Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

This TikTok from a researcher on the thesis he wrote about the distracted boyfriend meme is the most succinct explanation of how the internet info ecosystem has changed in the last decade that I’ve maybe ever seen. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BrkPe6/

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.

Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

It’s shocking to me that amidst all of the misrule, corruption and horror that surrounds us, a sizable plurality of America is still more comfortable with full-bore fascism than a light dollop of Scandinavian-style socialism

Found 20 grammatical errors in this letter signed by President Trump.

Current mood:

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

Strains bounds of propriety?

Strains…bounds…of…proprietary?

Am I having a stroke?

What is happening?

I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."

In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.