I recommend Carole Cadwalladr's Substack essay "Total information collapse" today.

[manyroads@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy People can ALWAYS vote with their feet and walk away from evil. I always disturbed to see how few choose that simple option.

[dana@social.coop]

@wdlindsy she invents the word infodystopian so lets all credit her for #infodys

[dusk@todon.eu]

@wdlindsy

Subscribed! Great article, thanks for the recommendation!

[ooblick@toad.social]

Shame on us in the late 80s and early 90s for believing the biggest threat to the Internet was it turning into nothing but shopping malls. Little did we know it would be turned into a delivery service for propaganda so useful it would become the new Fourth Estate.

[bagofnails@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

'My Paranoia' - Censorship will be a major weapon in Trump's Arsenal. Musk and the Project 2025 crowd will lead the way.

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@wdlindsy I'd like to highlight this bit: " from January 20 [...] Musk’s behaviour must be understood in the context of information warfare from a hostile nation state. "

[freshstart@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy prescient words.

[evilk@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy
"don’t have to prove or disprove anything, you just need to drown the zone in shit"

[t2r@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy #boycottfacebook

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@T2R I definitely recommend reading Carole Cadwalladr's article.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@EvilK Yep, Bannon's famous words that may prove to be his epitaph.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@freshstart I agree. Prescient seems to me a good word to use to describe Cadwalladr's commentary.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@hakona Yes, that struck me as very important — and ominous.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@BagOfNails Yes, absolutely. See J. Dylan Sandifer on that point just today:

Why the Christian Right Demonizes Discourse

Their toxic fear of ideas is shaping the modern censorship movement.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dusk You're welcome. Cadwalladr's commentary is first-rate.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dana Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ManyRoads I suspect it's not always immediately apparent that evil is enmeshing us through this or that social or ideological structure, and the not-seeing makes it harder to choose to walk away. I'd love to think that all Americans had the insight that Thoreau had about citizens' needs totally to disengage from the slave system and withhold taxes for that reason — but he was very wildly in the minority.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@courtcan Yes, it's as if he's vanished, isn't it? I think it's still possible all this is orchestrated for a really maleficent reason, e.g., keeping him in the wings in the knowledge he'll soon take over.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@yuhasz01 Well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CartyBoston For sure. Could not agree more.