Don't like censorship four page b.s. and seek to #openEverything. I have nothing to hide - #OpenSource #OpenGov #OpenMinds, we do need to bring about integrity for #whistleblowers. Assange shows narcissistic characteristics IMO. Whistleblowing is for the many, not one or the few.

The replies there, my. Many live in a cultish conspiracy theory bubble. Assange went from idealistic whistle-blower cypher punk to aggressive revenge seeking personality cult. The misogyny doesn't help.

Well described! This happens it seems to a great many who were all about #open then got InterNET Worth. And probably jail time. This is not my utopia ;-)

In some ways that "we" ended up making it in many ways more closed, all through very human mechanisms. Egos and incomes. If someone's told me it'd end up with dominating platforms and millions of mediocre single serve apps... Actually I'd probably have believed it

I'd have fought that thought but I have always known the Web would challenge the world view. I was face blind to puppet masters. Little more woke now. Also, this has always gone on, just not so LOUDLY. Cruelty to divide and conquer. I don't play bipartisan it's a zero-sum game.

It's probably of very little comfort but the rest of the world is not as screwed up though the US cultural influence is tainting some of it

Hmmm. The UK, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, North Korea, Israel, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and others are sure showing off their Nationalistic fear of losing their superior wealth and power. No love can fill these souls, many of them indicted and pardon themselves!

We humans are terrible at handling decline even when it's only relative decline because others are getting better and we're staying the same. But we see what's happening and in parallel much happens to counter. We need counterspells to their incantations of fear and anger...

I see your a physicist. Is there a physical model where an object loops for a very long time and then there is a disrupt and the loop is changed? #interesting

Quite a few. There's *nothing* that never changes :)