JA Westenberg

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A short 2 and a half minute episode on why all social media sucks - and why you shouldn't get too attached to it. https://westenberg.transistor.fm/episodes/all-social-media-sucks

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I'm way too much of a centrist lol

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IT'S CALLED BEING HONORABLE

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No airdrop and no token is worth compromising my values and my integrity (unless it's worth more than like $5 in which case I'm all yours)

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if some rando slides into your dm’s with a job offer—it’s 110% chance it’s a scam if they “require” you download and install some proprietary drainer utility—220% chance it’s a scam

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"I shit you not" is my all time favorite rhetorical device.

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AOC will save us / Pete will save us / Kamala will save us / Beyoncé will save us / Taylor Swift will save us / Robert Mueller will save us etc. Every year it’s a new progressive icon who will rally America. I don’t think it’s working.

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At some point the left need to admit this whole "waiting for a savior" thing isn't a strategy. It's cope.

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A JOURNEY I NEVER EXPECTED WHEN I SIGNED UP TO POST ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

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I think it's broadly too early to make a call on it either way.

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We’re living through what feels like a Protestant Reformation of social media. Each new platform — Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, Post — is its own denomination, complete with distinct status games and hierarchies. You might be a cardinal on Mastodon and a peasant on Threads. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cathedral-of-the-blue-bird/

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Massive. Fuck yeah.

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New on Warpcast: thread composer 🧵

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I shit you not, it’s “going for a walk”

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You can be enlightened, stoic and at peace and still tell people to fuck off when they need to fuck off. It’s called balance.

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C. S. Lewis saying more in one paragraph than many say in whole books

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The hard part is figuring out how to maintain enough shared context for meaningful discourse while embracing the benefits of platform pluralism. If history is any guide, this transition period is going to be messy, confusing, and occasionally (ahem) hostile. But hey, at least no one's getting burned at the stake this time. Yet.

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Perhaps we're heading toward a similar future in our digital spaces – more chaotic and fragmented, but with more fertile ground for new ideas and ways of organizing.

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The Protestant Reformation, for all its chaos, eventually led to religious pluralism and new forms of social organization. R. J. Yeatman and W. C. Sellar might have called it A Good Thing.

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