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Cause the media hello and welcome to Better off line.

Been a hard couple of weeks, been pretty hard to focus after a few news leers. I've gone to portugal, have done a bunch of shit.

Just try not to think about everything happening outside, but start to do so seemingly every single personal earth with a blog or a pot, castor, even a twitter account or x the everything apple, whatever it's called down theyve, all try to drill down into what happened on november fifth, to find the people to blame, to explain what could have gone differently, really looking for who to blame, then find out why so many actions LED to a result that will overwhelmingly harm women, minorities, immigrants, L, G, B, T, Q, P, N, lower income workers is terrifying. If fucking sucks. I'm not gna mense words.

Not that I would usually anyway, and I don't feel fully equip to respond to the moment. I don't have any real answers, at least not political ones. I am not a political analysis.

And i'd feel this ingenuous trying to dissect either the Harris or the trump campaign's because I just feel like there's take olympics right now, the done in google festival out that everyone is trying to rationalize and intellectually ze these events that openly come down to something quite simple. People don't trust authority. And yes, it's pretty ironic that this often leads them towards authority.

Ra, an ism. Now, I don't want to give you the impression i'm gna go my crank mode that and somehow against institutions on their face, i'm not. But at the same time, understanding this moment requires us to acknowledge the institutions have failed us and failed most people and how certain institutions missteps have LED us to exactly where we are today, legacy media.

And well, often times they are staff by people who truly love their readers and care about their bates. They wait down by this hysterical ical, nonsensical attachment to the imaginary concept of objectivity and the will of the markets. Case in point, regular people have spent years watching the Price of goods increase due to inflation, despite the fact that the increase in pricing was mostly driven by get this corporations raising their Prices.

Now that's not to say the external factors that the war in ukraine or lingering cover restrictions in china, these things did play a role in IT. They did. But the bulk of these Price increases were caused by these fucking companies raising the Prices that was in their earnings. IT was IT was right there, pepi cola said IT on the news. Yet some parts of the legacy media spent an alarming amount of time hiding their readers for thinking otherwise, even going against their own reporting.

And there will be links in the episode notes of promise as a means of providing baLanced coverage, insisting again and again that the economy is actually good, contorting their little bodies to prove that Prices aren't actually higher, even as companies literally boosted about raising their Prices on earnings. In fact, the media spent years debating with itself whether the Price gouging was actually happening. Despite years of proof that IT was, some of them even reported the Price gouging was happening.

So like and get this. I just don't think people trust authority and they especially don't trust the media, especially the legacy media IT also probably didn't help the the legit media employed readers and viewers to ignore what they thought supermarket or at the pump and the growing hits that they wallet from the daily assess these life IT was a just the national level gas lighting and IT was disgusting. And I know some of you might say, you know where to email me oh, it's not just this no, of course, it's not just this as hole, but I think this is a big thing.

Now before I go any further, i've used the term legacy media hair repeatedly, but I don't completely intend for IT to come across as a pejorative despite my criticism. Believe me, i've got a few of them. There are people in the legacy media doing a good job that report in the trick that doing the kinds of work that matters, and they actually try to teach their reader stuff and tell them what's happening and giving them a context.

I read them pay for several legacy media outlets. I think the world's a Better place for them, existing despite their flaws. The problem is, as I explain, is this editorial industrial complex and how these people are writing about the powerful don't seem to be able to, or maybe I don't want to actually interrogate the powerful.

This could be an entire episode on its own, but I don't think the answer to these fAilings is to simply discard legacy media entirely, but I will implore them to do Better and to strive for the values of truth hunting and truth telling and actually explaining what's happening and criticising the people they don't have, P. R. Firms and lobbying groups and lawyers and the means to protect themselves in the world.

The time for fucking around is over, and we're currently finding out now anyway, as you know, as a person existing in the real world, the Price of everything has kept increasing despite the fact the way is a stagnating as forcing many of the poorest people to choose between food and fuel or I don't know, eating and having heat. Sim multi eusden businesses have spent several years telling workers they are asking for too much and doing too little, telling people a few years ago they were quiet quitting, which is a fucking stupid term that just means going to your job and doing the thing you're paying to do. And anyway, year later, in two thousand twenty three, they insisted that the years of remote work was actually bad because profits didn't reach the same profit levels of twenty twenty one, which was something to do with remote work.

