“Tariffs and sanctions are attempts to impose political will on those you can’t control, at the expense of those you can.”
Using Microsoft’s latest silly idea a the starting point for a wider view on tariffs.
Around the hour mark CJ just… goes off on doing what you can do in the world that actually exists… it’s pretty great…
You could always cross post in multiple threads! It would fit in all of those nicely.
[ETA] Reading the post now… very interesting… here is the podcast mentioned in the intro…
https://sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfascismfuture/
Y No Onebox!!!
Another “I don’t know where else to put this”.
Enshittification? Is there a Media Literacy thread?
Anyway: Tiktok via Marshall McLuhan.
The medium is the message, and the message is “I’mma put your brain in a blender now, 'k? Nothing means anything when everything is a firehose of snippets all screaming ‘WITNESS ME!’”
More musings on poptimism and cultural decline…