"But the broad protection of lies, defended by reference to the marketplace of ideas, rests on an inadequate understanding of human psychology."
touching the object level for a moment to say this gave me some chills
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RT @bopinion
Social media can't be confident that corrections, labels and warnings will fix anything https://trib.al/9LF1Iaq
https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1358739298296729602
par for the course really, how else would you expect them to respond to what's going on?
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RT @miftah___ra
curious property of Power is the people who have it don't always realize they do, and so might not notice when they lose it https://twitter.com/dyokomizo/status/1355141104597872640
https://twitter.com/miftah___ra/status/1355141774210076677
must be pretty scary to feel control slide through your fingers so quickly
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RT @miftah___ra
Would make sense that the decline in legitimacy of knowledge institutions are due to decline in their ability to understand the world, which in turn is due to increasing complexity & illegibility, further ramping up the epistemic vacuum
https://twitter.com/miftah___ra/status/1335704355442368513
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RT @miftah___ra
mfw the walls of consensus reality are crumbling https://t.co/hu16KffFTe
https://twitter.com/miftah___ra/status/1354829908296384513
in case anyone is confused, my object level opinion is that anyone and everyone should be able to lie about anything and everything
this is good because it is already the case. i just don't like pretending otherwise
time to enjoy the show, and continue preparing