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We are exclusively focused on the *supply chain*. We neglect the *demand* for this content.
The truth is that people searched for an excuse, or opening, to be radicalized.
Keep in mind: Hitler launched the campaign of lies and evil that brought the Holocaust in an age when the Internet was yet to be even dreamed of.
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) January 11, 2021
I find the comparison to drugs and addiction helpful here, and it is one that I do carefully.
100 people to to the doctor and get an opioid after a procedure. About 95 will never use again.
A lot of us are exposed to extremist content. Most of us don’t get radicalized.
So while the supply and exposure played a role in both addiction and radicalization, it is not magic. It doesn’t just take over people. It taps into demand.
So maybe the question is less about how they got the supply and more why they find it so appealing.
That’s tougher.
It is much easier to imagine an immediate policy solution to Trump’s twitter account or YouTube’s auto play than to the coercive impact of 401 years of America apartheid and racist myth making.
But again drugs suggest that those quick supply cuts don’t work.
A century of drug busts made the problem worse. This observation led to the iron law of prohibition: the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs.
When you cut supply, people who want drugs *will* find drugs — and often more dangerous drugs.
This is where my insight ends.
"The @GretaThunberg Effect" is now an empirically demonstrated, peer-reviewed phenomenon:
— Geoffrey Supran (@GeoffreySupran) January 26, 2021
"We find that those who are more familiar with Greta Thunberg have higher intentions of taking collective actions to reduce global warming."
Open access: https://t.co/TFRyvBaNn1 pic.twitter.com/apqZdFgqfW
Every year, I add 2 new low-carbon habits to my life. But every DAY, I do the most impt thing anyone can to do change the system we live in: I TALK about climate change. Not the science details, but why it matters and how, working together, we can fix it.
Individual's power to alter the world is splashed across human history; and social science is starting to understand how we do this. A tsunami of change begins by changing social norms & accumulating a groundswell of (at first) nearly invisible support.
And who's the best person to talk about climate change? It turns out we scientists are the second most trusted messengers. The number one most effective person is YOU: to friends, family and people you know.
I'm so convinced of this that I've spent the last year reading dozens of books on everything from philosophy to neuroscience & 100s of articles from psychology to social change & putting it all into this book that I'm VERY excited about. Out in Sept 2021!
Here are the 3 reasons... (a short thread) 👇
Es muss sein - Beethoven.
(1) Lin Wood, defamation lawyer who just won over half a billion dollars for his client, Nick Sandmann, saying Chief Justice John Roberts is guilty of human trafficking and Jeffrey Epstein is alive.
Do you really think a defamation lawyer would say this if it weren't true? 👇
And #LinWood is trending right now. 3x more tweets than #TimesSquare. 👇
(2) News is spreading that the Obama administration knowingly funded terror-linked organization.
This is from a new report just released before Christmas from @ChuckGrassley -- Read it here: https://t.co/RmgwRl2hqm
Why is this important to our timeline? 👇
Somewhere in the galaxy there\u2019s a tall, gentle guy living a quiet life as a mechanic and getting regular visits from a cloaked figure who comes and goes in the night and stays in his arms for as long as she can before flying off to continue her work as the Republic\u2019s Jedi Master
— fran (@galacticidiots) January 3, 2021
anything you bring to him for a fair price, no questions asked. Some of the less-savory characters in their not-so-cosmopolitan town swear he must be an outlaw.
"A name like Dice?" they'd murmur, eyeing him as his massive hands wield a spanner like an elegant weapon,
"he's no mechanic. Ex-empire, maybe? Or in league with the Hutts?"
Dice will regard them evenly, lips curled around a glass of Chandrillan whisky, and say nothing. When he draws himself to his full height, sable hair falling rakishly over one eye, some start to wonder.
Rhusbelid, a grizzled moisture farmer with a penchant for wild theorizing, starts to pay more attention. Years fleecing weapons for the First Order taught him the value of simple observation; tracking the comings and goings of people in the local hives. He recognizes something
familiar in Dice, a regimented way of moving, of existing, that only comes from specialized training. With interest, he begins to watch.
A gown of shimmersilk. A delicate hearthstone. Fresh jogan fruit. An intricately carved knife.
