failed infantilization

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sensitive

screenshot from twitter, 7/24/18

Twitter is protecting me from seeing a picture of a sleeping snowy owl. Even more f***ed up, my settings are actually configured not to hide so-called sensitive content.
Twitter is the number one content source for US journalism today, and yet, it doesn't work.

Update: On second look, my twitter settings are configured not to hide so-called sensitive content but that only applies to "search." There is a second checkbox (see below) that shields my innocent eyes from "media." What about tweets that aren't media, e.g., text? Can I not be protected from people's icky words when surfing around twitter?

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commie dupes and useful idiots

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So-called Russiagate is turning into a two-fer for centrist (Clinton) Democrats and their backers. It supposedly discredits the Pres. and can also be used to discredit the Sanders left! Corey Robin posted the following unsearchable text on twitter in response to some imaginative claims by Harper's writer and Clintonite Scott Horton:

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Below is the (unsearchable) text of Scott Horton's screed (originally on Facebook), from Doug Henwood's twitter. It's so unfactual and paranoid one might wonder if it's fake.

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FYI, there are two Scott Hortons. The one above appears to be the Harper's Scott Horton, not the libertarian producer of the Scott Horton Show.

to put it bluntly

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Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion (Black Agenda Report)

Also, a little history of US "meddling" in the Eastern Bloc (Counterpunch). Didn't know that the US sent "expeditionary" troops to Vladivostok in 1918 -- the Russians certainly remember it -- here's a photo.

In the Counterpunch article Paul Street thinks Americans in 2018 are being swayed by the constant drumbeat of anti-Russian propaganda on TV. Polls seem to indicate this is true, if by Americans we mean Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton. (chart source)

fake criticism

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assembly

In this performance work, the artist dresses like a 1950s assembly line worker, yet instead of building, prepares bins of wire stripped from old computers for copper recycling, in a post-industrial economy.

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dark infantilization patterns

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addcontent

This is too trivial to qualify as a dark pattern but it is annoying.
The designer (this is from Feedly.com) doesn't think it's enough to have a big white-on-green plus sign telling you where to add an RSS feed ("content") to your list of feeds.
No, like a small baby you need a pulsating crib toy to draw your eye down to that part of the page.