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{1994} The Barbie Liberation Organization Newsreel

[tomorrowusa]

Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with ads for combat gear. See for yourself | Igor Vamos

Facebook announced that it will be temporarily banning some ads for gun accessories and body armor. It’s not enough

Mark Zuckerberg seems hell-bent on enabling far right fanatics. He may be slightly less obnoxious and likely practices better hygiene than Donald Trump, but he’s no less a danger to democracy.

Facebook not only facilitated Trump’s election in 2016 but has been acting as a de facto quartermaster for pro-Trump terrorists like the ones who attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

Media Prof. Igor Vamos of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute created faux pro-Trump social media profiles to monitor what was going on in alt-right bubbles. The ads which algorithms delivered to him explain a lot about why MAGA fanatics tend to be so violence prone.

Roughly four out of five ads shown to my pro-Trump profiles sell tactical gear clearly intended for combat. This is not a new thing – it has been going on since I started looking at these accounts in June 2019, and it was probably going on much longer than that.

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When you first join Facebook you make a few choices of your own. But soon the algorithm starts narrowing your options and deciding what further choices to present to you. Because many of us rely on a limited number of news sources that populate our social media feeds, our information universe becomes more and more niche. For Trump supporters, that universe is often paramilitary.

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Ad revenue is the lifeblood of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and ads from companies peddling military-style gear are key to creating the hateful communities we see online today. To change the violent online world Facebook has created for “Trump’s Army” will require changing the algorithms themselves, the basic architecture of Facebook’s advertising – a market that is projected to bring the company nearly $100bn in the coming year.

[wellconstructedsentences]

Do what you love is no longer appropriate. When you graduate into this new era, I say find your best skills and do what you must. I say do what you must because the planet is in your hands, and if we’re going to save it we need everyone to do everything that they can. We need to very quickly change our culture, and to rewire our economy. This is a revolution. BE THE REVOLUTION. No sane person “loves” revolution if they already live in relative comfort. We may love the idea of it, the principle of it, but the process is usually much more tedious and much less glamorous. But today I am saying screw the comfort. Its over. The house is on fire. We need to act. Do what you must. If we’re going to have any love left we MUST take back the future of this planet from those that conspire to ruin it. We need a revolution.

Igor Vamos

[sanatfilan]

The Yes Men: Bir direniş yöntemi olarak iktidarın taklidi

The Yes Men: Bir direniş yöntemi olarak iktidarın taklidi

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nin geleceğe yeni bir kültür-sanat birikimi aktarmayı amaçlayan uluslararası misafir programı Boğaziçi Chronicles, The Yes Men’i ağırlıyor.

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[loveiseverystep]

Do what you love is no longer appropriate. When you graduate into this new era, I say find your best skills and do what you must. I say do what you must because the planet is in your hands, and if we’re going to save it we need everyone to do everything that they can. We need to very quickly change our culture, and to rewire our economy. This is a revolution. BE THE REVOLUTION. No sane person “loves” revolution if they already live in relative comfort. We may love the idea of it, the principle of it, but the process is usually much more tedious and much less glamorous. But today I am saying screw the comfort. Its over. The house is on fire. We need to act. Do what you must. If we’re going to have any love left we MUST take back the future of this planet from those that conspire to ruin it. We need a revolution.

Igor Vamos at Reed College's 2014 Commencement [x]

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10.01.14 || FRIDAY FOTW - The Yes Men Fix the World

Documentary film following the exploits of the culture jamming activists ‘The Yes Men’; Jacques Servin (Andy Bichlbaum) and Igor Vamos (Mike Bonanno), whose aim is to raise awareness of problematic social issues. The film, a sequel to ‘The Yes Men’,…

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[thepeoplesrecord]

Who’s Who of the Occupy Movement: The Yes Men - Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos (pictured at an Occupy Wall Street march in October via the World Bulletin)

The Yes Men are two activists who use fake websites and corporate impersonations to make widespread statements about social issues. Previous hoaxes include Servin appearing on BBC World as a Dow Chemical spokesman saying the company would pay damages to those affected by the Bhopal gas leak. On another occasion, Servin played the role of a representative from the Department of Housing and Urban Development saying HUD would reopen public housing after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although they have been criticized for giving people false hope, the Yes Men maintain that sometimes "it takes a lie to expose the truth." 

The two have been active in the Occupy Movement, especially with the creation of the Yes Lab, an activist collective to help organize more hoaxes to bring media attention to social issues, including OWS. Although some believe the Yes Men to threaten Occupy's legitimacy, ultimately bringing more attention to the movement & exposing the exploitation of the 99% outweighs the possible negatives. 

For more information or to see their hoaxes in action, watch "The Yes Men Fix the World" (it's on Netflix Watch Instantly!).

"It’s keeping the ideas alive that things can be different, and that there’s something dramatically wrong with the world. So that when change is possible, those ideas are there. And now is a time when change is really possible.” - Jacques Servin

-G.Razo