I often complain that because I’m a bit of bird and also a mad genius It irritates me how often I have to manage image and proximity sometimes Like I am a project manager and policy wonk Why do posts about If I don’t say it it ain’t me
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I often complain that because I’m a bit of bird and also a mad genius It irritates me how often I have to manage image and proximity sometimes Like I am a project manager and policy wonk Why do posts about If I don’t say it it ain’t me
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I alternate between anxiety and low self worth and “I am literally in about 12 books as predicting this” and three dissertations I refuse to listen to white people who will not even acknowledge the history of America tell me their tired nope
Someone who is writing right now and doesn’t mention race Is failing you . They just are
I’m so depressed but the only thing I can say is how tiresome it’s been for me with no mention of the people fighting their asses off or reflection on what went wrong And I can’t name an actual thing to save just “liberal democracy”
You can’t right this with no links to race or any real reflection . This isn’t resistance it’s racialized nihilism masquerading as leadership
Oh for that… ya know ? I’m a push depending on who’s talking. The only reason I’m not an automatic yes is how addicted to social a lot of these people are
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If you tell me this isn’t racialized I should get to mollywopnyou one good time
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It is also a clear-cut war crime.
Did I absolutely use on job application to yell at an org for how they failed and why even if they don’t hire me I should be paid to make them act right Yes I am trying to have the audacity of your average annoying Dem strategistl
Whooooo so let’s talk about who he employs and his messaging
We weren’t disconnected , but weren’t as quickly responsive . The internet will never fully go away but I honestly wish sometimes that was the goal, What’s terrifying is how many people believe they are doing the right thing or improving connection
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This is another just enraging part of dealing with abusers and narcissists Is … they lie a LOT about proximity to people They claim to be close to people who have only me them once They claim to not know people who they were super close with
Unknown Number …. Made me so mad so very very very mad
I lost a good chunk of today applying for jobs Please clap
I’m wukking my waist , passing my chalice and trying to analyze policy . We are entirely adult and responsible educational and policy professionals. No one in this picture waved a very large hat and had to readjust a knee cap
And I’m bluntly while Twitter is hell , here and Threads ain’t the boon yall think AND none of that matters if we don’t talk about what we want
Because one things for sure two things for certain….. For all the handwringing about the obvious bad guys I still haven’t seen EVEN ONE reflective or apologetic article So excuse me if I don’t fucking believe people want to fix the Twitter issue
Twitter rots your Brian but the continual racism and attention on them teaches them that they don’t have to change And at this point? I blame yall MORE than them Because when you actually do the full work on attention economies and narcisstic systems Hey you notice things
The number of times I’ve been in a POC/ Journalist/ organizing space and gone “uhm hey this is a problem” And been marginalized for that shit gave me an actual mental health breakdown And I am not even unique
Nate Silver thinks he can pull the shit he does because Zoe Quinn gets written out Shaun King gets to reinvent himself because Bernie Sanders shrugs off anti immigration Joan Donovan keeps failing up because Etc etc etc And until yall actually fucking deal with that The issue ain’t Twitter
I notice that when something comes out to verify ( even when I do two hour interviews and get reduced to “background) the shit I was directly targeted by The disappearance or retraction of people And so do the Debate kids
People think because I don’t say anything I don’t notice how just generally awful they are about me And maybe it’s fear but some of it is just extended trauma But yeah I remember the jokes and jabs and silences and campaigns from Schwyzer to King to NP To Berkman Klein to Buzzfeed
You can’t talk about Twitter and Gamergate if you actually never fucking talk to , compensate, or ask for the actual steps to repair the damage TO THE POINT THE ACTUAL PRIMARY TARGET OF GAMERGATE SAYS THEY HAVE HAD TO LEAVE THE SPACE
If you’re upset about the folks getting fried on Twitter but erasing the people who told you this and making no mention of WHY THOSE people got to be there Yeah you’re contributing to the problem and I’m deeply enraged about this because a lot of this so folks hiding their own shame
Over and over I have had experiences that have happened to me SPECIFICALLY erase co opted , silenced and I’m openly named as a person targeted by the folks people claim to listen to AND I AM NOT THE ONLY OR EVEN MOST DONE ONE
Twitter , didn’t happen in a vaccum yglesias and others got on because people spent a lot of time coddling them *cough* Bouie*cough* And being assholes got them handsomely rewarded But more importantly made their targets suffer Twitter rots but experience teaches
We talk about “smart” people overestimating their resistance to propaganda We aren’t talking enough about how this moment was preceded by an entire decade of people being publicly abused , humiliated and then erased So “debate club kids” felt good … because other folks have shame
I’m this is important but and this is from my perspective as a drama kid and also as a really outside kid Debate club kids do this , and feels special just like Silver and Ygkesias etc Because a non debate club kid was harmed and humiliated and we can’t keep leaving that out
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No one gave a damn about our birth rates then *or* now. They are not angry that we didn’t have kids; quite the contrary. If they’d ever stop waging this nonsensical eternal war *against people in their own country,* we’d have a healthier, safer, and more sustainable society. With *wanted* babies!
