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Questioning just about everything [by Design] Safer Online Communications: https://activistchecklist.org/ Behind The Paywall 🔓: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-on-major-websites

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 7h

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Levi @levi98k.bsky.social · 16h

Een compliment aan de VVD

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 8h

Het kapen van de Nederlandse vlag is wat ze in de politicologie ‘triangulatie’ noemen: het overnemen van thema’s van je tegenstander om zo een deel van die kiezers te winnen. Bill Clinton deed het op beroemde wijze. Betekent uiteraard wel dat je naar rechts beweegt.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 1d

Twee walgelijke racistische losers hebben maandenlang, met instemming van hun politieke baas, in hun zolderkamer, met schuim op de mond, anti-Timmermans- en nazi-propaganda gefabriceerd en verspreid. Zonder enige consequentie. De PVV krijgt 25 zetels en Timmermans vertrekt.

Dit is Nederland.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 16h

all in all a fucking embarrassing display which will further time suck this country into waiting further months before we even manage to have any semblance of a cabinet. If at all possible.

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone stupid enough to vote for a party with only one member, who has proven he has no capacity to work with anyone; form a cabinet, let alone form a coherent policy is laughable. #Wilders #DutchElections #WastedVotes

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 16h

Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/dutch-... nobody wants the joke that is far-right Wilders. Little known fact: There are no other members in his party (he is the only one)

Dutch election: Wilders seeks victory in test of European populism

Dutch voters cast their ballots on Wednesday to choose between doubling down on the anti-immigration nationalism of populist Geert Wilders, who sank the last conservative coalition after a fractious two years, or a return to the centre.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 4d

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Dan Deacon - Learning To Relax (Official Audio)

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 4d

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The National - Tropic Morning News (Lyric Video)

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday. For it is yet again my big hour of chill. As you were.

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Richard de Nooy @richarddenooy.bsky.social · 4d

When the clocks are turned back one hour in Holland, someone also hits a switch marked “Medieval Winter” and acid rain comes belting down, while the Black Plague claims its first victims indoors, with wolves waiting to devour whoever dares to venture outdoors.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 4d

A microscopic organism can survive the vacuum of space: yet our infrastructures collapse under a summer storm.

Why? 👉 Because structure isn’t enough.
Resilience depends on functionality.

And we need a lot of network science to grasp it.

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#ComplexityThoughts

Making sense of complex systems functionality

What slime molds, neural systems and quantum physics have in common?

manlius.substack.com

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

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A Light So Dim

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

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John Maus - I Hate Antichrist (Live)

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

*Craptastic. Naffesque.

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Vampire one apparently. Didn't get great reviews either so should be interesting.

Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

ditto on the Parable novels.. by far. Fledgling will be the last one.. 😭

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Shorter. Arguably better. Amsterdam was nafftastic.

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One more Octavia Butler book to go and then.. 😔

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Amsterdam yesterday was still as unimpressive as the last time I saw it.. besides the barrage of tourists.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

fascinating worthwhile interview.

youtu.be/DL-kwZdkiOA In this episode of The Nerd Reich Podcast, host Gil Duran speaks with legendary tech critic Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish 🔥🤖📚 @gilduran.com #bigtech #siliconvalley #farright #inequalilty #complexity #monopolies #corporatecapture

The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder for anyone who needs it. Monopolies are not free markets.

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corrected.
🔓 web.mit.edu/9.s915/www/c... (slides)

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