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Resuming work, slowly, quietly.
Still skeptical of *gestures* this.
DMs: open; open conversation: meh.
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Could the videos be doctored? Sure! But guess what. That was already a problem.

Because like…nobody was *trusting* those transcripts, right?

Actually, don’t answer that:
Screenshot of a tweet thread by @TopLeftBrick dated 3/20/2020 reading: In it, there's this: «There has never been a better time to come to America. Thing is, he didn't say that. He said: «There has never been a better time to do business in America. Which is "small" but think about that change while also thinking about say, immigration policy. And what's the accountability on this sort of thing, assuming potential more significant discrepancies? Because people seem to trust these publications, including those who's entire DEAL is... not doing that. Like @factcheckdotorg: If you fact-check a "transcript" without also playing the original media, you're going to miss cases of "literally did not say those words." And bat's bad.
May 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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—What is the method? he asked. —The method for disgovernance. Other revolutionary movements fail when they are found out. This one just begins when it is found out. It is impossible to stop… …because there are no ringleaders. It is simple enough to describe in a phrase or two the whole extent of it. Any member of the government, any member of the police, of the secret police, all are targets. You live your life, and do nothing out of the ordinary. But if, at some moment, you find yourself in a position to harm one of the targets, you do. Then you continue on as if nothing has happened. You never go out of your way to make such an opportunity come to pass. Not even one step out of your way. And yet, without exception, the targets must each day place themselves in danger before the citizenry, and cause such opportunities to exist. One doesn't prepare oneself, except mentally. One never speaks of it, except to spread the idea, and that is better done by sheets of paper left here and there. —The perfect crime consists of randomness: you happen to be passing a table on which a diamond necklace is lying; everyone has momentarily turned away; you snatch the necklace and continue; you are now the possessor of a diamond necklace. Having randomly arrived there, you had every reason to be in that place at that time, as part of your routine. You only ceased, in the moment of the crime, to be a thing apart from the background, and immediately thereafter, you returned to it. The only thing the New State can do is to clamp down tighter, and that only earns them more hate, activates more of the population. Cover of Jesse Ball’s 2011 novel “The Curfew.”
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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—Is everyone here involved? asked William. —Involved? Gerard laughed. —The point is: information like that doesn't exist. Who is, who isn't involved: it doesn't matter. We simply spread the method, and people act on their own. They don't need to tell anyone. —The method? —The method. It's very simple. Everyone will soon have learned of it, through channels exactly like this. Just one person telling someone else, someone trusted. —Is it that bad? —If you're caught with it in writing, less than a page of text, you're shot. Interrogated, shot. Most people who get interrogated say the same thing, and it's true. —What's that? —They found a piece of paper. They don't know anything about it. But in this town, there hasn't been too much printing yet. That's the dangerous part, the printing. But it spreads by word, also. —What is it?
February 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM