Jennifer Brandes Hepler
@jbhepler.bsky.social
Writing Director, Thought Pennies Entertainment.
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There are a ton of far right influencers selling themselves as pro-Palestinian who are building up their progressive audiences right now.
When the time comes, they will:
1. Recruit some of the new audience into the far right
2. Use their audience to spread far right propaganda further
When the time comes, they will:
1. Recruit some of the new audience into the far right
2. Use their audience to spread far right propaganda further
October 26, 2023 at 9:13 PM
There are a ton of far right influencers selling themselves as pro-Palestinian who are building up their progressive audiences right now.
When the time comes, they will:
1. Recruit some of the new audience into the far right
2. Use their audience to spread far right propaganda further
When the time comes, they will:
1. Recruit some of the new audience into the far right
2. Use their audience to spread far right propaganda further
Any time you’re writing off an entire group for its existence, not specific behavior, you’re ripe for being steered into more extremist versions of that hatred.
October 27, 2023 at 3:03 AM
Any time you’re writing off an entire group for its existence, not specific behavior, you’re ripe for being steered into more extremist versions of that hatred.
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a piece exploring this concept www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | In a total betrayal of principle, Mike Johnson accepts election results
Just because it was an election that happened to make him speaker, did that make winning a majority of votes suddenly a legitimate way of obtaining power?
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2023 at 9:42 PM
a piece exploring this concept www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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This is horrific, horrific news. May Sam's memory be a blessing that reminds us that we are all in this together.
May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences.
May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.
May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences.
May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.
Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found fatally stabbed outside her home
Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022. Police have not announced a motive or suspect.
www.freep.com
October 22, 2023 at 4:48 PM
This is horrific, horrific news. May Sam's memory be a blessing that reminds us that we are all in this together.
May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences.
May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.
May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences.
May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.
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you don't sound any less like a nazi just because you swap in someone else for the jews
October 20, 2023 at 1:33 PM
you don't sound any less like a nazi just because you swap in someone else for the jews
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October 19, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Extremely well put.
I have been thinking about how I feel about nonviolence, and here’s my dividing line.
Sometimes violence is necessary. But for me personally, I think that telling yourself violence is necessary does not mean you get to close your eyes to it. It’s the opposite.
Sometimes violence is necessary. But for me personally, I think that telling yourself violence is necessary does not mean you get to close your eyes to it. It’s the opposite.
October 16, 2023 at 1:51 AM
Extremely well put.
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"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."
Statement by Congressman Jamie Raskin: “The Terrorist Attacks on Israel, Israel’s Right of Self...
raskin.house.gov
October 15, 2023 at 1:35 PM
"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."
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Man kann einfach nur heulen
October 15, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Man kann einfach nur heulen
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(interviewing Twitter CEO)
Interviewer: Musk said all users of X will be “combined into a single giant ball of flesh” and “the ball will be sentient, it will remember the people it used to be.” Is that true?
CEO: He said that? Yes, he said that. We discussed it. I know all about the flesh ball
Interviewer: Musk said all users of X will be “combined into a single giant ball of flesh” and “the ball will be sentient, it will remember the people it used to be.” Is that true?
CEO: He said that? Yes, he said that. We discussed it. I know all about the flesh ball
September 29, 2023 at 12:34 PM
(interviewing Twitter CEO)
Interviewer: Musk said all users of X will be “combined into a single giant ball of flesh” and “the ball will be sentient, it will remember the people it used to be.” Is that true?
CEO: He said that? Yes, he said that. We discussed it. I know all about the flesh ball
Interviewer: Musk said all users of X will be “combined into a single giant ball of flesh” and “the ball will be sentient, it will remember the people it used to be.” Is that true?
CEO: He said that? Yes, he said that. We discussed it. I know all about the flesh ball
Can’t decide if it’s hopeful or just deeply ironic for Italy to project the Israeli flag onto the literal monument celebrating their destruction of Judea. I think right now I need to believe it is hopeful.
I feel like Italy needs to spend more time thinking about the Roman Empire
October 11, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Can’t decide if it’s hopeful or just deeply ironic for Italy to project the Israeli flag onto the literal monument celebrating their destruction of Judea. I think right now I need to believe it is hopeful.
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I wrote about the compulsion to speak about things we can't change, the confusion between posting and doing, the emptiness of meaning that pushes us to silence, and children facing death in Israel and Gaza: https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/speech-and-speechlessness
Speech and Speechlessness
On the world of words, and the world beyond them
theswordandthesandwich.substack.com
October 10, 2023 at 6:06 PM
I wrote about the compulsion to speak about things we can't change, the confusion between posting and doing, the emptiness of meaning that pushes us to silence, and children facing death in Israel and Gaza: https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/speech-and-speechlessness
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Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
Catherine's tweet is one of the best. Bringing it over here for preservation.
