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Jan 10, 2021Liked by Ranjan Roy

In this case isn't phygital what the Chinese government calls "informationized warfare"?

Really excellent article today. Thank you!

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Great insight shared! Thank you Ranjan. Please help to keep us focused on identifying imminent threats, something many, including the Capital Police seemed to have missed.

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Great article! There are 2 "TK Link" notes that seemed to be missed when copyediting just FYI.

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I nominate "liminal" to replace "phygital." It adequately invokes the in-between-ness you're trying to describe, and has the added advantage of being an actual word.

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phygital

digital causes of fidgeting nuisances in the vein of the Devil makes work for idle hands (that my genuinely concerned grandmother and product of more than a century ago would switch at me to make still and "stop that cursed fidget ")

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Black Friday 2015: I stopped using Fakebook (as I call it) when I realized I was being used by Fakebook. I would like to believe that people understand that Social Media can be controlled but too many, it seems, are willing to be controlled by Social Media.

https://iamcolorado.substack.com/

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“ we absolutely need better data on what people are seeing.” But what about everyone’s privacy? There’s trade offs here that I wonder if we, as a society, truly understand. And the further these bans go down the tech stack, the more worried I get.

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Regarding TW, FB, INSTA, etc. If they aren't all under anti-trust investigation AND the Senate doesn't flip, do these platforms lead and follow as they did? I don't know. That this was some last straw bullshit seems too convenient considering the increased scrutiny they should expect from a progressive congress and executive branch.

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Lol only an american can say this. Remember cairo 2011? Malesia? Mosul? 😂🤷

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Perhaps once we start referring to people who use Twitter as "twits," as the name so implies, we will at least begin to see it for what it is: mere chatter of a most often thoughtless variety. I think I have a Twitter account going back around 10 years, but after a day or two it became dormant. I mean, what is the point?

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