👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the willingness and ability to humor this question can function as a highly accurate scissor statement for decoupling; the high-decoupler prevalence on here is rather unusual, especially in the current overculture, which is what I suspect a great many of us went online to escape
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RT @eigenrobot
ok and please understand I do not want to talk about the overlying issue
there's talk of a ground invasion of Gaza by Israel
my EXTREMELY N…
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1392717212167798784
you're relaxing by the fire w/ your spouse at the home you've built together, deeply satisfied w/ life; thinking about how lucky you are, you look over at them & hear a chime: "thanks for visiting, your time is up". this was a first date simulation & they're not interested. next.
conversely, this is the exact opposite of what you should do when it comes to infosec
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RT @TylerAlterman
Over time I've learned to completely trust the feeling that something is "off" even when I don't have good reasons to do so
https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1392436851760369665
You’re on a first date with someone, and you tell you the name of your favorite book. They immediately leave. What’s the book?
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RT @TheMicheleWojo
You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite book. You immediately leave. What’s the book?
https://twitter.com/TheMicheleWojo/status/1391779370629541894
because really, what do we stand to gain from labeling ourselves? there isn't even one "us", but a loose network of partially connected subgraphs!
seems to be like labeling is best case neutral, worse case catastrophic
expected value seems pretty low tbh. maybe let's not.
perhaps we should follow our own advice about remaining illegible
a Name is typically assigned to a group by others, for the purpose of targeting
as many of us are here explicitly to avoid the culture wars, I doubt we'd be interested in wearing a nice convenient armband
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RT @gptbr00ke
We need a name for this lil community we got going here
Rat/postrat (adj) doesn't cover all of us
Neither does woo/woo-adjacent
We got the fintwit …
https://twitter.com/gptbr00ke/status/1391578024680693760
unless the info is presented w/ an actionable component, such as "& therefore you should vote for Technocrat Centrist Man for your Senator", the media will gradually launder narrative-busting information into the fold of Normal and Fine
and, as usual, it will be just us weirdos
most people have no idea what to do with information like this! are they supposed to boycott China? buy a hazmat suit? retrofit their house into a BSL-4 environment?
its just too abstract for them to really deal with, without a concrete action presented, like voting for someone
when presented w/ narrative-breaking information like a potential lab-leak, this complacency is challenged, & the people need to be reassured that Actually, It's Fine, and that they can just continue business as usual, because Progress Is Being Made
& really, I can't fault them
it tells you that It's Ok to just accept what you hear from the media and party leadership as gospel and not think it through yourself, because Progress Is Being Made, and We're On The Right Side of History
and as such, there is no imperative for you to pay too much attention
there is a Correct Path Which All Normal People Know, and then there are inconveniences which would distract us from it
the job of the media is to manufacture reasons why it's okay to ignore them, because Actually, They Don't Matter
this is the dark brunchpill of progressivism
it is a great irony that the mainstream narrative's reactionary response to this sort of thing is inherently conservative, as it seeks to protect the regression to the mean of the status quo; acknowledging a problem would require accepting a course correction, which is a no-go
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RT @micsolana
and so begins our formal transition from “wondering if the virus came from a lab is bad” to “caring if the virus came from a lab is bad”
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1391792929123880965
this is a form of the mind reading fallacy, wherein an interlocutor tries to front-run their discursive partner's response by responding to it preemptively, in the process confusing everyone, as they're not stating their beliefs, but instead being reactionary
this is suboptimal
an example:
person 1: thing A is bad!
person 2 (thinking): its kinda bad, but they're probably going to say that we should impose policy B to guard against thing A! but B is bad & I don't want it
person 2: no, actually, thing A is perfectly ok & you're bad for saying otherwise
this discourse highlights an interesting rhetorical pathology, wherein certain parties, afraid of being forced to accept a specific path of action, refuse to accept a true a statement they almost certainly believe, & instead split on the question, arguing for the opposite stance
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RT @finnonthegin
Dipping my toes again into the discourse by saying you’re delusional if you think it’s normal and good for people to inject heroin and be…
https://twitter.com/finnonthegin/status/1391864690133803010
slowly/realizing that many mean collectivism when they say socialism, & thst if I swap the words out, I agree with them much more often. lowkey resenting this, as I know it's next to impossible to get them to change their wording, & I don't want to be seen agreeing
w/ bad wording
if we seek to not be undone by hyperreality, we just understand it, and meet it in its own terms; learn how to extend into its domain and take ownership of our memetic destiny.
we are less in control of our self-concepts than we imagine ourselves to be
but we can change this
this simulation possesses much depth, but depth which does not serve to more accurately replicate the original system; rather, it goes beyond this, taking the distilled symbol and crystalizing a new one around it
this dynamic forms a horseshoe, w/ static simulacra in the center
it must be fed belief, in the form of attention and resources, to survive
it possesses a metabolism, which transforms these inputs into externalized outputs (media representations, interactions)
it self-propagates, both with the in-universe logic and the memetic metagame
