Meta/Zucker turnaround
I remember not too long ago Zuck was being grilled by Democratic Senators and the entire progressive left for being too permissive of "Russian election interference" and data harvesting. They were basically accusing him of being a Trump/Russia asset. Fast forward 4 years and now he is a darling of the progressive establishment for creating a Twitter knockoff that will play ball in censoring who they tell him to. Wild times.
On this topic, I drive a lot and flip though local radio pop stations, and to a man/woman EVERY DJ on every station is talking non-stop about how much better Threads is than Twitter. And all the "news" at the top of the hour the leading story is how many subscribers Threads has reached in such a short time. It is obviously paid reads pretending to be organic. But it is extremely interesting seeing The Establishment in action. They were clearly dealt a massive blow with Twitter being bought by Elon and losing control of the narrative. And now it is time for The Empire to Strike Back (so to speak), with Zuckerberg as their champion.
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unfortunately, many types of people are acting like pigs, wanting more and more of things like money, physical objects, accessories, when they really need the reverse: less. I don't believe they actually are usually pigs, just acting that way.
Along the lines of less is more...
and also, that in the miniscule, we find the infinite. and sometimes, the apparent reverse: in the infinite, is the miniscule (in terms of values.)
The value of value. Many people ignore the simple, at their peril.
But, like a wine cellar (one of the most mysteriously useless and wasteful of any possession almost), do they even use these possessions they own?
The lessons of history, as it has been said, is that we ignore the lessons of history at a societal level (to some extent)
Well perhaps, a corollary is the lessons of humans is that we ignore the lessons of other humans, (at an individual level) to some extent.
