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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"if free markets are so good why doesn't any corporation run that way internally" 1️⃣ 👍 2️⃣ 🤔 3️⃣ 👎 📊 Show results

Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

does anyone have a good workflow for clipping scenes from media (I want to clip S6E1 of The Office, it explains a lot of 101 techniques of information warfare in a funny & accessible way, "gossip in the office")

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

day 1 on the job of the open source intelligence agency

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Does this description make sense to you guys? luma.com/psyop-hackat...

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Does this make sense? (for an event I'm hosting September 4th in Austin TX)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

README dot md defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/delusions-...

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I asked students in a small college in upstate NY to pay attention to what words are spreading in their corners of the internet & try to identify its origin & what the word does

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

i just feel like if sociology was a serious discipline they would be testing theory by fixing radicalization pipelines, and setting up deradicalization pipelines, and whoever's theory is correct is the one that produces the desires empirical results

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

(this is NOT true btw but I really enjoyed thinking through it - what is the defense mechanism that the youth have against us adopting this strategy to kill their culture/slang?)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I am surprised these don't yet have a "an LLM told me about you"

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You wake up one day & realize you are a source of evil. This is good news!

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

They don't yet. Even across related literatures (holding language constant), there isn't much motivation to check for novelty systematically. I attempted to do this a bit in my latest paper, though. For now, we could just preprint and post requests to check our novelty on social media sites.

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

when a scientist discovers something new, how do they check that no one else has already discovered it and wrote it down with different language?

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"can we predict, in principle, the “emotional resonance vector” of a new idea before it spreads" yes, absolutely! All you have to do is preregister with the open memetics institute. If your thing goes viral in the way you predict, then that's proof

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Current status: visualising "water level cuts" of HDBSCAN clustering on pol.is data from protest, thinking on filter bubble propagation, #queer / outsider identities & hierarchical navigable small world networks.. #complexity #democracy main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com?path=/story/...

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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network · 07/11/2025

Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

(experimenting with memes to unite left/right)

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 03/11/2025

Cool idea for high signal curation (sharing screenshots until @defenderofbasic.bsky.social sets up crossposting ;) ) Looking forward to enabling this with semble.so !

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⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Inspired by @ventrella.bsky.social's Clusters demo, I'm exploring how to add an arbitrary number of dimensions to #particlelife and/or #particlelenia simulators... patcon.github.io/Clusters-n-d...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 15/08/2025

6/ Goodreads is another inspiration for how “micro-knowledge” can aggregate into meaningful impact. As @aj-boston.bsky.social writes, why *don’t* we have something like Science Goodreads yet? bsky.app/profile/rone...

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Ronen Tamari (@ronent.bsky.social)

"Lack of Open Peer Review is Weird... A troubled scholarly article is similar to a contaminated head of lettuce: despite having inspection schedules and reporting mechanisms, the object and its…

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Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 05/08/2025

The post below is a bit incoherent, but important. It's about how society (now amplified by algorithms) chooses not to remember certain things: to "memory hole" them. Understanding how memetics works is the single #1 most important task facing humanity. Nothing else matters for civilization.

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

glimpse of what I've been up to (this is from the open memetics discord) - discussing memory holes & how they are unstable, because awareness of them makes them disappear

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brendan @schlage.town · 23/07/2025

about to send an update for "Summer of Pub" sharing initial participants in our lil @leaflet.pub blog club! meant to do last week; finally putting together…anyone else participating? if you're joining but haven't shared your blog yet, lmk & I'll update the list! the ~only rule = publish weekly :)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

great question!! I recently wrote an analysis/introduction to hank green from a memetics perspective (his egregore is surprisingly not well known at all in the tpot/rationalist spaces)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

epistemic shortcuts are necessary, but some increase your ability to handle complexity, and some increase the veil of complexity that allows power, abuse, corruption to fester

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

given a viral tweet thread, we can see "the shape" of all replies. Replies that similar together conceptually appear close together on the map (planning to apply this to bluesky next)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"how autistic supercharmers develop (1/2)"

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

the ideological turing test is how you find out if you think the other side is evil because you don't understand them, or because they actually are evil

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

(1) this is not a problem to be solved, this is necessary slack in the system that makes room for groundbreaking new paradigms (2) there cannot be "one" canonical scientific community. Scientists obviously disagree on a lot of things, this is normal & good

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is my protocol for good faith interaction on the internet cc @linas.org

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

if you make peer reviews public, it acts as a way to get feedback for the reviewer too (like as an undergrad I can review a paper, in my own words, and that conveys any lack of understanding I may have about the field)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

two ways to communicate with an entire mind

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

On open source cultural engineering (the cool thing about this is that doing it in the open allows those who disagree to take action, and possibly move the needle in the opposite direction. Culture war turns into culture science)

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

learning about someone's understanding of the thing, is a different pursuit of knowledge than learning about the thing, but it is still in itself teaches you something useful about the universe

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⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 22/05/2025

i think the heart of ATproto is people who think technology can improve our lives, if we shape it with care and intention, as opposed to the idea that all technological progress leads to the same utopian end state as if effortlessly by its own volition

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

How do you define intelligence?

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phr34ky-c 𓅃 @phr34ky-c.artcru.sh · 14/05/2025

📢 This Week in Memetics 📢 (Week of May 5-12, 2025) A weekly roundup of emerging ideas, discussions, and patterns in the memetics landscape. 🚨 Top Memetic Concept/Pattern of the Week

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Those us us who can't love our enemies can still do a lot with militant decency.

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Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

have you been able to read the linked paper here yet? related thesis henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod...

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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies – Henry Farrell

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

did you guys hear about this by the way? University of Zurich did essentially a live psyop as an experiment, with the justification being "literally all companies are doing live experiments on a mass scale, academia needs to catch up. At least *we* publish our results"

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Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Here is my "memetics 101" article. This summarizes my understanding of this field, why it's important, and who is actively doing work that I am paying attention to open.substack.com/pub/defender...

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