Think of Qanon drops: the mystical nonsense was *just* close enough to sensical that a vulnerable audience was compelled to try and untangle them, and ended up imparting more meaning to them than the hustler who posted them ever could have dreamt up.
7/
Cory Doctorow /
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2024-05-27 16:53:25
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