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Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
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Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"
Like, when Baudrillard describes a process wherein we lose access to the Real entirely and get trapped in an infinite discursive hall of mirrors, that's supposed to be understood to be bad! You're not supposed to do it on purpose!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"
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Everyone at Google should look at how their company was once a verb and has now become a heaping plate of nonsense and revolt against the dipshits forcing this on everyone
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Everyone at Google should look at how their company was once a verb and has now become a heaping plate of nonsense and revolt against the dipshits forcing this on everyone
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This is basically what trolling did back in the early days of 4chan. It weaponized play by making harassing people a fun and collective thing one did with your fellow Channers. As @whitneyphillips.bsky.social writes, it created a sort of socio/cultural currency that one used for reputation. /1
Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is basically what trolling did back in the early days of 4chan. It weaponized play by making harassing people a fun and collective thing one did with your fellow Channers. As @whitneyphillips.bsky.social writes, it created a sort of socio/cultural currency that one used for reputation. /1
Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Developing a theory of fascism as unwelcome agonistic play that violates expected boundaries and cultural norms of the play-space, and non-consensually enrolls its opponents not as fellow players but as victims to hunt as in a blood-sport
make-believe
What is YOUR Word of the Year for 2025?
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
make-believe
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(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
I’m not sure this is my profession now, but when I told people I worked on addressing online conspiracism they insist on trying to convince me of their favorite conspiracy theory and if I said I worked on countering extremism, they would grill me about which groups of people I thought were extemists
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’m not sure this is my profession now, but when I told people I worked on addressing online conspiracism they insist on trying to convince me of their favorite conspiracy theory and if I said I worked on countering extremism, they would grill me about which groups of people I thought were extemists
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Is YouTube somehow getting *more* white supremacist? It's had 20 years to figure out what my likes, and *daily* now it tries to serve me Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and Andrew Tate-adjacent hate-slop. This website is a clear threat to civilization.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Is YouTube somehow getting *more* white supremacist? It's had 20 years to figure out what my likes, and *daily* now it tries to serve me Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and Andrew Tate-adjacent hate-slop. This website is a clear threat to civilization.
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"Fascists simply do not care about what is true. In a deep and fundamental way, it just doesn’t matter to them. You can see that even in how Musk set up his analogy. What he posted is not even the plot of The Lord of The Rings! It is the hobbits who ultimately save Gondor, not the other way around."
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
www.theunpopulist.net
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Fascists simply do not care about what is true. In a deep and fundamental way, it just doesn’t matter to them. You can see that even in how Musk set up his analogy. What he posted is not even the plot of The Lord of The Rings! It is the hobbits who ultimately save Gondor, not the other way around."
“And Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce were there too, at the White House Christmas party”
the media went on and on about the price of eggs and milk under biden, meanwhile trump is conducting an illegal war in south america that he says he doesnt know anything about and the media's big concern is their invite to the white house christmas party
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“And Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce were there too, at the White House Christmas party”
Providing good information to decision-makers and expecting them to make correspondingly good decisions is no longer an effective theory of change in a world where leaders are captured by their own counter-knowledge and produce their own disinformation, even at the threat to all of our lives.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Providing good information to decision-makers and expecting them to make correspondingly good decisions is no longer an effective theory of change in a world where leaders are captured by their own counter-knowledge and produce their own disinformation, even at the threat to all of our lives.
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I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.
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ahhhh
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
ahhhh
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Kash Patel sitting down with the Epoch Times makes me wonder what happened to the DOJ case against the Epoch Times CFO for money laundering, which was brought in 2024 before Trump took power again
‘Stay Tuned For Right After Thanksgiving!’ Kash Patel Says FBI Has ‘Numerous Options to Pursue’ On Dismissed Comey Case
Kash Patel warned that he wasn't quite done with the prosecution of his predecessor, James Comey, after a federal judge dismissed the perjury case against him.
www.mediaite.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Kash Patel sitting down with the Epoch Times makes me wonder what happened to the DOJ case against the Epoch Times CFO for money laundering, which was brought in 2024 before Trump took power again
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Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.
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Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s just really telling that venture capitalists (Strong Floor Movement) and the dark money right (Abundance Movement) keep coming up with new movements that will “save” the Democrats and the left and laundering them through centrist writers and political consultants. Seems like a real problem.
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It’s just really telling that venture capitalists (Strong Floor Movement) and the dark money right (Abundance Movement) keep coming up with new movements that will “save” the Democrats and the left and laundering them through centrist writers and political consultants. Seems like a real problem.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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This is gonna be a game changer for assessing my OKRs
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This is gonna be a game changer for assessing my OKRs
We need to encourage more of the playful culture we saw on here in earlier days. We aren’t going to super serious our way to anything of light and life.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We need to encourage more of the playful culture we saw on here in earlier days. We aren’t going to super serious our way to anything of light and life.
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Another good complement to Huizinga (imho) is Bateson’s “A Theory of Play and Fantasy,” particularly his point about interpretive frames
Bateson-A Theory of Play and Fantasy | PDF
Bateson-A Theory of Play and Fantasy
www.scribd.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another good complement to Huizinga (imho) is Bateson’s “A Theory of Play and Fantasy,” particularly his point about interpretive frames