Also finally finished #AlanWake2 . Extraordinary game. Truly amazing. Not sure if I like it more than #Control, but Remedy keeps hitting them out of the park.
"The Christian nationalist movement has long used abortion as an issue to unify different strands of their movement. They know that if you can get people to vote on a single issue, you can control their vote. ...
If you dig deeper, it is really about the money and power, and not just sex."
~ Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshipers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
With continued American #aid to #Ukraine stalled & against the looming prospect of a 2nd Trump presidency, #NATO ofcls are looking to take more #control of directing #military support from Ukraine’s allies — a role that the #US has played for the past 2 yrs.
"It’s not a coincidence that the authoritarian right is obsessed with both the border and women’s bodies; they’d like to increase the patrolling of both, and essentially shut them both down. It’s an obsession with purity and control to be achieved by punitive and sometimes homicidally violent means. And it’s a roadmap straight back to the terrible inequality women were already campaigning against in Anthony Comstock’s time."
One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.
People who earn high salaries and are very educated can't help but think themselves as superior. Class is one of the primary elements of education, its not just a side effect. No one wakes up one day and treats someone as below them. The vast majority of people who ask me personal questions you should never ask someone you don't know in a professional context are white or wealthy/educated. In other words they have power and know it. #racism#classism#education#control#professional#power
The main solo game I've been playing lately has been #Control and wow has it been fantastic!
I think I'm closing in on the end... but it suddenly veered into an #AlanWake series of side missions & a region that is much darker & spookier than the main game.
Not a big fan of the IP crossover.
But... I am happy about more skill points to keep making Jesse more of a badass. 😆
Red line: Estimated average number of daily active users on Twitter in 2013.
Green line: About the time Twitter introduced the algorithmically sorted home timeline that users where up in arms against.
People today: Social media without algorithms just doesn't work! We have to let the ruling class control what information we receive, there's just no other choice. Deciding for ourselves, hah, so naïve!