I am worried Matt drifting too far into the extremely online world and becoming untethered to the real one. He dedicated about a million words to the arcane inner workings of Twitter, raising a lot of thorny and intellectually stimulating questions the obvious solution to which is "just don't go on Twitter." Like, who cares? It's only a …
I am worried Matt drifting too far into the extremely online world and becoming untethered to the real one. He dedicated about a million words to the arcane inner workings of Twitter, raising a lot of thorny and intellectually stimulating questions the obvious solution to which is "just don't go on Twitter." Like, who cares? It's only a small percentage of the world on there making noise. Matt went from tackling existential questions about the intersection of human nature, mass media in the always online age, and representative democratic systems...to reporting on school yard fights between various tools and losers on social media.
I hear this — it’s a legit complaint. I would say my own issue with the online world is the same way it’s creating people who aren’t grounded in reality, and this is really what the TF reports were about, the back room machinations and fights to control that process. Like any issue, whether it’s banking or military contracting, understanding requires getting into weeds, at least with initial reporting. It is very inside baseball, I agree. I definitely do not want to be writing this stuff much longer
I am on substack—not on Twitter unless referenced by an article on substack or a politician with interesting posts, but I don’t use an account. I enjoyed your testimony in front of Congress with MS on C-Span. As a previous comment indicated, I am an independent—maybe they’re correct this is our forum—the place for free speech, honest debates, and a search for understanding of what’s really happening so as to have a constitutional democracy that is healthy. Thank you, Matt Taibbi—so appreciate your participation in our country!
Need you Matt. Easy enough to measure myself and check other sources and agree or not with your perspectives. I've developed a trust in you. With you pre TF, please keep it up.
I actually did jump on after Elon bought it, but gave it up months ago because I found myself arguing with people and just raising my blood pressure. And yet, here I am. But seriously, the TF was a momentous story of government "overreach" (not nearly, nearly strong enough) and a complete trampling of 1A in so many ways you lose count. That's what it was about.
For better or worse, real life has lots and lots of details.
With that said, it is a very good idea to big picture things for people who think in terms of the big picture.
I would argue that reaching more people has more to do with translating things into the many languages of human brain diversity and understanding--than marketing the same song to more people.
I am worried Matt drifting too far into the extremely online world and becoming untethered to the real one. He dedicated about a million words to the arcane inner workings of Twitter, raising a lot of thorny and intellectually stimulating questions the obvious solution to which is "just don't go on Twitter." Like, who cares? It's only a small percentage of the world on there making noise. Matt went from tackling existential questions about the intersection of human nature, mass media in the always online age, and representative democratic systems...to reporting on school yard fights between various tools and losers on social media.
I hear this — it’s a legit complaint. I would say my own issue with the online world is the same way it’s creating people who aren’t grounded in reality, and this is really what the TF reports were about, the back room machinations and fights to control that process. Like any issue, whether it’s banking or military contracting, understanding requires getting into weeds, at least with initial reporting. It is very inside baseball, I agree. I definitely do not want to be writing this stuff much longer
I am on substack—not on Twitter unless referenced by an article on substack or a politician with interesting posts, but I don’t use an account. I enjoyed your testimony in front of Congress with MS on C-Span. As a previous comment indicated, I am an independent—maybe they’re correct this is our forum—the place for free speech, honest debates, and a search for understanding of what’s really happening so as to have a constitutional democracy that is healthy. Thank you, Matt Taibbi—so appreciate your participation in our country!
Need you Matt. Easy enough to measure myself and check other sources and agree or not with your perspectives. I've developed a trust in you. With you pre TF, please keep it up.
That was an interesting last sentence.
Dude, you missed the point of TF entirely.
You must be on Twitter
I actually did jump on after Elon bought it, but gave it up months ago because I found myself arguing with people and just raising my blood pressure. And yet, here I am. But seriously, the TF was a momentous story of government "overreach" (not nearly, nearly strong enough) and a complete trampling of 1A in so many ways you lose count. That's what it was about.
For better or worse, real life has lots and lots of details.
With that said, it is a very good idea to big picture things for people who think in terms of the big picture.
I would argue that reaching more people has more to do with translating things into the many languages of human brain diversity and understanding--than marketing the same song to more people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEtjL_qOl8