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Oh no, I’m to the part where I have to spell out objects and commands, and now this is Scribblenauts. @..@

The human suit is three sizes too small and very itchy along the wings. Good thing I only have to put it on once every four months or so.

It is one of the best feelings in the world, after a long work trip, to finally drop the disguise. Pretending to be unassumingly normal is hard work.

Hell of a thing, watching Adam Schiff stand defiant and hold his own against the Murdoch disinfo machine.

Also called my own rep, Adam Smith, to thank him for blocking misappropriations for the wall.

It’s good to finally have representation with both power and a spine.

@mawr That is the face of “Walkies? Walkies?! Walkies?!! Yes yes yes!”

So I’m wrapping up a trip for work, and I had a strange query for folks that travel, especially to the Bay Area.

This trip, I’ve noticed that multiple indoor spaces (my hotel, restaurants, the office building for my employer) now have omnipresent low frequency noise generation. It’s audible to me because my hearing dips in the low range, and noise levels in these closed spaces have notably been reduced.

Is building-scale active noise cancellation now a thing?

@troodon Merlwyb is amazing, and whoever did her initial voicework deserves an award. (I don’t know how far you are in story, so not sure what more to say other than furious nodding.)

@Zordrak @salameleon@snouts.online ... which this WH is banking on. They’ve circulated talking points to all major networks today reiterating “total exoneration” after Barr jumped in front of the process.

I guess what I’m saying here is that this process is actively being managed as a coverup now, and it’s really instructive on how lies are sold into print.

@orrery And I haven’t figured out a way to scale that either, short of instituting filtering and moderation strategies for communities I’m involved with. Since that’s all I can do.

But I guess that’s because I observe the problem as if it’s forum management and spam/troll filtering. Don’t know yet if that scales to loosely-connected and federated communities, short of helping other moderators do the same, just as we did back in the golden days of web fora.

@orrery Yeah. I guess I’m saying, I found a way to shelter from viral ideologies and narrative debt enough to start to work on my own narrative again and figure out ways to combat them in spaces I operate within. It’s not much, but it’s a big improvement.

@orrery Dangerous in systems defined by and controlled by humans, though. And I guess I found ways to limit my exposure to communities and systems with other correctives (administration on character and perceived intent, systems with sources of truth that aren’t people, etc).

Viral ideologies still scare me and are still a problem, but I’ve found a tempo to retain balance now, and combating them follows from there, I think?

@orrery I use trust-but-verify with a loosely Bayesian reinforcement schedule. Works for figuring out the best available approximation of reality, but doesn’t work as well for publishing it.

Learning most folks don’t even get to the verify step was a major blow to my confidence in people not believing disinfo. But the world keeps turning on the underlying facts instead of peoples’ narratives of them, inexorably leading to correction if the data’s wrong.

I guess I’d been kind of cynical about how things I do are seen by others, given how other people controlling the narrative seems to... be a thing. I guess I finally found a way to work around people reactive to controlled narratives and keep being me, which helps more than I think I knew.

Wish I still had faith in disinfo not dominating the process, but I’ll settle for “I can work within this framework and minimize my exposure.”

Haven’t posted much here, but I’ve been doing mostly better.

Something internally shifted that I’ll want to talk about at some point, loosely corresponding to no longer holding myself to arbitrary constraints from others. I’m not sure why, but talking about and reflecting on my own narrative helped.

As did spending time making things again, which apparently I hadn’t done in awhile? Being a builder and storyteller just seems to be my thing, for some reason.

@tastymochafox I think it’s that they’re trying to set this narrative to get ahead of what comes next? That’s my interpretation, anyway.

The social media presidency has been a valuable lesson in how lies are laundered and sold as truths to orgs that otherwise know better.