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I will head there now and report back if anything happens there.
Honestly, if a single person shows up, I'm livestreaming.
Y\u2019all they\u2019re on Reddit organizing protests against Robinhood in both DC and the bay today \U0001f440\U0001f440 pic.twitter.com/gCumBL93Rs
— covid vaccine stan account (@AGeminiStallion) January 28, 2021
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.
Great to see AWS providing direct data coupling as a service. https://t.co/TEk8ybPTro
— Sam Newman (@samnewman) January 5, 2021
The service as advertised makes it simple to map a GraphQL definition against a database. Now, what’s the problem with this? Well, the devil here is in the detail. But fundamentally it comes down to how important information hiding is to you.
Information hiding is the concept whereby you expose as little information as possible to external parties. Anything you expose over a boundary becomes part of the contract between provider and consumer.
Anything I hide inside a boundary can be changed freely. Anything I expose must be maintained if I want to maintain backwards compatibility.
Why is backwards compatibility important? If I break compatibility with external consumers of an interface, then such a change can lead to the need to lock step releases of consumer and producer, or even worse accidental breakages in prod.
A few years ago I was called into a boardroom and asked: \u201cHow do we turn around the headlines for our team?\u201d \u201cWin games,\u201d was my answer. Hugely simplistic and it doesn\u2019t solve deep rooted problems that require greater surgery and strategy from creative brains, but it helps.
— Lee Clayton (@LeeClayton_) January 30, 2021
“Win more” is the footballing solution of taking a painkiller for toothache. The pain goes away for a bit but ultimately you still need a painful root canal. And West Ham have needed that for a long time. This current limited success is *despite* the Board, not because of them.
Lest we forget, Moyes did a fine job first time around and was let go so we could pursue a bigger name, waste tens of millions and undo his good work. They’re lucky he was still available and willing to work for them again. They don’t deserve him.
But winning is helpful because a lot of the time, fans struggle to articulate what needs changing. So if the team is doing well it’s easy for the media to say “You’re fourth - what more do these West Ham fans want!” and for fans not to have an easily digestible answer.
But we know that a losing streak will arrive, we’ll suffer some bad luck and some injuries and then it won’t seem so rosy. And at that point we’ll be accused of being fickle, when the reality is that the underlying problems have been present for the entirety of the GSB reign:
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1. Woman arrested in Vanderburgh county for pre checking boxes on 400+ ballotshttps://t.co/TyeyRT72cw
For context, the far right exploded in size because a dude claimed his ex gf slept with a games journalist to get a positive review, and white nationalist oppurtunists used that as a launch point for the "alt right" which directly lef to Trump's election, which mishandled covid.
— Charredasperity (@TheZeroVirus) December 30, 2020
If we're being extremely sober-minded about this, in a tight election there's always multiple causes and movements are caused by a complex interplay of factors etc etc.
But it's also true a far right tumor grew within gamer communities and
Not to minimize the impact of Gamergate on those affected, but its an incredible stretch to say that it led to 2016. Its way easier to explain it with intra-GOP dynamics such as the Tea Party and the 2013 immigration bill
— klaus on netflix propaganda account (@akaashkolluri) December 31, 2020
To me the big mystery of 2016 is always going to be how did Trump, who has no redeeming characteristics, get a perfectly normal number of votes? Why did multiple parts of our political immune system fail? A large part is that the GOP qua Party was weaker than we thought.
Gamergate and its spawn did a couple things to the immune system. It directly stressed it by creating a dangerous identity in a way it turns out it could not handle, and it revealed flaws that other bad actors took advantage of.
If you time-traveled and you eliminated Eron Gjoni before he hit "publish" would Donald Trump still be elected in 2016? I honestly don't think so, because it was such a close election. But the dominoes would still be in a place for a different trigger that could have happened.
You need a strong network to survive.
The #LiminalOrder is the fastest growing all men's network in the country.
Are you ready to become happier, healthier, + wealthier?
Tomorrow is your chance.
Step 1: join the list.
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Your networks will become more personally meaningful and influential in your life.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 24, 2020
They will educate you and protect you and give you meaning in a way that today\u2019s institutions can not.
Networks will replace institutions.
https://t.co/Ew8NjeoHSe
Themes in 2021:
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 28, 2020
- homesteading
- info homesteading
- strategic disconnection
- info militias
- off bad grids
- on good grids
- sovereignty
- masculinity
- brotherhood
- network calibration
- networks over institutions
https://t.co/LlXGZFjhF9
Our institutions are captured and failing.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 29, 2020
You must rely on your network for survival.
If you don\u2019t have a network...
You better find one.
https://t.co/ZTPLkpdgFg
Universities
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 29, 2020
Public health
Media
K-12 education
Mental health
Science
Government
Tech
Media
All captured.
All corrupted.
All condemned.
These institutions used to keep you safe.
Now they harm you.
And it will get worse \U0001f4af
Solution?
Networks.
May you find yours now.
Because, there is perhaps much less money to be made selling classics. 2/
I need to be VERY clear that I am wholly in favor of *expanding* the cannon and adding relevant, engaging texts for students in middle school, high school, and (of course) college. Students can and should read Baldwin, Marquez, Tan, Walker, Morrison, Malcolm X, and on and on. 3/
But this website suggests 'disrupting' so many valuable classics that one has to wonder if the interests of real education are being served.
For example, disrupt Shakespeare https://t.co/oLB38lXmRH
given "violence, misogyny, racism" in the texts. 4/
Disrupt "To Kill a Mockingbird"
https://t.co/7e020R5jaN
given Atticus Finch's alleged limitations and failings.
To be clear, few real persons have half the moral strength (& parenting skills) of the fictional Atticus Finch (Nelson Mandela or Sophie Scholl re the former?). 5/