Now, did anyone actually prove this? Did anyone actually go? No, they didn't. They just, well, I just listen to mark benning offers one of the more evil people alive. now. I also think a lot of these problems come to twenty, twenty one a year that we really need to dig into more. We might not do so today, but we will in the future.

But one of the big things that punish shed workers and LED to so many layoffs, two thousand twenty three, was the fact that we couldn't get back to the post lock downs, twenty twenty one, when everyone bought everything always as they left the house for the first time in a while. Now, any corporation would be smart enough to know that that was a phase that that was not going to be forever, except every single big company seem to make the same mistake, say, never going up forever line, go up forever when IT didn't, when they start punishing workers. And they started thinking, well, could IT be that we as companies, we say, unrealistic expectations for the markets and we we just thought that we keep grown forever? Or maybe IT was the people using the computer at home? Yeah, that seems way Better.

Anyway, while the majority of people don't work remotely from talking to the people I know outside of tech or business, there's this genuine sense that the media has allied itself with the bosses. And I imagine it's because of the many articles that literally called work is lazy and have done so for years. Yet when IT comes to the powerful, like a say, media doesn't seem to have that much piace of vinegar.

They just have much more guarded critics. The appetite for shaming and finger wagging is always direct to the middle working class workers and seemingly disappears. What a person is, a three character job title like CEO.

It's fucking stupid. It's insulting. And yes, it's demoralizing for the average person despite the fact that elon muser spent years telegraphy is intent uses billions of dollars to will power equivalent to that of a nation state.

As you may remember from my first epo de of anything over on IT could happen here. Too much of the media, both legacy and otherwise, responded slowly, cautiously, fAiling to call him a liar. A corner is grass or manipulation aces, the debt that, you know, all the things actually happening? No, no, no.

They kind of dance around him. They report its stories that might make you think that they may be noticed that but there was this desperation to god objectivity. And I was just IT lacked any real intent.

IT lacked any interest in calling account to a man who has pretty much bought an election for Donald trump, a racist billionaire using his outsized capital to bend society to as well, just isn't a fucking in problem for the media, or at least not as much of a problem as a worker who might not work fifty to one hundred hours a week for a boss who makes one hundred and thirty times what they do. The news, at least outside of the right wing, is always separate from opinion, always guarded, always safe for fear that they might pissed somebody often be biased, something that happens anyway. And while they are, columns are given some space to have their own thoughts.

Sometimes in the newspaper, sometimes online, the stories themselves are delivered with the kind of reserved hm tone that often fails to express any actual consequences or context around the news itself and just doesn't seem to care about making sure that the reader or listening to learn something. My mike casey has a good point about podcast, and I delivery some of the news too, that there's too much stuff out there that is there to make you feel intelligent rather than make you intelligent. I think this falls into him.

Now this isn't to say the outlets are incapable of doing this correctly. I love the washington post. Theyve done an excEllent job and analyzing major tech stories, but a lot of these outlets will custom built to be bull.

Those the moon and authoritarian turns up this force that exists to cross those desperately attached to norms and objectivity. Authoritarians know that the ideologically charged words we quoted to advocate him with the occasion, ha, this could mean little driver is drizzle. The spunk of context is lost in the headline, repeats exactly what the fucking authoritarian wants them to.

And guess what? Some people don't read the article, they just read the headline. And musk is the most brutal example of this, by the way, despite the fact that he turned twitter into a website pump full of racism and hatred that literally helped to make dont trump present muscle still able to get mostly positive coverage from the majority of the mainstream media for his fucking robot taxi nonsense.

Despite the fact that he spent the best part of a decade lying about what test they will do next. There are entire websites just based on how much elon mask lies, yet they still report this shit IT makes me very upset and IT doesn't matter that some of these outlets. Ts, by the way, had a company in cover that suggested that the markets weren't impressed by testers, theoretical robot taxi plans or their fake cast robots run by people.

Mosque is still able to use the media desperation for objectivity against them, and he knows that they never dare combine reporting on stuff with thinking about stuff for fear that elon musk might say their biased, which he has been doing for years. Do you see my god's dam point yet? And this, by the way, is not always the fault.

The rios, there are entire foundations of editors that have more faith in the markets, in the powerful than they do that. People, right? All the people reading their fucking words and above them are entire editorial al superstructures that exists to make sure that the editorial vision never colors too far outside the lines or informing people little too much.

