Fascinating question
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Star Simpson Retweeted Daniel Gross 💡
In absence of modern fear culture, I feel I would have rather less likely faced Boston state police’s sniper rifle and MP5 machine guns at the beginning of the first semester of my sophomore year. Therefore, I might have finished college.https://twitter.com/danielgross/status/1023261498569883655 …
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That was the absolute worst year, with very few upsides, and I hate talking about it on the whole. If there was any one thing I learned, it was about the intensity of emotion incited by media and the (then much lesser than now!) extent of effects of media segmentation.
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Over the subsequent year, at least two different strangers tried to beat me up in Boston or people would randomly shout at me (“you should be in jail!” me: “I should be in math class”..)
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I could almost instantly tell whether someone got their news online, in newspapers, or on television, and which outlet it was, by how any given person spoke to me - which words they used - that year.
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Basically all of the Boston papers instantly attacked. Only
@boingboing,@fmanjoo (then at Salon), and@schneierblog actually pieced together what had happened correctly. But nobody really seemed to notice or care.3 replies 1 retweet 16 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @starsandrobots @BoingBoing and
I still remember your being accused of making an "improvised electronic device". I'm glad you're still making them, and teaching others how to do the same.
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I still sometimes get a flash of fear while doing layout or such, about how people will take my work, having seen it once nearly cost me my life in a not-joking way. I hate how going through that changed how I felt about something I loved so much (imagine me then!)
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Replying to @starsandrobots @mattblaze and
My projects
@Canidu and@CircuitClassics could probably reasonavly be considered reactions to that on some level (= people need to see that electronics are not scary, if I could just create something that could communicate that)0 replies 0 retweets 10 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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