Cyber Space Monkeys continued. In part 1-of-3, I'm joined by Chris & Rich from Unregimented to discuss the effects of social media on individuals and society as a whole. Propaganda kerosene and the disinformation detonator, the connection between road rage and net rage, much of the IDW: for-profit social media brands and "right adjacent" influencers producing "content" for handouts, Nicholas Carr and how the Internet physically changes our brains, good deeds done solely to post the selfie, and more.
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Showing posts with label Radicalization. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
5/14/19: The Social Media Disease - Virtual Mobs, Conformity, External Truth
Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones.
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- Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them
- Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency
- The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism
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Thursday, May 9, 2019
5/9/19: The Elephantitis Pandemic; Winter Is Here
Haidt's elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. "Evolution didn't end with opposable thumbs."
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- The thin veneer of civilization
- Self-dehumanization
- Extremists v. Moderate
- The Social Media Disease
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
5/4/19: The Boomerang Effect: "Hold My Beer"
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- Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together
- Making Enemies of Allies
- Haidt's Elephant
- Surrendering to the Grand Design of Ideological Religions
- Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind
- The abandonment of External Truth and Reason
- Totalitarian and authoritarian creep
- No Hitler references!
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
3/24/18: The Social Media Disease - Cyber Space Monkeys
First Social Media Disease antibiotic treatment. Starting with an X-Pod flashback to 2014, Todd discusses Cambridge Analytica before turning to more recent effects of our collective addiction to social media on society and how a bilateral abandonment of a commitment to basic common facts--in favor of tasty propaganda--is having a dehumanizing effect and rapidly eroding the social contract. Also: cyber space monkeys, avatars showing off for each other in the Matrix, and the digital-organic hybrid: meme belching cyborgs.
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I was a guest on two Christopher Media shows this week:
Politics, society, social media: Unregimented - http://christophermedia.net/229-its-still-all-about-trump/
Baseball! And other unfortunate things: Sporgy- http://christophermedia.net/093-03-22-18/
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
2/6/18: Media 101: It's (We) The People
In this episode: thoughts on the popular escapist conspiracy theory about the mainstream media “dumbing us down to keep us docile and ignorant." I also dissect the reasons why our media is now composed nearly exclusively of boutique news outlets producing chum for echo chamber sharks, media desensitization and the cure, as well as the need for sugar-coated truth, and our insulated and self-cleansing propaganda ecosystems (news, standup, and Hollywood).
Also: thoughtless “opinion”, white inheritance, Sausage Party Hope, Fleecing The Fucktards, and more. Not for everyone. Ask your doctor if Toddzilla is right for you. Use only as directed.
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Monday, January 29, 2018
1/29/18: He Is Risen!
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The rebranded X-Pod returns! Toddstradamus discusses his return to podcasting, social media, misguided consistency, fires his opening salvo at political religions and bilateral extremism, synapse pruning and The Useless Shit Epiphany, and establishing a solid signal to noise ratio. He also lays the foundation for exposing The Talking Dead and creating a more sophisticated media consumer while weeding his garden of that pesky Green Tea. Sunday, January 28, 2018
(2014) - The X-Pod 007: Slithering Fascism & Tribal Warfare
Recorded in 2014 shortly before the first podcast ended, this episode discusses my initial Facebook purges, Trumpism (before Trump), the social damage inflicted by echo chambered disinformation (fake news) on facebook as well as the human inclination toward delusional tribalism. Not recommended for those looking for Sausage Party Hope! Definitely recommended for those wanting to reflect back on the not-so-distant past and reminisce on how we got here. And how things not only haven't changed, but gotten worse.
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
When Avatars Attack
An excerpt from an earlier post. This tells of what turned out to be a personally profound moment that took place in Phoenix on Halloween, 2016 just before Trump's election. It sets up nicely what you'll see sprouting here over the next several days and/or weeks.
Facebook Avatars Escape The Matrix
Jeff and I went to a tiny Halloween get together at his apartment complex and toward the end of the night, the host’s neighbor stopped to chat. Seemed like a decent kid. Personable. Pleasant. Mid 20’s. I didn’t think anything of it. Suddenly, while he and the token liberal/anti-Trump partygoer were having a nice conversation, the liberal gun slinger decided to show off his ideological marksmanship and, out of the blue, yanked his Progressive Facebook Avatar from the Matrix dropping it, meme guns a-blazin’, into the Desert of the Real. The Trump supporter naturally reacted in kind and it predictably, and quickly, devolved from friendly polite banter into The Battle of Arizona and almost a physical fight.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Nazis, Hippies, and The Bloody Political Purge
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