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I’m the Millennial “haha”’s after every sentence

LGBT algorithms in 2011: Targeted ads out gay son to conservative father

LGBT algorithms in 2021: TikTok feed outs trans user to themself

Every PR advisor ever:

Your reach is too large to use Twitter like a normal person and just tweet whatever comes to your mind

Every YouTube influencer ever:

i just dont get why we cant kick puppies send tweet

The real trap is viewing things strictly in terms of centralized growth/degrowth. It views platforms as atomized and promotes the idea that they’re in competition. The reality of social networks irl is that many connections are redundant via mutual friends, interests, stomping grounds, etc. And activist networks do tend to form ‘cliques’, but that itself is a word that implies competition and division. But when these networks split, individuals in them will still retain their other mutual connections with the other side of the split. So your network hasn’t shrunk by half. It’s gained a second center.

Taking the situation and looking at it through a non-hierarchical lens makes that situation a lot less catastrophic. This sort of change can and should be pursued by the left online. I have people that, despite having deleted their Hexbear accounts and us not talking in over a year, I have several ways I could contact. If I ever join a project that their skills would be useful for, they’re not just some anonymous person I used to talk to. This kind of connection is the one that social infrastructure is built on. And it’s the kind that social media discourages because it limits their ability to unilaterally direct your attention where it’s profitable

No, but your labour-power is commodified like an ingot

I don’t know whether to feature this or purge it from the database

My car’s sitting in my garage because I can’t afford gas but yeah I guess a bike would be more authoritarian

The firefighters I know are those culturally chud-by-default types who will pretty easily come around with a little discussion and are happy to admit they were wrong and crack another beer. I got one dude to put up a pride flag in his trailer

A lot of people stuck and a lot of people are going to be easier to stick in the future. There’s no such thing as a success with no ebb and flow that follows it. We’ve made net gains on the left since 2016. It’s our job to find the people that haven’t completely lost ground and usher them along into meaningful political action