I wrote about how the fundamental difference in strategy between Trump vs Harris this cycle boils down to shortform vs longform. Harris leaned hard into short form content after launching her campaign this summer, successfully dominating TikTok and viral IG type accounts. Meanwhile, Trump has been sitting for hours-long livestreams and built parasocial bonds with young male voters through podcasts.

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I signed up for a google alert on my name a couple weeks ago to keep tabs on my User Mag launch and every day the alert brings me new gifts

Substack could embrace the federated model of social media, which platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and even Threads leverage. In so many ways, the Fediverse embodies the ideals that Substack was founded on: giving users a platform-agnostic connection to their audience, allowing for audience portability, eliminating top-down moderation, and putting users back in control of their online experience.

How Substack's follow feature betrays its original mission

The follow button is a powerful discovery tool that is proven to help writers gain subscribers. It's also a step away from creator ownership.

"Contrary to what ME [denialists] have been claiming for decades, far from being a bourgeois disease, made up by white women to find an outlet for their neuroticism, ME is a poor person’s disease. The construction of ME as a form of hysteria occludes this fact and harms those marginalized the most"

The Black Insurrectionist account is linked directly to Jason G. Palmer, who has his own questionable backstory, starting with the fact that he isn’t Black. Palmer has repeatedly been accused of defrauding business partners and lenders, has struggled with drug addiction and whose home was raided by the FBI over a decade ago. He also owes more than $6.7 million in back taxes to the state of New York.

The ‘Black Insurrectionist’ account is run by a white man

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“This is a documented Israeli war crime of the execution of a U.S. resident and her extended family in Gaza.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/jabalia-massacre