By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026Battlefields mound high with bodies and influencers marvel at impossible, sumptuous meals. It all *seems* plausible, and some of it is real, but not all of it, and because we know some of it is fake, we can't be sure if any of it isn't. 5/ 1826
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026It's a very putinesque way of living. Vladislav Surkov was Vladimir Putin's media strategist, and he had a deadly effective tactic: he announced that he was covertly funding *some* of the groups that publicly opposed Putin, but did not disclose which of those opposition groups were fake. 6/ 29710
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026That meant that *any* of the groups could be fake, which meant that any discussion of the opposition was liable to devolve into an argument about its authenticity. Anything could be a lie, so nothing was necessarily true. 7/ 29710
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Also, again and again, on and on, worse and worse: it's a very Baudrillard constructed meaning reality. @baudrillardwarned.us !! 000
