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1. d3j (d3jblog@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 07:59:11 EDT d3j
   ♲ @zeynep tufekci (zeynep@twitter.com): "Power always learns, and powerful tools always fall into its hands. This is a hard lesson of history but a solid one." My new piece on the digital road from Obama '08 to Tahrir to Trump—for MIT @techreview. #longform technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-s… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
   https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 13:11:24 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      How very true: "in the 21st century it is the flow of attention, not information (which we already have too much of), that matters." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/
      1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Aug-2018 13:32:35 EDT Bob Jonkman

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         This article is just so full of good, pithy pullquotes: "Those hoping to make positive social change have to convince people both that something in the world needs changing and there is a constructive, reasonable way to change it. Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/