I'm not even talking about jeff bezz or low epower jobs or any number of billion as well, any number of publications, but the editor is editing business and take reports you don't know anything about business in tech or the senior actor. Is this terrified of any violence that might there get the outlet under fire from somebody could call their boss fucking coat? is.

Imagine being a student right now. You're twenty twenty four the year without access to wifi. It's a disadvantage.

Millions of households actually still don't have wifi.

So I think about what N T is doing and it's pretty incredible. What they're doing is equipped twenty thousand students, so twenty thousand kids essentially in need with backpacks loaded with laptops and school supplies to get that connection. You've got this generation of kids that are gonna the the teachers, doctors, you know, health care workers.

Ed gmh mella is his name of friends of the children in seattle to charity that eighteen t teamed up with. He has a point. He says every backpack and laptop provided by our generous partners isn't just a gift, it's a lifeline. He says these tools lay the foundation for our youth, ensuring they have the same opportunities to learn, grow and succeed as anyone else. So it's very important.

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There are, however, I should add, also those who simply defer to the powerful that assume that this much money can't be wrong, even if said money, in the case of the on musk e is repeatedly wrong and there's an entire website about the wrong us in the lies and the bullshit. And i'm talking about you on musk still. Obviously, these editors are the people that look at the current crop of powerful tech companies that have failed to deliver any truly meaningful innovation in years. And I go send me more that he shows me more of the apps.

It's fucking disGrace for just look at the coverage sam moon last year, you know, the guy you spent years lying about what A I can do and tell me why every single thought he says must be uncritically catalogue is every god down decision apple loide his every claim trumpeted as certain his bit little company that burns five billion dollars a year talked about like it's a fucking living god. Sam altman is a liar who's been fired from two companies, including OpenAI. And yet, because he's a billionaire, a buzz companies left totally unscared.

The powful get a completely different set of rules to live by and exist in a totally different media environment. The genius says, entrepreneurs, firebrands. The chAllenges are framed as missteps and their Victories framed as certainty.

But the same outlets that told us that we require quitting and that the economy is actually good and that we are the problem for high Prices, well, it's correct to suggest that the right wing is horrendously ideological and they're terribly based. It's very hard to look at the rest of the media and claim that they're not. The problem is that the so called left media, which use this is just the center, isn't bias towards what we may consider.

Left wing course is like universal health care from unions, expanded social safety and you know of this stuff that would actually be helpful. Now they're biased in favor of filing and ever growing caracal of society, tic billion arr souls, elevating them to the status of american royalty, where they exist above expectations and norms that you and I must live by. This is the definition of elitism.

The media has literally created the class of people who can lie and cheat and steal. And rather than condemn them for IT, they celebrated. Well, IT might feel a little time general to bring technology into this.

I truly believe that everybody is affected by the market economy, the growth of, or coffee system, where the number must always go up because everybody is easing technology all the time. And the technology in question is getting worse. This election cycle saw more than twenty five billion text messages sent to potential voters, and seemingly every website is crime ful of random electron advertising.

Here's the thing about elections. They know really always about policy. Now there are references on the incumbent part of president and by proxy.

Appalling how people in fail. And the reality is that most people are fucking miserable. There's this all encompassing feeling that things are just harder now.

It's harder to pay your bills, it's harder to keep in touch with your friends, it's harder to start family, it's harder to buy a house. It's harder to fall in love. It's harder to do everything.

And what we're seeing is an initial ation of existence. To use mister doctor rose phrase, everything just, I don't want to be this much of a margin, but everything just kinds sucks. It's all terrible, is miserable and hardly anyone thinks it's gona get Better.

And this creates the kind of fertile conditions for a strong mental of emerge one to a rises and says the only he can fixing is even if he spent four years proving how he could not. And the problem for democrats and for institutions more broadly is that the you're encompass nature of this meal is kind of hard to solve. It's hard to change the perception that everything's terrible when you reminded of IT when you are trying to do the most basic of tasks.

Our phones are full of notifications from a growth hacks into doing things that companies won. Our apps are full of microbe transactions. Our websites are slower and harder to use with endless demands of our emails and our phone numbers.

In the nato's back in because they could not possibly lose the dollar to some new dare to consume a washington post article. And yes, i'm talking about the post which I fucking pay for, desperate. The fact that looks me out all the time.

