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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

On the plus side it seems significantly easier to make a plugin to get jekyll to recognize wikilinks style links that I was able to figure out for hugo or another platform

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

Hardest part of building this website so far is deciding how to make file names/page titles/permalinks all line up in a way that I can use Obsidian as a CMS while also not having Jekyll freak out because it’s unnecessarily opinionated but only about some of its built-in collections

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 23h

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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2h

Come on he's just a 55 year old kid.

Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4h

i mean… when you put it that way… it sounds like they really are attacked by spirits, it's just their own, deeply foul ones

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

I support this interpretation

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

(To be clear, I think we can change those outcomes by doing something about it now, which is the rational part of the decision to upend what for others might be a comfortable life so I can do something about it now)

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

Thank you!

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

I don’t really believe anyone is going to be able to do things like “retire comfortably” in the short-term future, to say nothing of not “die by climate change or climate-fueled extremism”, so it seemed like the rational thing to do on top of being the right thing

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

I did this and turned all of my future earning potential as a former tech employee into an in-kind donation toward “professional activism” (getting a lower paying nonprofit job that had a direct social good mission). Though it remains to be seen if I can find a second one…

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 2h

Something that has really stuck with me is when someone suggested to me that we need more class traitors — including middle-class upwardly-mobile types (like me) opting out of the upward rat race after you have "enough" stability.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

I've shared this article before, but this has been my exact experience. When I was in my early 20s, I had a low paying job which made it easy to quit and run to France to teach English for almost a year. When I was back in the US a *finance* dude told me he wished he could afford to travel more.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

Vance has to go on tv and say lies about this *because* we have a working (not post-truth) information environment AND because this is part of how they create the “common knowledge” that everyone already supports fascism (which is the goal of the propaganda, to confuse our knowledge of mass publics)

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

This subthread is my current thesis about all this

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

Yes, that’s exactly it. We have a breakdown of the means of creating representations of mass beliefs, which coincides with the breakdown of democratic politics because the ability to create this representation was the foundation of our modern hypermediated representational democratic society

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

In short “what if we tried to run democracy off of an open internet poll that’s been stuffed by nazis” doesn’t work and describes *exactly* the social phenomena that we are seeing now—including broad swaths of now consolidated privately owned media doing kayfabe that the internet poll means anything

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

In short “what if we tried to run democracy off of an open internet poll that’s been stuffed by nazis” doesn’t work and describes *exactly* the social phenomena that we are seeing now—including broad swaths of now consolidated privately owned media doing kayfabe that the internet poll means anything

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

And this is directly a result of people moving into peer-to-peer, user generated, and translocal media communities on the Internet, combined with technicized media manipulation and media consolidation of public media spheres. “Information disorder” is disordering of the info *about* mass publics.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

I might argue this is the esoteric meaning of “post-truth”: that societal decision-makers who relied on the ability of media and public relations to construct mass audiences for representational appeals are no longer able to construct representations that correspond to activity seen in the world

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

Yes, that’s exactly it. We have a breakdown of the means of creating representations of mass beliefs, which coincides with the breakdown of democratic politics because the ability to create this representation was the foundation of our modern hypermediated representational democratic society

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

And this is directly a result of people moving into peer-to-peer, user generated, and translocal media communities on the Internet, combined with technicized media manipulation and media consolidation of public media spheres. “Information disorder” is disordering of the info *about* mass publics.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

I might argue this is the esoteric meaning of “post-truth”: that societal decision-makers who relied on the ability of media and public relations to construct mass audiences for representational appeals are no longer able to construct representations that correspond to activity seen in the world

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

I think that’s accurate

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

Yes, that’s exactly it. We have a breakdown of the means of creating representations of mass beliefs, which coincides with the breakdown of democratic politics because the ability to create this representation was the foundation of our modern hypermediated representational democratic society

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

Actually, I have a folk theory that we invented a half-baked way of thinking that we could know the beliefs of mass publics, and the cracks in this mechanism broke down (for a variety of reasons), and this methodological breakdown has been perceived widely as the mass sociological phenomenon

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

The idea that we can know about what a population really believes at a mass level is probably an invention of public relations social science

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20h

Wanna know why Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel all LOVED Eliezer Yudkowsky, right up until they ignored him?

It’s because he was USEFUL to their efforts to attract funding and talent to their new companies.

If you think futurism is about accuracy, then you’re the sucker at the table.

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