Evolving Media & News Sources

After watching the video, my main response is that repairable differences between ordinary folk aren’t the main problem. It’s the puppetmasters plus the fact that when it comes to some differences there is no middle ground: gun control, abortion, school prayer, etc.

For example, how much religion would you feel comfortable allowing in schools?…[Read more]

Correct on PTB. I will watch it now. Promise.

“PTB” = powers that be? Just guessing.

Did you watch the PBS video? It’s actually quite informative.

Unless they do this, Youtube won’t be able to censor the shit their corporate overlords want declared “misinformation or disinformation.”

I know one channel has been put in Youtube jail for a week more than once for inflammatory videos that simply contradict the CDC, WHO, or WEF (or even for simply quoting them!).

Free speech has come to mean…[Read more]

#MendOurDivides

(Yikes, is everyone else getting the YouTube this is age-restricted message? This is getting ridiculous! Now I must explain, the following video is about people and media mending the divides between left and right. This is a fairly typical, innocuous PBS piece, for fuck’s sake. BTW, when I pasted the link into Google’s chat app…[Read more]

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?

Even without that, one of the benefits of social media was the extent to which it empowered more grassroots movements to get a voi…[Read more]

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.