considering that trump represents a specific existential risk to a free press and is explicitly campaigning against them it's pretty silly that they haven't waged outright war on him. they were willing to sell all their principles to make some money off page views, but when it comes to threats to change libel laws, restrict access to press enemies, etc, that's when "both sides of the story" ideologies must be preserved?
― Mordy, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
and by press i really am mostly thinking of the nyt. wapost hasn't been terrible. nyt has been just the worst. ap, too. npr - not great. all these voices of /neutral/ america.
― Mordy, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
also have to say ppl scoffing at the power of social media is kinda odd, like yeah it might be often frivolous and bizarre, but these are the largest media companies in the history of the world by far, hundreds of millions of ppl use them (over a billion for facebook), of course theyre extremely influential
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
I think there's probably something in all of this about the collision of a potentially disastrous election with an "old media" anxious about its continued relevancy and viability and a "new media" still feeling things out.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsfPOAfVMAAf-V6.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
https://cdn.meme.am/images/100x100/951.jpg
― nomar, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
btw I'm not just talking about "clickbait" here I'm talking about the impulse people seem to have to need to have a take on every single word that comes out of Trump's mouth, while very little gets said about Hillary. I think some of it is just instinctive and internalized -- Trump is good entertainment, and everyone in journalism is, to an extent, trained to look for that, even if s/he also has higher and better aims.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
but also closer races are more exciting and better for page views and drive more eyeballs so stories that humanize trump and his supporters + stories that cast suspicion [sometimes warranted, often not] on hillary are good for business
― Mordy, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
and reporters love stories
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
of course most of the actual non horse race trump stories remain unreported
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
last four posts otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
sorry I had a conf call had to exit thread briefly...
it's kind of insane what kind of criminal mastermind hill has been even as she's passing away, murdering DNC staffers and bleaching email servers and what not.
― nomar, Friday, 16 September 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏)Posted: September 16, 2016 at 12:34:43 PMlol flopson I haven't gotten any notifications so either I commented on a dead thread or he's blocked me in some way on fb now
it was a comment about this article: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheistshe somehow missed the point and was complaining that homophobic, racist evangelicals are a much bigger threat than atheists so why are you picking on atheists
lol this comment just popped up on my facebook didnt seem nearly ban worthy, just a polite reasoned argument that disagreed w him wth
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
@HeerJeet1. I want to talk about why Canadian fiction has so many stories about people having sex with animals & vegetables.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 September 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
what is trump is so bad, him being president actually convinces congress to roll back the legislation allowing g the president additional emergency powers to send troops
then we should be back to Moreno votes and they can just keep overriding him until he pisses himself (on a day he forgets to wear diaper)
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
more no votes, that is
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
wish people would stop mocking incontinent americans. it's a larger part of our population than people care to admit
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
hoping trump is so bad we just dont elect him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 September 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
yah
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 17 September 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
ap lede, media may be turning a corner
WASHINGTON (AP) — After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama's birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 September 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
uh oh
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
"brumpbo tungus," haven't seen that in a minute
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada/status/777908430023585792
this was me
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
pretty scary for those two minutes when my username was that lol
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
wow learn something new abt ilxors every day
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
i'm nazi btw
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Fair to say that ORTECH Consulting did... NAZI this one coming
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
damn what's the delay on this thing
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
i think they're deleting :(
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
dang, didn't get the chance to follow with "Ortech did 9/11"
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
So far I am noticing that early twitter use feels oddly like work, where you feel this need to do things to get followers and increase your reach.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
lmao
https://twitter.com/Justin__Bebis/status/777932050535944192
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
just had my first multiple-retweeted tweet, woot
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
congrats
can I give u a Twitter tip hurting... don't use hashtags unironically
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
never hashtag ever
― Clay, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
cool thx
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I think all the handful of times I used hashtags so far were either ironic or in response to a specific thing (i.e dumb games where you're supposed to come up with a pun) except maybe one
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
oh cool, first thing to have really freaked me out in a while:
https://twitter.com/gretagrain/with_replies
guy w/ 0 follows/ers tweets obsessive gnomic shit, mostly at women, also music youtubes
hope to god it's a bot.
― goole, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
i followed him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
dear reader, i followed him
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
can't believe you found my second account I mentioned
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
ha
http://i.imgur.com/ikUKK41.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
lag∞n's feed too offensive for even the misogynists of twitter
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
can't see me, sorry
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
ah i see this fella spent a good portion of the afternoon harassing a gizmodo writer i follow with increasingly creepy stuff that i can't even begin to decode
― Clay, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/gretagrain/status/778451158440345600
he got jams tho can he come to ilm
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 08:25 (seven years ago) link
aw he blocked me now
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link