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by theNJR 8y ago
I meant Aaron Swartz historic. Current Reddit censorship (and really censorship on all the major platforms) is very different.
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The crux of the article is around the 'investors making' anyone do anything. It doesn't really work like that.
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I haven't read about Han racial superiority before. Any book or article suggestions? This Economist[1] article seems like a good starting point. [1] https://outline.com/34FXDU
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Censorship by omission is a tricky thing to quantify. If a Studio gets, lets say, $5b a year from their Chinese investments, do you think they'd make a Seven Years style movie (even without the Chinese money directly funding it)? To pe
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by theNJR 8y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this since writing the parent comment two days ago. I wrote a post [0] that expands on how China uses investment to control American culture. Appreciate the great conversation had in this thread, as it he
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Reddit Protests and China’s Control of American Culture(nicholasjrobinson.com)
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Can you expand on that? I have a weird case of internet nostalgia where IRC, niche forums and a little Usenet were perfect. But I think they were perfect because they were small and most people had a common ground based in tech. Lots of div
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by theNJR 8y ago
NPR and PBS didn't invent anything, they used an established technology to be a not-for-profit public good. The National Public Internet wouldn't be breaking ground, it would be using social media for the public good.
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Do you think the rate of improvements in TV from 1930 to 2018 have been unacceptable? I'm not suggesting all of the social web become government controlled, I am saying there should be a national public social channel. The public web w
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It was interesting to see a small force of people pushing ActivityPub in the Twitter comments last night.
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A lot to unpack recently with Twitter and Jack. A few thoughts. 1. Jack doesn’t seem passionate about product, especially Twitter. 2. Kara seems to lack the vocabulary to talk about product which is both surprising and confusing, given her
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by theNJR 8y ago
Yes, it's big and growing quickly. The structure of kids memeing kids (who are told to do so by the TikTok AI and marketing team) plays well and spreads quickly.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/ch...
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I tend to agree. "It will be like last time!" doesn't pan out when viewing history. The only constant is the shift in power dynamics.
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I think the cheat/steal method of describing China is becoming outdated. Cheat/steal is a viable technique to quickly catch up if you don't mind being a bad actor in a game theory setting. Then you have to surpass. In AI they
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by theNJR 8y ago
Tencent has a meaningful ownership of American youth. 12% Snap 7.5% Spotify 40% Epic Games 100% Riot Games 100% Supercell 5% Reddit Hollywood has also been moving in this direction, with a lot of Chinese investment in the studios, and b
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by theNJR 8y ago
Ugh this is so true about Twitter. It really does seem like the feed is filled with political retweets. Good idea about turning them off.
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I'm not talking about an innate drive to eat fruit. Many/most western people have been convinced, through things like the food guide pyramid, that fruit is "good for you" and a "healthy choice". This isn't
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Wow, yes, good point.
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That link just sent me into a 2 hour web hole that was insanely productive. After reading some more of the original authors work, I was linked out to the ebook Breaking the Time Barrier [0] (by the CEO of Freshbooks which I'd never hea
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by theNJR 8y ago
Ah thanks for that, I clearly didn't click the link.
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This is such a tricky thing. I like to speak honestly, and I use my blog/newsletter to help formulate my thinking about the world. But, always, in the back of my head, I think "should I really say that about Apple/Amazon&#x2F
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Part of why I loved my Eero was that wasn't Google or Amazon controlled. Sigh...
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It’s crazy the number of really smart people who are steadfast in their belief that fruit is good. It’s non-stop propangda starting at birth, direct from the mothers mouth. I wonder where this meme started and why? I cant imagine ‘big fruit
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by theNJR 8y ago
I just launched Digital Future Friday [0]. It’s a once a week roundup + analysis about AI, automated propaganda, synthetic influencers, AR/VR and internet culture. My wife forces me to keep it really short, and I just hired an awesome
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It’s mostly a distribution problem. Depending on what you write about, your audience may not use rss. How do you get them to come back to something they enjoy reading, amongst a sea of clutter? They no longer get notified through social. As
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Oh I thought he meant Medium got 3/3 epic stories like this.
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What were the other 2?
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Also interesting that the writing is a bit clunky. Doesn't seem to have gone through 100 coms people.
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The ‘salt is bad’ meme is about as dead as the ‘fat is bad’ one. A study [0] of over 90,000 people found that “… At moderate intake, sodium may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular health, but a potentially more harmful role when intake

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