lol... no.

For the love of God would someone PLEASE just... read or engage with actual literature and theory rather than just fling ideas around and hope they stick?

THEY ARE INTERNET MARKETING FUNNELS AND CO-OPTED ONLINE COMMUNITIES THAT CONVENIENTLY ALSO DISTRACTED EVERYONE FROM ANY REAL POLITICS.

For fuck's sake. It isn't hard. Nobody "shifted leftward"

Bad actors, brands and any idiot all figured out that you could #Kony2012 everyone and they would feel like they're "activists".

It was refined over time and everyone is an insane cultist as a result.

IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICAL IDEOLOGY. Stop being stupid please.

It's disappointing that most people only care about anything is if it affects them financially.

I wish "it's unethical" mattered more. As someone who speaks early on ethical grounds, I do not consider those people allies.

They'll ignore the next thing until it comes for them. They only oppose tech because they can't benefit. They only oppose AI because they can't benefit. They only oppose ANYTHING because they, personally, see fewer dollars.

It's gross, and I see right through it and see them for who they are.

Remember how Elon Musk posted that graphic about Democrats vs Republican Donors in 2022, implying that Twitter is biased? Well, let's contextualise that.

Total of $250,576.67 donated

317 total donors

Top 10 donors total: $137,187.50

178 donors were $100 & under *total* Were those predominantly to the Democrats? Yes.

So I thought I would look up how the term "stochastic terrorism" took hold on Twitter, expecting to see the usual suspects.

Found something weirder. It's crazy how these concepts get laundered. I have work to do but have bookmarked for later.

stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com I was looking at the sudden surge in everyone using it in lockstep, but there are about 5 accounts that have been pushing it, all linked to the usual suspects. Yes, ideas tae hold, but it's been pushed/laundered. heh. So much of this is bullshit, folks.

Everyone falling into lockstep on "stochastic terrorism" - the new word du jour, knowing full well how "Terror" is used to manipulate.

If you go along with it, you're either blatantly authoritarian or stupid.

Everyone in the social sciences knows what "terrorist" means. FFS. See, the "hate" or other fuzzy terms, is that they are fuzzy enough to have plausible deniability.

But, if you are simply parroting "stochastic terrorism" uncritically... yeah... sorry... you're the bad guys/propgandists.

It is obviously a manufactured/laundered concept.

This is actually a really interesting one. I had it saved but hadn't read yet, but it is excellent complementary reading for the Twitter Files.

Most interesting is that nobody gave a fuck till Trump got banned lol

journalqd.org/article/view/3… The other interesting part is that Blue & Red retweet each other and don't cross-pollinate, and ~10% was [known] bots, and 'non-elites' tweeting more is like the MLM pods I talk about. Interesting.

For anyone ignoring the scope of the "OMFG CONSERVATIVES ARE SUPPRESSED" narrative problem because "journalists" are shit at their jobs... here is a good book (freely available, also on Audible):

academic.oup.com/book/26406 But you know, all those academics, all the researchers, the Lizard People, Bill Gates, Schwaub and me of course are all just part of the 2030 agenda and conspiracy to suppress it.

No. They manipulate platforms.

Bank robbers complaining about the bank having a security guard.

I want to join the chorus of asking for access to Twitter data @elonmusk. The way this is being shared is weird. I want to see the signals. Nobody is contextualising mass reports, signals, history of platform manipulation etc. This feels bad faith, not transparent. @elonmusk As it stands today, despite being largely hopeful/supportive around the acquisition... what has been left out/ignored is really suspicious. I want to be able to access this stuff and analyse it. I have no $, not friends with @joerogan. I just want to do my damn job.

I promised yesterday to look at the “bias” of donations claimed by Elon Musk, because apparently that’s my job now… here’s some more meaningful data:

opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/s…

All individual donations, mostly to Ro Khanna. There were approximately 2000 Twitter employees in SF. So, if every employee donated, which they didn’t, that’s still $100 per employee. My answer to that is woop de doo.

He won’t. I’ve tried to be charitable but the Twitter Files is increasingly showing bad faith and deliberate misrepresentation on his part.

Pandering to the worst people on the internet and deliberately throwing people under the bus who clearly didn’t deserve it.

Not ok.

https://twitter.com/JenelleLeighC/status/1601582288461914113

The framing of this seems malicious. It has been deliberately misrepresented to pander to brain broken MAGAs and illiterate people. And most definitely shows me that he has too many yes men.

