Hello Bluesky. I miss public conversation of the Twitter variety so coming back here again 🤪

Our podcast from the Elon Musk talk is now live www.alteredstate.org.uk/podcast

BEWARE THE IDES OF MUSK - TIME TO PUT THE BRAKES ON ELON?

W/ @caralavan.bsky.social @digitalfutures.bsky.social & @mjgw.bsky.social

#elonmusk #broligarchy #reform #nickcandy #politicaldonations #ukpoliticaldonationlaw

TALK 10. THE SECRET DIARY OF ELON MUSK, AGED 13¾. We asked our panel what could be done about Elon Musk...

THE SECRET DIARY OF ELON MUSK, AGED 13¾

Our blog from last week's talk feat. @mjgw.bsky.social @caralavan.bsky.social @digitalfutures.bsky.social

www.alteredstate.org.uk/post/talk-10...

#elonmusk #blogs #alteredstate #bristol #bristoltalks #misinformation #democracy #ukpolitics #reform #maga

And fwiw roughly corresponds to distribution of subjective well-being

Seen at the bus stop outside St Thomas Hospital in London…

A brilliant panel @ last night's talk BEWARE THE IDES OF MUSK - TIME TO PUT THE BRAKES ON ELON?

There is much we can do, share & read to counter the megalomusk's malign intentions in the UK

Blog & podcast w/ details to follow

@caralavan.bsky.social @digitalfutures.bsky.social @mjgw.bsky.social

Really looking forward to joining @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social panel tomorrow for this discussion, alongside @caralavan.bsky.social and @digitalfutures.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/alte...

UK democracy for sale?

#ElonMusk is using his money, misinformation & super-oligarch status to influence Britain

@caralavan.bsky.social @digitalfutures.bsky.social @mjgw.bsky.social will talk about what we can do about it

Tickets www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/alt...

#bristoltalks #bristol

"You are the media now" how X became the far-right's front page

We'll talk #ElonMusk & his weaponisation of misinformation for political ends in the UK

W/ @caralavan.bsky.social

@mjgw.bsky.social

@digitalfutures.bsky.social

Tickets www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/alt...

#bristoltalks

MEET THE PANEL 3/4

BEWARE THE IDES OF MUSK - TIME TO PUT THE BRAKES ON ELON?

@mjgw.bsky.social author and expert in misinformation and new media

March 27th @ Hen & Chicken, Southville, BS3 1JF

Tickets incl student discounts headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/alt...

#bristoltalks #bristolevents

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

"The underlying social factors look very different because the political context is different."

In the final episode of Dis/Mis Series One, @mjgw.bsky.social shares how misinformation morphs and shifts depending on where you are in the world 🌍

Listen now! 👉 bit.ly/3ZZiZjC

Fun fact:

Every. Single. Person. who makes such claims fundamentally confuses the concepts 'community' and 'echo chamber'.

(Not specifically directed at you, @jessmaddox.bsky.social - I'm just sick of still seeing the 'echo chamber' metaphor float around 20 years after it was first debunked.)

Lots of us migrating onto here so probably good to introduce myself to new followers:
I'm a writer and researcher at the intersection of digital platforms, politics, cultural studies and critical theory. Currently based at SOAS. My most recent work is on Andrew Tate, Tiktok, and reactionary children

Seems similar on here as on Twitter in the earlier years. But I hope we can learn our lesson from what happened to Twitter. What made it useful and fun for us was precisely what made it a source of value for the worst aspects of capital: our communication and affects centralised and stored.