Lauren Beckman

A possibly unpopular opinion: I hate the ‘what radicalised you?’ trend because the answers are always the most basic just care for humanity, society and intersectional issues which creates a permission structure for people to frame that as radical.

Nothing says “this is an indisputable biological truth” like needing to legislate it… 🫠

🙄 the way he is rewriting history is wild. The ‘mission’ is giving people a voice and allowing them to share what they want?! Sure Jan. We all know it was a site to rate the hotness of his female classmates!! I guess he figures if he says it enough he’ll memory hole the actual origin of Facebook.

🧐 Zuckerberg wants the US government to protect the tech industry from other governments but also doesn’t want government interference

🙃 his comments on masculinity and ‘masculine energy’ in corporate organisations were just as annoying in context as they were in reports online

💉 he won Joe Rogan over easily but slipped up a bit on the vaccine side of things (Zuck is pro, Rogan is anti)

My high level thoughts on the Mark Zuckerberg interview with Joe Rogan:

🍊 this was an exercise in Zuckerberg sucking up to Trump and engaging in some truly wild revisionist history

Quick reminder that the Aboriginal Flag and Torres Strait Islander Flag are both official flags of Australia under the Flags Act… and have been for longer than ‘Australia Day’ has been a public holiday. Just saying.

Seeing all the Wicked discourse and I am BEGGING people to develop some media literacy and critical analysis skills. Foreshadowing is not a ‘spoiler’. Nor is it an ‘Easter egg’.

Between Wicked and Agatha All Along, can we agree it’s time to bring back practical effects and give CGI a bit of a break? Immersive practical effects with minimal supplementary CGI is just so visually compelling!! More of this please.

Honestly the idea of starting on any social media from scratch seems exhausting at this point. But I suppose this is the price we must pay for a post-Elon platform. So here we are.