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“The CDC is not thinking in terms of giving the public accurate information. The CDC is like, Our doctor trying to tell us the things that they need to tell us to get us to take our medicine. And that's different than journalism. You know, when I look at Fauci,…”

“The thing that's going to happen, I guess, is as deep fakes and other, other kinds of media come out that make it really impossible to distinguish between what is being said and what is not. We're going to, again, just as we did before any video existed, We're…”

“Once you start playing that game, You're going to lose to whoever plays that game more ruthlessly. You know, if you're going to be on the side of supposedly factual evidence-based reality, you got to stick with that.”

“The vast majority of people replying to you, and looking at you, and using the information you're putting out, are using it to hurt you. To reduce your autonomy. To make you feel bad about yourself. To create mental illnesses. To distort your perception of rea…”

“Today, you could say digital technology is a one-zero, yes, no, you know, right, wrong choose one of the above cookie-cutter medium, so people's lives and politics and approaches end up getting that way.”

“The tools create the illusion that, that what we say matters or that because our text matters, Can look all like it's in a sub stack. That means it has equal value to everything else that's up there. And it just doesn't.”

“So when I see a piece In the New York Times that, you know, the headline and the first few paragraphs are arguing that, oh, you know, when Israel opened up its schools, its elementary schools COVID rates went up. And then you finally read all the way down, and…”

“If MSNBC and CNN and whatever are going to put on, you know, newscasters who are opining throughout these you know, broadcasts, then they're going to be seen as a opinion, opinion news.”

“99% of us really don't need to know about any of this stuff, honestly.”

“If we spent that time helping other people in our communities, it would relieve the central governments and the state governments of so much stress. You know, you don't need as much welfare. You don't need as much planning. You don't need as many programs when…”

“In the United States. Anyway, news was a requirement to have An FCC television or radio license. You had to do a certain number of hours of news as part of your public affairs obligation, right? When we took that away, then news was no longer a mandatory oblig…”

“That's what Twitter is for. Sorry. That's what Twitter is for. It's not for the president of the United States to communicate policy to the American people. That's not where you do it.”

“The heterogeneous community really only works in real life where you have a broad enough bandwidth to engage with people who are really different from you.”

“Right now, oddly enough, I feel like our technologists, they're looking at technology to be that.”

“I feel like there's growing dissatisfaction among them for this, you know, influencer culture, you know, that, that, that, that living your life as some sort of an infomercial is not satisfying and that they're going to move on.”

“And it might be that technologies, digital technologies are not the solution for digital technologies. It may really be as simple as Sabbath, you know, having, having a day when you're not plugged in, not to be anti-tech”

“If you're reporting on the party, you're not at the party. If you're reading about the party, you're not wherever you really are”

“The world is scary and wet and dark and female and unknown and unpredictable and all that, but you don't want to compensate for that with more with predictability and insulation. What you want to do is Is enhance your resilience, and your wonder, and your abil…”

“The metric you put on the wall is the metric that you're going to get, you know, and it may not be an ideal single focus for more than just some provisional fun experiment.”

“We fish for shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico. We transport those shrimp all the way to China and Vietnam, where they get deshelled, and then put them on other boats and ship them all the way back to us.”

“And I feel like it benefits advertisers and certain companies to get people second guessing all their choices. So put them back in decision mode. So they buy more stuff.”