Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
Professional in social media since 1985, created / sold social media server apps at age 15. Traveled the world to study media ecology.
“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine
Work on reading comprehension.
I teach reading comprehension and metaphor literacy here on Lemmy.
!FictionNonFiction@lemm.ee 'Unified Theory of Science Fiction and NonFiction" literacy.
!MediaEcology@lemm.ee “Media Ecology”, Marshall McLuhan / Neil Postman / etc.
that was a lot of bullshit I’m not gonna read.
You crave Lemmy shit of TLDR, “ELI4” reading material, I get it. Very common in April 2025. Anti-learning, anti-understanding, a population of people who think Donald Trump on Truth Social and Twitter is the smartest thing in the whole wide world. Attracted to Elon Musk / Fox News HDTV parroting social media Lemmy content.
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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
You said “fuck off”, spreading hate. I was born in Georgia, were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from, you need lessons: “You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost”
“There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
It is Americans like JD Vance and Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump spreading hate on media systems, it is also Middle East supporters who want to kill each other in Israel and Palestine over Torah Synagogue vs. Quran Mosque, I suggest you view hate itself a s problem no matter where it is in the world and your “FUCK OFF” messages are hate messages.
fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
You think October 7, 2023 in the Middle East has nothing to do with social media propaganda everywhere the past 18 months? You know how long those hate-wars have been going on, thousands of years. Propaganda everywhere surged when terrorists attack Israel. This isn’t only a Russia and USA problem.
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“We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013. Age 16
Maybe leave the room while the adults are talking
I see how you go around on Lemmy saying Twitter-length insult comments on political discussions. An agent of mockery for Putin lovers.
Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change “the climate of discussion.” “If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there’s an article that’s critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don’t bother to comment,” she says. “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.”
Fuck off back to Russia you divisive troll
I’m not Russian. My name is Stephen Gutknecht, I was born in Columbus Georgia. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I’ve been to Milwaukee, the topic of this Lemmy posting. I speak critically of Russia, but you seem to have a style of Lemmy communication I can describe: Your messages here on Lemmy are reactionary, Twitter-length hate-filled “fuck off” messages to Americans, that’s what you do here to Americans who call-out Putin’s information war on social media systems.
Fuck off
As I said, i was born in Georgia. That’s were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from. Going around on social machines and telling people to “fuck off” is hate messaging, I suggest you study up on what hate does to your brain:
“There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
you divisive troll
Your Lemmy account is only 2 months old, you show up on days-old post that mention Russia and you start attacking the Americans who are criticizing Russia. Are you describing your own Lemmy messages, psychologically projecting that you are copying “Internet Research Agency” patterns of messages in April 2025 on Lemmy?
Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change “the climate of discussion.” “If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there’s an article that’s critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don’t bother to comment,” she says. “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.”
This waste of space owes existence itself an apology.
So you have one-line answers to all political discussions on Lemmy with your one-month fresh account. I see you are a video gamer, do you think Lemmy is a screen game of reaction-commenting to important issues, detached from reality of how the psychologists and psychiatrists of Cambridge Analytica have worked with Russia to create alternate-reality out of USA society?
Have you noticed how people in USA are behaving in 2025, talking about invading Greenland and forcing Canada to be the 51st state… or are you back to your video games for distraction? Have you ever studied how people can become detached from reality and dehumanizing with social computer systems, outright anti-humanism behaviors?
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“At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
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You are welcome. Joy.
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“Speak to me of summer, long winters, longer than time can remember,
The setting up of other roads to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that
Knew the knowledge of the land, that spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886Wxionims
That’s some sci-fi nonsense.
All things are science fiction, haven’t you heard? It’s a battle of metaphors and words.
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“Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.” - Faust, Part 2, year 1832. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Checkmate lib.
“?”, a single Unicode character, is the easiest technique on Lemmy electric media systems.
Checkmate
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“If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
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Can you please give me even the slightest hint of what you don’t comprehend and understand?
Do you know Russia is a nation on the planet Earth?
Do you know “Kremlin” is like the “White House” of the Russian government?
Do you know what “Heart and Mind” means in military strategy? “Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.”
Can we start there?
I’d win for most breweries visited. I’m around 600.
You need to study up on Russian manipulation of your own mind, as you clearly have lost your Heart and Mind to Putin in how you go around on Lemmy attacking Americans who are educating about the Kremlin information warfare against the United States of America. Perhaps you have a Russian agent who has influenced you at one of these 600 breweries?
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“Rykov has created a series of websites, similar to Trump2016 ru, or used his Twitter page to post opinions on international politics. He often promotes rightwing political figures; for instance, he has previous promoted the National Front, a French nationalist political party, and its leaders, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and his daughter, Marine Le Pen. Rykov also uses events to draw favorable comparisons to Kremlin policy, such as likening Scotland’s independence movement to Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.”
Law? There is no law in the U.S. until, by some miracle, we get rid of Cheeto Chimp and all the rest at the top. IMO: that’s not going to happen. Not even in '28.
So you are here on Lemmy systems creating messages saying nothing will happen, not even for 4 years, And that you think there is no law at all. So you think you can just go rob banks and tamper with drugs on the shelf of stores and do anything you want because you believe everything you read off social machine systems. That you live in an alternate reality induced by Lemmy meme consumption and anything you think is the one perfect understanding of the world.
You are unable to even distinguish reality from ChatGPT / Large Language Model Systems. You really need to try and come to terms with the Kremlin’s “War Against Reality” that has taken place on electric media machines, including Lemmy media platform, here is a year 2014 story:
“Russia and the Menace of Unreality”
“How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare”
By Peter Pomerantsev
September 9, 2014
“At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
MORE HERE: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/
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“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science, 1974
Pathetic losers. And, even “Nazis” if they’re still in the Tesla community.
I see you go all over Lemmy electric media systems communicating in Twitter-length reactions, behaving like Elon Musk X media platform users (and Elon Musk himself) and Donald Trump on social machines like Twitter and Truth Social.
TOPIC: Trump Has ‘Begun Process’ of Replacing Pete Hegseth
It’s called humor.
So you are here on USA topics on social machines to sanewash and morality wash Donald Trump using amusement and humor, portray this as all Reality TV “The Apprentice” and not a crisis in USA. I understand fully, that’s why Elon Musk purchased Twitter in year 2022, to further support the alternate reality “this isn’t real, it’s just The Apprentice comedy show” perspective of Americans.
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“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
TLDR
“Too long, I can’t read beyond 3 words”
Literacy problems abound, many people can no longer read printed paper books. Neil Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” covers that problem.
Lyra,
You said in another post today you have memory problems. I have extreme severe brain damage. Maybe you have problems like I do?
Do you go all over Lemmy being insincere and mocking what you don’t grasp or understand?
You could have said that to me as moderator of my community when you seem highly confused and made a claim a post broke rules. But instead, you insulted me instead of actually addressing your misunderstanding.