I appreciated this reflection. I keep trying to just journal my thoughts and exchanges with friends this week, but attempts are constantly interrupted by responsibilities that feel trite in this moment.
This is great! I have been suspicious more and more of plugins and so I look forward to having this resource.
Your strength talk reminded me of a Jean Jaurès quote: "Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it; it is not bowing to the law of the triumphant lie that passes by, and not echoing, from our soul, our mouth, and our hands, the foolish applause and fanatical boos." www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
Extremely relevant to the “Is Bluesky Dying” debate.
Organised workers are the greatest threat to big tech.
If workers organise, they can prove that tech companies aren’t all-powerful monoliths floating above the real economy.
Like all corporations, they need labour to survive.
And labour can fight back.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Ugh when did NBC start paywalling articles?
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
The quote I shared was just
This is a great read. I wish the article was more explicit in what prompts they used since they acknowledged it gave different results. Beyond showing the methods, it would be helpful for media literacy.
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.