New year, new life. Loving Brussels, loving @eu_eeas 🙂 Tweeting stuff rarely, commenting a bit more. having fun with EVE Online & Mad Science - NL, EN, FR.
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#history is a vast learning system. Why do conservative / status quo group dynamics in societies always - without exception - reach for austerity as a mechanism when reach and / or power of that dynamic diminishes?
Because #austerity begets #authoritarianism. It is that simple.
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What if, just one time, we scrutinized billionaire tax havens as closely as we scrutinize basic relief for the poor?
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Godspeed America, I wish you strength and perseverance, in a direly needed day by day grassroots exercise of participatory democracy - on every level, in every domain, for every angle.
Please, do wake up, to a 40+ year old networked agenda.
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If you see a cat on ZOOM, and believe it's a cat, but it's actually a cat filter, used by a cat, would that classify as a justified false belief?
Asking for a cat.
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Beneath all the ideological marketing constructs lies an inconvenient matter to consider, as in their core all these variants of conservatism and oligarchy follow Hayek and Buchanan’s paradigms of dethroning politics.
Who exactly - really - benefits from weak government?
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@FoxNews is getting even worse because:
1. They can.
The media landscape is pretty much theirs.
2. It works.
American culture is a construct primed for narratives, constantly repeated by a media machine which serves oligarchy through policy institutes and ownership.
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I find myself curious - how are #twitterstorians looking at this #ImpeachmentTrial in real-time, not looking back throughout #History but observing in live. It must raise some interesting perspectives.
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Observing the general public and social media debates on the #ImpeachmentTrial makes me wonder - if every American household had read @sarahkendzior’s research most questions would long have had answers - and a full accounting would have been possible. goodreads.com/book/show/5227…
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And I thought The Hunger Games were fiction ...
Children who are houseless (homeless), have the chance to win laptops to help with their distance learning during the pandemic. They need your online votes to help them win. #HawaiiNews trib.al/byeAN2S
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The 4 richest Americans - Bezos, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg - started their companies with significant help from their parents
Studies show the top correlation with success in starting a business is family help
The "American dream" is not equal for everyone
theguardian.com/business/202…
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1/3 I keep seeing these Qanon redemption stories & I think journalism is failing. This dangerous movement is almost exclusively white, and yet, none of the stories I've watched or read discuss race. Reporters aren't asking ex-Qanoners about it. Race is central to this story.
“[I] lost my job last April in 2020 and I was super depressed...I probably lost touch with a little bit of reality.”
After being introduced to QAnon on TikTok, this South Carolina mom explains how she left the conspiracy theory after Biden’s inauguration cnn.it/2YICCMl
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So, turns out, Cthulhu is real. Cause it’s on the internet. Time to read up on Lovecraft I suppose. Just in case.
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Everything human is narrative. How to deal with that in a #culture primed for (ab)use of it?
1. everything is #storytelling; situational ethics, rules based values, transformative
Or
2. everything is #marketing; disfunctional ethics distortion, normative values, transactional
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Willem Engel is de klos als @Het_OM zich aan de herhaaldelijke uitspraken van @GerritvdBurg houdt. Bijgaande video zegt alles.
Dit moet tot vervolging leiden, anders is er sprake van willekeur. Please like & RT? #stopwillemengel
youtu.be/L18lrXvf66A
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Over the last month, I rewatched all the Star Wars movies. I present to you my thread:
"The Chronicle of R2-D2: Deus ex machina"
We all think Star Wars is about @HamillHimself and Luke, Leia, Ani, and the Skywalker family
Wrong, it's all about Artoo
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“What if the #trauma of living through real conspiracies all around us is making people vulnerable to #conspiracy theories?”
How to Destroy #Surveillance #Capitalism, a New Book by @doctorow onezero.medium.com/how-to-de…
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From a perspective of #culture engineering the #Bernie #meme is really interesting.
Funny as it is, in memetic effect it is a toxic meme, displacing a powerful corrective meme introduced at the same time.
@TheAmandaGorman > @BernieSanders 👍
The recent Bernie-mittens meme was a sterling example of this, tickling me right to my core, and I just happened on an especially delightful apex example of the form: @ToastedShoes's video of Sanders incorporated into eight AAA video-games.
youtube.com/watch?v=2tpIJx5p…
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With all the distractions of turmoil we’re increasingly likely to forget that just about all of it is constructed #narrative designed to make use of our perception for agenda of conservative Minority Rule #politics
Let’s stop and think for a moment: theguardian.com/commentisfre…