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#infomocracy @older.bsky.social
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Information is a public good #Infomocracy
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ebook note of text: “We now know that the CFB staff has been altering this data by changing the computer’s search terms. For example, the terms ‘land grab’ and ‘turf slurp’ are both slang for the Mitsubishi effort to buy up land, so letters using those phrases are usually sorted into the same folder. On January twelfth of this year, CFB staff intentionally altered the program to route these into separate folders, making it seem as if the number of letters concerning his Mitsubishi land policy had suddenly dropped, whereas it had, in fact, increased. This prevented the Cousins’ Board from taking action to place more blocks on Cousins selling land to Mitsubishi. That’s just one example. The records I have uncovered reveal hundreds of such alterations made every year, which have controlled the flow of information, and effectively dictated much of the Hive’s policy for decades.”
ebook note of text: “The information I have seen suggests that, if not for the Anonymous controlling the CFB, the Hive’s core political policies would have been dictated all these years by wild short-term oscillations of opinion, resulting in a chaotic and panic-driven system incapable of long-term stability.”
Lunch break reading was the part of Seven Surrenders by @adapalmer.bsky.social where Kosala gets very “organization of information is power” and “social media is a poor form of government.”
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infuriates me when news reports assign an action/intent/emotion to "Russia" or "China" or "America" [sic], rather than its ruling class, not just because it promotes nationalist, often racist thinking, but because the nation-state is the wrong level of analysis for what's happening.
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I've been thinking of that post about the "extended universe" of that stupid ai "actress" & how they're trying to monetize the pathology of celebrity without having to involve celebrities; FB slop monetizing "water cooler moments" w/o needing them to really happen...
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I think I need to reread @older.bsky.social 's #Infomocracy series. Didn't a huge part of the last book go down in Dubai? hmmm I need some alt futures that aren't a fascist dystopia.
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I was noticing this earlier and very annoyed by it. #Infomocracy
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"many Americans" is an alarm bell: if they don't say "majority" or "plurality" it could be anywhere from 50 to 150 million.
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The back of a small tablet with two stickers: in the center is one with an agender pride flag overlaid with a starfield, and above is one with blue text reading “I Vote For Policy1st” and black text reading “#Infomocracy”
Tablet has been increasingly a primary device, and so it needed the usual stickers. #Infomocracy
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#Infomocracy, Torment Nexus edition
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!!!!!! #Infomocracy, Seattle edition
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(just to offer one concrete example, similar situation at newspapers, etc). But it does mean that "legitimate" news is now facing much more competition for attention. #Infomocracy
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