if we're considering constitutional amendments to stem the plague of school shootings, I have a modest proposal: We must amend the First Amendment to allow for the enforcement of damnatio memoriae on all mass killers to avoid the spread of this terrible act via social contagion
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ok ok steelman time: social contagion is just a convenient way to refer to stigmergic coordination of attack-technique development between isolated actors similar to what is described here. Note how a similar countermeasure is suggested:http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/10/journal_the_mar.html …
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oh hey good to know that when Grant Morrison invented Anonymous in The Invisibles he was reinventing stigmergy
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stigmergiturgy?
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stigmaturgy
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> It is derived from the Greek words στίγμα stigma "mark, sign" and ἔργον ergon "work, action" wanted to capture both of the roots, and also, bullshit words are only as good as the number of syllables
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it's the same root, stigmergy and stigmaturgy are the same word except one is inflected to capture cultural associations
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true. double -erg is kinda cool though as it points to a recursive amplification, which sits right with me
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that is a bit pleasing isn't it
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