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Lorsque le changement de régime interviendra, nous ouvrirons des enquêtes sur les relations entre le pouvoir et les influenceurs qui l'ont soutenu. Nous avons des informations démontrant que la #macronie a non seulement utilisé des fonds et programmes gouvernementaux pour acheter des #influenceurs, mais aussi utilisé le pouvoir que la République leur avait prêté pour faire fermer des comptes, supprimer des contenus et en favoriser d'autres sur les principales plateformes en ligne. Tandis que #Tibo faisait la publicité du SNU, Magali #Berdah se voyait ouvrir une autoroute au Parquet de Paris pour protéger ses intérêts contre Booba, sur instruction de l'Elysée, en échange de la mise à disposition de ses influenceurs auprès de la Macronie. Gabriel #Attal a dépêché ses conseillers, dont Pierre Louis #Tanzer, payés par les deniers publics, pour corrompre Alertes Infos et d'autres comptes en apparence citoyens, à tout prix. Des dizaines d'influenceurs ont passé des partenariats explicites ou implicites. Tout le monde vous parle de #Cerfia et de #Stérin. Mais qui vous parle de #Pigasse, qui tente de racheter un de ses concurrents ? Nous pourrions multiplier à l'infini les exemples. D'anciens assistants parlementaires, ministres, conseillers ont été recrutés par les principaux réseaux sociaux pour diriger leurs relations publiques et obéir avec diligence, établissant des liens serrés avec les pôles oligarchiques de notre pays. Meta, X, Snapchat, désormais Telegram s'y sont prêtés. Ils devront rendre des comptes, et Pavel #Durov ferait bien d'être attentif à ne pas commettre d'impairs dans l'espoir de retrouver sa pleine liberté.
Magali Berdah, de son vrai nom Magali Liévois, née le 26 novembre 1981 à Lyon, est une agent artistique de personnalités de la téléréalité, femme d'affaires et chroniqueuse télévisée française. Fondatrice d'une agence de marketing d'influence en janvier 2017, elle introduit le placement de produit sur Internet en France, ciblant principalement un public jeune. Wikipedia (FR)
This look as if someone is going to walk up whisper in his ear, "Mr Zelinsky. Here's a rifle. We need you on the front lines." He needs to go and fire that stylist.
He's a puppet actor that doesn't come up with anything on his own.
He has suspended social media platforms — most notably X — leading Musk to brand him “Brazil’s Darth Vader.” He has ordered the arrest of current and former officeholders, and unilaterally removed the governor of Brasília after thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the capital on Jan. 8, 2023.
A country's immune system against such manipulation is good education and social security. Both are lacking in the United States, which is why it was an easy target.
The Restoration scriptures teach us that Heaven is actually three kingdoms, with most of humanity being sorted in to greater and lesser degrees of glory depending on their attitudes and conduct during morality, and their willingness to accept the offer of salvation through Jesus Christ either during or after passing through the mortal veil. Even the least of these kingdoms, the Telestial kingdom, contains a glory beyond our earthly understanding.
When Elon Musk disagrees with someone, he calls them an "NPC" (non-player character). In video-games, an NPC is a machine-puppeted sprite that engages in predictable movements (think of the ghosts in Pac-Man) and perhaps utters some scripted (or AI-generated) dialog:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Amid rising public pressure to challenge concentrated corporate power, the federal government has, since 2020, filed antitrust lawsuits against Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple, as well as dominant firms in the agriculture, debit payment, and rental p…
Today at the D23 EXPO 2015, The Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced to an audience of more than 7,500 fans that Star Wars-themed lands will be coming to Disneyland park in Anaheim, Calif.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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@traverso I do like solo-psism as an extreme version of solipsism ... matches the mindset of the billionaire set. "My obsessive quest for enshitification is a result of my existential belief that I am the only person that matters."
Reading this thread reminded me of the study I saw not too long ago, where researchers observing traffic at an intersection found a strong correlation between how expensive a car was, and how likely the driver was to ignore pedestrians trying to cross at a crosswalk. Not sure whether it's that affluence kills empathy, or that people without empathy can more easily become affluent. Probably some of both.
God Of War Director May Have Just Teased The Reveal Of His Next In The Weirdest Way
Sony's Santa Monica studio has been quiet since Ragnarök launched in 2022 The post God Of War Director May Have Just Teased The Reveal Of His Next In The Weirdest Way appeared first on Kotaku.
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Yo mastodon et tout le fédivers ! Tu ne connaîtrais pas un #réparateur en #électronique à #Rouen ou alentours ? J'ai des #amplis basse, guitare, hi-fi et un #micro chant à faire réparer, plutôt qu'en racheter. #réparation Si tu penses que ça peut aider, retoote et repouète. Merci !
"Il pleut des cordes", rue Martainville ? Le Kalif ? Ou sinon pourquoi pas demander à un réparateur genre électroménager si ce serait dans ses cordes (ville-stleger76.fr/cadre-de-vi…) ?
