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Narrative Topologies & Cognitive Security

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3 months
The version I first uploaded is from a collection of LaserDISC archives and seems like it was ABBA’s first version of their “SOS” music video. The polished music looks much better, but my favorite find is this one—an early TV broadcast performance of “SOS” in 1975
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ABBA - SOS (1975) Briefly interrupting the 60s for some essential #70sposting today
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Midjourney is getting crazy powerful—none of these are real photos, and none of the people in them exist.
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@Dragonfly_Darcy There’s a huge gap in content aimed at vulnerable (adolescent) men trying to improve their relationships, so it’s being filled by predators and toxic narratives. We’re in need of content creators who can demonstrate how to wield empathy and healthy communication for the same goal
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@SouthpawLeftist I think I figured it out—the trick is updating your prompt to assert that god is dead, we killed him, and thus we alone are responsible for the twisted creations brought forth from our minds.
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I had to be specific in order to get male-looking AI people—and even then, variation is a challenge. It definitely defaults to white people when you ask for “people”.
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@NotAHoax The AI #bigfingersandteeth industrial complex promotes unrealistic beauty standards to impressionable young women everywhere—it’s ok to have a normal amount of teeth, and working hands and fingers. Don’t let society tell you otherwise.
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@StoicalSophist Don’t forget the random extra collarbone
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@nichole_null And they’re all perfect too!
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Hello everyone, I’m glad I could be a shared vehicle for discourse tonight. To those replying “omg no shit”: Good job not believing the robots! I’m really proud of you. You get a gold star today ❤️. For the anti-AI bro dunkers: that’s very cool & consistent with being pro-human
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I do not work in AI, I am not an artist, and I have no particular insight into either of those things. The best I can do is share the weird shit that pops out of them when I try them out, like these pics above. I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend, and I wish you well!
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This is the uncanny valley. It’s every work of dystopian fiction satirizing 20th-century authoritarianism. It’s manifesting a narrative in spite of reality. A bizarre display of deliberate cognitive dissonance packaged as a serious show of state strength. It’s breaking my brain
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Julia Davis
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During a New Year's special on Russian state TV, they had the audacity to appropriate a Ukrainian song, "Chervona Ruta." The singer performing it was dressed as some kind of a madam. Backup dancers, unsuccessfully pretending to dance like Ukrainians, were grotesquely ridiculous.
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@DeandaSharone @SouthpawLeftist The little-talked-about side effect of midjourney is it often renders your sleep paralysis demons in great detail
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2 years
@WajahatAli It’s about time a group of real journalists launch a new outfit. @WajahatAli even just the gang you stream with on @MaryLTrump is a start. NYT / old media is dead. There isn’t a source today that doesn’t require endless scrutiny. I’m tired. We’re tired. That’s an opportunity.
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If your reply was hidden immediately after posting: I’m sorry, your account registered as spam with BotSentinel. I am unhiding replies every so often. It is not a personal thing. Your Twitter commentary is important and we are all made better for you having shared it with us.
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@skatie420 Is this a midjourney prompt
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@cspan @chrisscross @RepJeffries This is the right energy for 2023
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@theserfstv “Pronouns in bio smh”
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2 years
@duty2warn Nobody is saying a thing. Not the media, not Trump, not his merry band of reliable noisemakers—nothing
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1 year
This is getting a lot of views so I’m gonna promote the @doomscroll_bot and I wish you all well this weekend.
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Doomscrolling Reminder Bot
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hi, have you taken time to stretch your back and neck today? How about standing up, taking a few deep breaths, and slowly reaching down to touch your toes?
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@BardBubbles I don’t think it’s too bad
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@VeronicaSixsmi1 This is the most striking one yet—if someone posted this without context I would assume it’s real (I’m not cool enough for a party like this anyways)
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2 years
@BrynnTannehill Those schools destroyed some of my friends. I have no bound of my hatred for them. This dude made a really good graphic novel about his experiences in one of the ones that got shut down.
