Jesse Lawson
@jesselawson.dev
Speculative science fiction author & anti-disinformation columnist (culture, tech, social media, politics, and public policy).
The sentence immediately cut off in the screenshot is that they're not "focus-grouping." This resonates with a common thread of intra-left criticism about the Dems as a party lacking a solid through-line from which they can measure actionable progress—e.g.:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
The Democratic Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group | Common Dreams
What Deciding to Win and similar analyses miss is that the Democratic Party’s core challenge isn’t that it has moved too far left, but that it doesn’t seem to know what it stands for.
www.commondreams.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The sentence immediately cut off in the screenshot is that they're not "focus-grouping." This resonates with a common thread of intra-left criticism about the Dems as a party lacking a solid through-line from which they can measure actionable progress—e.g.:
www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
“What Overcooking My Turkey Taught Me About B2B Marketing”
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“What Overcooking My Turkey Taught Me About B2B Marketing”
Try to recognize when someone is yelling at you and what it is you’re feeling. Is what they’re saying a matter of immediate life and death (e.g., they’re yelling at you to move from under a falling piano)? Or are they yelling bc they are triggered, and in being triggered, they are triggering you?
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Try to recognize when someone is yelling at you and what it is you’re feeling. Is what they’re saying a matter of immediate life and death (e.g., they’re yelling at you to move from under a falling piano)? Or are they yelling bc they are triggered, and in being triggered, they are triggering you?
Our psychological sensitivities to propaganda does not know a political side; when we are YELLED at—by pundits, by content creators, etc—we are surrendering our attention to a kind of emotional hijacking experience reminiscent of our childhood traumas. We are disengaging with reality. We are dying.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Our psychological sensitivities to propaganda does not know a political side; when we are YELLED at—by pundits, by content creators, etc—we are surrendering our attention to a kind of emotional hijacking experience reminiscent of our childhood traumas. We are disengaging with reality. We are dying.
Funny enough, when I shared with someone how all of their favorite talking heads YELL at them, and that when we are YELLED at, our brains take in information with less skepticism due to a survival response baked into our genes, they said “nuh-uh!” Then proceeded to YELL about how weak Democrats are.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Funny enough, when I shared with someone how all of their favorite talking heads YELL at them, and that when we are YELLED at, our brains take in information with less skepticism due to a survival response baked into our genes, they said “nuh-uh!” Then proceeded to YELL about how weak Democrats are.
I cant help but wonder about the lives of all the adult boys for whom this kind of YELLING works on—boys who grew up yelled at, belittled, made to feel stupid. If we can pay more attention to how people are talking to us, we might recognize when a propagandist is hijacking our nervous systems.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I cant help but wonder about the lives of all the adult boys for whom this kind of YELLING works on—boys who grew up yelled at, belittled, made to feel stupid. If we can pay more attention to how people are talking to us, we might recognize when a propagandist is hijacking our nervous systems.
Reposted by Jesse Lawson
Cranks used to be easier to identify now they show up next to pictures of your niece. Facebook’s lowest common denominator design made it possible for the NYT and Gateway Pundit to achieve a kind of aesthetic credibility. AI is supercharging this.
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Cranks used to be easier to identify now they show up next to pictures of your niece. Facebook’s lowest common denominator design made it possible for the NYT and Gateway Pundit to achieve a kind of aesthetic credibility. AI is supercharging this.
Reposted by Jesse Lawson
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/