Case in point. Yesterday, my Amazon delivery guy, a zoomer said, “Not worried about covid. It’s not as bad as they say and the vaccines are worse.” Just now, I asked him “what news source shaped your opinion of covid and vaccines?” “Tiktok. It’s the only news I watch now.” I rest my case.

My entire life revolves around counting the seconds until that final dose of Paxlovid on Saturday. I’m pissed enough about the Russian army marching through Ukraine, but I draw a red line at them marching through my mouth.

The biggest difference between fediverse and most other social networks, is that really contentious topics like this can be discussed without the predictable eruption of flame wars with every third post or reply. It’s impossible o overstate how important that contextual difference is.

We need to do a lot of things. And if we ever have a progressive government again that actually functions, we may be able to do them. I don’t see that it makes sense for us to just let bad situations get that much worse because we lack a uniform solution. Source: @npub1gz6l...nyex

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@shoq Privacy violations are unjustifiable no matter where the bad actor lives or if they have nuclear weapons. Banning a single platform is just a...

@npub19ztj...l8y5 I’m increasingly annoyed by this focus on “data.” The core problem is not data as much as influence and active measures. Tiktok just shot itself in the face proving how easily it can make millions of people flood Congress with their message. Imagine them doing that after invading Taiwan.

What has always concerned me about Tiktok is how incredibly passive its users have to be to be seduced into making endless swipes through bottomless pits of ephemeral content posited as art or information. Have you ever watched someone doing it? It’s like they’re in a trance.