cynical but positive hypothesis about UBI, inflation
@wolf480pl @protestation
Alt-right recruiting be like:
🎶 Young Man, 'cause you're in a new town, I said Young Man, pick yourself off the ground 🎵
@protestation @cjd
it's not like the media can choose what to show...
https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
100 years ago on 1 march sailors of Kronstadt started uprising for soviets without bolsheviks. Their uprising was drowned in blood by Lenin and Trotsky (was heading red army against the rebellion). No one forgotten, no one forgiven! #anarchism #kronstadt #rebellion
re: qanon, weird beliefs
It's ok to be belief-queer. The problem isn't in having weird beliefs.
If the way in which someone believes violates the human rights and needs of another person, then they are believing harmfully and need to not do that.
But if your beliefs lead to self-expression that also respects the humanity of other people; anything goes. The crazier the better.
This may not be much different than discussions of sexuality and gender.
Outrage Porn
As an intelligent person, you have to ask yourself: why do the big shots or powers that be support those social causes in particular? What do they stand to gain at the expense of the population that is subject to its effects?
While the mediocre blindly buys into the sunny rhetoric, and pat themselves on their back, I see activism as another form of procrastination.
This is a fascinating study of online cyber-harassment from swarming troll campaigns, by social media researcher Erin Gallagher.
It uses social network analysis and visualization to show how cyber-harassment occurs online and the common tactics used by harassers.
https://medium.com/swlh/visualizing-cyber-harassment-7c4cad50bc8c
cjdelisle
cjd
Optimist, believer in the future, believer in people. Political agnostic, hoping to get closer to the truth but don't claim to hold it.
Cjdns founder, working to de-monopolize internet access with mesh networking, decentralized bandwidth market & blockchain micro-payment.