• Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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    I mean, we kind of did. Humans are good at three things: Hand-eye coordination, mastering the use of arbitrary technological tools, and social politics.

    Using your hands to precisely operate a chunk of rock that has been carved so it can do arbitrary mathematical operations so that the operation it does is show you political propaganda made by another human so you can do your own social-political maneuvering in response is the epitome of what it means to be human.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Television… Radio… Newspapers… You can get disinformation and propaganda from wherever you want, really.

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      1 month ago

      Yes, but with each new media format, people have been spending more and more lifetime with it

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    1 month ago

    What is the specific effect happening on these last 3 lines? Does it have a name or proper definition?