Catchup #2: Insightful Twitter Threads (Mass Media, Mass Deaths, Twitter Files, Joining Dots, Storytelling)
Five Insightful Twitter threads for this week. Topics: Mass Media, Mass COVID Deaths, Twitter Files, Joining Dots, Storytelling #DrishtikoneNewsletter
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
End of Media
AI is going to be a game-changer. We can now envision a day when the 20th-century scourge of mass media is ended forever.
We can now envision a day where the 20th century scourge of mass media is ended forever.
Not mended, just ended.
Replace newspapers with your own personalized open source AI. Do the same for Hollywood.
End remote control of minds. Now the user decides, not a media corporation. https://t.co/RgZEAl6f3z— Balaji (@balajis) December 10, 2022
Lines of the Dead
China is facing a major impact due to COVID and there are lines in front of the large crematorium in Beijing. Short but critical thread!
1/2/It is said that this is the long line in front of the crematorium. I cannot independently verify it. But the Chinese characters at the end do say "八寶山 (Babaoshan)", which is a famous cemetery in #Beijing. The plate of the first car also says "Jing（京） A-GT339...). pic.twitter.com/JP4OLj7BiZ
— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) December 13, 2022
Twitter Files, Part Five
Part 5 of the Twitter Files is here. This thread is long but very instructive on what people did while throwing Trump out. PS - it also has a tweet on India and PM Modi.
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.
THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022
While these are the Twitter Files that Elon Musk is releasing, there is another effort that America First Legal undertook. The new documents have uncovered a secret Twitter portal that U.S. Govt officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views and violate the First Amendment! Here is the thread:
/1 🚨🦠BREAKING: Following the #TwitterFiles, AFL has obtained new documents uncovering a secret Twitter portal U.S. Govt officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views and violate the First Amendment.
Follow along for disturbing findings from the 500+ page release ⤵️— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) December 6, 2022
Check the details of that report here.
Joining the Dots
This is an old thread but it is very insightful in the way it lays out the news items that matter by dates. Suddenly a new insight appears. Some linkages may be over-exaggerated but very important to keep in mind nevertheless.
Thread: India-Israel begins De-radicalisation of the World & cutting out US dollar from 2016 end
Jan 2017 Mohd. Bin Zayed (MBZ) of UAE visits Delhi for 3 days (plan chalked out to finish off radical islam)@MumbaichaDon
#hindu_sirf_brahman— Dr. Shah (@ankitatIIMA) June 26, 2022
Storytelling principles
Storytelling is an art. Specifically non-fiction. It is always good to learn from experience. Here is a very useful thread on 12 important story telling principles. Bookmark them.
James Clear, Ryan Holiday, and Morgan Housel have sold over 25 million books.
Here are 12 storytelling principles they use to write bestselling nonfiction:— Nathan Baugh 🗺️ (@nathanbaugh27) December 13, 2022
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