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10 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A bunch of these poll questions seem like Ideological Turing Test fails.
Do you really think this is how many progressives would describe what they think ought to be taught? I don’t.
“Only ten perecent of respondents thought White toddlers should be shrieked at by peers & teachers in Maoist struggle sessions where they’re told they’re literally slaveholders. I conclude Democrats are vulnerable on education issues.”
Not, I should add, that you can’t find particular folks pushing stuff that does indeed read like parody... slowboring.com/p/tema-okun

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11 May
A cynical explanation occurs to me: If you make your money providing expensive trainings that generate little or no real value for an organization, what would it be useful to make people believe so you nevertheless keep getting paid? slowboring.com/p/tema-okun
You can extend the life of the grift via the old Emperor’s New Clothes con. Any attempt to quantify the value of the trainings, or demand arguments for their broad & confident claims, is itself a symptom of white supremacy. The glorious raiments are invisible to the unqualified.
I mean, it’s sort of genius. Any attempt within the organization to say “hey, are these trainings maybe BS and a waste of time and money?” is itself going to be condemned by the trainings. Yikes! Better shut up and keep paying that consulting fee.
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10 May
This has the makings of a legal sorîtes problem where the legal rule we converge on ends up being a semi-arbitrary function of the case details & whether we’re approaching from the heap-side or the grain-side.
When a legal sorîtes problem involves constitutional questions, btw, there’s a sort of structural bias in favor of governments, because they can sequence their appeals strategically in a way that’s unrealistic for dispersed criminal defendants.
There are, of course, activist litigation shops like EFF and ACLU that can be a little strategic in the selection of test cases, but on net I’m betting states have the advantage.
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10 May
Vital and long overdue. This firm’s nonsense analysis has been critical to persuading both tech-illiterate elites & ordinary voters that there’s some credible evidence of electronic vote fraud. It’s a bad joke, but the technobabble sounds impressive. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Some of this stuff requires no real technical background to see through. Ramsland, for instance, has been obsessed with the Spanish firm Scytl, which provides public-facing web applications for reporting vote tallies. They make the state election website look pretty, basically.
Scytl does not, needless to say, count votes. That’s done domestically, by local governments. Yet Ramsland has insistently peddled incoherent claims about Scytl somehow being involved in vote fraud (via nonexistent German servers, no less).
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8 May
What if... both of those things are true?
I guess given a choice I’d pick “be careful...” because I’d rather focus on the thing I can control. But it’s a silly dichotomy.
Two minor additional points. First: It’s usually worth trying not to offend people *even if you think they are wrong or oversensitive to be offended.* There are reasons to break the rule, but it should be for a reason.
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8 May
I think a lot of disinfo flourishes by hitting a sweet spot: Too complicated to shoot down in a couple sentences, too obviously absurd to people with real expertise to be worth wasting time on, but superficially persuasive to people with no relevant background.
Any actual infosec professional watching one of the PillowGuy videos is going to think: “Well, this is clearly moronic; none of my peers would be fooled by this, and I’d get no added cred with them wasting hours explaining each kindergarten error.”
It probably doesn’t seem URGENT to respond anyway—after all, none of your peers are fooled, and it’s not getting much MSM traction after the initial reports. But to a lot of normal people, all the technobabble sounds very impressive.
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5 May
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I mean, look, leave aside the ethics of the subscription model: This sounds like absolutely INSANE design. You have a critical feature of a safety product that must be *activated via a networked mobile device every single time you turn it on*? Image
I dont even really have a problem in principle with “this is an advanced safety feature you can pay to have activated or not.” But as it’s described, they’re building a bunch of complex dependencies into a feature that defaults to failing closed...
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