This week, an account that apparently reflects J.K. Rowling quasi-published something. The company that actually did publish something apparently “belongs” to someone named Elon Musk — though I highly doubt that no-one on Earth “owns” him (or her or it or whatever).
Here’s the last sentence of the so-called “tweet” or “X” or so-called “factual” publication:
“Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public – but I have the same right, and I’ve finally decided to exercise it.”
x.com status update # 1972600904185483427
In order to read this text, I was required to submit a request to the organization that maintains x.com (and/or twitter.com — I don’t know exactly which [other] organizations are also involved, what data they require or stuff like that). Perhaps some of the data these organizations thereby acquire is sold downstream somewhere, in order to more precisely manipulate consumers of their so-called “content” in the future.
This is, of course, ludicrous — because it’s quite irrational media (see also “What’s X?“). As I incessantly remind my readers, I try to minimize the influence of irrational media on myself. One thing that helps me is to remind myself that the vast majority of irrational media is filled with hot air (and it’s pretty much completely funded by advertising). For example, I learned of this so-called tweet via phetasy.com (which is in fact a string which has no [widely accepted] definition). For more about the distinction between rational media vs. irrational media, see “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ].
The x.com account quoted above “speaks” in the first person (when it states “I have the same right [to appear in public], and I’ve finally decided to exercise it”). I wonder which “public” the account refers to (see also “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?“). My hunch is that for many people “public” is interpreted as roughly equivalent with “mainstream”. Ironically, the company that maintains phetasy.com (and also strongly promoted the awareness of this tweet) also recently published a “Real America” event (in collaboration with many other organizations which likewise harvest user data for the purposes of propaganda and manipulation via a variety of other “mainstream media” channels) that supposedly was about the term “mainstream media” (yet in my humble opinion provided very little insight regarding the term).
These mainstream milieus include sites like phetasy.com which attempt to reap profits from their participation in a “mainstream” space. [1] Such sites commonly have no problem whatsoever with selling user data downstream. Real people often gravitate towards such mainstream sites because of their affinity to concepts like representative audience, wide reach and low, medium or high CPM rates. These are part and parcel to mainstream jargon, mainstream lingo, mainstream speak, … and the entire mainstream world subscribes wholeheartedly to such mainstream concepts and mainstream world views.
It seems odd (to me, at least) that a real person who is apparently an accomplished author would also have such poor literacy and publicacy skills (see also “Literacy & Publicacy“). Yet I also acknowledge that there still seems to be no school anywhere that provides, let alone promotes, such training. [2] In my opinion, any “Enlightenment” project cannot require any government involvement, because any government entity ought to be considered inherently distrustworthy (i.e. “worthy of distrust”). Governments always govern (regulate, manipulate, etc.)
On the contrary: I find many or most “professional” writers today mainly do it (the “mainstream” thing) for the money — and therefore I see very little future in so-called “professional” writing.
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