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we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

haarute

Pretty much. Tax the rich.

markwateneymemorialcrater

The other thing you’ll also hear is people fearing a party raising their taxes. I wouldn’t mind paying 5% more in taxes if I make 10% more money due to higher wages, and if it mean I’d have good roads and medical care.

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findingfeather

Here’s what Russia’s 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda.

Accounts like @IamTyraJackson have continued @PoliteMelanie’s work. Professional disinformation isn’t spread by the account you disagree with — quite the opposite. Effective disinformation is embedded in an account you agree with. The professionals don’t push you away, they pull you toward them.

oodlenoodleroodle

If you are interested in exploring how disinformation is spread on Tumblr, check out @psyops-redux which lays out really clearly the kind of things about blog behaviour you can keep your eye out for here on Tumblr.

razielim

Ironically, the title used for the RS article is one that contributes to a culture of suspicion and guilt, rather than contributing to emotional centeredness and security which is what helps armor us against manipulative tactics. :’) We say these manipulative things without thinking, even for helpful, well-researched articles.

Odds are the last tweet you shared was not sent by a troll. You’re fine. Pay attention, yes. There’s a difference between boosting your mood with warmth and boosting it with self-righteousness, and paying attention to your own feelings is good for your emotional health and for identifying intent. BUT you’re not guilty, none of this emotion stuff is easy to sort out in the moment, and it’s healthy to interact with things that are uplifting. ✨

findingfeather

It’s true: I posted the link in a hurry yesterday, because I think the bit I pulled out (as well as the discussion of where these techniques come from, the marketing logic behind them, and so on) is very useful.

But headlines are in general some of the WORST PERPETRATORS of these things. Usually the journalist who actually wrote the article isn’t in charge of the headlines and - for extra irony! - usually the headline is, as @razielim points out, absolutely exploiting the same marketing dynamics as the psyops guys are (ie things that drive clicks by manipulating emotions).

And the biggest problem isn’t even so much that you need to query the uplifting posts! It’s to pay attention to the dynamic that comes afterwards, when these accounts that have made their big influencer cred purely from those shares … start pulling the other stuff and trying to sell you on inaction, isolation, “it must be perfect or it’s worthless” or other self-defeating things.

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madlori

Of all the things this trashfire of an administration produced, the Monica Lewinsky Renaissance was admittedly one I did not expect, but I am HERE FOR IT.

bauliya

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

darkshrimpemotions

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

tzikeh

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

sincerityisscarity

mapleburger

My parents: if i had adhd and depression and found it hard to complete school work or hold a job I would simply stop being lazy

yashas-strong-arms

parents be like, rip to all the depressed people with adhd who fail to get things done and get more depressed as a result but im different

fatmasc

Hot take but you literally need carbs and fat to survive

pukaiiicho

but are you sure

fatmasc

What the fuck does this mean of course im sure this is a medical fact

fslut

Oh this hit all my red flags, I've torn down 3 already just walking Malaya to the park

fslut

If you see shit like this Especially outside your local highschools rip it down there's a 80% chance this is a trafficking scam

fslut

Thankfully seems I'm not the only one in town who feels this way

fslut

This is totally ok to rb by the way

fslut

Scam signs:

Targeting teens

No actual mention of the job company or what you'll be doing

Paid daily

Promises of trips and prizes

Encouraging you to bring a friend or relative who's also a teen

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yurimom

instead of saying “let people hate religion” say “let people hate christianity” because i promise you that the first one sets off big sirens in every jewish and muslim person’s head.

scallioncreamcheesebagel

its rly funny that the notes if this post are full of terfs w urls like “terfvania” and “rad-femme-fatale” saying shit like “actually judaism and islam are barbaric patriarichal religions that oppress women uwu”

radfems proven once again to be antisemitic islamophobic racist shitheads

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theclownhas4eyes

Blocking/Hating someone just because they have different taste and they like different things than you sounds problematic

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misterhayden

HERE’S SOME GRAPHS

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datasoong47

One thing I love about this episode is how they cut all the legal and philosophical arguments being deployed initially down to a level of fundamental morality.

What mattered wasn’t whether or not Data has achieved some vague condition of “sapience” or “consciousness”, concepts vaguely defined and ultimately unprovable (as Picard put it “prove that I’m conscious”), but rather, the moral matter. Do we want a future where slavery is revived, or do we want a future of continued equality?

krockafella-deactivated20220707

Measure of A Man is the best STNG episode.

fthgurdy

I love that they put these words in the mouth of an alien played by a black woman, an alien who has, in this story, never known this kind of racial discrimination, but whose appearance must remind someone as educated and socially aware as Picard of what used to happen down on his home planet, specifically to people who looked exactly like Guinan. And that he, SJW that he is (oh he is) hadn’t come to this very obvious conclusion on his own is a very nice example of how unchecked privilege can deceive us.

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