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Emily Bell
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports
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I don’t question the validity of walking away - pretty much done that myself. Just reflecting on fact that so much can be deliberately destroyed, after licensing the effort of others, and there is literally no redress

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Could not agree more

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‘We built that now you can have it’ … wtaf

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We’re so red pilled by US capitalism than the ‘radical’ act is to just walk away…. ‘It’s the market’ 🤷‍♀️

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I mean I feel like …regulation ….class action lawsuits….he literally destroyed people’s livelihoods , and their town alerts, and expert networks, and unless I am mistaken ….no resistance

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Prolly last thing I can think of to say about Twitter . But one day in the not very distant future we should look back at the insane amount of cultural, social, civic value that was being built by er volunteers, and realize how INSANE it is that everyone just …gave up in the face of hyper wealth

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"All this gluttony for 'content' is laid atop a genuine want, a need, to be informed, to think critically, to connect with others, to know more—practically a biological, evolutionary need." In @flaminghydra.com@felipedlh.bsky.social surveys journalism's woes and finds reason to keep trying:

Teaching on the Ramparts
Teaching on the Ramparts

by Felipe De La Hoz It’s nearly three weeks into the semester, and I’m no longer overwhelmed by that sense of full-body tingling apprehension I got the first time I found myself before the attentive ...

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Thank you Guan. Good answer. It’s unfortunate none of my semi employed 20 something sons are here as I like to use Industry as an informational video about what a career in finance is REALLY like, honestly

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This week has been all high pressure meetings and staging public events for me . Now I am home with my shoes off do I 1. Put them back on and go out for a drink 2. Binge watch the last 3 episodes of Industry that I missed ……

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Pictures coming out of TN and Asheville NC are incredibly distressing. Hoping people are safe, the flooding is horrifying . Also makes me wish we had a reliable real time communal publishing protocol that was not owned by a complete psychopath

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Emily Bell
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports
4.7k followers1.1k following1.2k posts