Our social networks are so algorithmically charged that they barely show us the things we want them to anymore, with executives dedicated to filling of feeds full of AI generate slope because despite being the customer, are also the revenue mechanism, our search engine do less as of beans are making us use them more. Our dating apps become is a private equity to get a toll to falling in love. Our video games are constantly nanking us.

To give them more money. And despite a costing money in being attached, our account we don't actually own. And if the streaming media we purchase were drowning in spam, both in our emails and our phones.

And at this point in our lives, we've probably agreed to three million pages of privacy policies allowing companies to use our information as they see fit. We get one value transaction with every company. They get eleven, they get a hundred.

We really actually don't know because there's no legislation to tell us what they're fucking doing. And these are the issues that hit everything we do all the time, constantly, unrelentingly. Technology is our lives.

Now we wake up, we use our phone, we check our text, three spam calls to spam text. We look at our bank baLance, two factor authentication check. We read the news a quarter of the pages, but by an advertisement, asking for a email is deliberately build to hide the button to get rid of them.

And then we loggin to slack and fill a pang of anxieties. Fifteen different notifications appear. In a way, this is really not built for us to find what we need just to let us know something happen.

Modern existence is just in gulf, in sludge. The institutions that exist to cut through IT seemed to bounce between the ignorance of their masters and this misplaced duty to objectivity. Our mechanisms are expLoring and enjoying the world are interfered with by powerful forces that are just basically left unchecked. Opening our devices is willfully subjecting us to attack after attack after attack from applications, websites and devices that built to make us do things for them, rather than Operate with dignity and freedom.

That much of the internet was actually founded upon these millions of invisible acts of terror are too often left undiscussed because accepting the truth requires to accept most of the techy COO system is rotten, and that billions of dollars are made harassing and punishing billions of people every single day of their lives through the devices that we required to use in order to exist in the modern world. Most users suffered the consequences, and most of the media fails to account for them. And in turn, people walk around knowing something is wrong, but not knowing who to blame until somebody provides a convenient excuse, like immigrants, like the democrats, like whatever fucking works, because we can't actually call the people out the corporations crushing our existence.

Why wouldn't people crave change? Why wouldn't people be angry? Living in the current world? Absolutely fucking sucks. Sometimes it's miserable. It's beef of industry and filthy with manipulation. It's undignified, it's disrespectful, and IT must be crushed if we want to estate this depressing got that world we have found selves. Our media institutions are fully fucking capable of dealing with these problems, but IT starts with actually evaluating them and aggressively interrogating them without fearing accusations of bias that, as i've said repeatedly, happen either way. The truth is that the media is more afraid of accusations of bias than they are of misleading their readers.

And while that seems like a slippery, slow, but IT may very well be one, they must be room to inject the rightest voice back into their work and the willing ness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, no matter how willing they ought to book and screen that things are fairs, they accumulate more power money. We need context in our use, we need IT, we need IT. Now we need opinion, we need voice, we need character, we need life.

Because as long as we follow this bullshit objectivity path, we are screw. And if you're in the tech industry and hearing this and sank all the mediates create ticket of tech, you have that fucking and wrong kissed my us. How everything we're seeing happening right now is a direct result of a society that lack technology in the ultrasound run rampant.

Three of both the governmental god rails that might have stop them and the media ecosystem that might have actually help them in check. Our default position and interrogating the intentions and actions of the tech industry has become that they will work IT out as they continually redefine what work IT out means and turn IT to make their product worse but more profitable. Covering meter, twitter, google, open eye, another huge tech companies, as if the products they make a remarkable and perfect is disrespectful to the readers intelligence and a disgusting application of responsibility, as their products, even when they're functional, are significantly worse, more annoying, more frustrating and more convoluted than ever.

And that's before you get to the ones like facebook and instagram that are out right broken. I ll give a shit if these people have raised a lot of money. Unless you use that as proof that something is fundamentally wrong with the tech industry matter, making billions of dollars of profit is a sign that something is wrong with society, not proof that is a good company or anything that should grant mug aog any kind of special treatment.

You have your chains up your ask mark, open a eye being worth one hundred and fifty seven billion dollars for a company that burns five billion or more a year to make a product that destroys our environment. For a product yet to find any real meeting isn't a sign that you should get more coverage or will be taken more seriously. No IT should be a sign that something is broken, something is wrong with society.

