starting the year with one of my fav lines from Chandrashekhar Azad "what we are to face has been faced a thousand times and it has been defeated a thousand times before, we are merely those called to now carry on a tradition."

I think the primary thing I found myself really moved by while in south korea was how the opposition party actually wanted to win at stuff

Don't you dare let their message win.

I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are

The 21st century version of Tolstoy’s adage about unhappy families is that every social media platform is deranged in its own way.

“Tesla has been named the "deadliest" car brand after an analysis of vehicle fatality rates determined the brand had the highest number of fatal crashes per mile.”

lesson for social movements:

You don't need to use the brick, but you must have one

The Century of the Self
Adam Curtis

2002 #Documentary explores how the work of Sigmund #Freud and his family influenced the way governments, corporations, & media have propagandized the public for decades.

They invented #Propaganda.

youtu.be/jymMjNc0igI?...

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Way too much liberal/leftist/whatever the fuck “resistance” is just clichés, memes, and sound bites repeated over and over.

Nightshade is out, folks!

This is from Ben Zhao and team at Chicago U, the same people who created Glaze. It's is a new way of defending your work from datascraping.

tl;dr it poisons data well. Let's gooo

Link to V1.0:
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

Putting on my I Do This For A Living hat: Ethical concerns *require* that you actually try to achieve your moral goals. If those goals are political, that means understanding how politics works, and trying to use that knowledge to realize your moral goals.

Otherwise, it's just moral cosplay.

Yes, this is still true even if you’re driven by moral concerns.

History is filled with examples — abolitionists, industrial reformers, civil rights activists etc — who only secured meaningful changes through political engagement.

With COVID levels so high, many are asking when is a safer time to schedule healthcare appointments, travel etc.

It can be helpful to compare COVID wastewater from previous years. In the US, the winter surge usually recedes in March, and levels are lower in spring and summer.