One by one, the pieces fall into place, until
Oh jeez what did I post last night. Oh jeez oh no
Here's the thread I hope
Help pic.twitter.com/tNVUvMAXJa
— Heather \u2b22 Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS) January 17, 2021
oh gosh i have to put it to an end somehow, i need to find the ending
Here's the thread I hope https://t.co/qYUEBPx77w
— Heather \u2b22 Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS) January 17, 2021
i'd make the ending myself but it'd refute my arguments about how the only way to fix things is to do exactly what i've always been doing (which is making the thread) so i have to simply decide the ending already exists and hope i stumble into it
oh gosh i have to put it to an end somehow, i need to find the ending https://t.co/Xon36a1Hk7
— Heather \u2b22 Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS) January 17, 2021
The Preamble to the US Constitution is WE THE PEOPLE, it is a list of things the state CANNOT do.
But "public safety"
This \u2018Free Man\u2019 will:
— Cigallio (@JonCigallio23) December 18, 2020
- go home in a car that is insured (\u2018cos the govt says so).
- drive below the speed limit (\u2018cos the govt says so)
- put his kid in a baby seat (\u2018cos govt says so)
- Not drink and drive (govt says so).
Bottom line: we limit some \u2018freedoms\u2019 for public safety
is determined by whom? We the people? Well that can't be accurate. Generally those recommendations come from the UN, the WHO, the CDC. Those bodies are funded internationally often from United States tax dollars; however, not with representation of the people.
So public safety rules are by definition the exact same concept that caused the American Revolution from the Boston Tea Party. There was British Royal Crown taxation on tea, despite the fact the royal crown had no claim to the new American colonies labor land or resources.
Public safety rules are being imposed by unelected, unaccountable new middle class. There is an ultra elite now that runs the worlds money supply, big pharma, big food, defense contracts, and money laundering operations, and then you have
The new middle class of deep state swamp protection that makes up Communist Party adherence and other useful idiots who are rewarded for believing all the propaganda and being the enforcers. The final class is everyone else. The people the plandemic was created for, the people
The reasons for this, is that literature before O'Nions et al (2016), the LWC PDA DISCO paper viewed social demand avoidance to be manipulative. Also that two tools derived from original PDA DISCO questions view such behaviours as manipulative.
https://t.co/29Il2P4N5H
The reasons for this, is that literature before O'Nions et al (2016), the LWC PDA DISCO paper viewed social demand avoidance to be manipulative. Also that two tools derived from original PDA DISCO questions view such behaviours as manipulative.
— Richard Woods (@Richard_Autism) December 26, 2020
On the need for urgent decisions & a comprehensive set of measures *today*
"Delayed and tentative decision making will result in the deaths of tens of thousands more people"
Getting worse: several more thousand people in hospital than at April peak: no's still rising
NEW: Independent SAGE has prepared an emergency statement & plan & is hosting a press conference tomorrow, 10am. Please join us. We believe we are at the most critical moment of the crisis so far. Only by acting NOW can we avoid 10s of 1000s of deathshttps://t.co/pTOseECKvM
— Independent SAGE (@IndependentSage) December 29, 2020
Cases in *all* regions are going up, reflected in hospital admissions.
Every region except NE and NW have more people in hospital than during the first wave.
We don’t yet know if tier 4 is enough to slow or contain covid.
The impact of Xmas mixing is still to come.
Schools will contribute to increasing transmission rate - @IndependentSage chair notes their nuanced position on schools + happy to take questions.
Indy SAGE calling for lockdown AND clear plan for exit from such a lockdown. Calling for proper support for testing + isolation
Vaccination rollout programmes vital - including international support
The impact of long covid also identified alongside horrific scale of death is part of the catastrophe we need to prevent unfolding further
.@IndependentSage highlighting the unbelievable pressure on NHS staff across the UK.
Given the scenes at hospitals around the UK, we cannot afford to underestimate the seriousness of this for everyone
This is purely from a personal experience perspective as someone diagnosed in their early 50s. /
Good idea to do a thread. Autism and ageing needs much more visibility. I share your experience of feeling older than I am. Partly due to early onset of physical conditions associated with ageing (hearing loss, Dupuytren\u2019s Disease) and partly due to burnout. Possibky connected.
— NortherlyRose \U0001f308 (@NortherlyRose) January 3, 2021
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I've written lots already about how I grew up not knowing that I'm #autistic. A good catch-all for that writing is here,
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My adult life from say 18 to 40 had ups and downs like anyone's. There was much to enjoy, and I was enthusiastic about learning and about using my learning in my career as an engineer / analyst.
