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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
This week I talked with my students about "eugenics" - a term most of them were not familiar with. So I did a bit of research and stumbled on this new #OpenAccess book, which, I think, might be interesting to some of you: "Predatory Data. Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future"
#eugenics #history #bigtech #broligarchy #democracy
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/predatory-data/paper#table-of-contents
the #broligarchs and their military industrial complex money are now lobbying to expand the #NetworkState to #Cuba
Team meeting this morning to do some filming for #EleFediVideos & to discuss the next steps. An issue that came up beautifully illustrates the power of the #Fediverse & decentralized social media.
The 1st video introducing the Fediverse to people not familiar with it will discuss Silicon Valley's #Broligarchy.
#YouTube could take down the video if offended right wing people complain about it.
But if I upload the video to #PeerTube... who are you reporting the video to? To ME! I'm the admin 
Du kannst zu gut schlafen? Dann einfach vor dem Schlafengehen noch schnell diese #Doku gucken:
https://www.zdf.de/play/dokus/zdfzeit-106/putins-helfer-100 im @ZDF
Und dann die ganze Nacht darüber grübeln und verzweifeln, warum Menschen im eigenen Umfeld noch Facebook, Insta, X, Whatsapp oder Amazon nutzen.
"The crisis in journalism is part of the crisis in information which underpins the crisis in democracy which are all a result of the revolution in communication brought about by new technology platforms. All of which is fuelling the far-right populist politics that are spreading across the world. Now being supercharged by Trump."
Carole Cadwalladr.
My mother's half-brother was in the battle at Anzio and was in a cavalry unit that marched up through Italy and into Russia, where he saw scenes of mind-boggling carnage that deeply scarred him psychologically.
Not one of these family members came back to the US praising Nazis. Quite the contrary: they had stories to tell, when they were willing to talk.
I remember and am shaped by those stories. And I'll keep remembering.
His brother received medals for bravery due to his actions on flight missions into the Low Countries to liberate them. Their brother-in-law had a brother who died a hero's death in France at the hands of Nazis.
My mother's brother was in the first Army unit who arrived on the scene of the Gardelegen massacre soon after it took place. He captured an SS officer, risking his life to do that.
I'd miss all these if I took a purist approach to an imperfect platform — though I absolutely do think the question of a platform boosting pro-Nazi voices has to be discussed openly.
Unlike many of those using that discussion now to divide progressives into purer and less-pure camps, I actually have some historical proximity to these questions due to my age.
My father was a WWII soldier wounded at the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I just subscribed to Citizen Journalism on Substack and look forward to reading its postings there — as I do to reading incisive, informed progressive commentary by Cadwalladr, Anne Applebaum (whom she cited in this posting), as I do the other 74 good commentators to whose Substack blogs I subscribe, usually for free, since I'm a senior citizen on a fixed income who already stretches that income by donations to multiple worthy groups.
"Substack, has the familiar problems of other VC-funded platforms, but it has also become a thriving hub for independent journalism. And I believe we need to build media networks not empires and collaborating with properly independent voices is how we build a new information ecosystem free from billionaire influence."
"It’s an initiative from the Citizens, a non-profit seeking to hold Silicon Valley companies to account. It runs most of its activities including its newsletter, the Citizens Dispatch, from Ghost which is widely seen as the ethical alternative to Substack.
But they’ve joined me over here on Substack too because there’s no doubt there is a growing audience here."
Carole Cadwalladr notes that Citizens Reunited has now launched a substack blog and it has featured her "100 Days of Broligarchy." She writes,
"This was hosted on a new Substack channel and newsletter, Citizens Reunited. Do consider following it to hear more from these experts and to nominate other people you’d like to hear from."
"Amid the noise of this week’s news cycle, there was one story this week that chilled me more than any other and is worth spelling out here: the decision by the domestic German intelligence service’s to label the AfD an extremist group.
I read this article on a beautiful spring day in a London park bursting with blossomy loveliness. And it brought home the cognitive dissonance, the normalcy bias, the huge and gaping gap between what is happening in the world right now and our day-to-day inability to understand it, let alone prevent it."
Carole Cadwalladr
"This is what normalisation looks like. It’s how far-right parties across the world game the media attention cycle. And how the press plays right into their hands.
Remember the 2017 magazine pieces about the new sharpsuited ‘alt right’? The hipsters reinventing racism? This feels like that all over again."
Carole Cadwalladr.
Carole Cadwalladr’s latest on the #broligarchy:
Springtime for Hitler
It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.
#UKPol #USPol #Musk #Zuckerberg #NickClegg #extremism #FarRight #oligarchs #oligarchy
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/springtime-for-hitler?r=4nvm&utm_medium=ios
On a crypto conference panel in #Dubai, #EricTrump sat next to Zach #Witkoff, one of the founders of the #Trump family #crypto firm, #WorldLibertyFinancial, who announced that a VC firm backed by the #government of #AbuDhabi would invest $2 billion using a form of digital currency offered by World Liberty. This deal alone could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the Trump family & its partners.
The founding members of the club, which has already sold many of its membership slots acc/to organizers, include Cameron & Tyler #Winklevoss, the #cryptocurrency execs whose company, #GeminiTrust, had been targeted by the #SEC until #Trump named new agency leaders, who in April put a hold on the federal lawsuit.
#JeffMiller, a lobbyist & top #Trump fundraiser, is another founding member. In the Q1 of this year, he has registered to represent 39 new corporate clients, including the #crypto firm #Tether, an overseas operation that was a longtime target of US regulators until recently….