posted by Angeles Rios in Heather Cox Richardson's comments:
"I love Heather Cox Richardson and her Reconstruction analysis is exactly right. But when she said "we have the internet and phones, that's our advantage," I wanted to gently say: that's what people thought about Hillary's data operation in 2016. "The redistricting happening right now in Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, it's not the old Jim Crow playbook. It's being guided by data analytics precise enough to identify which individual blocks are likely to organize, and draw lines around them surgically. "And the platforms we're using to resist? They're feeding that same infrastructure. Every comment, every coordination, every registration drive generates a political profile in real time. "Elon's real contribution to 2024 wasn't just his megaphone. It was X's behavioral data fused with a voter targeting operation run by a Palantir co-founder. A closed loop below the level most analysts could see. "Our tactics need to match the actual threat, which means state supreme court races (elected, and they control redistricting law), in-person networks that don't leave a digital trail, and understanding that the fight is happening at the infrastructure layer, not just the political surface."
Heather Cox Richardson posted this around midnight...
"Today Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. " Read the rest of her post here
Well, this is unsettling...
ReplyDeleteposted by Angeles Rios in Heather Cox Richardson's comments:
"I love Heather Cox Richardson and her Reconstruction analysis is exactly right. But when she said "we have the internet and phones, that's our advantage," I wanted to gently say: that's what people thought about Hillary's data operation in 2016.
"The redistricting happening right now in Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, it's not the old Jim Crow playbook. It's being guided by data analytics precise enough to identify which individual blocks are likely to organize, and draw lines around them surgically.
"And the platforms we're using to resist? They're feeding that same infrastructure. Every comment, every coordination, every registration drive generates a political profile in real time.
"Elon's real contribution to 2024 wasn't just his megaphone. It was X's behavioral data fused with a voter targeting operation run by a Palantir co-founder. A closed loop below the level most analysts could see.
"Our tactics need to match the actual threat, which means state supreme court races (elected, and they control redistricting law), in-person networks that don't leave a digital trail, and understanding that the fight is happening at the infrastructure layer, not just the political surface."
Heather Cox Richardson posted this around midnight...
ReplyDelete"Today Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. "
Read the rest of her post here