Notes | Brutkey

Big Tech: we invented the torment nexus

Glasses brands: for $54.95, you can slightly reduce the torment

Zenni homepage with an ad for "ID Guard": "Your ID on lock. Reflects infrared light to disrupt unwanted tracking"

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?

Forbes headline: UHC Shooter Luigi Mangione Appears To Have Been A Redditor — And He Researched Back Pain And Backpacks

NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/

For feed readers, I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

#RSS #IndependentMedia #blogging

Molly White
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

this blurb on michael lewis's new book feels uh... slightly insensitive

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

"The Rise of FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried, Was a Great Story. Its Implosion Is Even Better." – New York Times