceptible to Fake News, but for Different Reasons New research suggests both liberals and conservatives are motivated to believe fake news, and dismiss real news that contradicts their ideologies

"The researchers found some asymmetries, however. Conservatives who scored high in faith intuition (i.e., those who tend to think with their gut instincts) had higher perceptions of the legitimacy among fake news, although this variable had little effect on the judgments of liberals."

Needed more Edward Bernays branding input eh. If only Bernie’s team would’ve packaged the message w/ WWE & hired blonde vibes 🤔

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY

“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
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YouTube video by BryanDawsonUSA Reagan calls African leaders “monkeys, uncomfortable wearing shoes.” And more!

Listen as tape reveals Reagan’s secret convo with Nixon disparaging African UN delegates calling them “monkeys uncomfortable wearing shoes.”

Then listen Lee Atwater talk about GOP’s race-baiting “Southern Strategy,” followed by Trump touting his genes & “German blood.”
youtu.be/MbxdxrD4wWE?...

The “new normal” in the upcoming government is a TV-ification of how government leaders are picked.

NEVER would be one to pay a subscription fee for a social media app… 🤔
Until taking in how rare it will be to keep a global town square simple, not controlled by one person/entity, not controlling what we see to maximize profits or agendas.
Fair winds
Following seas
Blue Skies

Hello from the rural Midwest, where fans of history are in short supply.