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we know from Drama that Times writers and editors are given very strict guidelines on how they can cover this stuff, but it’s not like journalists don’t know what’s going on or how to get a message across

reading New York Times coverage right now is wild because they’re forced to interview and use the language of some combination of {out⹀of⹀touch old white man} and {staunch Zionist who thinks any criticism of a certain country in the Middle East is an attack on Jews everywhere} and then you get to the part of the article where they state Facts and they’re like “yeah conservative Jewish student organizations have been actively trying to invade encampments and picking fights with these protesters for weeks despite them mostly just barricading themselves in one place, and that’s where all the violence is coming from”

« Biden Condemns Campus Violence After More Than 130 Arrests at U.C.L.A. » oh, N·Y·T, for a second there i forgot that you don’t include “arrests” in your definition of “campus violence”

« “I used to joke that the same student might be able to burn down a Bank of America branch in 1970 and still successfully sign on as an executive trainee at Bank of America in 1971,” said Rick Perlstein, a historian who has chronicled midcentury American politics.

“Today, anxiety about achieving economic security after graduation is far more pressing,” he added. “The consequences for identification and arrest are, simply, much greater.” »

the thing is, i mean, the other thing, is if you really think that the tools and technologies which made the web great never left us, why do you speak about the death of the web as primarily a technological phenomenon? if we have the tools, but have all collectively decided to stop using them, surely there is something else going on? something important?

it was your apathy that got us in this situation, and now you think you can save us from it? you, who can’t even properly name what was lost

no, career internet user, the people who made the internet good are not you

the people who made the internet good are not here anymore, and you can not bring them back

do you really think you and the people who read your bland {career internet user}⹀level takes are a workable substitute?

i’m tired of career internet users posting thinkpieces like “the internet used to be good! now it’s bad! we can make it good again!”

no, you can’t, an essay in three parts :⁠—

• you say the internet was good? what made it good? more importantly, WHO?

• what happened to those people?

• what is stopping that from happening to those people again?

i might be writing an essay about the internet

Quit bemoaning the loss of the old web and take it back!

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gotta stop treating “after i joined Mastodon” as a reference marker for “recent”

a lot has happened in my life and a quarter of it happened while i had an account on this social network

there’s a lot you CAN say about games but like. why would you. it has ceased to be relevant

*slowly turns towards the nearest movie theatre*

remember when games were worth criticizing?! it was like a five year window you probably missed it

the music WAS better when i was a kid! the shows were more creative! the movies were better written, shot and directed! this is extremely distressing to me!

when i was a kid i cared passionately about staying up on what was cool and new in media but i did not anticipate that in a decade media would collectively have gone to shit

or at least become communists first

blue scholars already wrote the best rap song about fucking over a decade ago, other rappers need to stop trying with this one

it’s the best you can do as far as supporting “easy”, “low effort” pagination but the drawbacks are still pretty significant and doing the harder more cumbersome thing just seems a lot more preferable to me right now