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mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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Bobby Cotic had been giving comfort to Sheryl sandbarg until June. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence but small world, huh!

https://pagesix.com/2019/06/06/inside-facebook-coo-sheryl-sandbergs-split-with-bobby-kotick/ posted:


Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg split with billionaire Bobby Kotick after three years amid building pressure at work and calls to break up the social media giant.

Sandberg, 49, and Activation Blizzard CEO Kotick, 56, began dating in 2016, a year after the loss of her beloved husband, Dave Goldberg. At the time, sources said Kotick was a huge source of strength for Sandberg.

But Sandberg has more recently been on a worldwide “apology tour” to re-energize Facebook after it was reported in 2018 that she oversaw an “aggressive lobbying campaign” by research firm Cambridge Analytica — which accessed Facebook users’ data for political purposes ahead of the 2016 election.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly blamed Sandberg, author of the smash hit “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will To Lead,” saying she should’ve been more aggressive in controlling the storm. Sandberg began spending “more . . . time safeguarding the company.”

A source close to the former couple said, “Sheryl is under a huge amount of work stress right now. And she and Bobby are very different people. She’s a left-wing Democrat who takes herself very seriously. He’s a registered Independent, if he wasn’t a very, very successful businessman, he’d probably be a stand-up comedian.”

Goldberg died in Mexico in 2015, and Sandberg told the Guardian in 2017 about her new relationship with Kotick: “Men date sooner, men date more, and women get judged more. And, you know, obviously that’s super unfair. I think I’m helping people remember that dating, for those who want to do it, is part of moving forward … If I could I would only date Dave … I just had that taken away from me.”


here’s what happened to Dave btw

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On May 1, 2015, Goldberg died suddenly while vacationing with Sandberg at a private beach-front villa near the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Punta Mita, Mexico; he was pronounced dead at a hospital in Nuevo Vallarta. According to the Nayarit State Prosecutor's Office, Goldberg fell off a treadmill while exercising at a gym and died after suffering head trauma and blood loss.[4][9][10][11]

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mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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Mr Hootington posted:

Between this and starting Choas, I am vibrating at so fast I could solve a crisis on multiple earths.

It’s from September 9. Too old

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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please practice diligence in screenshotting twitters. most of the twitters linked in cspam go private immediately for whatever reason.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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they’re going to deepfake a video interview with islam maxwell

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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inferis posted:

weird, i started taking bupropion for mental health, but it’s also marketed a smoking cessation aid and it ended up doing both. I had no plans to quit smoking, but it made the cigarettes not do anything so I just kind of stopped without really any intention

I smoked cigarettes on bupropion for like 7 years. Try smoking harder and you’ll find it’s possible to make it through

mawarannahr
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skybolt_1 posted:

All of those are being sold through third parties, though. Behind the fog is being sold directly by Amazon...

https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Fog-Lisa-Martino-Taylor/dp/1138239674/

Whatever, obviously somebody thinks that this poo poo should be suppressed and distribution limited, obviously. Not surprising in any case.

It’s published by Routledge. Their books are always really expensive as it’s expected that university libraries will buy them.

mawarannahr
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nomad2020 posted:

I think RedHat left because of him being reinstated, lol.

IBM made the right call here — morality and justice are core aspects of their brand.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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Fried Watermelon posted:

supernatural stuff is real, it exists and has been used for thousands of years. Most religions are founded on it.

Whether you believe in it doesn't matter, because the CIA and other powerful groups believe in it and use it to their advantage.

There is proof that the CIA used mind control drugs to manipulate people. There is proof that they researched psychic poo poo.

Do you think Epstein was using that dental surgery stuff solely for dental work? Or was he loving people up on drugs to manipulate them?

And if you want to be a pedant about it, nothing exists outside of your own head anyways.

ok but mind control and nitrous aren’t supernatural

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

There are only posts and posters.

there are mods, too, and guess what — they’re bad!

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Inverted Icon posted:

When it comes to understanding the world on a personal level, strict materialism has strong points, but strict materialism leads straight into the clockwork universe, where the concept of free will doesn't exist

if you believe in free will you're probably a child and/or a liberal. your experience of material reality is shaped by that material reality, and that's where Will comes from

mawarannahr
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Perry Mason Jar posted:

Sorry do you mean if you believe in absolute free will?

