When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectively for they are the friends of anyone engaged in a struggle to save the planet from rampant kleptocracy and the excesses of Billionaire media control.
This thread draws on their 2009 work "Newspeak in the 21st Century"
Still largely unchallenged by the corporate media a decade after this book was published
We let @medialens have the last words here
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.@SenatorTester said that in order to take on Trump, you have to \u201cpunch him in the face\u201d pic.twitter.com/7NPJ3MOk2i
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 8, 2021
@mjs_DC 2)
Earlier this year, @SpeakerPelosi said of getting active in politics, \u201cWhen you\u2019re in the arena, you have to be ready to take a punch and you have to be ready to throw a punch\u201d pic.twitter.com/xe4U5ElFCW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 8, 2021
@mjs_DC
In an interview w/ Joy Ann Reid, Rep. Waters then doubled down on her call to be \u201cmore confrontational\u201d w/ Republicans pic.twitter.com/SnXfHc6hJg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 8, 2021
@mjs_DC
.@RepMaxineWaters told activists that \u201cGod is in our side\u201d and urged her followers be increasingly confrontational members of the Trump Administration pic.twitter.com/W9X4A7jAXN
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 8, 2021
@mjs_DC 5)
.@EricHolder told liberal activists that Michelle Obama was wrong; \u201cWhen they go low, we go high. No. No. When they go low, we kick them." pic.twitter.com/tWQfyLr2Cu
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 8, 2021
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Some random interesting tidbits:
1) Zuck approves shutting down platform API access for Twitter's when Vine is released #competition

2) Facebook engineered ways to access user's call history w/o alerting users:
Team considered access to call history considered 'high PR risk' but 'growth team will charge ahead'. @Facebook created upgrade path to access data w/o subjecting users to Android permissions dialogue.

3) The above also confirms @kashhill and other's suspicion that call history was used to improve PYMK (People You May Know) suggestions and newsfeed rankings.
4) Docs also shed more light into @dseetharaman's story on @Facebook monitoring users' @Onavo VPN activity to determine what competitors to mimic or acquire in 2013.
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i wonder if you can make a thread bout witchcraft in malaysia.. or list of our own local gods/deites..
— r a y a \U0001f319 (@lcvelylilith) February 20, 2020
Before I begin, it might be worth explaining the Malay conception of the spirit world. At its deepest level, Malay religious belief is animist. All living beings and even certain objects are said to have a soul. Natural phenomena are either controlled by or personified as spirits
Although these beings had to be respected, not all of them were powerful enough to be considered gods. Offerings would be made to the spirits that had greater influence on human life. Spells and incantations would invoke their
Animist ceremonies of a religious or magical nature were normally held for the purpose of divination or making a request. This would either be done at a keramat or at a shrine similar to the Thai spirit houses or Chinese roadside shrines pic.twitter.com/I1hliyi0x3
— \u2745\u1710\u170b\u1713\u170e (@uglyluhan) June 16, 2019
Two known examples of such elemental spirits that had god-like status are Raja Angin (king of the wind) and Mambang Tali Arus (spirit of river currents). There were undoubtedly many more which have been lost to time
Contact with ancient India brought the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism to SEA. What we now call Hinduism similarly developed in India out of native animism and the more formal Vedic tradition. This can be seen in the multitude of sacred animals and location-specific Hindu gods