Like I am going to read Nerd Reich but I have been reading about this in the mainstream press for years and years. And of course WIRED has covered the bejeezus out of it and there’s so much indie reporting.
The frame warfare here deserves better arguments than “No one is covering it.”
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The claim that no one in mainstream media is covering the influence of tech money in the rise of authoritarianism, which I just heard Gil Duran say on KQED, makes me feel insane.
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My eyes keep being weird so I'm trying to find non-text ways to get the information I need, and man, national daily news audio is a real hellscape of people acting either two notches dumber (relatability!) or two notches smarter (counterintuitive cleverness!) than they actually appear to be.
And yet wherever ICE and CBP show up in force, young people do come out to protect their neighbors—and at far greater risk to themselves than the risks posed by mass protests that may help in a diffuse way, or may work more like an accountability sink than a countermove.
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