I love Matthew like a parasocial brother but he and Felix together couldn't grasp the fairly simple overall message of S3-S5

Not unlike MC's total air ball on seeing (ultra tame extra treatment of) women's issues in Barbie

Kima was the most human of them all

Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained "suspect" not once but twice

My first time through the Wire I knew very little about copaganda. Mildly embarrassed about that now, although the show presents plenty of ACAB counternarrative.

David Simon comes off pretty penitent in We Own This City when spilling the tea on cop brutality and lawlessness so that's a plus

The protests have been captured by the right-wing Islamists and U.S. aligned neoliberals.

can you share more on this? anecdotally I'm hearing the latter are a much bigger deal than the former in post hasina bangladesh

This is all mostly vibes based.

Indeed no. The engineering of apps to ensnare time, attention and views and the vast scope of spyware are well documented

Surveillience Capitialism

Substance is buried beneath the libbery. The relevant bit: capitalist conditions have changed. Surveillance capitalism brings new rules distinct from those of industrial or finance capital. I mean we did have massive towers of data driven wealth arise and multiply in very short order. This also means new repression will operate differently from the fascism of the past

As a Zuboff has fluffy, vibes based ideas on what to do about it, and a very cute belief that the West has meaningful democracy, eg the concept that top level decision making behind closed doors is new

Disclaimer: I am a babby on theory, open to correction from real vanguard ppl

you know, I was inclined to defend the guy until I heard him and Felix blithely miss the point of the last 3 seasons of the wire

is this a random screwup or a symptom of more wrongness on matt's part? (felix less likely to say useful things IME) also who do you like better for commentary in this vein?