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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Replying to @hikikomorphism
what if it isn't social contagion what if it's "think globally, act locally"
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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @hikikomorphism
oh hey good to know that when Grant Morrison invented Anonymous in The Invisibles he was reinventing stigmergy
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but yeah the helplessness of the media channel to refrain from coverage of mass murder being exploited for command and control purposes by an emergent collective actor is a more interesting thought than monkey see monkey do
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