I know, but us zoning out is exactly what they want by overwhelming us with as much bullshit as possible atm.
I think a good tool against this could be to have an international nonprofit organization of investigative journalists, OSINT experts, and detectives (and experts in seeing through AI abuse and other fraudulent media behaviour, and as soon as they build reputation they would need damn good lawyers too). They would act as a fast-response crack-team to look under the covers every time any powers-that-be launch a news cycle chaos-offensive (which sadly these days is “all the time”). Not just as a side-hustle or section of a general publication, but as its own non-profit-beholden organisation dedicated to that task.
They would follow the timings and run contextual pattern recognition on all the big/fishy “look over here” announcements (or character hit-pieces attacking the credibility of people sharing uncomfortable or explosive information). Their explicit goal though would be surfacing the most promising other stories that are being buried, combine and tug on those threads to discover what kind of meta-stories and deeper narratives are being lost in the “manufactured mainstream” noise, and provide announcements/advice/guidance to other journalists and reporters on what to do next with those. They would need to all be highly experienced and disciplined expert investigators of impeccable integrity to provide adequate mental-vaccination against risks of sliding into conspiracy-hypothesising tin-hat territory due to the nature of the work.
In addition to the obligatory website for people to discover and learn about them, they could provide a non-paywalled RSS stream of their findings, tongue-in-cheek naming it “While you were out”, maybe with a sister podcast discussing their findings called “Excuse me, I think you dropped this”.
This is a great idea! I would totally donate to such a thing.
Related to this: That’s why Wikipedia is now in the crossfire, as they document everything and anything that is going on, which is a pain in the ass for those robber barons.
Check out propublica. They partner with a lot of local journalists to tease out deeper stories, often in topics that aren’t getting much press. They would absolutely appreciate a donation.
Thanks. Had heard the name but didn’t really know “what they do” in that sense. Will check them out.
I love this idea and would donate to something like this.
I’m down 100%. Also give them rifles. Now we’re talking.
Seconded. Limit your screentime and filter out any communities and social media that seem like a broken record. Energy is a must if the 50501 movement is going to continue.
For others who, like me, haven’t yet heard what the 50501 Movement is, here you go
What was the term? “Flooding with shit” so you don’t take anything seriously anymore and when they do something, they can say I told you so
Flood the zone?
Thanks. I knew something was missing
Also shock and awe
Mood
He’s an illegal immigrant who literally wasn’t elected or approved by congress
Content filter “trump” “musk” “Israel” Lemmy becomes a much nicer place to visit than the cesspool it currently is
It barely works. So many posts that don’t have those words in the title. I have “Musk” on filtered keywords and still seen this very post on my feed.
You’re missing out on a lot of perfume news though
You need to add more terms to the filter, then.
My feed isn’t perfect but its well curated and saves me a lot of stress.
I’ve got tons of filtered words but still see Musk and Trump everywhere on my feed on account of posts that don’t use their names or any politics related words in the title.
Maybe it’s because they’re subverting the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. Wait until the real purges start. I bet you won’t be able to dig a hole deep enough to fit your head.
It makes Lemmy usable but it’s not perfect. I have an agressive filter list with every American term I can think of. All the state names, all the politicians and political terms. Combine that with blocking lots of communities and I only have to see a small percentage of Americans.
I wonder how long he would last if everyone switchted off
The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?
“They thought they were free” by Milton Mayer.
Reminds me this gem from 8 years ago that aged like a fine wine
People love to take pictures of this guy when he’s out for a smoke
Trump/musk/Vance says/said/claims/promises/threatens/slams/alleges, etc… add those to your voyager filter, and it’ll make your feed a lot cleaner by removing a lot of the 2016-esque BS headlines.
That’s the point
Me too