October 9, 2023 at 12:58 PM
Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
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Sending thoughts of love to my dear friends & family in Israel. The pain is immeasurable. Seeing story after story come in from loved ones about those passed, captured… words cannot express the horror.
May this be the end, even as many of us are preparing for it only beginning.
May this be the end, even as many of us are preparing for it only beginning.
October 9, 2023 at 3:27 AM
Sending thoughts of love to my dear friends & family in Israel. The pain is immeasurable. Seeing story after story come in from loved ones about those passed, captured… words cannot express the horror.
May this be the end, even as many of us are preparing for it only beginning.
May this be the end, even as many of us are preparing for it only beginning.
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A reminder that you do not have to personally observe violent images in order to bear witness to history, and no one is under any obligation to do so as a means of activism or showing support.
Also, don’t watch atrocity videos. They are there to harm you. You do not have any sort of obligation to watch people suffer cruelty and people who tell you it’s your job to bear witness do not understand what they are saying.
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October 9, 2023 at 2:48 AM
A reminder that you do not have to personally observe violent images in order to bear witness to history, and no one is under any obligation to do so as a means of activism or showing support.
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Anyone who has witnessed the mountain of misinformation around Israel on X/Twitter should know now just how dangerous it is.
Imagine what it will be like in the 2024 election.
This is what Musk wanted. He succeeded. Stop framing his purchase as a failure.
Imagine what it will be like in the 2024 election.
This is what Musk wanted. He succeeded. Stop framing his purchase as a failure.
October 9, 2023 at 3:44 AM
Anyone who has witnessed the mountain of misinformation around Israel on X/Twitter should know now just how dangerous it is.
Imagine what it will be like in the 2024 election.
This is what Musk wanted. He succeeded. Stop framing his purchase as a failure.
Imagine what it will be like in the 2024 election.
This is what Musk wanted. He succeeded. Stop framing his purchase as a failure.
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Abandoning Twitter is not only a moral imperative, but also an epistemic one. Any oxygen given to it through people’s content or engagement provides further reach for the misinformation, disinformation, and worse that now swamp the platform.
Fake press release about U.S. aid to Israel spreads on X and seeds fake news articles that appear in Google results for Top Stories, demonstrating just how vulnerable we are to manipulation, the cross-platform nature of disinformation, and the cesspool that is X. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
October 8, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Abandoning Twitter is not only a moral imperative, but also an epistemic one. Any oxygen given to it through people’s content or engagement provides further reach for the misinformation, disinformation, and worse that now swamp the platform.
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“we’d go bankrupt if we paid our workers what they’re asking” yeah me too, that’s why I do not get to have a company
October 5, 2023 at 5:36 PM
“we’d go bankrupt if we paid our workers what they’re asking” yeah me too, that’s why I do not get to have a company
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Now we're talking!
A trivalent nasal vaccine vs mumps, measles and Covid, broadly effective vs SARS-CoV-2 variants, with expected long duration (using preS-6P), in multiple experimental models pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A trivalent nasal vaccine vs mumps, measles and Covid, broadly effective vs SARS-CoV-2 variants, with expected long duration (using preS-6P), in multiple experimental models pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 5, 2023 at 9:49 PM
Now we're talking!
A trivalent nasal vaccine vs mumps, measles and Covid, broadly effective vs SARS-CoV-2 variants, with expected long duration (using preS-6P), in multiple experimental models pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A trivalent nasal vaccine vs mumps, measles and Covid, broadly effective vs SARS-CoV-2 variants, with expected long duration (using preS-6P), in multiple experimental models pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Seems kind of like union busting www.polygon.com/23903782/dra...
October 4, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Seems kind of like union busting www.polygon.com/23903782/dra...
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Kind reminder that even just "playing around" with AI tools (as they exist now) contributes to this in a way that matters. Just don't do it.
"Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.” futurism.com/critics-micr...
Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought
Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.
futurism.com
October 4, 2023 at 8:08 AM
Kind reminder that even just "playing around" with AI tools (as they exist now) contributes to this in a way that matters. Just don't do it.
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Bad working conditions for nurses literally mean bad patient care. Endless solidarity for every health care worker striking for better.
BREAKING: Over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente have launched the biggest strike in U.S. health care history.
The union contract covering these vital health care workers has expired, so now they’re walking out for raises that keep up with inflation, and better patient care.
The union contract covering these vital health care workers has expired, so now they’re walking out for raises that keep up with inflation, and better patient care.
October 4, 2023 at 1:00 PM
Bad working conditions for nurses literally mean bad patient care. Endless solidarity for every health care worker striking for better.