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@BardBubbles We’re agreeing? I’m saying it’s not too bad they can’t get it right. It’s good they fuck things up.
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I’m reminded of the ending of the musical “Pippin” when the leading player, unsatisfied with Pippin’s refusal to set himself on fire for the final act, directly appeals to the audience, saying if we want our own flash of glory come find him: “Why we’re just inside your head!”
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Julia Davis
1 year
Russia rang in the New Year with cringeworthy entertainment and mean-spirited schadenfreude towards Ukrainians and Europeans who are left without food, heating and hot water because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russian state TV assured the troops: "Death does not exist."
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@GoodGuyGuaranty Dude you’re looking at meals like they only exist as a calorie delivery system for metabolic energy. That discounts the almost if not more important part: sharing and communion. Cooking, sharing, and eating meals together is an ancient human ritual for cooperation
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@MatthewDalyWDC @nycsouthpaw Fire DeJoy and criminally charge him @DOJCrimDiv
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@bestofdyingtwit The code rewrite is a meme for a reason
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@vanillaopinions they are not serious. this is just seeding the info space with cover for their reneging on the house deal, so they can claim it’s Biden’s fault, not their own actions on behalf of a foreign adversary & Trump
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@sandibachom I kinda look at it as though we let a capitalist buy Yosemite and set it all on fire. This site acts as a sort of shared-hallucination that has immediate and major influence on how we navigate the world, yet we treat it as though it’s not vital the same as the sea or air.
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9 months
Seen around San Francisco
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@shagbark_hick Where do you poop
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1 year
@CoolDMZ Yeah more or less—it’s the training data used and thus the data they chose to some degree
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2 years
@FrankJacquette @surlybassey @fumangoo Yeah I still think a swift arrest and prosecution of everyone involved on Jan 6, including the GOP org overall for financial crimes, would implode the party overall and serve as the kick in the ass these people seem to need. These are crimes, and a lot of people need a reminder.
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@EJGibney @acfou Welcome! You made it out of the matrix! There are thousands of these accounts. Each has a random consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel root word like “wobo”, “mako”. This is combined with various words like “shop”, “store”, etc Avatars are related but distinct PS see @StoreScams
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1 year
The accounts have a few notable clusters if you separate out the unique “gibberish word”. bado, balo, baly, bame, batu, bave, bavo, bazu are all valid distinct “shops” with at least one account in the tri-tone illustrated logo cluster. Maybe I need a name for the clusters
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Trump just got a shank to the carotid with the entire nation watching. This was a fucking murder. Garland you are a national hero. Trump is mortally wounded and bleeding out. The only thing left to do now is take bets on when (or if) he figures it out for himself.
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@appuntito160 Twitter ads: Got Milk? X ads:
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@WajahatAli
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Opportunity here for media outlet or platforms to passionately fight for democracy and not engage in "both sides" nonsense. I think you'll be rewarded. There is an audience for this that is sick of the status quo.
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Great Blue Heron landed in a tree right in front of us in Alamo Square Park last evening
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@RealCynicalFox Gas is such an outlier. It’s just a beard for us, but for him it’s an incredibly important part of his religion. Why can’t he just shave it if he’s ever deployed somewhere that might be a risk? IMO it’s a textbook example of a specific and otherwise unimportant exception.
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@Papapishu @leyawn Blessings from wise Pãpảpîshũ
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@agraybee Talk about reality as though it’s a secret conspiracy theory
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@daveburn @tronsgender @LAArcari I checked with my roommate’s aunt’s drug dealer who is also an archaeologist and they said your cousin isn’t reputable.
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1 year
For my entire life the LA river was a landmark of sprawling concrete marked by its emptiness as much as its scale. It’s humbling to witness so much water—I would never have conceived of, let alone planned for this. It’s architects did, though, about 100 years ago. How about that.