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But, as is common for undiagnosed autistic people, this was mixed in with episodes of depression and anxiety and a sense of being different.
By the time I was 40, I wanted to retire. My wife remarked that I was starting to behave like "an old man".
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I had (and still have some) "old man hobbies": astronomy, ham radio, motorcycling, advanced driving.
And I *really* felt the pressure of being the "wage earner" with no option but to carry on earning the salary to which I and my family had become accustomed.
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#LandBack
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For nearly three months, Camp Mniluzahan has been providing shelter, warm meals and a sense of community for Rapid City\u2019s homeless population. https://t.co/gL6u3XuSWz
— Rapid City Journal (@RCJournal) January 9, 2021
After an impromptu creation on forested tribal land just west of Rapid City, the camp has become highly organized with:
➡️ Large, warm army tents
➡️ A food pantry+mess hall
➡️ Meal train+transportation systems
➡️ Downtown drop site for local+mailed in donations
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The camp does not have structured leadership, strict admission policies, and steps that residents must take to continue receiving services like some nonprofits do. The goal is to keep people alive and safe, treat residents with dignity and avoid criminalization.
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The camp is not a charity or nonprofit. It centers around Lakota values, communal decision making and mutual aid. Volunteers serve as advocates, offering assistance to homeless people who want it, but not forcing anything on them.
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The camp is on land that used to belong to the massive Rapid City Indian Boarding School property. It’s one of two parcels that the Department of Interior entrusted to the Oglala, Rosebud + Cheyenne River Sioux tribes in 2017. The sovereign land is right outside Rapid City.
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Instead of gathering dusts in my bookmarks I have compiled them into one guide:
With: @gaganbiyani @RomeenSheth @josephflaherty @yoheinakajima @daytonmills @micahjay1 @paigefinnn @dunkhippo33 @amanda_robs @pinverrr
1/10. Adjusting your mental mode to the process of
At Udemy, we were 3 first-time entrepreneurs trying to raise seed capital. We made every mistake in the book.
— Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) October 7, 2020
We got 200+ no\u2019s and wasted 12 months fundraising.
We eventually pulled through, just barely. \U0001f605
This thread shares our mistakes as lessons for founders.
**Read On**
2/10. Fundamentals for building the slide
0/ There\u2019s a lot of noise on how to pitch your startup.
— Romeen Sheth (@RomeenSheth) January 5, 2021
Keep it simple. Every good pitch boils down to five ingredients. If you have all 5, you'll get funded. Miss 1 and it can be fatal.
I made a chart describing how the ingredients relate to each other.
Let's dig in \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/pSeH8yzfKp
3/10. How to craft the most important slide in the
Every pitch deck needs a \u201cteam\u201d slide.
— Joseph Flaherty (@josephflaherty) January 31, 2020
At the early stage of a startup when the product concept is fuzzy and revenue is non-existent, VCs are essentially backing the team above all else.
But almost all team slides are sub-optimal.
Here are two ways they could be better:
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4/10. One way of raising a seed round:
How to raise a seed round. Just one process, adjust accordingly. Missing lots of nuance. \U0001f447
— Yohei Nakajima \U0001f64b\U0001f3fb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f (@yoheinakajima) December 20, 2020
Since The KLF are in the news, a reminder that my film about their return from a 23-year silence in order to build a pyramid of the dead in Liverpool has just been released streaming:https://t.co/o1TC5GeEtI
— Paul Duane (@paulduanefilm) January 1, 2021
When they won at the Brits, their award later turned up buried near Stonehenge. They have a long standing interest in the place & K2 Plant Hire at one stage expressed interest in 'fixing it up', which would entail grinding all the stones down & making them into nice oblong blocks
which would then be replaced just as they were. K2 Plant Hire's feeling was that the place had been allowed to fall into disrepair & it was a great shame. Sadly the plan never materialised.
When they released their first record, 1987: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?, its bizarre use of sampling technology was met with surprise & disbelief, not least by a London DJ named Tony Thorpe.
He said "I had to meet these guys because I couldn't believe how shit they were."
"I was sampling James Brown, they were sampling the fucking Beatles & Dave Brubeck."
Tony Thorpe became a key part of their arsenal, crafting the machine-tooled Stadium House that made them the best-selling singles band of 1992.