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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:12:22 JST Aral Balkan
- Deixis9
In case you’re confused, when the US government talks about “rampant disinformation” it means facts.
Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave right now that you could power a light bulb off of it. @Deixis9 https://beige.party/@Deixis9/116322994262958395
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  It’s official, Twitter is now an official US propaganda tool. 'The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it.’ 'The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday and obtained by the Guardian, also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s psychological operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine American interests abroad.’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:27:48 JST Aral Balkan
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  @hyde @Deixis9 Never have heroes :)
  
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  Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: (hyde@lazybear.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:27:50 JST Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:
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  Even if Orwell wrote great things ... he fucked up at the end of his life
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    George Orwell
    
    Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in industrial Northern England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English...
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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:28:33 JST Aral Balkan
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  @hyde @Deixis9 (I didn’t know but neither am I surprised. This is why we shouldn’t put anyone on a pedestal. Ideals, maybe. People, no.)
  
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