This from Mashable just appeared on my timeline: “PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever.” If you’re going to leave Twitter for the reason identified here, then you will also have to delete Google, Bing, etc., because they’re all feeding your posts, tweets, emails, searches, etcetera into their generative AI systems. You will also need to stop publishing in journals, newspapers, nooks, etcetera. These, too, are being fed into AI. Oh, and your artwork, photographs, architectural drafts, musical compositions and performances—everything. Just stop living. Everything you do is fed into AI. Find a cave and go live in it.
Here’s what the propaganda offensive is about. X is targeted not because it’s doing something extraordinary. Indeed, X is the least of the worst offenders. X is targeted because it’s the least of the worst offenders. (So, in that sense, I guess it is extraordinary.) X the freest social media platform on the Internet, and the corporate state and censorship-industrial complex wants to scare you into leaving the platform to undermine its profitability (if Harris has been elected President, elites would be using additional weapons to accomplish this).
This is a very straightforward thing: The power elite don’t want you to have open and free media because when you do you become autonomous and unmanageable. Look at what happened on November 5. America—the world—got a massive injection of freedom and democracy, and the corporate state is freaking the fuck out about it. Every bit of propaganda now telegraphs existential fear. Their lies tell the truth of the situation. They’re freaking the fuck out because they are indeed fucked.
One more thing. This article suggests that people are not leaving X because of November 5. Wrong. They’re leaving X because of what happened last week. They’re leaving to find places to bubblize more hermetically so they can deepen the woke practice of cerebral hygiene. The left has become a cult. Woke is a religious movement. But here’s the thing, X is posting record numbers in terms of viewers and activity. X has become the biggest source of news not only in the United States, but where it is allow to freely operate around the world. The people have taken back the media—and their government. This is why I call X the “Gutenberg Internet” moment. We are living through something akin to the Protestant Reformation.
In 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” I think we may have falsified that truism. Folks wanted a revolutionary moment. You’re welcome.
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