Good. [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...]( ) [Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-...]( )
By me: a brief history of foreign agitators pretending to be Americans over the last decade, with most out to make a buck monetizing the culture war 💸(politics matter less than you think), and what X’s new feature shows… [open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...]( ) [On the Internet No One Knows Y...]( )
The reason this is happening is a combination of 1) incentives and 2) supply meeting demand. There is no more consistent result in studies of monetized propaganda than that the MAGA right is a particularly receptive niche. RE: View quoted note →
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right. Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
A must read. Click through. RE:
What Rand Paul is doing is what Jim Jordan did to Stanford Internet Observatory. Under the pretext of “oversight“ he can make sweeping requests —w/the intent to harass & chill. The universities can fight. But most are afraid of broader attacks so they quickly comply. [www.wired.com/story/senato...]( ) [Senators Want Extremism Resear...]( )
Someone check on Bill Ackman RE:
A crackpot with control over the infrastructure trying to force reality to bend to his fringe beliefs. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreibuuqsyu66z7c4n3fye6b4h7pimx2drxyub27m5z4mcrsvyadet3a
The lunatics are running the asylum. Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiddzgiylwvu5y5b6fbmsssjnjsr4ewheemxcjjxo2gzrgxdyf5cdq
Just wanna re-up in simple terms that when Biden talked to platforms, Jim Jordan launched years of investigations into everybody involved, said it was tyranny, censorship, etc. And now they just straight up acknowledge that they talk to platforms too. [www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...]( ) [DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' sho...]( )