I’m waiting till this is all done, but right now, I feel disinclined to support.

I’ve been busy but still following the Kiwifarms thing. I wanted to see if @TYT, @theserfstv or @majorityfm would feel any need to post corrections as facts came to light.

They did not.

If you support them, withdraw it. FYI @washingtonpost and @Cloudflare as well.

You have all been party to & cheered on a massive cybersecurity breach that may get people hurt. There is no evidence that Kiwifarms did anything other than gossip.

Correct the record.

Have to re-setup all my OBS etc after hard drive crash. Got annoyed with configuring Discord voice so I can take calls and now installing Ventura Beta because I love me a scorched-earth-to-avoid-learning-new-things approach. Beta software on work machine, what can go wrong You wait... the audio will work but then Creative Cloud, Scrivener, Zotero or some other mission-critical app won't.

This is how I live. Ah well.

I can't stop laughing at this. I put in "Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool having a picnic in the style of Renoir".

The guy in the back This was me playing with a lower grade photo AI. I have a premium Midjourney account so am going to try it there now. heh.

I'm a content creator, which doesn't mean having any actual qualifications or expertise. It means being a generally awful human being with a severe case of Dunning-Kruger, being willing to pick stupid fights with idiots... and do reactionceptions on Twitch

Who should I pick on Also, time to get some veneers if I am going to be considered a reliable source of information

Both top (middle class) AND bottom teeth (upper class)

Then gotta learn how to listicle

For I am an expert on all things

Hooray my MacBook Pro decided to die not only on the weekend, but the weekend before an assignment is due and I'm behind on work. exactly how one loves to spend ones Saturday... In single user mode... here we go... Let's hope I can fix it grrrrrr why did Doge not go to the moon ffs

In case you don't believe me when I say I have several books and essays that I could do f I were paid to, it all just sits in my Scapple/Scrivener for "one day"...

I have added "so, what's a LOLCow", and "what happened with Kiwifarms" to my crazy board.

I know my stuff Oh btw, these are just the starting point. Each of these points usually have about 5-10 research papers, about 2-3 pages of writing...

Nobody has depth of knowledge on this like me and anyone who claims it is simple is... probably making more money than me lol

See here?

Kiwifarms Wikipedia page:

[15] Makes a claim, which is false.

References 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14

Look who the "sources" are. Lorenz, Vice, Kotaku, Gizmodo. Also, a lot of those "sources" were not there until this week. Which of course is going to happen, but it's the same few users sitting on it, adding more of these articles as "evidence" to a claim that isn't true, using these sources as "evidence". No COI claims.

Just FYI, the "far right transphobic hate site" is only that if ridicule and laughing at fuckwits and taking it a bit too far sometimes was an ideology.

FYI, Glinner was one of the few who posted in defence of Kiwifarms even though there's a thread on him. But yeah, definitely transphobic, but who the fuck hasn't been accused of that anymore. Sure, there's degrees, but edgelords walk the line. It's what they do. Kiwifarms is a net good, and this is a stitch up.

No idea why Taylor Lorenz might have a personal interest in Kiwifarms being taken down (especially given that she also gets her deleted Tweets scrubbed from the Internet Archive). But of course, this is just Twitch drama

Also... lol Also, completely unrelated that she's employed by a Cloudflare competitor, and her paywalled media mates are all attacking the archives over "copyright". But I am sure it's all just me and my hatefulness

Yes, and look, I am not someone who is absolute on speech. Mostly because not an idiot and know the data.

Radicalisation funnels exist, and platforms DO have a duty of care to users. But a caste of powerful people, censoring whoever they don't like... not acceptable.

https://twitter.com/ThickleyP/status/1568064878807601152

This is a good comment, because you know what?

A big part of how these campaigns work is relying on you not knowing what things are.

Which is 100% why you need to be able to see what it is.

Kiwifarms is back up, btw.

Now, rather than react to all claims on face value, look at the facts, and go and read it and see the campaign for what it was.

The whole media is "it sounds like", "oh, yeah that imaginary thing is bad". Maybe read it, like I did.

Journalists. lol. I initially took Keffals' claims seriously and defended Cloudflare. Something seemed suss, given Lorenz, CNN & Vaush were pushing it (and saw everyone repeating same lines).

Then I spent all week reading.

Now I defend Kiwifarms.

I had access to the truth. You should too.