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She’s a fascinating lady. And I admire her. But the title is misleading. This is a memoir. There was no real “how to take on a dictator” wisdom.
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Naturally it is not the most light read, but important in today’s climate where truth and journalism are under attack. Maria is an inspiring example and role model. We can learn a lot from patterns repeating around the world. Inspiring reminders to hold the line and rely on community.
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My dad was a newspaper reporter. Maybe that's why--or at least part of why--I find the stuff about her journalism career fascinating. Plus it's well-written.
On page 104 she brings up Nazibook (or Hatebook, as some people started calling it) and Xitter, and I grimaced. Of course, at that time they weren't as horrible. Twitter was actually a good and useful platform... in 2009.
That said, eventually this book talks in detail about the dark side of Nazibook. That--and the dark side of social media (or anti-social media) in general turns out to be a huge focus of the book. I knew some of it already.
There's also a 2019 book called Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee; I haven't read it because I haven't felt like reading an entire book on the topic--I probably don't have it anymore. But... Nazibook has helped destroy our (rekative) democracy--that combined with the U. S. grasping onto white supremacy, which is tied to miseducation.
Page 117: So... Dictator Duterte is a psychopath and a rapist who needs to be fed to a dragon. Got it.
Some of her words of wisdom are irrelevant to empaths who attract perpetual playground bullies. I learned the hard way that I must be extremely careful in whom I confide & around whom I'm vulnerable. People have to be feminist af and have a sufficient level of empathy. Otherwise, they attack, target, scapegoat. Joke's on them: by showing they're pertual playground bullies, they prove they're unworthy and not worth a second of my time or that of any other empath.
"Education determines the quality of governance. An investment in education takes a generation to bear fruit. Likewise, countries feel the impact of this disregard a generation later (p. 69)."
(For some years I've noticed Republifascists don't want an educated public, because educated people don't vote for them... well, unless they're billionaires. The fact that Republifascists are attempting to destroy the Department of Education is telling.)
"The ability to discern and question, which is crucial to both journalism and democracy, is also determined by education (p. 69)."
"There are three assumptions implicit in everything Facebook says and does; first, that more information is better; second, that faster information is better; third, that the bad--lies, hate speech, conspiracy theories, disinformation, targeted attacks, information operations--should be tolerated in service of Facebook’s larger goals. All three ideas are great for Facebook because they mean that the company makes more money, but none of them is better for users and the public sphere (p. 138)."
"Violence has made Facebook rich (p. 157)."
On page 104 she brings up Nazibook (or Hatebook, as some people started calling it) and Xitter, and I grimaced. Of course, at that time they weren't as horrible. Twitter was actually a good and useful platform... in 2009.
That said, eventually this book talks in detail about the dark side of Nazibook. That--and the dark side of social media (or anti-social media) in general turns out to be a huge focus of the book. I knew some of it already.
There's also a 2019 book called Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee; I haven't read it because I haven't felt like reading an entire book on the topic--I probably don't have it anymore. But... Nazibook has helped destroy our (rekative) democracy--that combined with the U. S. grasping onto white supremacy, which is tied to miseducation.
Page 117: So... Dictator Duterte is a psychopath and a rapist who needs to be fed to a dragon. Got it.
Some of her words of wisdom are irrelevant to empaths who attract perpetual playground bullies. I learned the hard way that I must be extremely careful in whom I confide & around whom I'm vulnerable. People have to be feminist af and have a sufficient level of empathy. Otherwise, they attack, target, scapegoat. Joke's on them: by showing they're pertual playground bullies, they prove they're unworthy and not worth a second of my time or that of any other empath.
"Education determines the quality of governance. An investment in education takes a generation to bear fruit. Likewise, countries feel the impact of this disregard a generation later (p. 69)."
(For some years I've noticed Republifascists don't want an educated public, because educated people don't vote for them... well, unless they're billionaires. The fact that Republifascists are attempting to destroy the Department of Education is telling.)
"The ability to discern and question, which is crucial to both journalism and democracy, is also determined by education (p. 69)."
"There are three assumptions implicit in everything Facebook says and does; first, that more information is better; second, that faster information is better; third, that the bad--lies, hate speech, conspiracy theories, disinformation, targeted attacks, information operations--should be tolerated in service of Facebook’s larger goals. All three ideas are great for Facebook because they mean that the company makes more money, but none of them is better for users and the public sphere (p. 138)."
"Violence has made Facebook rich (p. 157)."
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A depressing, timely read, heavy on references to disinformation, bots, AI, and the malign influence of social media when appropriated by dictators and autocrats-in-waiting.