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Stephen Downes

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Today's social media meltdown news is placed once again in a single post (to prevent it from overwhelming the rest of the newsletter). But let me preface it with this piece from the Intelligencer: "We've made ourselves frantic and useless by assuming we need to transform ideology before we can act....  No, no, you don't. (We) want a beautiful, stable world for the people you love." But "The powerful are putting their desire for profit ahead of your life. The rest of us are getting hurt, killed, robbed, sick, punked, and gaslit." The Twitter saga is but one instance of that wider story, writ large.

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