Evolving Media & News Sources

You can see that in the Institute for Nonprofit News’ most recent INN Index, which serves as an industry census of sorts. The total number of nonprofit news outlets increased nearly 70% between 2017 and 2021 — but the number of local nonprofits more than doubled. Five years ago, about 20% of nonprofits covered local news; now it’s 42% and rising…

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Fellow Unbelievers,

Well I’ll be damned, M’Lady! They got Him! As in Capital HIM!

Deputies arrest man calling himself God after nearly four-hour standoff
Published 4:55 pm Thursday,

Deputies arrest man calling himself God after nearly four-hour standoff

We Atheists have got a serious rethink to do and…[Read more]

Infamous Cult Leader Gazi Kodzo Arrested After Dead Body Found In Home
https://www.thedailybeast.com/infamous-cult-leader-gazi-kodzo-arrested-after-dead-body-found-in-home

PopeBeanie wrote:

I’ve removed MSNBC from my YouTube feed, but not from Twitter. This tweet is nice and short, and is worth discussing. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Elon could contribute to the Single Party Takeover?

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PopeBeanie wrote:

I’m also thinking that Twitter’s life is probably extended now with the buyout, since its ad model wasn’t life-sustaining, and it looks like consumer fees will drive content, at least in part. And Elon may find ways to promote certain tweeters over others, but I can’t guess how or how soon. The outcome may become “free speech”,…

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I’ve removed MSNBC from my YouTube feed, but not from Twitter. This tweet is nice and short, and is worth discussing. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Elon could contribute to the Single Party Takeover?

“You could secretly ban one party’s candidate…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us mi…

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Autumn wrote:

News or provocation? We live in the era of infinite anger.

Yes, both; sometimes twisted and often conflated. I was on Twitter within weeks of it starting up, handle “acme” for years until I left and neglected it for years and lost the handle to a commercial org. Only recently have I realized/admitted the importance of Twitter as a…[Read more]

News or provocation? We live in the era of infinite anger.

Circa 2022 APR 27

Elon’s buying twitter. Small sample of tweets from conservatives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG

Stop the Democrat’s war on women & children.

Keep biological males out of girls/women’s private spaces & sports.

Ban all pediatric gender clinics, puberty blockers, & gender reassignment surgeries on minors.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is an article about Jordan Peterson from a Vancouver interview about JP on religion.

Some of that makes sense to me straight away, but some of it I don’t understand at first sight.

I’ll be honest, I find it hard to understand what he’s talking about.  But there must be something about the general “stand up straight, shine your shoes” tenor that can benefit lost young men.

I don’t even have a problem with that really. The meandering delivery, I mean. I wouldn’t pay to watch it. A two-four, and the right friend and I could reproduce the same thing on the cheap in my own living room. Sometimes I even enjoy it, every sentence walking the line between abstract poetry, puzzle, and dadaism. It’s just when it’s wielded…[Read more]

Here is an article about Jordan Peterson from a Vancouver interview about JP on religion.

 And yes (don’t hate me, woke people) I was on the Jordan Peterson Facebook frontline savaging his opponents.

Germane to the thread, for a time he represented the brokenness of the internet and contemporary media. Peterson has things to account for. For a man who was ‘silenced’ (the claim of some of his fans) his voice became the single loudest vo…[Read more]

I was 16 when I first had real access to the internet (a regular connection and not just the text based internet). I used AOL which was a truly fantastic place to discover the online world. There was a large selection of chat rooms and back then chatting was really fun. There were very few trolls (they were quickly kicked out of the rooms).…[Read more]

The internet has been mainly fun for me, except for one face-reddening incident where I didn’t understand how Facebook worked.  I’ve had fun making a website (now gone) and posting my mixtapes and mp3s, and seeing the results.  I’ve fallen in love at least once.  I’m pretty sure that the locals keep a Whatsapp group about me and monitor my Fa…[Read more]