A belief in absolute free will is silly but a belief in absolute determinism is also very silly and definitely not borne out by Science (as its proponents would have you believe).

my basic tenet is that if you live in an industrial society your experience, desires, etc. are so thoroughly enmeshed with the situations your material relations put you into that it's meaningless to ponder the infinestimal effects quantum jumbo or whatever might have on what you want to do.

mawarannahr
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Perry Mason Jar posted:

That objects/people/beliefs are products is not a refutation of free will if the product is also involved in a process of auto-production.

a 3D printer that can 3D print another 3D printer doesn't have free will imo

mawarannahr
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Marzzle posted:

arguing is fun especially on the internet with strangers. people shouldn't look to cspam to validate their preconceptions, it's ok to have your beliefs challenged because you get a free chance to test their validity or modify them to be a more accurate

this is one reason I really hate it when people with buttons barge into a thread the moment there's any disagreement like it's their job to smooth things over and enforce inside voices.

mawarannahr
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what the gently caress does it say

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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Brown Moses probably had to/enthusiastically described everything about the forums to his handlers

mawarannahr
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fr0id posted:

I’m gonna stick up for psychology a bit. First, this is a book written in the very early 2000s and it mentions two psychologists who were most prominent 40-50 years ago. Psychology has changed a lot since then, and there have been large feminist and otherwise movements to break ties with Freud. In most college courses he is given credit for the subconscious. Jung is mostly treated as a vocabulary term.

A lot of the statements against psychology are true to an extent, but they don’t constitute enough evidence to destroy the field. There has been a lot of productive and even leftist work done in the field since the 50s.

OK, you said they left out the good stuff. Please, tell us the good stuff.

mawarannahr
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Backweb posted:

It took like 30 seconds for that text to get posted. Lmao they've cracked through Radium's coding.

so you say it’s about cum?

mawarannahr
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nut posted:

ya I think some movies like the Terminal Man came out and maybe stoked the fire. It's worth noting Heath wasn't even really an MKUltra guy. On paper, he did a 500 dollar study for the CIA on bulbocapnine using monkeys and an inmate.


...though it's worth double noting that he also destroyed all his files when he retired.

I thought you were talking about Heath Ledger for a moment and almost updated my mental XLS files.

mawarannahr
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Happy Thread posted:

Like so many people with unexplained success, funding and assistance fell from the heavens onto Zuck's lap. How much of the movie The Social Network was just bullshit then? Are Americans aware that there have been hundreds of thousands of erotic fanfics written about that movie, pre-dating all the archive sites for them? I just learned this. The authors would be heartbroken to know it was untrue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

The DARPA program was canceled in late January, 2004, after criticism from civil libertarians concerning the privacy implications of the system..[4][5]

https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/

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The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence.

Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.

LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past. But civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.


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Facebook is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004.[1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and college roommates and fellow Harvard University students, in particular Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.


it doesn’t matter if it’s a conspiracy theory or not — the way it has worked out has really worked out!

mawarannahr
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gradenko_2000 posted:

David Packard of Hewlett-Packard:


From "Soldiers of Reason":



(Irving Kristol there being Bill Kristol's dad, and Norman Podhoretz being Jon Podhoretz's dad)

anyway it's a pretty safe bet any kind of huge tech breakthrough is backed by the deep state

Irving Kristol was a legitimate organizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Intellectuals posted:

The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. Mostly Jews, they advocated left-wing politics but were also firmly anti-Stalinist. The group is known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism and socialism while rejecting Soviet socialism as a workable or acceptable political model.

Trotskyism emerged as the most common standpoint among these anti-Stalinist Marxists. Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler and Nathan Glazer were members of the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League.[1]

mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 05:35 on Apr 13, 2021

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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I imagine he was demonstrating to the children possible misspellings of his name. I’m sure I’ve seen a teacher with a similarly exotic name do something like that. relax

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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"Listen up, kids, here's a list of wrong ways to spell my name: EPSTEEN EPSHTINE EPSTINE" *camera clicks*

mawarannahr
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Trabisnikof posted:

after SRI Black then went to Ampex, an electronics company that among other things, made recorders for the CIA.

truly one of the most chilling chapters in agency history

mawarannahr
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people are so beaten down in this country that leftists argued to change the name “tax Amazon” because each word, together or alone, might be too inflammatory and offend the American mind

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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nut posted:

Oh baby do I regret checking ahead to find out!

