"The sign is the most sensitive index of social change” ⚡️Artist ⚡️Designer ⚡️ Musician ⚡️Writer ⚡️Educator ⚡️ Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure ⚡️
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Noel Douglas retweeted
Камера GoPro украинского боевика запечатлела уничтожение его отряда русскими воинами где-то в зоне проведения СВО.
Noel Douglas retweeted
This is a dangerous trend:
Celebrating social media as the real agent of democratic struggles; and using social media to amplify that framing.
Let’s look at it from another angle: Would all this skillful use of social media have this big of an effect 1) if Lula were not already associated with the successful welfare programs of the 20002; 2) if PT, PSOL, the unions, and other mass movements did not have decades of organizational capacity and networks to translate these social media posts to power in the streets; and 3) if the government had not made promises regarding wages and working hours right after the disastrous first round?
I worry that this framing will have a negative effect on struggles throughout the world. Many people will think that they can win against fascism just through social media campaigns, without putting decades of work into mass organization and class-conscious policymaking. They will think that AI dances of aloof leaders will accomplish as much. We should NEVER let capital obscure the fact that it is a worker who has paid MATERIAL prices throughout his life and secured MATERIAL gains for tens of millions of people whose digital dance created this affect. (And thanks to the stupid wing of capital, represented by the Bolsonaro family, for reminding us of how Lula lost his finger).
Even in Brazil, this framing could have the deleterious result of reinforcing Lula’s/PT’s shift to the center: govern like a centrist party, then throw a good social media campaign plus a couple of promises that you should have already delivered years ago, and you’ll win! Well… That approach will allow even Brazil’s relatively weak far right to take over more of the congress and other centers of power.
Smart use of social media is a must. But it is not replacement for mass organization, good policy, and ultimately changing property relations. If we allow the top brackets to further monopolize wealth, our social media victories will be but a glitch.
Writing this to honor my flesh-and-blood friends in Brazil who occupied the streets EVERY DAY in the last three weeks to topple the wannabe dictator.
Noel Douglas retweeted
Humilde rascunho de MANUAL DE COMBATE ANTIFASCISTAS NAS REDES aos amigos estrangeiros.
Começo a achar que nós, brasileiros do Exército do Lula, podemos ter começado um REVOLUÇÃO GLOBAL.
CENTENAS de perfis estrangeiros começaram a me seguir, em especial japoneses e franceses (🤯)
Como acredito que preciso contribuir de alguma forma, deixarei aqui minha humilde contribuição.
Amigos brasileiros, por favor adicionem nos comentários qualquer dica / tática que eu tenha esquecido.
1️⃣ O mais importante é NÃO ENGAJAR a extrema-direita nas redes! Ainda que eles postem algo absurdo, algo extremamente reprovável, não respondam! O algoritmo das redes não analisa se você está comentando algo positivo ou negativo, mas apenas contabiliza como uma interação a mais no perfil deles. Portanto, ao comentar uma postagem da extrema-direita, ainda que negativamente, você estará fortalecendo a conta deles! Estará aumentando o engajamento deles e fazendo com que aquela postagem que você despreza chegue a mais e mais pessoas. "Não engajar" envolve não responder, não curtir e até mesmo não visualizar! Se você visualiza um conteúdo por mais de 3 segundos, o algoritmo já conta como engajamento! E cada segundo que passa favorece mais e mais a postagem da extrema-direita. O ideal mesmo é bloquear todas as contas da extrema-direita para que você não caia na tentação de interagir com elas.
2️⃣ Procurem se reunir em um espaço digital. No caso do Exército do Lula, tivemos o @AndreJanonesMG organizando toda a militância de esquerda em um canal do Whatsapp. Não sei se todos estão familiarizados com o Whatsapp... Nessa rede, "grupos" e "canais" possuem algumas funcionalidades diferentes. As características do "canal" Exército do Lula são as seguintes: não há limitação de usuários máximos (o "Exército do Lhla" atualmente tem 10.650.107 seguidores); não é possível visualizar quem são as pessoas que estão no canal (nem ao menos contatos de sua agenda); o canal é fechado para apenas 1 pessoa enviar mensagens. Neste canal, o nosso "Comandante", o deputado eleito André Janones, envia o que chama de "missões", ou seja, tarefas para os "soldados" cumprirem (como determinado conteúdo postado nas redes a ser engajado, ou tags do twitter para subirmos no ranking do trending topics). Também são enviadas orientações gerais, como a de não engajar os conteúdos da extrema-direira.
