I’m sorry to keep putting this shit in peoples feeds. And I know it provokes unfollows. But seriously, there is no dignity it remaining silent, there is only delusional rationalizations and complicity.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1151689603687931904?s=21 …
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I'm sympathetic to the "don't amplify" arguments -- I've made them often! The ecosystem *is* fucked. But reporting on the threat isn't the exploit,
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Here is where my arguments were either wrong then (Nov 2016) or are just inapplicable to now. https://dispatches.artifexdeus.com/donald-trump-is-hari-seldon-75bd789637d9 …pic.twitter.com/LFRx3K3Llb
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Well, I guess that's an over-statement -- they still are applicable. But it's almost impossible to attenuate -- he's escalating his rhetoric making it ever more vivid and salient. So it's either forge a consensus around "this is fine" or "the President is beyond contempt."
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(Although it may be a good thing for us to talk about, because the thing I'd really like to build is a computational immune system to help prevent what I wrote about then -- stereotype driven cognition that leads to a collapse. Just not sure it's useful against the POTUS.)
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None at all, agreed. The fatigue is also real (especially since we live on this site and many voters do not).
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It's not really shocking but also something to behold how little institutional pride so many MoCs have. Bragging about the legislative graveyard, refusing to comment on bills in public for fear of a mean tweet, chucking each other under the bus to press ...
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