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

[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.

[manyroads@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Correct, sad but true. However people DO NEED to be reminded. Otherwise it's simply ==> out of sight, out of mind.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ManyRoads I think the best way we're reminded may be by seeing the heroic practice of courageous individuals who are willing to stand up and speak out. I cited Thoreau. I think also of people like Bonhoeffer, John Lewis, Sojourner Truth, and countless other prophets and heroes like them.

[manyroads@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy not to mention the millions of 'unsung heroes' who have engaged in quiet civil disobedience over the centuries.

[godfrey642@aus.social]

@wdlindsy
Thanks for the heads-up William. Carol Cadwalladr is an amazing journalist.
I used to follow her on TwiX but she's one of many journalist "follows" I've missed over here. One of the aspects where Mastodon isn't as good 🫤