Literacy is at an all time low, and it's not your fault. (The convenient decline of education in the United States, or; Why community college needs to be covered for a literate public and a non-dystopian future, or; How to become an authoritarian's sleep paralysis demon)
Evaluating sources
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Everyone has bias
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What you need to look for is an agenda
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Purity testing - a history of psyop in-group sabotage by governments and why we need to purity test companies and governments, not individuals
Countering media overwhelm:
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understanding how we got to this point of cognitive warfare and how it can escalate in the future
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focus on topics that matter to you
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find experts or laymen/pop. people you can trust, who not only have a good track record but correct themselves when they are inevitably wrong
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ex: Green brothers, Tom Scott,
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support media and companies that do meaningfully counter narratives and support efforts that matter that bring joy (Ben and Jerry's, Dropout)
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personal responsibility and competency is a divisionist tactic and myth to separate us into weakness. No human, or any other species, is fully self reliant. Humans are social creatures, and the American exceptionalism myth is killing us with despair and isolation to keep those in charge where they are, and keep the ladder pulled up behind them (you are not a special snowflake. You are not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire or billionaire. You are fighting against your own cause and wellbeing by pretending you can become wealthy and just like your economic oppressors. Stop doing their job for them. Make them work for it. They've never had to actually work before anyway.)
Who tf runs this site?
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my life has sounded like madlibs schizo bullshit since birth and my native culture is the internet and libraries, innoculated against memetic fuckery
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unfortunately necessary because we live in a possible worst case timeline
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AI saved me. There are many use cases that we could use AI (yes, including GenAI) for to equalize the illicit and undeserved disparities in this country. I am furious that capitalism and propaganda is ruining a field I never dared think would exist. Your problem with AI is its implementation in our fucked up socio-economic and legal systems. Direct your rage at the right thing. Don't let them distract you. (dead internet)
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invisibly disabled former sad child who upgraded from books as friends to forever lurker of the internet (who watches the watchers? Bish that's meeeee). Folk historian of the net.
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Tilde like ~ but also Tilde like Mathilde/Matilda (the Dahl character)
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spearheading the reclamation of transhumanism as a humanism based ideology (prosthetics are transhumanism, so are books and art, if you wanna be immortal suck my dick and go touch grass you ain't that fuckin important). (leaving the earth and mnemnocene better than you left it is a pro human concept.) (tech and knowledge, info and communication, as anthropogenic evolution)
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neurodivergent poor person who has survived and kept up with technology on less than $12k/yr most years, lemme teach you the ropes I used to survive for when our economy collapses (it's happening, sorry dude)
(idea per Fyodor, rework title, "I fucking hate being right"?) - Launch Post: "I told you so (archive of past accurate predictions)." (it's just gonna be screenshots of my Google keep/chats/Facebook posts/Google photos screenshots catching things early)
Orgs that have fought for you before you cared that will be under attack:
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EFF
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ACLU - occasionally mixed bag but vital for free speech & human rights
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Internet Archive
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Wikipedia
Sneaky bullshit to keep an eye on:
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that bill designating treasury able to say nonprofits are aiding/associated with terrorism
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AI legislation freeze
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RealID pipeline from homelessness to incarceration
Here's the problem:
The US is economically built on foundations of war and slavery. How we achieve those has changed, along with definitions, but the principles are the same. (slavery amendment has exception for prison labor, economics of private prison system). Between this and the military industrial complex, the answer to why we can't be peaceful or stop being involved in conflicts we don't belong in is an economic truth: We can't afford it. Other than these two industries, we primarily offer intellectual property, overpriced medicine, and services ("minimum wage" type jobs in retail, food, tourism, etc). Our value currently is held by a few AI related companies who have used our data, illegally and unethically gathered, which is temporarily holding up our economy. (literally just go look at the stock market real quick.)UBI is necessary and deserved, in return for what is our individual personal lives and undervalued labor chopped into data to sell to advertisers and worse. Tax them. Bring back the IRS with specific orders and oversight to hunt down hidden money in tax havens.
And if you're not from this country, looking on: learn from us before it's too late. The handful of men leading this decline of civilization do not know moderation, decency, or empathy (in fact, one of 'em said that empathy is a sin! Coooool.). The memetic contagions of our propaganda is already seeded across the world (News Corp, Murdoch, UK and Australia). This is unsustainable. There's only so much money that can be funneled up. They will come for all of it. They're ready for the collapse (see also rich people bunkers). The antisocial pathology of these people and the golemic constructs of pseudolife whose lifeblood is capital (corporations), along with the idolatry and worship of this form of economics as God or natural order will consume you too. Do not make deals with them. Do not give them ground. Do not trust them.
What's the deal with McCarthyism? (schools never taught us the red scare)
AI voice of my voice for voiceovers (accessibility every possible way)
Hypothes.is and cool tech
Laziness doesn't exist
Eugenics and ableism history (on a long enough timeline, everyone becomes disabled)