@mastodonmigration This is another aspect of enshittification. Oligarchs buy up the most respected traditional media, first announcing that they will do nothing to influence editorial content or news coverage, but eventually find such interference irresistible. Then Musk buys the most influential non-traditional news platform in the name of free speech and immediately uses it to promote his own views. Now we see the rise of so-called "indy" media, like Meidas Touch, but the platforms on which they run are also controlled by Big Tech. Mastodon and the federated model are a bit different, but ISPs and other entities in the internet infrastructure can be used to suppress federated traffic. In the long run, it sort of looks like we are screwed.
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Lots being written lately about how adroit Harris has been with the corporate media not taking the bait with all their insipid gotcha questions. -
"Yesterday, the U.S. Army issued a stern rebuke to the Trump campaign over his visit on Monday to the Arlington National Cemetery...@wdlindsy Trump thinks, "They say I don't respect veterans. I'll show them! I'll do a photo op with the family of a veteran killed by Biden's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan!" Then when it all goes awry because it is really about the photo op and not at all about respect, Trump doesn't understand why. He is trying to perform a simulacrum of an emotion he doesn't have, so of course it rings false. Now he is thinking, "I came all this way to this stupid cemetery, like I didn't do before, and they STILL criticize me." So now he plays the victim. He probably genuinely thinks he is the victim. He doesn't understand how to be a human being.
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Heather Cox Richardson points to what the Harris campaign says as Trump tries to weasel out of debating Harris:@wdlindsy I think we have already learned that nothing Trump says or does can doom his campaign. His only possible sin for MAGA is to be boring. That might be happening, but right now it is only happening for his rally goers. If he falls asleep at the debate, that might move the needle a little. If he uses offensive words, that might excite the base a little because it's not boring. Yet.