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Those who are able to sit down with someone starkly opposed to them, in a remote bubble dedicated to conversation and reconciliation, and hash out agreements.

I call for a tribe of intertribalists, ideological liasions, bridge-builders, nomads. Heterodoxy.

Absolutely brutal.

Alright then.

Is he sitting on a step in that first one? Reading a newspaper, sitting on a step?

With breaks for wanking.

Especially when you can more or less erect an echo chamber of opinion-determining information sites around them.

Yeah optimization I think is a good way to think about it. And the spirit of such an effort would be along the lines of a controlled fire, or a vaccine: incurring manageable damage while you're ahead, in order to minimize the chances of a more total destabilization of the system (in this case...

No, but I like that bit.

And again to defer to Varoufakis, I just heard him make a point about protesting that which you have interests vested in. In his case, he was talking about "making Amazon pay" while also plugging his book, which is conceivably available on Amazon. And he didn't shy away from this apparent...

True, but at least they can get you thinking about it. And yeeaaaahhh I'm not too sure there is a way out, short of the collapse of the material architecture of the internet. I think the likes of Zuboff are valuable in establishing a sort of digital civics, fleshing out what are rights and what...

Are there enough defunct accounts to only rename the titles after dead notable posters?

What? Insecure teenagers?

Shoshana Zuboff once mentioned this since-whistleblown situation where social media ads were deliberately using algorithms that effectively targeted insecure teenagers. I guess you can boil that down to data in some way. If you can track traffic through sites heavy with suicide memes, perhaps...

Yeah and I think the former enables the latter there. Being able to perpetually differentiate markets into more and more specific submarkets, group identities, communities.

Yeah where you are socially compelled to share data.

I watched this last week, and there was some interesting stuff. Basically about how during WWII when the US and the british were orchestrating these precision bombings of Germany, they had to navigate and outfox the vast array of radio devices that Germany set up to get early warnings about...

Just watched it myself, and I thought they more or less nailed it. Totally wasn't expecting the element of populism, though, much less a groundswell. If only the alt-right was more socially progressive. That kind of libidinal nihilism is quite the raw material - in terms of psychic ecology, I...

The show I deeply enjoy. The community around it is, as evidenced above, questionable.

Although there was an excellent moment from a recent Rick and Morty episode where a bully tells Morty to meet him behind the building after school, depriving him of the choice not to come, and then proclaims "Thats what we bullies call a fait accompli!" edit: killed me, that one