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I may have missed something: what’s the issue with Blue Sky?
Facebook came along at the right time in Internet history to grab all the Boomer crackpots and monied groups.
Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that’s the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.
I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it’s germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Now we face the endless question: is this a real threat or does Sweden’s military want more funding? I genuinely do not know.
School segregation got reinvented under many other names, including “redlining” and “public housing” and “urban renewal.”
The folks in power have numerous strategies available to keep people in their place, as it were.
. . . and that’s exactly what Trump was claiming too. My point is that both mainstream parties do the same things with the same justifications while decrying the other.
I’m just gonna leave this right here:
Ya gotta laugh to keep from crying.
And where our priorities as a species are when it comes to atrocities like this.
Most substations are defended by a chain link fence with maybe some barbed wire at the top. There are plenty of tools that could disable them, both firearms and otherwise. I can’t speak to how many you’d need to take out to collapse the national grid, but I can tell you that region wide problems can be caused with an attack on one or two. Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable.
Genx here, and many of us are one or two serious mishaps away from homelessness.
The world is genuinely unprepared for a situation that can’t be resolved by throwing money at it. You’re doing the right/smart thing in doing the part you can do. Thank you for that food for thought.
I work in media and marketing and I’d love to discuss the possibilities. Cool if I message you?
Good to know, thanks for the heads up!
Oh wow. Thank you for the heads up. I will look into this right now.
All great projects–I actually run a nonprofit that refurbishes old computers and devices and gives them away to folks who need them. I’m glad to see someone else thinking along the same lines!
This whole thing is starting to develop a real 1968 feels–and of course the DNC convention is in Chicago this year . . .
Once again my life is hampered by the fact that I do not live in Australia . . .
Wow. Thank you.