RE: https://techhub.social/@shantini/115957020152303871
Being a marketer shaped my progressive politics more than I expected precisely because of this.
Once you see how much effort is being spent on marketing certain worldviews to you and how much of that can be studied, analyzed, and replicated - you can’t unsee it.
And you see the power that’s available for all of us to tap into to push back. The same kinds of marketing and communication tactics used against us can be used to amplify science, art, pro-social values, and progressive policy.
The right has been waging a coordinated campaign of swaying public opinion since at least the birth of the Federalist Society and backlash to Roe.
Their legal influence required creating an information and media apparatus that influenced first elite professional networks, then the public at large.
(For a recent example, just look at how much LLMS and AI have been relying on constant marketing and media attention for anyone to believe that these tools are “inevitable” or even “useful”. Their marketing and PR departments work very hard and are very well funded. For a reason.)
Russia attacks Kherson market, Chernihiv apartment building on Christmas Day, killing at least 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/russia-attacks-kherson-market-chernihiv.html
Google bereitet Android für den PC-Markt vor: Aluminium OS soll ChromeOS ablösen
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Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and says it's buying MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
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For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…
Vorweihnachtliches Markttreiben im Wedding https://weddingweiser.de/vorweihnachtliches-markttreiben-im-wedding/
Marktforscher: Apple stößt Samsung vom Smartphone-Thron
Mit dem iPhone erfand Apple quasi das moderne Smartphone. Die meisten Geräte verkauften danach aber andere Hersteller. Jetzt wendet sich das Blatt offenbar.
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Saudi-arabisches Start-up bringt KI-Betriebssystem auf den Markt
Alles lässt sich einfach mittels Sprache bedienen. Das ist Humain 1 – das KI-Betriebssystem des saudischen Start-ups Humain.
https://www.