3️⃣ Tenham unidade de comando! A esquerda brasileira, tal como em qualquer lugar do mundo, sempre foi muito intelectualizada. Portanto, é bastante difícil para os militantes cumprirem ordens cegamente, simplesmente acreditando em um resultado. Mas foi o que o "Comandante Janones" pediu aos membros do "Exército do Lula": que deixássemos os livros, os questionamentos e os debates de lado por apenas alguns dias e simplesmente confiassemos nele. O que ele pedia, nós tínhamos que fazer: curtir uma postagem, não falar sobre determinado assunto, falar sobre outro assunto, pesquisar determinado termo (pra manipular o algoritmo de pesquisa do Google). Ele mandava e 10 milhões de pessoas cumpriam.
4️⃣ Engajar conteúdos do político que vocês querem fortalecer é O MÍNIMO. Isso nunca funcionou muito bem no Exército do Lula, mas talvez vocês consigam implementar no de vocês. Se o canal tem X milhões de pessoas, o ideal é que cada publicação do perfil do político que vocês querem eleger tenha esse mesmo X milhões de curtidas e comentários. Toda postagem do político escolhido deve ser curtida, comentada, salva, republicada, compartilhada e enviada para o máximo de pessoas (de preferência, para todos os seus amigos). Os vídeos postados devem ser assistidos até o fim (lembrem-se que cada segundo de visualização conta como engajamento).
5️⃣ Criem conteúdos orgânicos, em especial "memes" (conteúdos engraçados, que pareçam mais entretenimento do que política). Grave vídeos! Poste mensagens você mesmo nas suas redes!
6️⃣ Utilizem linguagem simples! Lembrem-se que vocês estarão falando com todo público!
Acho que é isso.
Noel Douglas retweeted
New from @VerdantThinking: we estimate 1 in 9 UK households can't afford the government's recommended food stockpile - 6.4m people, 2.2m of them children.
Link below...
Noel Douglas retweeted
In 1976, the U.S. government funded one of the most psychedelic short films ever made.
It was filled with odd images and occult symbols.
🎬 from 200 (1976) by Vince Collins.
Noel Douglas retweeted
これかーーー。そしてすげー。ブラジル大統領選挙。もう新しいとこきてんだ。
なぜ従来型のSNSではなかったか。XとかFacebook はアルゴリズムによる修正が入る可能性がある。それを避けるにはWhatsappのようなピアツーピアシステムが効いたのだが、バックグラウンドには中間まとめをする人間がピラミッド型に配置されたということらしい。
「ピア・ツー・ピア（個人対個人）」の通信ツールでありながら数百万・数千万人に波及した理由は、「ピラミッド型のグループ設計」と「支持者をハブ（中継点）にした手動拡散の仕組み化」。
クローズドな空間を巨大な配信ネットワークに。
1. 招待リンクによる「グループの乱立と細分化」
WhatsAppのグループチャット（当時の上限は数百人規模）を活用。陣営はWebサイトやSNS上に「招待リンク」を大量に配置。
満員になれば次へ自動誘導: 1つのグループが定員に達すると、自動的に「グループ2」「グループ3」へと参加者を振り分けるリンク管理ツールを導入。
属性別のセグメント化: 「学生」「年金生活者」「福音派キリスト教徒」「特定地域の住民」など、属性や関心ごとに数千〜数万の細分化されたグループを網の目のように立ち上げた。
2. 「デジタル・アンバサダー（伝道師）」の育成
中央組織が全国民に一斉送信したのではなく、熱心な支持者を「中継地点（ハブ）」に仕立てた。→これだね
[選挙対策本部 / コアチーム]
│
▼（毎朝、画像・短文・動画・反論ネタを配信）
[数万人のアクティブ支持者・ボランティア]
│
▼（各自が私生活のグループへ「手動」で転送・シェア）
[家族・親戚グループ / 職場の同僚 / 地元の友人 / 教会仲間]
WhatsAppはスパム対策として「一度に転送できる宛先数」に制限（最大5件まで、頻繁に転送されたメッセージは1件まで）。
そこで陣営は、ボランティアに対して「転送ボタンを連打する」のではなく、「自分の言葉を添えて、自分が所属する家族グループや趣味のグループにシェアしてほしい」と呼びかけた。これにより、プラットフォーム側の自動スパム検知をすり抜けながら、極めて自然な形で無数のプライベート空間へ浸透。
3. Telegramとのハイブリッド運用
WhatsAppはグループ人数の上限が厳しかったため、陣営はTelegramも併用。Telegramには数十万人規模が入れる巨大チャンネルを作れる利点。
Telegramの巨大チャンネルで「今日拡散してほしい画像やファクトチェック記事」を一斉配布し、それを受け取った支持者たちがWhatsAppへと持ち帰って身近な人へ配る、というリレー形式。
4. 24時間体制の反論・ファクトチェックBot
相手陣営からフェイクニュースやネガティブキャンペーンが流れてきた際、有権者が「これ本当？」と転送して確認できる自動応答窓口（WhatsAppビジネスAPIを活用したBot）を設置。
「それはデマです。正しい事実はこちら」という短尺の画像や動画が即座に返信され、受け取ったユーザーはそのまま元の会話グループに「これデマらしいよ」と貼り付けて打ち消すことができた。
