This paper by Lidal Dror, "Is there an epistemic advantage to being oppressed?", considers whether oppressed and marginalized people have greater access to knowledge of social injustices that affect them.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nous.12424
#philosophy #epistemology #ethics #oppression

I personally have mixed emotions about people who are only now waking up to the fact that on commercial social media we were never the customer we were the product. Seeing blog posts etc. from people discovering this after I've been talking about it for a few years now.

This is a tweet from 2021:

"It's typical the new media *have always* used subtle propaganda to hit emotionally. In the old days "It sold papers" nowadays it sells our information to advertisers. "

It was really obvious after reading Walter Lippmann, Jacques Ellull, Popper, John Dewey and Chomsky himself. The trick is going to be in proving Lippmann wrong.

https://dianoralatetotheparty.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/mastodon-the-great-leveler-could-mastodon-end-up-bringing-democracy-to-the-masses-by-finally-giving-us-a-social-media-platform-for-the-people/

#Philosophy #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

#introduction
I'm Artist Marcia X, photographer, film-maker, writer & scholar. My research/art is #Caribbean, #afro #Indigenous studies, #philosophy & more

I have my own content subscription, books & prints for sale. I have created many tags & practices on here like #fediblock #fedikitchen #finefemmefriday

I was a mod on the first Black ran instance that was shut down due to way too much harassment & racism

To my #firstnations #indigenous #black fedi users, wad up

Here's me as Kate Sharma

New on mastodon, time for an #introduction!
I'm eqyo from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, I'm in my twenties and studying #mathematics & #computerscience. I am also: a semi-agnostic churchgoer ⛪, not exactly straight but still figuring things out 🏳️‍🌈, and very much into #classicalmusic 🎻.
(Expect the frequency of emojis and hashtags to drop drastically after this post)
I see myself posting about my life, about #philosophy & #politics, maybe about some #foss-related stuff...

Hello new followers! I've been bad at hashtags, which are crucial here for discoverability, so here's some of them.

I try to toot interesting things related to #activism about #ClimateChange / #ClimateCrisis / #EarthBreakdown, from the perspective of #degrowth / #ClimateJustice / #sustainability. I'm one tiny part of #ExtinctionRebellion.

I build #FOSS / #OpenSource / #commons and #SmallTech using #rust and will write more about that soon.

Third, occasionally #philosophy, #anticapitalism.