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18 Sep

I’m here at the US Capitol this morning to observe what, if anything, may happen here today. Word is this will be a quiet day. I will report anything newsworthy or notable on this thread.

Anemic showing so far. More cops and media than demonstrators. Also a lot of dump trucks and snowplows.

LARP Moses is here. So far that’s about the most noteworthy development. He was talking about drinking beer.

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11 Sep

@ProcterGamble

Hey @ProcterGamble, can you please comment on your namesake and beneficiary @FosterGamble spouting hours of anti-Semitic COVID-denying conspiracies with David Icke on the 9/11 anniversary?

A massive brand boycott seems in order.
us.pg.com/brands/

@YouTube

I explicitly do not want to amplify Gamble/Icke's message, so I've attached this link to their YouTube stream as secondary to my first tweet. And @YouTube please take down this hateful, insane nonsense.

@ADL

In this stream, Icke claims that @ADL is a Mossad front. @splcenter this is also something you should be aware of. @ProcterGamble needs to forcefully disown their wayward scion, Foster Gamble.

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@davetroy

4 Sep

Our disinformation crisis is rooted in the carbon economy's desire to continue uninterrupted, by destroying government and thus its ability to regulate it and invest in large-scale competitive solutions.

That's the tweet.

One reason Elon Musk and cryptocurrency are a focus right now is they are perceived as valves/chokepoints between carbon<>electric and fiat/gov<>private/scarce money.

Only gov/fiat investment can shut down carbon, so they want to shift to crypto/gold and limit fiat.

While government can not be tasked with countering activity covered by 1A/4A, there is nothing stopping coordinated private individuals from making life harder for those promoting disinfo, and making it cost more and be less effective. We need to coordinate such activity.

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28 Aug

1/The purpose of tracking online disinformation is to determine who is producing it, and to try to stop it. At some point, this tracking and study necessarily begins to yield diminishing returns, as more is learned about the networks behind it.

2/Our efforts must, then, necessarily shift to exposing and countering the relatively compact networks behind these efforts, and dismantle their capability to build audiences and harm people. We need to make it too expensive and hard to be worthwhile.

3/I am concerned that many in the academic/technology industrial complex are too wedded to “study” to move into “countering,” and indeed it’s likely not their mission. What that means is academia is yielding reducing returns, and no one owns the problem of “countering.”

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22 Aug

1/Concepts/frameworks that offer negative utility for understanding what's going on right now: capitalism, socialism, communism. 18th-19th century ideological frameworks were fashioned from limited observations and limiting philosophical influences.

2/Political parties (i.e. "team sports") also tend to cloud the machinations of real power. Physics offers better frames for how our world operates — specifically, systems of flow trying to persist through time, and their tendency to co-opt human institutions in that pursuit.

3/What we are experiencing now is "late stage *flow systems*", characterized by competing networks of power, each vying for primacy and access to resources. It doesn't matter what "-ism" you want to believe is better; they can all be co-opted by their attachment to flow systems.

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22 Aug

Thought for the day from this excellent piece: “a low rate of violence may signal not the absence of criminal-elite links, but rather the deeply established and institutionalized nature of these links.”

insightcrime.org/investigations…

“drug trafficking along the coast is part of the social fabric and has at least an important base of social acceptance, if not outright legitimacy…because it helps reinforce the ethnic and territorial independence of the area”

insightcrime.org/investigations…

“networks like Hayman's also limit the growth of positive social capital… create a regime based on narco-philanthropy and fear…fracturing the social fabric and fomenting negative social capital… creating opportunities for criminal interests”

insightcrime.org/investigations…

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