Whatever you may feel about ChatGPT, the coverage IT received this out size compared to its actual utility and the things built on top of IT. And that's a direct result of the media industry that seems incapable of holding the powerful accountable or actually learning about the subject matter in question. It's time to accept that most people's digital life fucking sucks, as does the way we consume our information, and that there are people directly responsible be as angry as you want to.

Jeff besse, who's weth and the inherent cruelty of amazon s labor practices, makes him an obvious target. But please don't forget mark ockham elon must sound up a shy tim cook and every single other tech executive. This is allow our digital experiences to become fucked up through algorithms that we know nothing about.

Similarly, governments have entirely failed to push through any legislation that might stop the raw, both in terms of dominance and the patents of algorithm manipulation, and the ways in which take products exist with few real quality standards we may have, at least for now, consumer standards for the majority of consumer goods, but software left effectively untouched, which is why so much of our digital lives as such fun. Feta dog shit. And if you hear in this insane, i'm being a hate or a pessimist.

Ut, the fuck up. I'm tired of you. I'm so fucking and tired of being told to calm down about this as we stare down the barrel of four years of authoritarian ism built on top of the decay of our lives, both physical and digital, with the media ecosystem that doesn't do a great job explain what's being done to the people in an ideologically consistent way.

There's this extremely common assumption in the tech media based on what i'm really not sure that these companies are all doing a good job. And the good job means having lots of users and making lots of money. And IT drives tons of editorial decision making.

If three quarters of the biggest car manufacturer were making record profits by making half of their cars are the break that sometimes didn't work, that the international use government inquiries wrapper, people will go to prison. And this is an even conjecture. IT actually happened after val swag was caught deliberately programing its engines, the only me emission standards.

During laboratory testing, they would left the speed, excessive pollution into the real world. But once lawmakers found out they responded with civil and criminal action, the executives, engineers, responsible and died. One received seven years in jail and they form A C, O, is currently being tried in germany in being in died in the U.

S. two. And hey, we are in the tech industry.

Facebook barely works. Used to genocide and bully pyper harassing girls. Peter file run rampant on there.

There was a wall street journal about story about IT define so much of the tech industry, consumer software like go go, facebook, twitter and even ChatGPT and business software from companies like microsoft, slack, IT sucks. IT sucks. It's bad.

You use that every day. You've been listening to be ramble for fifty episodes now. You know what i'm talking about? It's everywhere yet.

The media covers IT just like ah you know just how things are my no matter by the admission of its own internal documents, makes products are ruinous to the mental health of teenage girls and IT hasn't made any substantial changes. As a result, nors IT received any significant push back for fAiling to do so. Little bit of aside now here, big shout jeff forwards in the rest of the wall street general people to the facebook files.

There are all legacy media people doing a good job ness. Nevertheless, meta exercises this reckless disregard of public safety, kind of like the auto industry in the sixties. And that was when rough later, rote on safer, any speed. And his book, he actually brought about change IT LED to the department of transportation and the passage of seat belt laws in four united states, and a bunch of other things that can get overlooked. But the tech industries somehow inoculate against any kind of public pressure or shame, because IT Operates in this completely different world with this different robot and a different criteria of success, as well as this completely different set of expectations.

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By allowing the market to become disconnected in the value which creates, we enable companies lie gardener in video that reduced the quality, other services that they make more money for their g force. Now service or facebook, they can just destroy our political.

In this course, I can genoa mama and them, well, they get headlines about how good to CEO mox OK bec is and how cool is chains are and how how everything's just fine with facebook and the making more money. No, no, I actually I take a step back that I wanna take a little bit step back. I previously mentioned, I said IT twice.

Now I meta enables genocide and IT destroys our political on political discourse. I want to be clear when I say that everything is justified at meta, i'm actually quoting their chief technology officer. That's quite literally what Andrew bosworth said in an internal memo from twenty sixteen where he said that, and I quote all the work, facebook dots in growth is justified even if that includes, and i'm quoting him directly, somebody dying in a terrorist attack ordinate using facebook tools.

Now the mere mention of violent crime is enough to create remes of articles questioning whether society is safe and whether we need more plastic in our yeah, our digital lives. Are this Whites and that people still discuss like a utopia, seriously putting inside the social networks. Have you visit to a website on the phone recently?

