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 100
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you look at both sides, the true one is obvious if the other side looks at both sides, they'll see the truth therefore: encourage everyone to use Ground News to get out of their bubble & be exposed to the truth 010
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026does 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") 200
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is a good summary: www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...whitehouse.govLab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19Covid 19 Origins - Lab Leak THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the 000
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026(or to summarize it in a pithy slogan "turn culture war into culture science") 000
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026(my project is about being voluntarily signing up to be studied, with the idea being if they're right their information propagates and if they're wrong it gets countered. Either way they learn the effect of their information) 100
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I've been looking for examples of this (claim of direct link of information propagated to actual physical harm), ie "infohazard", thanks 210
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The Psyop Report is live www.psyop.reportpsyop.reportThe Psyop Report | Omar | SubstackNew post every Monday leading up to September 4th - world psyop awareness day. Click to read The Psyop Report, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago. 020
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026(some people don't wanna be identified but in those cases they need to hide better. We, the open source intelligence agency, consider any agent that is legible to us part of our org, because we learn from your moves To exit: simply hide your influence operations!) 000
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You receive this official badge if you are recognized as an intelligence operative by the agency luma.com/psyop-hackat...luma.comNetwar Con: A Psyops Hackathon · LumaThis September, we are calling for a temporary ceasefire to information warfare. We are inviting influence operators from across the territories of the culture… 100
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026day 1 on the job of the open source intelligence agency 110
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Does this description make sense to you guys? luma.com/psyop-hackat... 020
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Does this make sense? (for an event I'm hosting September 4th in Austin TX) 000
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026README dot md defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/delusions-... 041
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026this is really fun because it's testing at various levels - I am curious how many things in my corner of the internet has made its way to theirs, but also how much of this is novel to the professor (and watching him try to puzzle over their meaning & function) 030
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I 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 290
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026i 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 080
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026(it's about the time gap between when it is created and when it reaches you) 010
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?) 110
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I am surprised these don't yet have a "an LLM told me about you" 1142
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026someone around here said something like "I no longer feel dismay when arguing on the internet because I model the other people as a force of nature, like a storm. No use getting mad at the weather!" and I liked that a lot 140
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/draft-perh...defenderofthebasic.substack.com[DRAFT] Perhaps YOU are the problemYou wake up one day and realize, you’ve identified as a good person all your life, but actually, YOU have been the cause of lot of evil. 010
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026You wake up one day & realize you are a source of evil. This is good news! 260
Reposted by DefenderJay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 12/12/2025They 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. 011
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025when a scientist discovers something new, how do they check that no one else has already discovered it and wrote it down with different language? 170
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025i wanted to give a word to this concept, something like "certified open marketing" or "certified psyop". It is "certified" NOT by a third party, but by the fact that there is a prediction of what it will do before it launches 140
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025does this concept make sense to you guys? @cwonus.org @daytura.bsky.social @shibbi.bsky.social we actually had a case like this, and I want to do more now: defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/my-first-o...defenderofthebasic.substack.comMy first open source psyop - postmortemEtymologynerd (Adam Aleksic) is a youtuber / science communicator who makes videos about linguistics, cultural trends, and propaganda. 240
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 130
Reposted by Defender⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Current 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/... 051
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025the concepts page so far has been writing down the "stuff we all already know" but in doing so we're revealing what that is, and what fundamental things we maybe don't agree on. I'm intentionally going slow / only adding one at a time because I want as many voices to contribute! 020
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I really do think the MAIN bottleneck right now is coordination/creating a shared language. There are a lot of people that have testable theories, some that I think are already breakthroughs, but everyone's using their own homegrown language, so it's not clear they're talking about same things 140
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025if you're comfortable with github you can see the discussion on the first PR we merged here, as we were debating the purpose of this document / what we're driving towards github.com/DefenderOfBa...github.comAdd epistemic noise & "memetic attraction" by DefenderOfBasic · Pull Request #20 · DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-instituteNov 3 update https://github.com/DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute/blob/add-glossary-term/Concepts.md We've renamed "Glossary" -> "Concepts" (see Rename glossary to... 130
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025you guys might be interested in the communal "glossary" we just start building last week, starting from the ground up, kind of towards laying down the axioms cc @daytura.bsky.social github.com/DefenderOfBa...github.com 140
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025yeah this is solvable if you take reflexivity as a fundamental part of your axioms, not something you try to eliminate. From michael smith's "subjective science" (morphenius.substack.com/p/subjective...) 020
Reposted by DefenderCosmik Network @cosmik.network · 07/11/2025Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > ) 412329
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 03/11/2025screenshot to get around word text limit (also - if there's a beta testing thing for Semble or a discord or w/e I'd love to test it out! I've been getting all my ORI people to write on github to get used to the workflow of micropublishing & reviewing each other) 120
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 03/11/2025wait is there a workflow for cross posting from twitter -> bluesky or vice versa?? does anyone have a doc / tutorial for this, I want to try it 220
Reposted by DefenderRonen Tamari @ronentk.me · 03/11/2025Cool idea for high signal curation (sharing screenshots until @defenderofbasic.bsky.social sets up crossposting ;) ) Looking forward to enabling this with semble.so ! 2121
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 01/11/2025best attempt I've had so far to think through this is in: defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/the-human-...defenderofthebasic.substack.comThe Human Memome ProjectHalf science, half performance art 010
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025yeah there's predicting, and then being in the right place at the right time to profit from that, and then there's actively shaping / shifting the tide towards more favorable conditions to you/your desired future 110
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025no i haven't been actively monitoring him! What's the highlight(s) ? 110
Defender @defenderofbasic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025meanwhile, on extremist right wing twitter @hankgreen.bsky.social 170
Reposted by Defender⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Inspired 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... 142
Reposted by DefenderRonen Tamari @ronentk.me · 15/08/20256/ 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...bsky.appRonen 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… 1121
