Every time I’ve been tempted to join Facebook they have done something horrific and I change my mind. I appreciate that about them.
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On Twitter, Natasha Bertrand said that one of the operators on the FB conference call about this pronounced the website Politico’s name as Poly-taco. She is pushing us all to adopt it.
I routinely get “advertisements” in support of Trump (and Knute Buehler the R candidate for Governor) making all manner of clearly false claims. I mark them as fake. They get removed and don’t come back. There does seem to be a new patina of “we’re trying to keep it real” on the big, steaming pile of avarice that represents the basic Facebook business model…
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Peel the onion…
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And I’ve detected a strange pattern of capitalization, odd usage of parenthesis and quotation marks, and a very, very, very, very high frequency of monosyllabic words which seems disturbingly familiar for some reason I can’t… quite… place.
Consider the well, poisoned. The well that is all stories about Russian influence in the 16 election. Trump just recently told us the Russians are going to help the Democrats this year and bingo, here is the ‘proof’.
You do know that the Steele Dossier was salted with disinformation by the Russians in order to discredit it. At the same time it is an article of faith in the GOP that the Steele Dossier was the entire reason there is a Muller IC.
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One can join FB and not give away your life story. In fact, you can fake the details and use it in a limited way as the better half does, that is, for sending private messages to friends and family who don’t like the machines called telephones.
I am going to follow Mike Pence’s example and just not go there and thus avoid the temptation.
For instance?
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As your superior, civil servants, I would like weekly updates on the status of this work. By Zuckerberg. It’s his ass that’s on the line, personally.
Fraud isn’t allowed by anyone.
Has the better half heard of email? Does the exact same thing and doesn’t contribute to an out-of-control techno-monster.
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