Have you tried to use a new APP? Have you tried to buy something online starting with a google search within those experiences? Has anything gone wrong?

You know that I know IT has, you know IT has its time to wake up. We the uses of products, we are at war with the products we're using and the people that make them, and right now, we are losing. The media must resign to fight for how things should be.

This doesn't mean that they can't cover things positively or give credit where credit is due, or be willing to accept that something could be something cool. But what has the change is the evaluation of the products themselves, which have been allowed to decay to a levels as become, at best, annoying and IT, works actively harmful for society. Our networks are rotten.

Our information ecosystem is poisoned with its pure parts ideologically staging ally. Our means of speaking to those that we love and making new connections are so constantly feared, with the personal choice and dignities all but removed. But there is hope. There really is those covering the take. Industry right now have one of the most consequential jobs in journalism if they choose to fucking do IT.

Those willing to guide people through the wastes, those willing to discuss what needs to change, how bad things have gone and hold the powerful accountable and say what good might look like, have the opportunity to push for a Better future by spitting in the faces of those ruining IT. I don't know what I said, by the way, I don't know what to call myself and my legacy media. I got my start writing in print magazines.

Am I an independent contractor? Am I an influences? Am I contact? I truly don't know. And I don't know if okay.

But all that I know is that I feel like i'm a warta and that we, if I can be considered part of the media, are at war with people that have change the terms of innovation, so that anonymous, with value extraction technology is how I became a person, how I met my closest friends and loved ones. And without IT, I wouldn't be able to write, I wouldn't able to read this podcast. I wouldn't got this podcast.

And I feel this poison following through my veins as I see what this mother focus have done and what they are continuing to do, and I see how inconsistently untypically they're interrogated. Now is the time to talk bluntly about what is happening, the declining quality of take products, the stage of growth hacking, the councillors, growth at all cost mindset. These are all the things that need to be raised in every single peace.

And judgements must be unrelenting. The companies will square, or that they are being someone fairly treated by the biased legacy media. Or save me, hey, the light patel interview would sound up the shy.

This is how you sound IT when you handed him your phone. That was pathetic. They should be scared of unity.

The powerful should be scared of the media. They shouldn't be sitting there sending letters to the editor like fucking customer support. No, they should see this podcast.

They should see these news that they should see everything published, the tech media and go, uh, and there can be good people. There can be good boys and girls and others. There can be plenty of people that make good products and get great press for IT.

But do you really think matters a google, apple and extent? Frankly, do you think amazon looks good right now? Do you think it's easy to find stuff? What do you think it's slop full of more slop? Max ochberg said on an earnings call the other day that he intends there to be an A I specific slop feed that should.

These are harmful things. This is pouring vents of oil into rivers and then getting told you the best boy in town, these companies that poisoning the digital world, and they must be held accountable for the damage that causing read is are already aware, but are. And thank, this is really thanks to members of media, by the way, the gas lighting themselves into believing the, oh, I just I hadn't keep up with technology is getting away from me.

I'm not technical enough to use this when the thing that they don't get, that the average person doesn't get is that the tech industries is built. Legends of observations, legions of legal tricks and these horrible little user interface traps specifically made to trick you into doing things to make the experience kind of the ordinary, to getting the money off of you. And I think that this is one of the biggest issues in society.

And yes, of course i'm biased. I'm doing a podcast about tech. But for real though, billions of people use smart funds, billions of people around the computer everyday is how we do everything.

And IT thinks he thinks so bad. This is the row economy. We're in the road society.

But things can change. And for them to change, IT has to start with the information sources. And that starts with journalism.

And the workers already begun and will continue. But IT must scale up and IT must do so quickly. And you, the user, half the time, learn to read the privacy policy.

And the link there is to the washington post. Yes, there are plenty of great report. Is the fuck bezos you can move to signal, which is the encysted message out that works just about everything.

Get a service like delete me and by the way, I pay for IT. I work from about four years ago. I have no financial relationship with them, but they're great for removing you from data.

Broke mollie White, who is a dear friend of mine, and leaving bet, right you you might remember from of the early episodes about wikipedia, she's also written this extremely long guy about what to do next that are linked to in the notes. And IT runs through a turn of great things you can do, unionization, finding your communities, dropping acts that collect and store sensitive data, and so on. I also hardly recommend wired guide to protecting yourself in government's veille ance, which is linked in the show notes.

