"I think it's very hard to let people go outside and touch grass," he says. "You live in an england, like funk intoxicant all the time." Twitter creates this bizarre culture of super posters who are in a constant state of agony because their shared interest is just whatever horrible shit that's happened in the world,. So like, of course, they're just, like miserable. And then you get the people lik, you know, ther brownstone and park slope, being like, everyone just needs to calm down.
Paris Marx is joined by Ryan Broderick and Hussein Kesvani to discuss how war gets filtered through social media and the content economy, and what that means for how we make sense of it.
Ryan Broderick writes the Garbage Day newsletter and hosts Content Mines. Hussein Kesvani is a writer and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Ryan on Twitter at @broderick and Hussein at @HKesvani.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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