Cuba!


NK!


There's a bunch of other sections but here are the author's take on the US allegations of Pathet Lao chemical and biological warfare, which I will remind you included "Yellow Rain", which the authors fail to mention was later discovered to be clouds of bee poo poo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rain)



Imagine believing in the radio insanity ray pointed at the Cuban embassy and thinking this is far fetched

mawarannahr
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Probably any Chinese-owned VPN company. Every time you see the US congress or senators or any US-owned media crying about Chinese apps spying on you they mean "Please don't use these apps because we have a hard time spying on you if you do." Unless you are a Chinese national or travel to China frequently or something you have zero reason to care about the CCP lookin' over your shoulder, at least compared to any US-based service, who could potentially leverage your data against you.

I’ve had a good experience with HK-based BlackVPN back in 2013, sounds like they’re still OK.

mawarannahr
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smarxist posted:

from a comrade in Brazil, seems fine:
"A journalist found a recording of Bolsonaro in a reunion that is literally an evil cabal talking openly about doing things on a children's cartoon

They literally call themselves "The Shadow Cabinet"

And there is even a self admission of a Shadow President that pulls the strings behind Bolsonaro"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HKAxkk84B8

you know where else has a shadow cabinet? pedophile island. they don’t have even bother to hide it, even flaunting their vicious antisemitism as they cackle and cackle

mawarannahr
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Cached Money posted:

I know the concept of end to end encryption is hard to understand but try to understand that it is way easier to hack someone's phone than it is to break the encryption itself

edit: also signal is fully open source so it's not really possible to hide back doors in it

:wrong:

I recommend using Signal with friends to talk about subjects like pizza because it’s better than, say, Messenger. You might be able to rely on it to protect yourself from, say, nation-states that might lack close US intelligence relations, but you’re pretty hosed if the US wants to spy on your poo poo.

You can math all day coming up with complex encryption schemes but there are many, many other vectors they can get you with, starting from modifying binaries in the App Store to changing OS code to directly exploiting hooks in the hardware placed there specifically for the government to pwn yuo. Even if you assumed there’s no way for them to modify the binary, the latest source code wasn’t even published until a month ago or so, long after people complained about it. At the end of the day, Signal is a cryptocurrency scheme cooked up by a US government contractor who calls himself Moxie Marlinspike.

If you’re serious, try an airgapped non-x86 SoC running a barebones OS that you will only use to encrypt and decrypt GPG messages

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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multistability posted:

I'm too drunk to reformat it sorry
I can’t believe you would let the community down by posting drunk... it is against the rules.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
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is this person saying mental illness actually isn’t heritable and we’ve never discovered anything that could suggest it is?

mawarannahr
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V. Illych L. posted:

a lot of the evidence for narrow sense heritability of a lot of traits is grounded in twin research which is increasingly coming under scrutiny from some quarters. basically what the twin studies do is to find identical twins and assume that the genetic component of variation is fixed and measure a variety of other stuff and then assume that this constitutes narrow sense heritability. this is a good idea, but it's problematic for a variety of reasons ranging from formally statistical (heritability is a dynamic variable depending heavily on context to emerge) to philosophical (increasingly, people are coming around to the idea of genes as predispositions, which makes narrow sense heritability very difficult as a concept) to biological (there's a fair amount of stuff that goes on before the fetus is fully matured, which is not covered by the twin separation) which all basically boil down to "you haven't fully controlled for what you hoped to control in your experimental design"

to go from this critique to say that there's no heritability of mental illness is imo a dramatic and not justified step. what these confounding factors do is indicate that our estimates for heritability are exaggerated. the evidence for genetic predisposition influencing personality and mental illness remains very strong.

who does twin studies without accounting for environmental factors anymore? it’s a solid criticism of how we got here but not really of how psychological research has been done for years and years. the biopsychosocial model is the main one taught these days afaik, not the biomedical model.

ex. https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3285
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151405

mawarannahr
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I stopped taking my meds and got really into Bifo for about a month. then, the IPCC released the Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and then both David Berman and Jeffrey Epstein took their own lives within days of each other.