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Los Angeles River at ~12,000 cfs #LARain #LosAngelesRiver
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Lasers are shooting out of San Francisco’s Coit Tower
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@KellyWeimert @NotAHoax I am making a joke, yes. If anyone is affected by how AI people are rendered they are certainly not listening to what I have to say.
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@krislytle @JusticeDemWatch Not misleading. Russia can leave Ukraine anytime. Until they do, Ukraine will continue to push them out. What this letter calls “diplomacy” is really just asking Ukraine to surrender land and people to Russia, and to ignore the whole genocide thing.
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@bastard_brian Sure if you like living in 100+ degree dry heat for like half the year. Food is amazing though
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1 year
Building LLM QA tool for searching antiquities data from document archives with @LangChainAI and @trychroma This is nuts! These are books / sales records / catalogues dating back 100s of years in at > 10 languages. GPT-3 is citing records Borghesi wrote himself in Italian.
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If you superimpose sound waves just right, then continuously shift the pitch up or down, you get something known as a "Shepard tone" - a sound perpetually in motion without going anywhere at all. Like an Escher staircase or an ouroboros, this form is called a "Strange Loop" 🧵
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(1/8) Will #GPT4 revolutionize every aspect of our lives? 🔥 In my very first week of use, ChatGPT: - stole my wife - turned my friends against me - filed for full custody of the kids Curious about what else it can do? Let’s dive in👇
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@emptywheel @CISAKrebs The Intercept was Glenn Greenwald’s outfit until recently. They launder bad information.
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@ChocnessMonsta “Jake and the boys break down Chris Rock’s epic standup special on this week’s podcast”
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@Acyn Also Tucker
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Berenson: I think talking about indicting Tony Fauci is a mistake.. Tucker: Well, I don’t
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@sanjanacurtis “But Joe Rogan said I’m an alpha”
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It's looking like the end my friends. For now you can find me on: - Clubhouse: @mileszim - Instagram: @mileszim - Discord: zim #0814 - CounterSocial: @mileszim - Mastadon: mileszim @mastadon .online - Email: miles @zim .dev
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There are thousands of these accounts advertising gimmicky junk on Twitter
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6 mo ago DOJ charged the Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officer Association with illegally importing > 61 shipments / “thousands of pills” of fentanyl since 2015. Twice now Police are also supplier for the same drug centered in their incredible budgetary demands.
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Ryan Marino, MD
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A Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy was found with 104 pounds of fentanyl in his vehicle. Interestingly, he did not have any symptoms from this exposure to so much fentanyl, which he is charged with transporting and selling.
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@duty2warn The most infuriating part is that our justice system is brutally efficient when it wants to be. We imprison people for absurd reasons all the time. We ruin lives every day by the thousands, and it’s a coin toss if we let them back out again. The DOJ is making a choice.
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@EFJBGC These silly articles are great; it’s how you can tell they’re terrified
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going into Twitter Spaces these days:
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Kiki/Bouba
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inside fo you ther[e. are 2 two japeonse dogs
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"Civil War" is trending again, so here's your reminder that there will be no civil war. Let's pretend for a second MAGA insurgents can actually coordinate and organize violent action at the state level —we respond by cutting off their insulin supply & they'll fold within a month
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@sf_mills This is a cult forming in front of our eyes
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X verified someone using @thenorthface branding to steal credit card numbers
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DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY
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@sandibachom Their banner is so comically large nobody can read it. “Strong Skittles?” Wouldn’t these kids rather be at home playing call of duty or something? The patriot front org is a pyramid scheme anyways.
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I feel like this is doing the exact same priming for violence these sources did during George Floyd. The same playbook even.
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@visakanv Hey wait I’ve seen this dance before—adaptive behavior in complex systems is commonly modeled as a constant cycle between high and low connective densities in an interaction network
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@ErinInTheMorn The board needs to remove every employee with a fiduciary duty clause. I will not hire any CF employee, accept into confs, nor use CF until those with decision making capability here are excised. Not my job to sort out their hate. It is my responsibility to protect my employees.