WhatsApp戦略は「無数の家庭のリビングに、信頼できる家族の1人として入り込んで直接耳打ちする」ようなネットワークを人力とツールで構築。
まじですごい。よく考えたなこれ。結局は人間なんだよね。
Noel Douglas retweeted
Let’s go through the peace deals Zelenskyy rejected.
• Istanbul agreement, 2022
Ukraine needed to refuse NATO accession, reduce the army, Russia would withdraw from the Kyiv reg., possibly from the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. At that point the scale of destruction was still limited and the number of dead was far lower. In April 2022 Zelenskyy declined the deal.
• End of 2022
Russian forces withdrew from part of the Kherson region. Zelenskyy traveled to meet Biden and, acc. to my sources, later confirmed by Mr. Blinken in the New York Times, persuaded the WH to continue the war. The precise terms of any proposed deal remain unknown, but sources indicate there was readiness to declare at least a ceasefire.
• Beginning of 2023
Through unofficial channels between the United States and Russia, an understanding took shape: Putin agreed to withdraw to the borders that existed before the full-scale invasion—freeing nearly everything conquered that year—in exchange for Ukraine’s refusal of NATO accession and recognition of Crimea as Russian. Zelenskyy and Yermak refused. Since then nearly a million people have been killed or wounded, several million have become refugees, parts of the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions have been occupied, more of Zaporizhzhia has been taken, Kherson lies in ruins, the Chernihiv and Sumy regions face constant shelling, Kyiv itself has become almost a front-line city, the energy system has been destroyed, businesses cannot operate, exports have stalled, and the country is degrading.
• July 2024
An arrangement that began with an energy ceasefire, modeled on the Istanbul understandings and mediated through the Middle East. While negotiations were under way, Zelenskyy also planned the Kursk operation, which ultimately disrupted all the arrangements.
• March 2025
After the Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelenskyy, European leaders gathered in London in early March. The British government stated that a number of options were on the table and that Ukraine had to choose. As always, nothing came of it.
Whether Putin was prepared each time to implement any agreements remains unknown, yet on several occasions he carried out what he had promised. Does this remove his responsibility for the deaths, the horrors, and the destruction in Ukraine? No.
But the country is degrading, the state apparatus is degrading, and corruption finishes what Putin’s missiles, drones, and bombs did not destroy. Inhumanity has effectively become a state strategy and a national ideology promoted at every turn.
Ukraine simply cannot win this way—there are neither economic, nor demographic, nor any other grounds for it. Therefore, if Zelenskyy does not agree to a deal with realistic terms now, Ukraine will be forced to capitulate. And that is deeply alarming, because it can actually cost the country its independence and sovereignty.
Noel Douglas retweeted
How does Haldane, who was a Bank of England executive during the bank crash and austerity, get to be president of the @britishchambers and "informal adviser" to Burnham...
...when on his watch the banks screwed small businesses and drove thousands into liquidation?
Farcical.