The birth rate discourse makes me snark in Black Gen X… they criminalized Black parents (teen & single) back when we were growing up. Reagan literally made our reproduction a campaign issue! (Read Professor Dorothy E. Roberts’ work!) Many of us Black late 1970s babies had kids late or not at all… 🤷🏾♀️
Yeah I think I trust y’all but to be clear, don’t fucking do this. It is at a minimum just not funny, get new material, and it is in general shitty, callous, small-minded and smug in a really unattractive way.
If you don’t have. A test case for an abusive parent in your threat modeling? You aren’t threat modeling
THIS part
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Because yes children need defense and protection and there is some things that shouldn’t be open to kids And if we have the SENSE GOD GAVE A TURKEY BACKED BY ACTUAL RESEARCH we would comprehend how much the biggest predators are IN THE HOUSE and how yes it’s a menace but the internet was a Balm
Kiwi farms / 4chan bullshit comes from the actual neoliberalism mess of acting like racist sexist speech was “free” combined with the entire tech policy space paying lip service to power analysis And the refusal to have actual interaectionalmapplication of psychology on tech
Dear god I want a financed and a qualitative research group focused on PEOPLE focused civic infrastructure with an actual race/ gender praxis Because this mess is what happens when decades of ignoring intersectionality gets thrown full force Everyone sucks , no one’s right, no one is wrong
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I have a really REALLY f’ed up trauma history …. And oddly enough aightish parents ( great mom aight dad) And the thing I hit most from that is 1) how much of my parents parenting was having yo be in active conflict 2) having no shock at how awful people could be to kids
We pop psychology narcissism but a huge chunk of this ignores “communal narcissism” which hate to be that person applies on teh emotional, in Black spaces And on the right, in churches , religious spaces
So when I say I want to fight people this is why. “Family values” makes a lot of folks loud smug and cruel Without recognizing that most kids first abusers are their families
Again the biggest terror I have now is the fact that Dems, NGO’s , cultural orgs , and even leftists progressive think tanks are doing no wise spread strategic listening about what good looks like after I know why but it’s terrifying
I’m not willing to bet . Because I think you’re correct . They need to roll out more authoritarian stuff/ oversight to places before they announce . If only because I think they want to be able to blunt the celebrations
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This is just correct . Devaluing is a primary component of all exploitative relationships You’re just correct
The problem AI was to fix was eliminating diversity and reducing labor’s power A freelancer working piece meal doesn’t have the ability to build resistance the way a senior creative would to stop questionable decisions And AI doesn’t leave a trail for bad process
So you need two people and the AI to do what used to be the job of one writer or one graphic designer. Sounds efficient.
( I’m actually wondering if some of the failure is that in absorbing so much data LLM’s and AI are getting the message social sciences got about culture and now they’re just trying to squeeze the lemon before the bust)
Chat GPT is trying to funnel all standard social services provided by INFRASTRUCTURE through itself to justify its existence
… this is just moderation. Chat GPT is making a. Non social social media where they get all your data and devalue everyone who made social media ( aka the digital expression of GENERAL LIFE) a commodity
AI is a lack of consent machine and children are the one place that folks are always willing to say it’s okay that a person isn’t allowed to have interior thoughts
:.. I need you to write this
and it’s not from a moderation standpoint a thing I should regulate As civic health policy ? Yes But if you are destroying someone’s life in a place I am responsible for or using that space to do it outside of space The WHY is less important than the STOP and the provide space for repair
Also pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28758884/
The other issue is .. racism and misogyny has a lot of traumatized people diagnosed with things for GIVING ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE RESPONSES TO CONTINUAL STRESS and sometimes concentrated efforts and mental destabilization And as OUTSIDERS diagnosis isn’t our place
Disagree all you want but sources I can give psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...