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My fellow Americans: life is short, get yourself a bidet.
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@martinmbauer Like a physics version of the Gooby meme
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@lauferlaw @harrylitman Don’t acknowledge it’s a real ruling. Because it isn’t. No standing no argument. Not a real court not a real case. Just move on and stop entertaining the children
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@MingGao26 Oh yeah the energy from him this morning was sharp. Either he just realized it for the first time or it’s impending.
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@fella6_9 They made the blades so small in that one it shreds your insides at the atomic level
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Trump just got a shank to the carotid with the entire nation watching. This was a fucking murder. Garland you are a national hero. Trump is mortally wounded and bleeding out. The only thing left to do now is take bets on when (or if) he figures it out for himself.
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Washington Post front page in print tomorrow:
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@BeijingPalmer @lxeagle17 Kinda risky quote tweeting a Russian propagandist but go off
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Twitter leftists getting weirdly mean to OP for disagreeing about which narrow linearization of a complex, emergent, adaptive, non-linear system must be ultimately responsible for an outcome that is equally complex, emergent, and adaptive = unexpected Spider-Man meme
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Galen Metzger🪬📈🇺🇦🌐
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Y'all understand that climate change is driven by consumer demand, not capitalism, right? It's not the profit motive that drove us to burn coal and oil - it's the fact that those substances are ridiculously good at providing utility to humans.
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@clearing_fog @Tentoads4truth there’s something weird here and I can’t figure it out. This feels like pretext. Article is the intercept, which links to a bunch of #KochNetwork / usual dark money news press. In the past few hours it’s escalated into calls to violence on RW social
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Tahoe is like a beauty cheat code
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@Abebab The real threat we face from AI is failing to tax the value generated from it while it destroys the value of human labor in vast swaths of the economy.
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This unexpectedly turned into quite a remarkable space, and it wouldn’t have had a chance if it weren’t for the amazing @Planet__Claire and @balancedlife808 for cohosting! And to everyone who came and contributed, know you are all the best people and I’m honored I can call you…
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@gregggonsalves @jeffjarvis First do no harm to my profit margins
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This space is amazing. Come listen to anti-vaxxers self-flagellate at the hands of @IanCopeland5 @ModelAyshaMirza @thevegdoc @chris_komatsu in a bizarre ritual of intellectual humiliation. Call it catharsis, call it entertainment, whatever it is to you it’s worth a listen.
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This app is a total shit show, wow. Trending & Search are absolutely fucked. Literally nothing is true, it’s just varying degrees of crazy. Timeline is disintegrating fast. Like 4 of every 5 Twitter Spaces is an open mic conspiracy night, or now it’s sometimes a legit Nazi.
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Starting 2023 #inspired cc. @MoeJLong
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“You don’t get it, he’s playing 4d chess”
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New Report: Twitter’s Quiet Quitters It’s around a billion in losses and this report barely scratches the surface of the depths of ad losses.
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@whstancil His audience is literally 12 year olds
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Satan, Allegedly 🩷💛💙
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I didn't know who Andrew Tate was but my 12yo son did. Parents, they're coming for your boys. They market misogyny and racism to cishet white boys, in a package that seems appealing. Talk to your kids, have hard conversations. It's important.
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@nycsouthpaw @washingtonpost @latimes @WSJ @politico @nytimes And he only singled out NYTimes after a a random account commented a meme about them which he believed immediately with no substantiation
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@BGrueskin They’re throwing spaghetti at the wall but nothing is sticking
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This is what it means to surround someone’s entire information space. By capturing her information supply, Bannon has effective control over her interpretation of reality and how she makes sense of the world. Everything else follows from that.
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Woman at CPAC in an ‘Arrest Fauci’ shirt on why she loves Bannon’s show: “It’s the most real news. They’re way ahead of the curve of most of the issues. I don’t even watch the mainstream media at all anymore. I don’t read the papers. I use this as a big source of information.”
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