Social Me, Dia.

I've been sharing facts for a long time. Here's more.

I was raised to share. That’s a photo of my friend Jon, but he’s sitting in my college dorm room. It’s senior year at Wesleyan, in 1987.

You can see on the wall a huge series of clippings, photos, photocopies, headlines, news items, regular items, notes, posters, etc. I was raised by my mother to be a clipper. Even my college dorm wall was a place to post my worldview and share information with others. Analog Twitter!

Today, we don’t need no stinking paper. Or Twitter.

Here are digital links to what I’ve been reading, watching, and puzzling over, and why I recommend them for you.

• “The North Koreans do a more nuanced show”: Why did FoxNews hosts lie about the election? For the money. https://www.businessinsider.com/lou-dobbs-north-korean-propaganda-nuance-fox-news-jay-wallace-2023-2

• Hasan Minaj explains why I quit Twitter:

• Professional wrestlers called it “kayfabe.” How shameless lying and scam culture invaded our politics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/vince-mcmahon-wwe-trump-kayfabe.html?smid=url-share

• “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” A NYTimes tech columnist chatted with Microsoft’s artificial intelligence system. It got very creepy, very quickly. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?smid=url-share

• Are you obsessed with Woke-ism? Three revealing items: 1. The head of the Working Families Party on how “maximalism” and “purity politics” damage the progressive left: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/the-left-purity-politics.html?smid=url-share 2. Calling people transphobic is not the same as protecting trans people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/jk-rowling-transphobia.html?smid=url-share 3. I feel triggered, says Minnesota art student, after being shown paintings of Mohammed by Muslims, preceded by two trigger warnings. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html