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Re:In the Belly of the MrBeast by stafford_beer on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:05PM (#42700127)
OP here -- I like Baudrillard and McLuhan but the media theorist who best captures the present IMO is Flusser: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-discourse-is-the-cybe...
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Re:In the Belly of the MrBeast by BlueTemplar on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:25AM (#42709363)
Heh, I wonder if (hope that ?) Discord and WhatsApp are the equivalent of railroad's robber barons : they brought world-changing technology, but at the cost of tyrannical greed, before their abuses being reigned in by regulations.

Though now that I think of it, didn't that only happen when their power was on the way out, replaced by trucks and container ships ?

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