#mood manipulation

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Click here and retweet to vote for Jessica Drew, aka the Spider-Woman, in the ongoing official Marvel Contest of Champions vote.

The full range of choices are Armor, Blue Marvel, Bullseye, Dazzler, Morgan le Fay, Okoye, Prowler, and Spider-Woman. Prefer one of those? We'll post their links here too, but you can also look at and retweet to vote for any from all the subtweets under MCOC's official vote thread.

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Series: Characters Not Yet on the Wishlist Nor in a Tournament

Kara Killgrave

Purple Man's daughter aka Persuasion aka Purple Girl/Woman is, unlike him, a hero and Mutant. Like him, she can “mind control” you by emitting a pheromone that reduces their willpower to nothing. Her target turns purple until it wears off.

-Alpha Flight -new Thunderbolts

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Series: Characters Not Yet on the Wishlist Nor in a Tournament /sub-series: International Women’s Day/Women’s History Month /sub-series: Theme Day: Females Likely Too Obscure for Wishlist

Lascivious

class: Science/Mystic align: Villain member: Grapplers, Roxxon, Power Broker

-mood manipulation -Concussion -Shock

Bio: formerly: Titania (Davida DeVito) https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616)

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ASIAN AND PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH: MANTIS

We haven't seen it yet in the MCU, but Marvel's prime Vietnamese character is more than an empath. She's among the purest skill fighters, a telepath, and an Avenger. Recent MCOC Wishlist rank: 175th:

Vote by scrolling the Wishlist or by using this directory of ranks

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“FEMME FRIDAY

Making perhaps her first appearance among the top 10 women on the poll is ENCHANTRESS. Amora is sometimes reduced to her obsession with Thor, but at her best-written she is so much more: a powerful, villainous Asgardian sorceress. 

(vote at my pinned tweet)”

[recent rank was #23]

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Recent Rank MANTIS

Community lore expert @JayAxe_ predicts Mantis will come to @MarvelChampions in December!

She's a very common inclusion in Marvel mobile games.

#91 on the Wishlist (a relatively high rank)

#Mantis #MCoC 

click, search “Mantis,” and vote: http://tinyurl.com/mcocwishlist

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Series: Characters Not Yet on the Wishlist Nor in a Tournament

Venus (Aphrodite)

-Olympic pantheon (Hercules, etc.) -strongest love powers in Marvel -ally of Champions, foil to Avengers -had her own comic -chaotic neutral -telepathy, telekinesis, neutralize weapons -Blinding aura; emotion manipulation

Bio: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Aphrodite_Ourania_(Earth-616)

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Articolo stupendo che parte del caso degli esperimenti di manipolazione del nostro umore da parte di Facebook per riflettere in modo molto lucido ed esplicativo sulla distinzione tra strumento di comunicazione e prodotto informativo commerciale, tra libertà, libero arbitrio e neo-liberismo.

Da leggere.

Alcuni passaggi da conservare

Facebook most of all, truly violates a century-old distinction we know very well, between what were two, distinct kinds of information services. On the one hand, we had “trusted interpersonal information conduits” — the telephone companies, the post office. Users gave them information aimed for others and the service was entrusted to deliver that information. We expected them not to curate or even monitor that content, in fact we made it illegal to do otherwise…On the other hand, we had “media content producers” — radio, film, magazines, newspapers, television, video games — where the entertainment they made for us felt like the commodity we paid for (sometimes with money, sometimes with our attention to ads), and it was designed to be as gripping as possible. We knew that producers made careful selections based on appealing to us as audiences, and deliberately played on our emotions as part of their design. 

“Neoliberal strategy consisted, and still consists, in constantly and systematically guiding the conduct of individuals as if they were always and everywhere engaged in relations of transaction and competition in a market,” Dardot and Laval write. Facebook has fashioned itself into a compelling implementation of that strategy. Its black-box algorithms induce and naturalize competition among users for each other’s attention, and its atomizing interface nullifies the notion of shared experience, collective subjectivity.

Not only does Facebook impose interpersonal competition under the rubric of sharing, it also imposes choice as continual A/B testing — which could be seen as the opposite of rational choice but, from the point of view of capital, it is its perfection. Without even intending it, you express a preference that has already been translated into useful market data to benefit a company, which is, of course, the true meaning of “rational”: profitable.