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21 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Aaah, who was I kidding? I can't stick to JUST that tweet. I gotta sing the series' praises at more length.

These books are *dripping* with the "you-are-there" sense of place & culture that you find in the very best historical fiction.

They're 100% worth the price.
Seriously, buy book 1 and tell me I'm wrong. It's the *least* accomplished, *least* natural-seeming of the series...

by which I mean that there's one paragraph of exposition that seems a little out of place.

amazon.com/gp/product/B00…
Heck, it covers the dying years of the Roman Republic, which is *exhaustively*, *extensively* written-about, and still feels fresh.

You'll see Roman religious festivals -- and Roman street life in general -- feeling vibrant and *natural*, because they're normal to the narrator.
And the narrator *feels like a real human person*, with normal human frailties but also shaped powerfully by his culture and by recent history.

Uh, recent to him, not, like... 20th-century history. He emphatically does not read like a modern person plunked down in Rome.
(And yes, that was absolutely a subtweet aimed at Steven Saylor. Get outta here with your weaksauce, Saylor.)

All this is to say that the prose is of rare quality, the depth of knowledge is remarkable, and the main character is *extremely* likeable.
BTW, if you want to avoid even the very faint rough edges in book 1, feel free to start at book 2.

But, y'know... *start.*

Really. Pick up and read. I'll be *amazed* if you regret it.

amazon.com/gp/product/B00…

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21 May
I’m diving into the 3600+ comments on GhostEzra’s “Go Watch Some Nazi Propaganda” post.

A few dozen comments in, I have encountered literally no fightback. Several of these people are almost certainly real QAnon supporters; I’ve seen them discussing the drops knowledgeably. ImageImageImageImage
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19 May
There's a new report making the rounds, from Georgetown's Center for Emerging Technology, on AI and disinformation.

Essentially the takeaway is that human-machine teams can generate fairly effective disinformation right now, BUT it's computationally & financially expensive...
So *for now* all we have to worry about is state adversaries using GPT-3 or something similar to spread disinfo.

Or very wealthy people who can just blow $200K on creating ONE system, or tens of millions per year to generate content equal to, say, 1% of all activity on Twitter.
Except... I think the report is wrong about it being confined to state actors for now. *Political parties* already spend a lot of money on their digital operations. Why not more for this?

Maybe they don't think the cost-benefit is there *yet*, but remember:
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19 May
Very excited to read this. Hopefully it won’t keep me up past my bedtime.
UPDATE: it gets off to a surprisingly environmentalist start, but ALSO says “the Jew” twice *before chapter one.*
UPDATE 2: “CHART ONE” turns out to be all the way over on page 144.

I, too, used to read military history books, Hal Lindsey.
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10 May
So @kunstderfuge1 made a graphic re: what we do and don't know based on pictures from the drops.

The gist of it is, as I mentioned elsethread, that *if* the person who took the screenshots is *also* the person who made the posts,

*then* we know what timezone the post is from.
If they're separate people -- if someone is taking that screenshot and then emailing or texting it to Q, who THEN posts -- all we know is that Q has a confederate *in that time zone.*

To me, this is a somewhat academic distinction. If you're providing content for the Q drops...
well, then you're Q, right? Q is the person *or team* that creates the drops.

And if, OTOH, Q is a single person just going through their old photos and screenshotting good ones so they'll be right at the top of the list when they go to make a phonepost on 8kun... 'kay, great.
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10 May
This couldn't go into the piece, BUT: y'know how all the photos we looked at were screenshots?

In my *opinion*, Q was sitting on their couch, scrolling through old photos 'til they found one they wanted to use; screenshotting to put it @ the top of the list; and phoneposting.
So my /personal take/ is that Q was probably physically in, and posting from, the places where the screenshots were created.

However, we can't *rule out* the possibility that someone else screenshotted the photos and texted them to Q (or emailed or whatever).
Which is why the piece very carefully does not say that the place the screenshot is taken was the place the post was made from. We don't *know* that.

But I think it's very, very likely true.
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10 May
I am pleased to announce the first forensic evidence of Q’s whereabouts, discovered by my colleague Abigail X (@BobPythonic) with help from Robert Amour (@kunstderfuge1). The full story is up @Bellingcat; we summarize our work in this thread.

bellingcat.com/uncategorized/…
Using image metadata, we have been able to geolocate Q to a specific part of the world. Highlighted below are the only two time zones where, in our sample, two or more of Q’s images were taken.

The *vast* majority, ~68%, were from the Pacific time zone.

So… how did we do it?
Most images in Q drops don’t have enough useful metadata to analyze, but a specific subset, images which are phone screenshots, do. In the “DateCreated” field, we found a series of timestamps that reveal the time when Q took these screenshots, just before posting the drop.
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