Now before we go, I want to leave you with something that are posted on november six on the Better of line red, the last twenty four hours of felt Blake and will likely feel more bleak as the months and years go on. IT will be easy to given, to do, to assume the fight is lost, to seem that the bad guys have permanently one in there will never be any justice or joy again. Now is the time for solidarity.

The Crystallized around ideas that matter, even if there are a position in society, is delayed even as the clouds darkened and the storms brew in the darkness feels all encompassing and suffocating. Reach out to those who love and don't just commiserate. plan. He doesn't have to be political, doesn't even really have the matter, but shit on your fuck in calendar, keep you self active and busy, and if not distracted, IT very least animated darkness speeds and idlers darkness fests on a sense of failure and a sense of inability to make change.

You don't know me very well, but now that i'm aware of the darkness and the sadness and the suffocation of when things feel overwhelming, give you yourself some mercy and at the days to come, don't castigate itself for you and gutted, then keep going. I realize its little solid to think, what if I keep saying stuff out loud? Things will get Better.

But I promised doing so as an effect, and actually matters. Keep talking about a fucked up things are, make sure it's written down, make sure it's spoken cleanly. And with the rage and fire and piece and venereal deserves, things will change for the bear, even if IT takes more time.

That should look I I know i'm imperfect emotion on off care at times I get email, send the too angry. I'm sorry if it's ea tragedy. I really do mean that it's no intentional.

I just I feel this in everything I do. I use technology all the time, and IT is extremely annoying. But also i'm whether I have privilege. And the more privilege you have with intake, the more you able to escape the little things going. Buy a cheap laptop today.

Try and see two hundred, three hundred dollar laptop is its slow, is full of eighteen pop s trying to show you access the cloud storage to sheet that you'll never use, tricking graney and people who can't afford laptops, people that just don't know when I see this stuff IT enrages me, not just for me, because I know that i'm at least lucky enough to know how to get around the ship. Spent most of my life online, spent most of my life playing with tech. An hour works.

And I know I have my tangent and my biases, but I wear them in my heart, my sleeve. I care about all of this stuff in a way that might be a little different. Some, and it's because i've i've watched an industry that IT really made me as a person, that allowed me to grow as a person, to actually meet people, to not feel as alone.

And imagine some of you feel like this too, and then watching what happens to everyday, watching the people who gets so rich off of making IT so much worse. And then see more apple on november fifth. And you can draw line from IT.

People are scared their lost. Their lives are spent digitally, and your digital lives are just endless terrorism, endless harm. Some of you know, you wear around text.

You can escape some of IT, but it's impossible to escape all of IT. Try me in people these days. You can't. Everything is online and everything online, everything in your phone is mitigated and interfering with. It's a soul on your sense, is want to private dignity and I see the people doing this and IT fills me full of fucking rage.

And that makes me angry for you and for me, for my son growing up and what will probably be the worst world for my friends and loved ones who are harder to see, harder to speak to, whose lives too are interfering with. And there are the millions and millions of people who have no fucking idea it's happening that just exist in the swell in this active digital terrorism. Poked and prodded and nag and notify constantly.

And I I don't want. I early on in this, I got a message saying, don't tell people to be angry. I stick by that.

But I am not gonna hide that I am. I'm not gonna hide the pain I feel. I'm not gonna de the pain I feel seeing this shit happen.

And i've watched this thing, I love technology, really do love tech. I really do deeply. I've watched IT, corrupted and broken and the people breaking in. They don't just make billions of dollars. They get articles and they get interviews on the news maxa. Bg, he was a chain, and as articles about how kolia he should be in fuck in prison, he should be on a prison on a boat that just circles the world, and he shouldn't have air conditioning or heat depending on how the weather is.

And I know that i'm kind of errant and again, tons of tangents, but look, the reason I like this is because I really care and I think caring, I think being angry at the things that actually matter and giving context, there's a result, I think, that deeply valuable. And I realized I do for a handle a lot, but IT really is because I care. I care about you.

I care about the subject matter. I'm so grateful and so honor that you spend your time listening to me every week, and I hope you continue to do so. I'm not going anywhere.

Thank you for listening to Better off line. The edit throm composer of the battle offline theme song is meta sales sky. You can check out more of his music and audio projects.

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