Holy damn, this article on 4chan and the rise of Trump hits many nails on the head and left me feeling queasy.
I think there's a generational thing here... one of the scariest things about watching the 4chan-wing of Trump's rise is finding it totally baffling and being close enough to that "internet culture" to feel sickeningly able to understand how it grew, even out of a shared primordial soup of internet culture from which I strongly diverged in a different direction.
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@cwebber@identi.ca very interesting. Related story more about technique http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2017/01/06/hacking-the-attention-economy.html
Diane Trout at 2017-02-20T05:31:36Z
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@cwebber@identi.ca also one key difference between the stereotyped 4chan user and you is you seen to have women friends. (I've noticed you're very responsible about acknowledging contributions by women. Also I thank you for that)
Diane Trout at 2017-02-20T05:34:17Z
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