Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)
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Twitter's Cruelty
Chilleen: I think we've seen in the tens language used in a way almost like the goal of being a human being on earth was to make reality match language. And so the politics that Twitter produces is vibe warfare. The point is to try to give as much negative association to the things you don't like, which just means sending lots of signals and doing so in a way that increases the density of the network of signals. So if you can tie the bad thing into white nationalists, then you've succeeded in the most effective form of vibe engineering. This makes me think about your discourse around cruelty and Twitter. Can you speak a little bit about this pairing of care and cruelty in
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