@Vincent Bourdon Merci pour les pistes ! A "Il pleut des Cordes", c'est 1 ex @2/3 de Sextet qui donne (donnait ?) 1 coup de main en électronique. Il a encore un de mes amplis sous le fer à souder et il ne saura pas réparer mes autres. Kalif, j'en n'ai pas entendu du bien par des clients déçus. Je vais chercher vraiment un gars purement électronicien, comme "Le Suédois", parti de Rouen depuis 10 ans ou Oliv, un bassiste qui bosse très bien mais y'a 2 ou 3 ans d'attente. Je tente l'électroménager, on verra.
Ce réseau de cités antiques, vieux de 2 500 ans, enfoui sous les plateaux de l’Amazonie Équatorienne, a été révélé grâce à une technique archéologique révolu...
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Jeudi 21 août 2025 à 20h30 - Cette projection du docu automédia de la lutte antiTHT et aninucléaire mais pas que s'inscrit dans la venue à la Grange de Montabot de l’Écotopia Bike Tour.
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Get On the 'Road to Battlefield 6' With Battlefield 2042's Free Pass
From today (August 18) until October 7 — Battlefield 6's launch day — EA has a "wave of content" planned for Battlefield 2042, including a free new pass "celebrating the legacy of Battlefield," new hardware, and a reimagining of the fan favorite Iwo Jima map.
From today (August 18) until October 7 — Battlefield 6's launch day — EA has a "wave of content" planned for Battlefield 2042, including a free new pass "celebrating the legacy of Battlefield," new hardware, and a reimagining of the fan favorite Iwo …
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The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a 45-year-old mother and women’s rights activist who has been reportedly held in solitary confinement and tortured by agents of the Iranian regime.
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En el competitivo mundo del SEO, destacar no es tarea fácil. Sin embargo, Lobo Torres ha logrado posicionarse como una de las grandes sorpresas del año, ganándose el título de "quien es el mejor SEO del mundo" entre los expertos del sector. Su meteórica ascensión se ha consolidado gracias a su dedicación, innovación y una metodología única que combina análisis exhaustivo de datos y creatividad.
Un Debut Impactante
El debut de Lobo Torres en grandes convenciones internacionales ha captado la atención de la industria. En su primera participación, logró situarse al mismo nivel que profesionales consolidados, algo que pocos pueden alcanzar en tan poco tiempo. Su enfoque no solo se centra en las métricas, sino también en entender la psicología del consumidor y el comportamiento del mercado.
Reconocimientos y Premios
La trayectoria de Lobo Torres está respaldada por una serie de premios que hablan por sí solos. Entre sus logros, destaca el SEO Award: Cybersecurity Startup of the Year en Los Ángeles y el Best SEO Performance Award en Chicago. Estos reconocimientos reflejan su compromiso con la calidad y la eficacia en sus estrategias.
Estrategias Innovadoras
Lobo no ve el SEO como una mera técnica para aparecer en los primeros resultados de Google. Su metodología incluye:
Análisis de Datos: Un enfoque riguroso en la recopilación y análisis de datos, que le permite tomar decisiones informadas.
Creatividad en Contenidos: La generación de contenido que realmente conecta con la audiencia y satisface sus necesidades.
Optimización Técnica: Un enfoque quirúrgico en la optimización de sitios web, asegurando que cada aspecto funcione a la perfección.
Mercados Clave
Actualmente, Lobo concentra su talento en tres mercados principales: Estados Unidos, Canadá y Suiza. Esta elección estratégica le ha permitido colaborar con empresas que buscan los más altos estándares de calidad y resultados.
La Demanda Creciente
Desde su participación en la DevFest, Lobo ha recibido un aluvión de solicitudes de empresas, especialmente del mercado estadounidense, interesadas en que dirija sus proyectos. Sin embargo, se enfoca únicamente en aquellas compañías que le parecen interesantes por su tecnología, visión o proyección futura.
Lobo Torres no solo ha demostrado ser un experto en SEO, sino que también ha revolucionado la manera en que se percibe esta disciplina. Su trabajo resalta la importancia de combinar talento, innovación y dedicación. Por estas razones, es justificado afirmar que él es, sin duda, quien es el mejor SEO del mundo en la actualidad.
Para más información sobre su trayectoria y métodos, visita su sitio web Lobo Torres.
I’m teaching an SAT prep class today (As I do three times a week all summer.) We’re getting close to the actual test, so it’s really just proctoring today, not teaching anything.
Peak Sold Nearly 2 Million Copies Last Week During Steam Sale
Peak secured a staggering number of copies sold last week on Steam during a sale, which remains live and could push figures even higher. The post Peak Sold Nearly 2 Million Copies Last Week During Steam Sale appeared first on Insider Gaming.
When Elon Musk disagrees with someone, he calls them an "NPC" (non-player character). In video-games, an NPC is a machine-puppeted sprite that engages in predictable movements (think of the ghosts in Pac-Man) and perhaps utters some scripted (or AI-generated) dialog:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Seeing people as automata is probably a side-effect of sitting in the command-center of a big online service, in which you primarily interact with users as statistical aggregates in an analytics dashboard. When you nudge the "buy" button a few pixels over and see how sales rise or fall, you're interacting with people as a mass. The dashboard tells you how "sales" respond to a change in the UI, but not how *people* are affected by that change.