And folks miss female abuse or intra marginalized abuse not because signs aren’t there but because they assume “X is harmless” or “who X is harming isn’t that core” And will SAY BPD to justify or DENY INTENT person has remorse if they are white or female Not realizing they can be LYING
And …. Because disorders are spectrum Ed and MH diagnosis isn’t an actual discussion of intent and DOES NOT AFFECT INTELLIGENCE I can’t depend on my own intellect to sus it out when I’m in a PROFESSIONAL capacity I have to stop the HARM ( aka savior complex )
It doesn’t matter in a situation if you do it because you feel bad, if you feel bad after , if you’re reacting to a trauma trigger versus just think that someone deserves harm WHEN YOU ARE ACTIVELY HARMING SOMEONE … I have to STOP you especially because conditions co- occur
And what is hard and continues to be in policy and actual moderation and comms is People have categorized narcissist as “bad” while BPD is “troubled” and read those behaviors based on the remorse the person feels, the fact BPD is feminized , or trying to reject that that’s not good for anyone
It hurts folks feelings but in that grouping of MH concerns …. If a person is behaving badly and being cruel / defamatory/ smear campaigning …. It doesn’t matter what the affliction is at the time The most important thing is : ACCESS And POWER
M folks I like want me to expound and I will . I AM NOT MH professional . I looked at this for ONLINE MODERATION, strategy I would hire professionals and the short of it is … people use narcissism/ BOD distinctions as ways to justify how THEY want to treat someone not what someone is DOING
Also folks séparation of narcissism and BPD is often unnatural and fueled by racism and misogyny
I really do be out here brain dumping and calling stuff out …
We absolutely can use the example of narcissistic systems but that’s A LOT MORE NUANCED
The larger concern with MH is AWESOME The rush to categorize to escape blame and shame is … not Because people want the ability to use dynamics as cudgels without dealing with power and complexity
a narcisstic family dynamic includes a scapegoat and an analysis of power , so either its MOM which is a possibility Or Its not Mom and she’s still enabling and that means one of your siblings is the scapegoat And your more angry at the scapegoat for trying to survive not caretaking mom
so some of these people see r's as the abusive dad and d's as the abused mom who is just too traumatized by abuse to think clearly and fight back well enough but she's trying. 😐 points for the analogy admitting that the two parties are a couple actually.
Yes
They said they were pushing out western influences but I guess not all of them. *sigh*
Gonna say again that one of the biggest groups of spenders are Black women 350k of them lost jobs…..
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
….. dear White people I need you to recognize that a racist at their core always wants the destruction of all people
Not. Good
There are automatic programs to avoid this They just don’t care
We’re going to see a lot of the things BLM/ Me Too/ Stop Asian Hate / Trans Lives Matter coming out the mouths of older white men With no reflection on why now Get ready for the WEIRD
We have to care about what other people feel think and might want to experience to survive
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This
You’re not imagining it . A lot of things suck right now Media service Because we stopped ( were stopped) from considering diversity and it’s bad for EVERYTHING Regressing to the statistical mean is AWFUL for human experience
The only reason the US hasn’t fallen even harder is because other places are just as anti Black / casteist/ misogynist as us And they are picking up in diversifying allegiances faster but a pandemic combined with a birth rate drop Is slowing things down .. It won’t forever
One of the biggest problems of the past 8 months across sectors is Gross inefficiency brought on by racism People can meme etc but the “de diversification” of everything …. Has led to an ungodly amount of inefficiency
Yeah it’s horrific Cooper is trying to shift … But also it means that she gave a speech where she … didn’t actually say anything , she just said what the right has been saying she’s reduced the amount of time to put forth anything distinctive
this might be one of the most weirdo ND things I ever say But outside of it’s the right thing to do Fascism needs to be fought at its roots because it is HORRIFICALLY inefficient Slavery was fascism and refusing to analyze it as such is why everyone is struggling so bad
The shift to “well I can treat them worse” FROM POLICY means that we devolve into content less conversations ( see Nate Silver decompensating about Blue Sky) because if you use the data whiteness so deeply values , it doesn’t hold up or more devastatingly. It’s not there
“You’ll lose political terrain” Well ya but the other issue is Racism/ Xenophobia / most kyriarchial biases can only be solid topics of discussion in societies where forms of slavery are acceptable because they create classes of people whose social health don’t matter
“Far right rhetoric” does way to much lifting now in reporting and discussion Because white political writers refuse to define centrists and left This is racism and xenophobia . It’s not about a terrain shift , they are enabling the destruction of functional government
This is the trail of tears again .
Everyone is talking but we need to LISTEN and if some of these putzes ever read a first person document about how much LISTENING is part of state and spy craft And not just sexy spy stuff but the actual day to day infrastructure
Nate Silver and Taylor and the entire empires is having a crashout because they thought things like humanities and the social contributions of Black people were incidental to the modern age and the wages of Empire should be approved by them And that’s not how this works Not anymore
Folks attack the social sciences but networks need sociology and psychology and psycho social history And the millions of cross overs Foucault envisioned and we can admit that and start treating that as something that also needs to reflect what it studies …
Folks go “oh it’s the Civil War” Yes but I’m not that American Centric Yes we are dealing with failed reconstruction … but we’re also dealing with the colonial boomerang of the success of Victorian Empire and mores And like I’m exhausted