Kent Pitman<p>There's a great article up by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@cwarzel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cwarzel</span></a></span> in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.</p><p>ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.</p><p>(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.</span><span class="invisible">social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/sociopathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociopathy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/escalation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>escalation</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/asmr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asmr</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/radicalizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalizing</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StochasticTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerror</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/weaponizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weaponizing</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>