Noel Douglas retweeted
Nearly 80% of the Palestinian hostages held at Apartheid Israel’s Nafha prison have scabies, with almost no medicine given.
“I was released today after about four and a half months of detention.” Dr. Mazen al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician from Ramallah known across the West Bank as “the doctor of the poor,” speaks with a fresh wound on his face, inflicted half an hour before his release on October 25, 2026. He says a jailer dragged him to the release room handcuffed behind his back, shackled at the legs and blindfolded, then shoved and kicked him to the ground. Israeli occupation forces seized al-Rantisi from his home in the al-Tireh neighbourhood of Ramallah in June without announcing any reason, and his daughter says he lost around 25 kilograms in their prisons.
He describes Nafha prison as overrun with scabies, affecting nearly 80 percent of the Palestinian hostages held there, with almost no medicine given. When prisoners beg the passing nurse for treatment, he says, they are cursed at, mocked and ridiculed, and he was taunted for taking the chronic medication a court had ordered he receive. He calls on international human rights organisations to intervene, saying Palestinian hostages are beaten and punished at the whim of their jailers with no oversight or accountability.
@Aljazeeraquds
Noel Douglas retweeted
Cuando los brasileños se dieron cuenta que Musk y Zuckerberg estaban manipulando el algoritmo para interferir en elecciones de su país se volcaron hacia las RRSS y la llenaron de videos de Lula elaborados con IA.
Fenómeno social a estudiarse por décadas.
Noel Douglas retweeted
The U.S. post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people.
This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except for World War II.
Noel Douglas retweeted
Serbia 🇷🇸: the capital of Belgrade tonight.
Following last night's victory, the Student List organized a victory party tonight to thank all its supporters and voters for helping it defeat president Vucic.
Noel Douglas retweeted
The Government™ has made an ad about the protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.🌍🌎🌏
Noel Douglas retweeted
El que abraza a Lula es @AndreJanonesMG el diputado que con un canal de WhatsApp rompió el bloqueo de Meta y las otras empresas tecnológicas, y cambió la campaña después de la derrota en primera vuelta.
Hijo de una empleada domestica y un padre discapacitado, se pagó su carrera de abogado trabajando como cobrador de pasajes en los buses.
Su canal de WhatsApp (donde creó el “Ejército de Lula) pasó de 50 mil personas en primera vuelta a 10 millones para la segunda.
Sin el trabajo de Janones no hay remontada, Lula lo sabe y por eso el reconocimiento de ayer.
Como anécdota, fue quien convenció a Lula de finalmente usar teléfono celular, un iPhone.
Ahhh y reivindicó la camiseta de la selección Brasil para la campaña, de la que se había apropiado el bolsonarismo.
Esta é a foto que está estampando a vitória de Lula nos principais jornais do mundo (vi no The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian e no The Times).
Bastante representativa para ilustrar a importância de @AndreJanonesMG nesta campanha! Arrisco dizer que sem Janones, Lula não teria virado. E Lula reconheceu isso. Só Alckmin e Janones receberam o microfone para discursar na Paulista.
Não há dúvidas que, descontado o próprio Lula, André Janones é o nome que sai maior desse pleito presidencial. E com altas credenciais para disputar o governo de Minas Gerais pelo PT em 2030.
Por hora, espero que seja nomeado Secretário de Comunicação Social ainda em Lula 3! Tem tudo para conseguir cumprir a promessa que acabou de fazer: garantir que Lula termine o próximo governo com uma aprovação beirando os 90%.
Noel Douglas retweeted
¿Saben que hizo el movimiento estudiantil en #Serbia? se caminó todo el país. Salió de los espacios académicos de élite y conectó con la gente y sus problemas. Creo que mi amiga Maja caminó más de 2000 km en dos años. Ése es el reto y tarea pendiente. Escuchar. Estar.
Noel Douglas retweeted
Just Rishi Sunak earning £6265/ hour advising Goldman Sachs and £7729/hour consulting to Microsoft... while sitting as a backbench MP.
The median UK salary is £41k/year. Sunak earns that in just over five hours consulting for Microsoft.
What service is he providing, exactly?
Noel Douglas retweeted
Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
Noel Douglas retweeted
Does a day ever pass now when we don't see these images from somewhere in the world?
