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el gato malo Profile picture
@boriquagato
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
this is how the botnet/activist armies are crushing accounts

they block w/ 100k bots/add you to block lists.
follow then unfollow
mass report and mute.

and you're silenced.

@elonmusk easy fix: only allow blue check mutes/blocks/reports to count.

ban blocklists
if you keep letting bot and list votes count, you're allowing small numbers of people to determine site wide reputation and reach by rigging votes.

it's just going to be an ugly arms race to the bottom.
the point of free speech is to allow and enable controversial speech and the cure for it when such speech is wrong is not "allowing those who disagree to silence it" it's "more speech."

time to stop this.
unerring as a cat seeking the lap of the cat hater: it's always the tweets you have not quite thought through that go big.

upon reflection, i am not convinced that anyone blue check or no, should have down mod powers.

just eliminate it.

boriquagato.substack.com/p/crowdsourced…

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el gato malo Profile picture
Jul 28
i dug deeper into the google memory hole issue.

surprising finding:

this same was true of all search engines i tried. it's not just google.

i suspect this is an artifact of something deeper like "media refusing to use these words" or some more generalized manipulation. Image
literally in the time i was doing the analysis, luxxle caught up perhaps because this issue is going viral on X.

but the others had not as of this writing. Image
i suspect this may have more to do with this than with something google specific:

even once this avalanche of absurdist headlines was replaced by ones that bore at least marginally more resemblance to reality, the words “assassination attempt on” appear basically nowhere. Image
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el gato malo Profile picture
Jul 5
how is it that british tabloids are the only ones doing investigative journalism in the US? Image
this US work on bat coronaviruses appears to have been widespread practice.

sure raises some interesting questions about tony's "lab leak is a conspiracy theory" stance. Image
it appears that regulatory arbitrage to "export the shady stuff to china" has been similarly common. Image
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el gato malo Profile picture
May 25
the lesson from covid was simple:

there has never been a dangerous pandemic in the post antibiotics world. the only real danger is the enormous damage that can be done by bad over-reaction.

all the truly bad pandemic outcomes of modern times were own goals kicked by overzealous authorities and fueled by panic and bad pharma choices.Image
doctors treated spanish flu with up to 30 grams a day of the new wonde-rdrug "aspirin" and were shocked to see so many deaths in "young, healthy people."

it was iatrocide

and covid was the replay

lock down, mask up, and take dodgy drugs you don't understand

history repeated. Image
those who did least during covid fared best.

it was barely a blip in the data.

had we not named it/lost our minds, had we not reacted badly and adopted terrible treatments in the place of ones known to work, would we have even noticed covid beyond "crummy flu this year"? Image
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May 19
friendly reminder that the NOAA's USHCN reference network of well sited thermometers with continuous temperature records and no urban heat island bias shows no warming trend over the past ~20 years. Image
fewer than 8% of US weather stations meet NOAA siting guidelines.

over 70% would be expected to run over 2 degrees C hot based on heat pollution from human activity around them like machinery, asphalt, and airport activity. Image
and yet in public claims, the NOAA uses the data from the network they know to be severely biased toward over reporting temperature and not the data from the one they themselves created as their "reference" network.

what does that tell you about the agenda of this agency?
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Jan 4
these self-reporting studies are not actual data, they're associative correlation mining.

it's an association of "i think i have some ill-defined generalized feelings of being unwell" with "i was obsessed with covid and kept testing until i found trace virus and/or assumed i had it."

here's my null hypothesis: this is just measuring generalized anxiety.

it selected for anxious people and the kinds of folks that used to claim "fibromyalgia" or "chronic fatigue syndrome" and gave them a new target upon which to fixate.

these are the same people who will swear in self reporting that they have had lots of covid.

is there any data in this "study" that can invalidate or outperform that explanation?

i'll wager there is not.
the strongest predictor of "long covid" has always been "anxiety or stress disorders."

it outperformed "having actually had covid" by a wide margin.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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we see this over and over again in study after study:

long covid shows very strong signs of being predominantly a disease of those who previously had mental health issues.

(PASC = long covid)

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

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Sep 12, 2023
a frequent emotive mask argument seems to be circular fallacy.

"masks don't work!"

"oh yeah, well here's something bad they could have prevented if they did work!"

it's a nasty embedding using appeal to emotion as a slight of hand to pass off presumed efficacy.
then you gin up something utterly facile and baseless like "your mask protects me" to render compliance "a duty" and "not about you" so you can demand adherence and mask toddlers in the name of a grandma who never asked for your help.

this recruits all the anxious and fearful. Image
we can argue about whether it was weaponized nudges/psyop or the emergent output of social media memetic rarefication in an attention economy, but in the end this was perhaps the most potent and pervasive propaganda programs in history.

and a lot of people have NOT recovered. Image
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