mawarannahr
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I think there’s a difference between the development of political consciousness and identity, radicalization, and crack-pinging, which suggests some kind of sudden cognitive dissonance in processing the world, like, a sudden moment of clarity that feels like you’re losing your drat mind and that having these thoughts and knowing this knowledge is almost too much to bear.

mawarannahr
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anyone read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man? it was a decent pinger when I read it mid 2000s but idk if it holds up.

the main cited critic on Wikipedia is this guy, an Etonian and Oxfordian who works for CFR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Mallaby

mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 20:07 on Jul 3, 2021

mawarannahr
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What’s up fellow fools

https://twitter.com/PsyPost/status/1411466680136388611?s=20

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Trabisnikof posted:

sadly not on scihub yet, but from the SI it’s looking good for this thread:

I think sci-hub might be dead from now on, as in, no longer adding new papers. :(

mawarannahr
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Many 2021 papers haven’t been appearing and there is this recent story

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time

Non paywall but slow:
https://archive.is/w0rlZ

mawarannahr
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this is all a liberal conspiracy to make themselves feel smarter and label any dissent as insanity that can only be fixed by licensed expert therapists and health economists. basically what soviet psychiatry is claimed to have been.

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Elderbean posted:

I don't know why I haven't thought about Jonestown in ages. It was distant enough in the past that when I was growing up it was just fodder for jokes in pop culture about taking the kool-aid.

He literally says "Get Dwyer out of here" in the death tape and was friends with Dan Mitrione goddamn.


quote:

In 1951, 20-year-old Jones began attending gatherings of the Communist Party USA in Indianapolis.[15] He became flustered with harassment during the McCarthy Hearings,[15] particularly regarding an event that he attended with his mother focusing on Paul Robeson, after which she was harassed by FBI agents in front of her co-workers for attending.[16] Jones also became frustrated with the persecution of open and accused communists in the U.S., especially during the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[17] Jones said he asked himself, "How can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."[15][16]

this country gives everyone reasons

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If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin.

lol


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In September 1976, Assemblyman Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally.[50] At that dinner, Brown touted Jones as "what you should see every day when you look in the mirror" and said he was a combination of Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and [Mao Zedong].[51] Harvey Milk spoke to audiences during political rallies held at the Temple,[52] and he wrote to Jones after one such visit:[53][54]

truly a fringe figure

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mawarannahr
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dead gay comedy forums posted:

There's a bit of fuckery though: Nico. Ms. Päffgen had to be marshalled into Velvet Underground by Warhol's amazing capability to be insistent and annoying, who believed she had to be in the band at any cost, making Reed and Cale relent eventually because Warhol was helping them with securing some cashflow. She was a bad singer (and partially deaf to boot) and her German came on thick, and her own exaggerated bohemianism made Lou loving Reed think she was undisciplined and tell her to take it easier on the heroin. She came, record was done, and immediately got cartloaded to a solo career that was highly overproduced for a bad singer. So what's the big deal?

She was a goddamned aryan showcase-piece of a woman that was a goddamned savage of a racist and antisemite. She frequently joked about the jews - which made the calm and polite Reed become rightly pissed off because Reed was once Rabinowitz - and cursed people of color often. Danny Fields, the famous producer, called her "nazi-esque" a few times and it wasn't about her looks. During one social occasion in the Chelsea Hotel, Nico loving smashes a glass of wine on the table, yells "I hate black people" and one of the shards goes into the eye of a singer, a brown woman who worked with Hendrix, blood everywhere and one loving hell of a scene and

Warhol (and his crowd) manages to whisk that woman away to France overnight without a goddamned whisper about it.

then there's her act on the 70s that was perhaps Brian Eno's lowest loving point imho that was collaborating with her on a production piece where she sang das lied der deutschen in all its verses right in the middle of Berlin and nothing loving happened to her, with a goddamn riot flared up as a large part of the audience wasn't going to stand for nazi poo poo. The woman had racism and antisemitism in her public record - somehow she didn't get the Nazi apologia hammer down on her rear end during a time where German authorities were far more strict to allow references to Nazism in artistic performance.

the marble index and desertshore are really good, and her voice suits those perfectly. she was probably a bit stupid, though, and her mind was wrecked by drugs.

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