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Sorcerer Poet
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He/Him Chaos magic, sorcery, hellenism, tarot MA in Religious Studies, BA in History and English, interest in new religious and conspiracist movements. Antifascist anarchist. I write poetry and short stories. https://linktr.ee/sorcererpoet
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A reminder that the product these poor saps are being asked to churn out is “right-wing Wikipedia.”
Please remember to support ACTUAL Wikipedia, if you think it’s a useful resource.
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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Speaking of white supremacists in TPUSA, one ID we didn't have time to get around to last year was groyper / nazi / brony Kansas Zoomer, identified as Ian Ballinger of Kansas.

KZ was previously outed and became a meme online, but more concerning is that he works with kids. 🧵
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Casual reminder that the Black Sun is NOT an appropriated symbol, though it is a design inspired by things like Alemannic sun wheels. It's 100% a Nazi symbol in origin, too, and cannot be 'rehabilitated'.
Platner's not like someone who got really deep into Norse Paganism when they were a kid and got a Black Sun tattoo because they were mislead to believe that the Black Sun was an appropriated symbol (I've seen this argument in person).
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Oct 22nd 1945 - Russell Nash died during birth. Connor MacLeod took his identity.

📽️📅 Highlander (1986)
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Sure is weird that the GOP keeps having all these Nazis outed. I wonder if we can infer anything about the party's politics from this fact?
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
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I said a few months ago I said we are headed for a Tuskegee scenario. The transparency and independent auditing has been totally dismantled.

The months since have only affirmed that. We know what happens in the dark. Only a fool would believe catastrophe isn’t coming.
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
Anyone who's laughed at the fact that Zombie by the Ctanberries is put on Halloween playlists has no business supporting AI
The worst part is some of them do some decent work and have good poins to make, and then they seeing cults everywhere and insisting you can't trust scholara of religion
Awful lot of "cult scholars" out there that seem to ignore actual scholarship and make sensationaliat claims
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
It's a Brave New World out there
👇👇👇
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
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I'd feel way more confident about this if the exact same ppl who gave you Google Glass then didnt give you bored ape and are now giving you llms, their grift never ends because there are no consequences for being such a shameless grifter and fraud that PT Barnum would be embarrassed
anyway if we do find ourselves a year or two from now in a world where the AI bubble has popped and LLMs are a subcultural niche - ie, what happened with the last two tech hype cycles - we really gotta make the dunce cap stick on people who were boosting and promoting it when the hype cycle was on
I'm embarassed to say I have very little knowledge of the Satanic Panic in the UK. Thank you for pointing me to this; I lool forward to checking it out.
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The new Pope going after Opus Dei, hooo boy there is gonna be some angry red faces among the tradcaths this morning, and I hope the Pope has a food taster too
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Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
Somewhere I saw a suggestion that antivax sentiments first manifested over enslaved Muslims from Africa who knew about smallpox innoculation, and the fear American Christians had of satanic injections. "Satanic Moral Panic' really is core Americana.
I'd like to see more discussions of the Satanic Panic situating it as a follow up to the Red Scare and a precursor to the street gang scare of the 90s (and the war on terror and qanon)

Just an extended history of Christians telling scary stories to distract from the failures of capitalism
Every member of his cabinet should be charged with elder abuse
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"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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For Spooktober I’m going to try to recommend a sleeper horror movie each day.

Today’s is ‘Cam’, which is not just a terrific horror movie — not just smart about what it explains and what it doesn’t — but also has quietly smart cultural politics about sex work.

Learn nothing, just jump in.
Watch Cam | Netflix Official Site
After a look-alike takes over her account, a cam girl with a growing fan base sets out to identify the mysterious culprit and reclaim her own identity.
www.netflix.com
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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org