"Democratic institutions are quarantine arrangements to combat that ancient pestilence, lust for tyranny: as such they are very useful and very boring."
- Nietzsche, "The Wanderer and his Shadow", p. 289
#democracy #politics #tyranny
(And #cryptocurrency is one of those democratic institution so long as it remains #decentralised)
Cyborg, never saw the point of you before, except as a cheap gimmick.
But, actually, you're a pretty good moderator.
Vermin control without disturbing the neighbourhood.
Source: friend who works in local government.
Instead he has to use subsonic rounds
You must be the fairest Bengali I've ever seen, then.
If you don't mind me asking the question, what is your heritage?
I filtered a single keyword: (hashtag) furry, and 99.9% of the wierd anime porn spam went away!
I found that much easier than playing whack-a-mole with accounts
Feminism Against Progress is a feminist cry for traditional marriage.
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=52A2FBCA6487202B4C889F8BA6173026
She makes quite a few good points, and pisses off her colleagues.
But no way in Hades would I want a traditional marriage! Its a terrible deal for men.
Cue every useless trophy wife: "SO offensive!"
(Often it isn't different, other than a theoretical commitment to monogamy)
I promise you, that is happening, by multiple actors and at scale.
But its not hard to spin up fake bio's and simulate interactions, even if they're a bit "off". Nostr doesn't really have a unified subculture with strong boundaries.
I don't think the "no-bio" bots are for active measures. Passive data collection maybe, but not active.
Statistical analysis requires a lot of data, from as many angles as possible, but you're right, we're approaching "The Man Who Was Thursday" territory here.
On the other hand, the funding exists, therefore it must be used, or it will be retargeted. The number of bots seems insane, but govt work be like that if the budget is there and management wants big numbers for their big meeting.
Or I could be wrong and its mostly (c). But I have no idea what (c) could be!
I lean heavily towards both flavours of (b), but it's probably "all of the above".
A guy I served with is now an academic "Extremism Expert" talking head, #nostr is exactly the sort of thing he'd be funded to smear, I mean, study.
And then there's every local, state and federal agency wanting its own "human terrain" / "social media analysis" unit.
Most of those bots could be glowies from less-resourced units. The ones you can't pick as bots are the Feds :-p
I've wondered myself.
(a) Unfinished projects, that may mature into what Cyborg and Sexy Search Bot are?
(b) Academic / security agency contractors vacuuming up data, on the relays they don't control?
(c) ????
Problem #1:
Pre-Roman-era Judah was approximately coextensive with modern metropolitan Jerusalem.
Pre-Roman-era Israel was even smaller.
Pre-Roman-era Samaria was about the same, and frequently at war with the other two.
Combined, they cover a tiny area of modern Palestine.
Problem #2:
Most of the Jewish community in Judah and Israel abandoned Judaism after the (humiliatingly failed) Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-136. Their descendants intermarried with other faiths during the long centuries of peace, and call themselves Falesteen.
Guess what that ethnonym is in English?
100% this, unfortunately.
Feels like 1938 must have in hindsight
^ This. And in case they're feeling left out, The Nationals were deeply enmeshed in the lavish taxpayer buyback of (nonexistent) flood water use rights from donors and cronies.
https://www.torproject.org FTW!
Just watch out for honeypot exit nodes erroring https sites. Ctrl-shift-L for a new circuit.
I am very sus on most paid VPNs that exit in Western countries, if they weren't cooperating they wouldn't be operating...
You are the spokesperson every /unworthy/ cause deserves more of.
And that makes genocidal threats and mass war crimes on #palestine okay? Srsly?
Aliyev supplies 60% of Israel's liquid fuel. War criminals stick together.
Us non-warcriminals should too, you know.
Its not something new, although it has accelerated in the last two decades. Like the guards in any penal colony, our well-connected have a culture where they expect to lounge around and make money middle-manning and monopolizing. With detours into outright fraud.
Governor Bligh briefly put a stop to the nonsense, and we know what happened to him - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion
Same problems, same elite culture today. Just different excuses and lies...
Hamas is vulnerable to only one weapon - hope.
But credibly deploying hope would destroy #zionism, too. And the military-aid & loan-guarantee gravy trains that feed it.
Do it! :)
There are a bunch of tags ppl use already like #BUYUSD