PR warfare, totally, and I think Depp showed up with a PR military to a PR barfight.

I also think it's increasingly unacceptable to have exactly zero transparency on major platforms' algorithms and traffic data. I'm not asking for the code or something, but we already know Big Soc understands better than anyone how terrible it is for society and has been covering up the extent of it (for the uninitiated.

The GOP often gives lip service to the idea of anti-trust laws or repealing Section 230, but I'm very much in favor of actual change. Meanwhile, Pelosi calls Schumer from her rotary dial phone to recount the good old days, when .com bubbles simply resolved themselves, somehow.

Bots, trolling, all of it, we have no idea. We're not allowed to know much of the mechanics and statistics behind our perceptions of society. Like... evaluating major bases of the collective worldview was already a hella confusing thing to navigate before the internet, and now the path to doing it's being intentionally obfuscated. For profit.

Truly, this is some foundational shit. The information ecosystem is being polluted, and often systematically. It affects our ideological cornerstones. Cannot overstress how much we need a re-thinking of our online spaces, or even re-exploring what we intend to accomplish with the internet. Beta testing the latest release is... uh oh.

Look, I've radicalized you using social media! Nah, HAHA, I was trolling that whole time. Things are fine.