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11 Jan
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/see…

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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.



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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.



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11 Jan
One of the great ironies of the "stop the steal" conspiratorial fraud and its focus on Dominion's voting machines is that voting machines are, in fact, flaming garbage.

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For decades - since Bush v Gore and before - security researchers have been ringing the alarm about voting machine security and the terrible, bullying, incompetent, indifferent companies that make them.

cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/…

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Every year, the @VotingVillageDC folks demonstrate the myriad ways in which voting machines are untrustworthy and not fit for purpose. Their landmark 2019 report is required reading.

media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027…

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11 Jan
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11 Jan
These brief animations, known as Phenakistiscope, were invented almost simultaneously in December 1832 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and the Austrian professor of practical geometry Simon Stampfer. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/640041302…
These brief animations, known as Phenakistiscope, were invented almost simultaneously in December 1832 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and the Austrian professor of practical geometry Simon Stampfer. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/640041302…
These brief animations, known as Phenakistiscope, were invented almost simultaneously in December 1832 by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and the Austrian professor of practical geometry Simon Stampfer. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/640041302…
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11 Jan
In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @GreatDismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in clouds and hearing speech in static.

mindjack.com/books/gibsonpr…

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Apophenia is omnipresent and weird. It's why 5G conspiracy theorists started circulating a guitar-pedal circuit diagram as a leaked 5G cancer-microchip design (the diagram has a segment labeled "5G frequency").

guitarworld.com/news/conspirac…

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But this kind of hilarious idiocy doesn't occur in a vacuum. It's got a business model. Companies like Devon's @energydots1 prey on people who've been sucked in by their own apophenic misfirings to sell them "Smartdots" - stickers to protect them from "radiation."

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11 Jan
After the 9/11 attacks, airlines and public buildings adopted a flurry of "security" measures, like taking away pen-knives from fliers or requiring visitors to office buildings to be photographed or present a driver's license.

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Bruce Schneier's seminal 2003 "Beyond Fear" called these measures: #securitytheater.

Schneier pointed out that these measures would be easy to circumvent, and were thus providing only the comforting appearance of security - not security itself.

memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/bey…

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Security theater is worse than nothing. Security theater gives people the false impression that their risks have been mitigated, when actually things are just as dangerous.

After al, if you know that danger exists, you can take some steps to mitigate or avoid it.

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