New book technology

[Orpheus]

@Orpheus

I found a source for vetting news outlets mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Now if we could be certain they had no bias. 8)

“It is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.” Stalin

[matsgz]

@Orpheus

You have to search for methods to get behind the paywall for free.

I.e. you have to find ways to steal the fruits of the labour of WSJ:s writers, editors and publishers…

And you claim that NYT leans to the left?

[Orpheus]

@matsgz

@Orpheus

You have to search for methods to get behind the paywall for free.

I.e. you have to find ways to steal the fruits of the labour of WSJ:s writers, editors and publishers…

And you claim that NYT leans to the left?

First of all just to be clear I don’t read WSJ because it is behind a paywall, but just mentioned in passing that some people do that. And, second of all yours is a non sequitor having no relationship to the leanings of the NYT.

[Orpheus]

@vic-k

@lunk

… but I still wish the forum had more cat emojis

Steve Bannon loves cats … well, I think it’s cats. It definitely ends in …ats

I don’t know if Steve loves cats but according to Ling’s biography of him the Prophet Mohamed definitely loved cats and was known to keep kittens in the pockets of his robes and play with them.

[Lewis-H]

I don’t think of it as a new book technology. These can be called as E-comics.
Regards,
Lewis

[lunk]

It’s a new technology.
If not here and now, maybe a long time ago in a galaxy far far away?

youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0 (“Introducing the book book”)

youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ (“Medieval helpdesk”)

[Orpheus]

@kewms

What really is obvious is how much Americans hate each now. But, what is surprising is that considering how many guns there are in the USA that it hasn’t erupted into political violence…yet. Will it devolve into Wiemar Republic style political street fights and body counts? Any opinion from someone in the US of A?

I think that if you think “Americans” as a group hate each other, you are probably spending too much time reading Breitbart and comment threads generally.

Certainly there are lots of people on both sides with very strong opinions, and the extremes of both parties would happily kick each others’ heads in given the chance. However, those extremes, precisely because they are extreme, attract news coverage wildly out of proportion to their actual numbers. There’s a lot of money to be made by feeding people’s anger, and a lot of people in and outside the US who see divisions as personally advantageous. Some of those people have temporarily achieved a fair amount of power in the US government.

But Weimar street violence? A second civil war? Nah. We’re going through a rough patch, but we’ll be fine.

Katherine

Considering all that has happened in the intervening years including covid, BLM, George Floyd riots, Antifa wrecking the NW, “Jan 6”, defunding the police leading to massive crime surges leading to Walmarts and others to close shop because of thefts, over turning of Roe, people relocating to States that support their political stance (Blue/Red divide) and so on. Do you still feel the same way?

[kewms]

• I live in the Northwest. We’re fine. The supposed “wrecking of the NW” is a great example of wildly misleading news coverage, often with a political agenda.

• The police were not actually defunded anywhere, crime rates remain low by historical standards, and the near-term increase in crime rates has occurred in extremely conservative places as well as “blue” places. The “massive crime surges” are also a great example of wildly misleading, politically motivated news coverage.

So yes, I still feel that your opinion is largely based on inaccurate media reports and does not accurately reflect the situation in the US. I am significantly more optimistic than I was in 2018, largely due to the results of the last three elections.

[bernardo_vasconcelos]

@kewms

When people carry Nazi banners and chant Nazi slogans, I don’t think it’s “name-calling” to identify them as fascists.

Indeed, but a lot of people like to pretend that isn’t so, these days.

@kewms

Among US newspapers,

Instead, I would recommend DemocracyNow, Chris Hedges Report, and Al Jazeera from Qatar. Also, individual journalists such as Seymour Hersh and Glen Greenwald.

[Ascher]

I’m English and live in the UK, but I’ve been subscribing to The Baffler since when it was still edited by Thomas Frank. Nothing remotely like it in the UK where the main alleged left magazine and political party accept sponsorship by Coca-Cola and an arms manufacturer.

The Baffler is brutal at times, but then so are the people and politics they write about.

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