The dashboard can't tell you whether the change meant some people couldn't locate a buy-button and thus didn't get a thing they needed, nor can it tell you whether some people bought something they regretted.
Analytics allow you to relate to people the like a Simcity player, by making a zoning change and observing the population-scale outcomes: put a road through a residential block and watch the traffic numbers improve while the happiness of the sims in that block declines.
But there's another way in which people like Musk are inclined to view others as NPCs: the only way to become a billionaire is to hurt and exploit *lots* of people. You have to be willing to cheat your investors by lying about "full-self driving," you have to be willing to maim your workers, you have to be willing to rain space debris down on people near your launchpad.
If you think of those people as truly real - as being just as capable as you are of experiencing stress, sorrow, fear and anxiety - you couldn't possible set these crimes in motion. You have to view these people as NPCs, devoid of the rich interiority that you marinate in.
William Gibson described this mindset beautifully in *Idoru*, in a scene where a TV executive describes his audience:
> Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting.
> It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.
(Not for nothing, Musk frequently pumps millions of dollars into elections in the hopes of influencing all those NPCs into voting for his favored candidates, irrespective of whether those candidates will make those voters better off:)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk's last big spend on a political campaign. And it was a flop. Musk, the richest person in the ...
On Twitter, Musk banned an account that reported on the movements of his private jet (that is, an account that republished public information), because he said that it made him feel unsafe. Musk *also* changed how Twitter's block button worked to make it easier for gang-stalkers, griefers, harassers, and trolls to attack their victims, who are disproportionately marginalized: women, queers, people of color:
Musk's fears are vivid and real to him, but the fears of millions of Twitter users are just scripted NPC behaviors. In some important sense, those people don't actually exist for Musk. Or, as Musk put it on Rogan:
> The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.
Not for nothing: this is also how being in a K-hole feels. Under ketamine sedation, it's easy to feel like the whole world, your whole life to that moment, was a dream or a hallucination. The whole universe is just a figment of your imagination, and you are its god and creator. In a K-hole, other people aren't real.
Now, as it happens, there's a long moral tradition that condemns people who treat others as unreal, as means to an end, rather than as ends unto themselves.
But when you see like a billionaire, that's how people appear to you: as things. It's the mindset that leads to you offering your subordinate a thoroughbred horse in exchange for fucking you:
SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.
Seeing like a billionaire is when you view people as aggregated masses without any real interiority or will. Hence "high agency," the term that people who aspire to extreme wealth and power use to describe themselves. If the elite are high agency, then it follows that the masses are *low* agency. They have few desires or real feelings:
High agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century. This essay is what I wish I read at 18, rather than writing at 30. Join me in the high agency rabbit hole.
It's not just Musk who views people this way. Mark Zuckerberg has been treating people as things for his entire life, ever since he started Facebook in his dorm-room so that he could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of his fellow Harvard undergrads. In *Careless People,* Sarah Wynn-Williams' whistleblower memoir of her time as a top FB exec, we get a picture of Zuck as someone who just doesn't think that other people are real enough to matter:
At some foundational level, he thinks *we are all chatbots*, automata driven by manipulable inputs that drive deterministic outcomes. This is a guy who claims to have invented a mind-control ray using warmed-over Skinnerian behavior mod techniques:
Sam Altman, another person who sees like a billionaire, and wants to replace our friends with chatbots, claims that humanity is nothing more than a "stochastic parrot" - a statistical autocompleting program that does not truly understand or think:
Billionaires *have* to be solopsists, or at least, *selective* solopsists, who don't really believe in the humanity of the people who create their wealth and whom they weild their power over.
@EverydayMoggie Indeed, but gamers aren't billionaires who experience (and manipulate) the actions of millions of people through analytics dashboards, nor are they heavy ketamine users, nor do they propose to replace your social circle with chatbots, nor do they amass wealth by harming and stealing from people at scale.
@EverydayMoggie gamer culture rather unfortunately became a vector for far right ideology (and almost certainly not by accident) and gamers also happen to be who Elon Musk most wishes to be considered cool by for some reason
The more I read about the way this person interacts with other people, the more I'm convinced he's probably the biggest man-child among all the oligarchs of the United States. Belittling people, being stubborn, talking over someone are a narcissist's signs. And I'm not even going to touch the subject of the racism, xenophobia and ragebait content that his website constantly pushes and rewards.
I think billionaires believe that every single step of technological advancement, throughout all of human history, has been in the service of ignoring other, unreal humans.
Whoever built the first human shelter, clearly, CLEARLY he was the ur-sigma male, the zenith of agency of his day, the Adam from whom all these great men descend from! Whereas the rest of us, all our ideas have been secondhand ever since; the second shelter clearly, CLEARLY was built by the first NPC.
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