the nyt tends to be really cagey about accepting any hacked data from hacktivists or other non-nazi hackers and often just does not cover big hacktivist stories at all even if they are national news. just like, for the record.

Save every human being.

Fight for every single person that you can.

AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.

AND literally: Save every single person that you can.

There is no buffer time. It's now

Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so.

Again: there is not some other approach whereby the NYT could represent the right more & still do high-quality, multiply-sourced, factchecked journalism. It's a null set. That's not journalism's fault, it's the right's fault.

The point I want to make is: this is not coincidence. You could not do what the NYT is trying to do while maintaining high journalistic standards.

Why? Because in reality, the parties are asymmetrical. The right has become deranged, violent, & illiberal. Dems are bog standard center-left party.

...I want everyone to notice something about it in particular: when they try to write these articles, they end up doing *shitty journalism*. The Claudia Grey stuff, the Mamdani stuff, the trans stuff, sanewashing Trump ... it's not *just* irritating to lefties, it's also demonstrably bad journalism.

People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it

Apparently it's been seven months since I've been here (or on any platform other than reddit, really), but news! Finished the library program, going to get a Master of Journalism now (because man, the job market, amirite?). So I figured maybe I should start building a semi-public footprint again

I was diagnosed with ADHD this year (at age 36!!!) and here’s some of the signs I should have noticed sooner (🧵):

day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon

There go my New Jersey gigs

Simon Bikindi, a Hutu Rwandan musician, was convicted by the ICC for incitement to commit genocide after he drove around giving speeches and playing his song that accused encouraged attacks on pro- Tutsi Hutus.

Food for thought

‼️ Excerpt from the AAUP Penn statement on recent events:

“…we find it urgently necessary to warn that the actions of our university's trustees, donors, and president have impaired the basic academic functioning of the University of Pennsylvania…”

Full text: aaup-penn.org/statement-on...

I suppose before I go off reposting as I am oft to do, I should at least ensure my first post here is my own! So hello fellow BlueSkyers(?). Maybe migrating here from my home at volcanichades on the other blue post app!