“On the one occasion that she felt threatened, after he paid her an angry visit armed with his black rifle, she called the sheriff’s office, but they could not find the location....”
Some of his neighbors also believe his attack was racially motivated
mrt.com/news/article/A…
Some of his neighbors also believe his attack was racially motivated
mrt.com/news/article/A…
“Ator, known to his closest neighbors as “El Loco” -- the crazy one -- kept to himself.
The nickname was partly a joke, and partly an expression of community unease.”
The nickname was partly a joke, and partly an expression of community unease.”
“He scared me when he came over with that rifle, and all the children were around,” she said. She said she and her husband have six children.
[...]
“The owner told me, that when he first moved in, he had a wife and kids,” she said.
[...]
“The owner told me, that when he first moved in, he had a wife and kids,” she said.
“The neighbors said Ator apparently didn’t hold jobs for very long, because the company trucks he drove changed regularly.
They also said he no longer resembled the healthy, grinning man depicted in a 2001 police mug shot....”
They also said he no longer resembled the healthy, grinning man depicted in a 2001 police mug shot....”
““He had longer hair, he was thin, and he had teardrop tattoos on his face,” said Cesar Garcia, 29, who also lives nearby.
Like some of his neighbors, Garcia believes the Odessa shooting rampage was racially driven, even though none accused Ator of being anti-Hispanic.”
Like some of his neighbors, Garcia believes the Odessa shooting rampage was racially driven, even though none accused Ator of being anti-Hispanic.”
I don’t have any insider knowledge of this horror, but I can say that this is the sort of person that corrosive disinformation is designed for and that’s why psychographics are so powerful, because it’s possible to microtarget demographics based on many, many different criteria
This is the single most important thing I can emphasize, and I'm very sorry if it is a shitty time to do so. @Facebook has been collecting data on you and everyone you know. They know to a spooky extent who you are, what scares you, what makes you angry, what triggers you, and
who is hanging on by a thread in every aspect of their lives. They have psychological data on the types of isolated, impoverished who are so close to the brink that they have no hope left, and they flood them with violent imagery and corrosive imagery to be sure to push them in
a certain direction when they finally do go over the edge. They warn them to buy guns and to single out people a certain way, and they're doing it using a combination of very powerful priming and dark ads. And here's the thing: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY HAVE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS.
They have this data on you anyway, if you've ever been mentioned by anyone who has a Facebook account. And these people are being pushed into stochastic acts of terrorism, knowingly and willingly, to bring about specific political outcomes at the behest of specific groups.
This is what happened in #Myanmar. That is what is happening with #Brexit. It is why #Kenya needed an election do-over. I cannot overemphasize the power of linguistic priming and fear- and rage-provoking imagery. And this is what is happening in the United States.
It is what I want the world to know and it is why I went to the press about it, knowing full well that it might be the end of my career -- or worse. It still might be.
Big Tech has the data; they know all of this. And it is not just Facebook.
theguardian.com/technology/201…
Big Tech has the data; they know all of this. And it is not just Facebook.
theguardian.com/technology/201…
The way social media has leached into just about every aspect of our everyday lives is being used to prune and distort everything via algorithm. It is warping our perceptions of the world in every aspect even if you are not logged in to any platform.
The people funding this sort of psychological fuckery will profit handsomely from having citizens in any country too scared to assemble or speak out or vote or go talk to their friends, and instead get their information online, always freshly reorganized via algorithm
Also: Who has ownership stakes in big social media platforms? Some of it is public knowledge. theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…
Kinda seems like @Facebook really doesn't have much of a problem with politics after all, as long as it's the politics that's paying.
But everyone forgot. We've been firehosed into forgetting. This, too, is intentional. nytimes.com/2017/11/05/wor…
What I mean, here: niemanlab.org/2017/12/the-fi…
This is the most important takeaway: Stochastic terrorism is happening more frequently as a direct result of corrosive propaganda and disinformation, and it is being done intentionally to people psychologically targeted as vulnerable to bring about desired political outcomes.
Those who built and enabled this need to be held publicly accountable.
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