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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • “I was not in my uniform, and at no point in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself as a member of the law enforcement community,” Sheriff Owens said. “At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call.”

    His excuse seems to be that anyone could have called the police on the Burger King employees for giving someone the wrong order, to which I would say:

    1. Thats still an enormous dick move and

    B. Do you think that deputies would have rushed across town to deal with just any random crank, angry at a Burger King?



















  • I agree with you.

    And youre right that the article doesnt focus on the algorithmic hate factory which to me is the main difference between social media and traditional media. For instance, and this is just anecdotal, my grandma who had nothing besides an analog telephone and broadcast tv became just as polarized and angry as someone with social media just by reading and watching Fox news (and eventually OAN and Newsmax) all day. I cant imagine that Facebook would have made it any worse.

    The algorithm is probably accelerating the polarization pipeline, but i guess my point was that social media isnt necessarily doing anything new or distinct. Its doing the same thing Rush Limbaugh was doing on the radio 25 years ago, its just on a new frontier.

    The 24 hour news cycle was already throwing sensational controversial stories up and speculating wildly if not outright lying about to hold on to eyeballs. The longer you watch, the more commercials you see. Etc etc.

    I would love to see a study of social media vs traditional media to see whether the mean time to full polarization changes and if so, how significantly.

    Good Ted talk!