The Outrage Industry is talk radio, cable news shows, and political blogs.
The #outrage#industry dictates the behavior of elected officials (particularly conservatives) who are terrified of getting on its wrong side because they know if they do, they will be #primaried.
Outrage discourse, as a rule, ignores complexity and nuance. It is not about conveying accurate information or stimulating meaningful discourse.
♦️Outrage arose because it was #profitable
♦️Outrage created or exacerbated the problem of #polarization, not the other way around.
Because of the fragmenting of media and the clutter of outlets, blogs, and talk shows, there is a lot of noise.
There is also a lot of #money in the outrage business.
🔸Outlets or pundits in search of an audience need to break through.
🔸The easiest way to break through is to be an “agent provocateur."
Both sides use the same tactics but #conservative#outrage is more outrageous, more hyperbolic, and more prone to misrepresenting the facts.
The conservatives are better at all things outrage–including making money.
“‘Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles' potential driving distance—by rigging their range-estimating software,’ the article published today said. ‘The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers “rosy” projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.’”
@aral OFC tzey do these things, because it's #profitable and unlike crime that is even more doesn't come with #accountability & #consequences in the form of risk for jail as well as risk getting flatlined by competitiors...
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"We are entirely connected with #nature and, in turn, the #reef...Every action, every decision we make has an impact on the #environment around us...if you take positive [actions] to reduce your #carbon#emission, this in turn will have a really positive effect on #reefs around the #world...each of us individually are connected and...if we work together, we can have really large and positive impacts."
Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".