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having spent literally two straight months not going on twitter once, its rapid degradation into an even worse nazi hell pit is quite shocking. the differences are stark. why do i keep seeing nft grifter spaces at the top of the page? and almost all blue checks are now fascists!
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On top of that, I will be staying on at CTEC in a different capacity to continue leading the games+extremism research!
More on CTEC’s exciting future soon.
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~some personal news~: I am beyond excited to share that I will be starting as a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Colorado - Boulder this fall! I'll be focusing on comparative politics and methods.
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Two main, very alarming things stick out here:
1. There is something truly rotten within the video games community broadly.
2. AI tools are going to grant extremists a force multiplier of at *least* the same magnitude as the internet.
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Really looking forward to taking the stage again with @ #gdc2023 to talk about extremism in games: design edition
...or something like that
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The balloon should team up with Ever Given and block the Suez Canal again
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I wonder if it's a coincidence that grievance--about anything--is a well-supported root cause of individual and collective radicalization
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It’s fun that these guys just confess it —this is about revenge and obscuring the aberrance of far right members—and still so much of the coverage of it repeats the pretext uncritically. twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyH…
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Y’all should check out this episode of Bloomberg’s The Big Take podcast featuring yours truly 👀
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hey i know of a dormant podcast that needs just a little money to hire an editor to get back off the ground. we hate nazis and we all wear pit vipes.
(ya'll should follow )
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We've repeatedly blocked this loser from shopping on pitviper.com, but he found a way. So here we are again, giving his recent order of $634.50 to the SPLC. When you spread hate in Pit Vipers, we donate your money to a cause that works against you. #pitvipergivesafuck
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HEY THERE GAMERS: Want to help us understand how dangerous behaviors interact with the games industry and contribute to one of the first baseline studies on extremism in games? Please contribute to our survey!
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HEY THERE GAMERS: Want to help us understand how dangerous behaviors interact with the games industry and contribute to one of the first baseline studies on extremism in games? Please contribute to our survey!
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hey games industry people: please share if you can; this is our first attempt at baselining exposure to extremism and hate among game players!
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Hey folks! As part of our work with @DHSgov, we are seeing to develop baseline data about the prevalence of hate, harassment, and extremism in #videogames.
Please consider sharing your experiences (RTs very welcome)
forms.gle/1uk6tQknjapf1i
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Hey folks! As part of our work with , we are seeing to develop baseline data about the prevalence of hate, harassment, and extremism in #videogames.
Please consider sharing your experiences (RTs very welcome)
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Very proud of this:
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NEW: Dean Jackson, Meghan Conroy and Alex Newhouse- who were investigators for the January 6 Select Committee charged with examining the role of social media- offer an insider’s view of their findings:
techpolicy.press/insiders-view-
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this is the main problem with the "if you think the GOP is fascist, vote moderate Dems" line of argument too. many people believe moderate Dems to have taken actions that enabled fascist creep, which means that "just vote for the popular ones" isn't compelling (even if it's true)
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I don't think it's quite right to say that the GOP is fascist. But this genre of argument -- "Well, if you really believed that X was fascist, then surely you would be taking this obviously counterproductive and politically impossible action" -- is so weird and dumb. twitter.com/shadihamid/sta…
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what is a "visionary leader" who "dismantles" everything but Kalki for Rokko's Basilisk sickos?
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look there are many flavors of reactionary apocalyptica but it is very notable that essentially all of them boil down to "dude with unprecedented (possibly divine) power appears suddenly in the time of most need, sweeps away all that is corrupt, and establishes a golden age"
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CTEC team continues to build a very rich set of profiles of accelerationist organizations. check it out!
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The most recent addition to CTEC's Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors Series: an overview of Lithuanian neofascist and accelerationist group Skydas.
Visit the CTEC website to learn more:
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man remember like a year ago when there was still a massive percentage of even moderates that didn’t know or didn’t believe that fuentes is a straight-up neofascist t.co/uEHssmdoYF
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we’ve really borked it if “hey maybe don’t use gig work apps and do your own errands” is now anti-leftism
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Check out this interview with me in by (love to chat with Vermont journalists!!)
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all you sovereign citizen/posse comitatus researcher sickos have job security twitter.com/emayfarris/sta
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all of you remember the blue/black dress, no one talks about the two llamas who got out and ran the town on that day
never forget our llama kings
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favorite reply is the guy calling me a climate denier. lol. me. the guy who gave a presentation on climate change at age 10 and made a website about climate awareness at age 12.
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people do not understand eco-fascism. ah well, more on my to-do list.
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worth spelling it out clearly: Elon Musk is about 1/2 step from open eco-fascism and is already a very VERY useful figurehead for eco-fascist movements.
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worth spelling it out clearly: Elon Musk is about 1/2 step from open eco-fascism and is already a very VERY useful figurehead for eco-fascist movements.
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Also worth noting: These results are based on *self reports* from survey subjects. this is likely a conservative estimate. Trends may be even stronger than are seen in this data.
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This is one of the first studies ever empirically looking at the mechanisms by which gaming as an activity can link to dangerous social phenomena. It is absolutely essential reading for all in the games industry and in extremism studies.
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We have known for years that violent video games do not lead to violence. However, we must add nuance to that conclusion: gaming communities, and the process of identity fusion, may lead to extreme behaviors, and violent games may have a stronger propensity for that than others.
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this is an incredibly striking study on the links between gaming and antisocial behavior eg racism, sexism, from et al. It shows evidence that gamer identity fusion correlates with those behaviors, & stronger with violent games like Call of Duty.
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