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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Picture of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's smirking heads, posed back to back.

Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

Essays Fascism Rec Reads Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Anglin, Andy Ngo, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-trans pogrom, anti-trans propaganda, antifascism, antisemitism, Chad Loder, Crimethinc, Daily Stormer, eliminationism, Elon Musk, Essays, FA1, far right, far right online extremism, fascism, hate speech, James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Media, Micah Lee, MP6, neonazi, Nikki McCann Ramirez, Nina Illingworth, online fascism, Pork Reich, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Mackey, Roger Stone, Rolling Stone, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice, social media, The Intercept, Twitter, Weimar America, white supremacy, Ye

Recommended Reading: Trip Line

In today’s Recommended Reading, Nina circles back to talk about why pretending Musk isn’t turning Twitter into a fascist paradise is a form of collaboration.

Fascism Journals Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 algorithm, algos, Amerikan Musik, AnarchoNinaWrites, Andy Ngo, anti-LGBTQ hate speech, anti-trans pogrom, anticapitalism, antifa, antifascism, beginner guides, capitalism, capitalist fuckery, content serving algorithms, Discord, eliminationism, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, hate speech, homophobia, Journals, Kiwi Farms, Media, MP6, Musk Twitter, new user guide, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, onboarding, online fascism, online harassment, Pavlichenko Appreciation Society, Politics, Pork Reich, Site Updates, social media, transphobia, Twitter, Twitter is a fascist website, Twitter is a hate site, Weimar America, Wired

Update: A Regrettable Reconsideration

Elon Musk is actively turning Twitter into a fascist hate website and that obviously means I’m leaving; here’s where you can find me online going forward.

News Site Updates Social Media socialism

NinaIllingworth November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 algorithm, algos, anticapitalism, Big Tech, blogger, Can't You Read, capitalism, censorship, content, content serving algorithms, Elon Musk, Facebook, Free, free market fundamentalism, instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Media Madness, Meta, Mini Theory Blog, Musk Twitter, News, Nina Illingworth, personal, reactionary capital, Scurvy, Site Update, social media, Socialism, Subscribe, Tech Bros, Theory, Tumblr, Twitter, update, writing schedule

Digital Atomization and the Dark Art of Blogging

An announcement about some changes here on NIDC. Want to know why you’re getting more notifications and the website is a different color? This post has answers.

Personal Podcast Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth March 9, 2022November 5, 2022 anti war, anti-imperialism, antifascism, ASNinaWrites on Twitter, AstroTurf, Azov Battalion, back injury, Canadian QAnon, Discord, Duginism, FA1, Facebook, fake trucker protest, fascism, fascist occupation, invasions are not anti-war, KBS, KBS Pod, Kropotkin's Barbershop, Mastodon, militias, NATO, neonazi, NIDC, Nina Bloc, Nina Illingworth, Ottawa occupation, personal, Podcast, producerism, QAnon, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, sick of tankie bullshit, Site Updates, social media, The Library, Trucker protest, Twitter, Ukraine, Upcoming, update, Vladdy Putin, Wagner Group, WD7

Update: Crackback Edition

An update about why I’ve been away, what I think of “anti-imperialism” and “class war” that helps billionaire fascists, and what I’m planning next.

Climate Crisis Fascism Neoliberalism News

NinaIllingworth November 6, 2021November 5, 2022 Andrew Cockburn, anticapitalism, antifascism, Assata Shakur, blog, CA4, CC3, centrism, Christopher Rufo, Climate Crisis, critical race theory, CRT, Cultural Marxism, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, FA1, Facebook, fascist conspiracy theories, foreign policy, fossil fuels, Glenn Youngkin, Godwin's Law, Hooverism, Imperialism, In the Aggregate, informal writing, instagram, ItA, James Lindsay, January 6th 2021, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kimberlé Crenshaw, labor rights, Lauren Boebert, liberal antifascism is an oxymoron, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Mastodon, Media, Media Madness, Military Industrial Complex, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, News, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, organized labor, Pinko Postcard, plutocracy, Politics, Quickshot Quotations, Republican Party, Rolling Stone, Social Justice, social media, solidarity, The New Old Forever War, the propaganda model, The Spoils of War, Threads, Twitter, Virginia governor's election, war, Weimar America, Woke

In the Aggregate: Critical Overload

New ItA post today; highlighting the very best of Nina’s social media writing from around the web. We’ve got nazis, neufeudalism and a boiling planet on NIDC.

Neoliberalism News Police State Social Media

NinaIllingworth October 13, 2021November 17, 2022 ACAB, Amerikan Musik, anarcho capitalism is fascism, AnarchoNinaWrites, anti protest laws, antifascism, billionaire, black bloc, blog, CA4, capitalism is killing us, CC3, Cerise Castle, Chris Hedges, class war, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, cops aren't workers, corruption, David Graeber, David Shor, Defund the Police, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Eve Ewing, FA1, Facebook, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist conspiracy cult, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, GOP, Greta Thunberg, ICIJ, In the Aggregate, inequity, Jeremy Schwartz, LASD Gangs, leaks, left wing theory, Leon Trotsky, liberal media, Mastodon, Matthew Yglesias, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, News, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, offshore tax havens, Pandora Papers, Police, police state, police unions, Politics, pundits, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, SheReadsNews, social media, ST2, Stop the Steal, the 1%, the class war never ended, The Gravel Institute, Theory, Trumpism, Twitter, Vanessa Nakate, Ward Churchill, wealth gap, white supremacy

In the Aggregate: A Neofeudalist Dystopia

In the Aggregate is back, and we’re on a mad dash through the palaces of reaction, violence and wealth; recapping Nina’s social media analysis in October.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2021November 17, 2022 Adam Johnson, Adolph Reed, Aja Romano, Amanda Gailey, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Ross, Christina Cauterucci, Copaganda, Daily Dot, David Graeber, FA1, Fantastic Lies, far right, fascism, George Monbiot, In the Aggregate, Jacobin, Jason Stanley, John Knefel, Lauren Gill, leftism, long covid, Luke Savage, Marin Scarlett, Matt Cohen, Media, Media Madness, Mikael Thalen, Mother Jones, MP6, new writing, News, Nina Illingworth, nonsite, Novara Media, Offsite Writing, Police, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Scott Hechinger, Seeing Red, Shane Little, Slate, The American Prospect, The Column, The Guardian, The Intercept, Theory, Twitter, Vox, Woke, Youtube

In The Aggregate: Reactions on Media Madness

I’m taking a snapshot of Pig Empire reaction by examining some essays and articles from around the left(ish) wing internet; on Media Madness.

Blog FotB Site Updates socialism

NinaIllingworth May 12, 2021November 5, 2022 a business designed to lose money, A Little Help From My Friends, anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Announcement, anti-racism, anticapitalism, antifascism, blogging, burning money, capitalism, Chris Walker, class consciousness, class war, content notice, critical theory, critical thinking, decolonization, Facebook, FotB, Friends of the Blog, hot take economy, intersectionality, IWW, JA5, labor class, labor class content, left wing politics, left wing theory, leftism, Marxism, more articles, more content, MP6, new writers, NIDC Project, Nina Illingworth, sharing, Site Updates, social media, solidarity, ST2, the dark art of outrage clicks, the tyranny of rent, Twitter, volume posting, whiteness

Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

After five long years of trying to go it alone on my eponymously named website, I’m finally in a position to compensate some Friends of the Blog to help produce more content; find out more inside.

Can't You Read Censorship Essays Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 18, 2021November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti lockdown protests, AstroTurf, Biden supermajority, Big Tech, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, censorship, chicken coup, chud insurrection, chud riot, Democrats, Democrats control US Senate, DeVos Family, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist coup attempt, free speech, Georgia Special Election, GOP, Internet, Jack Dorsey, January 6th 2021, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberal censorship, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no new Patriot Act, Offsite Writing, Politics, profit motive, Republican, right wing terrorism, Section 230, social media, spreading fascist ideology on Twitter, Trump incited an insurrection, Trump social media suspensions, Trump's Twitter should have been suspended years ago, Twitter

The Trump Suspensions, Big Tech and Section 230 on Can’t You Read

A link to an essay on Can’t You Read discussing Big Tech, Trump’s social media suspensions, and Biden’s threats to repeal Section 230.

Blog Censorship Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 15, 2021November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, beating Prager U, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Capitol Hill Coup, censorship, chicken coup, COINTELPRO, contrarian left, crypto-libertarians, Dennis Prager, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist coup, faux left media, FBI, Ferguson, free speech, informal writing, Jack Dorsey, Journals, left wing Youtube, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Zuckerberg, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Patreon, police state, Politics, PragerU, PragerU is fascist, QAnon, right wing terrorism, social media, The Skinny, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Youtube

The Skinny: Chuds, Social Media & Censorship Edition

A lengthy, informal journal piece on Patreon about censorship, social media and the fallout from the Trump-inspired Jan 6th chud riot in D.C.

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