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The Twitter algorithm was cracked by the mastermind behind the new #Bitcoin thesis, Softwar.

@JasonPLowery was able to psyops others by systemically exploiting how Twitter works.

And he did it not only once, but twice!

In this 🧵, I'll explain. Mass blocking psyops
Mass Blocking

• Back in Nov 2022, Jason conducted an experiment in mass blocking certain people on Twitter.

• In recent days, it started unintentionally, but he took the opportunity to try the mass blocking experiment again.

And both times, it worked. Mass Blocking
The Experiment

Jason decided to target anyone posting disagreements about Softwar who were:

🔸 Making an ad hominem argument.
🔸 Preachy / virtue signaling that war is bad.
🔸 Using the usual top 3 arguments (defense only, software is not a weapon, 1st amendment is enough.)
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1/7 @JasonPLowery thank you for this brilliant thesis. #SOFTWAR
Quick thread on my takeaways:
2/7 The main argument is that #Bitcoin is a cyber power that can serve alongside US military force protecting cyber thoroughfare by imposing severe physical costs (watts) on belligerent actors, same way US military force is protecting its land, sea, air, and space thoroughfares.
3/7 Cyber-Antlers
Cover art is great. Antlers are a metaphor for softwar or Bitcoin, as non-kinetic non-lethal electro-cyber power projection technology. Antlers are designed to entangle, which allows stags to determine the pecking order without mortally injuring each other.
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Presenting a twitter thread on #SOFTWAR by ChatGPT4

1/6) #SOFTWAR discusses the national strategic security implications of proof-of-work technologies like Bitcoin, but first, it provides some background information on the profession of warfighting and the neologism "softwar."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2/6) In the early 1800s, General Clausewitz examined the nature of war and defined it as a trinity with three distinct characteristics. First, he said that war is comprised of the same "blind natural forces" of "primordial violence" observed in nature. This means that physical… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3/6) Second, Clausewitz stated that war contains "the play of chance and probability" rewarding "creative spirits." This means that war is not just an indiscriminate physical power competition, but a probabilistic one – a.k.a. a lottery. Winning the power lottery is not merely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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