Influencers are just the news media or the newspaper. There’s no real difference in what they do, they give information to their audience that is complete and total bullshit in order to make them think something.

This isn’t behavioural modification. It’s just information control. And it’s something that has been majority-controlled by the bourgeoisie to varying degrees forever, more so during the radio and tv generations I would say. Less so during the newspaper era when a lot of competition was occurring and printing presses were being utilised by socialists well.

Critically though, the platform has control over the recommendation algorithm and which creators have access to the platform

This is not different to a news channel having control over what gets put on and what does not. The tech barons actually have less control through algorithms than television and newspapers did. The fact they have less control is exactly why the Palestine message ran away from them and they totally lost control over it.

What is more dangerous is gameification programs. Gameification is a deeply powerful behavioural modification tool, it doesn’t just give people thoughts it completely changes their behaviour. Even here on hexbear we demonstrated this with how significantly different people behaved before and after the removal of the downvote. Each and every only social platform that uses gameification creates a specific environment and vibe through the use of its gameification methods and these methods deeply influence the behaviour of audiences. Reddit-behaviour is not a personality trait inherent to the people that are attracted to reddit, reddit-behaviour is created by its gameification system enforcing a debate-bro atmosphere in which people aren’t actually engaging with each other in each reply you receive, they’re not replying to you they’re instead soapboxing for the potential audience of voters in a zero-sum game of aiming to win interactions so that they get upvotes and the person they’re replying with gets downvotes. It’s not a normal human behaviour, it’s a modified behaviour inherent to reddit’s gameification approach.

This kind of thing can and will spill over into society when the tech barons gain greater control over it and it poses a far greater danger than the social media sites themselves functioning as less well controlled newspapers and tv channels.

Yes but this isn’t behaviour modification. This is just putting people in media bubbles then training them into thought loops that reject information outside of those bubbles. It’s not what is being referred to by the method of tech doing behaviour control through systems. If anything it’s actually just the same as media has always worked except translated from television and newspapers to various “influencers” online. Your everyday Daily Mail reader becomes everyday Andrew Tate tiktok viewer or w/e. Same shit, different platform. Is not really a transformative change of how the right gets people. The only particularly interesting thing that did occur in this time period was the methods used to keep people in bubbles and averse to outside information come from cult training methods.

Trying his hand at influencing Ukraine/Russia by the looks of it. He’s got no chance.

Karis Nemik might’ve realised this, had he survived. During the construction of the Yavin base would’ve been the ideal time to really push it among the rebellion forces. Had he been there I think he might’ve realised it, especially as he was really really into teaching theory to others.

where tech and AI are being used to control and modify social behavior.

I do not believe this works. It’s reddit and social-media ideology. Its foundation is in gameification and algorithm being a tool of modifying online behaviours into the outcomes that social-media site operators want.

To unironically modify human behaviour offline using the same methods you would have to implement a dystopian social credit system like the one they’ve always claimed exists in China.

If this comes about, the pushback will be enormous and I genuinely do not think it would have a positive outcome for them. I do not think you can normalise it.

It’s masturbation in quantities that people know full well is unhealthy but has been renamed to make it an identity and a point of pride.

This can be anything between those that spend 2-3 hours masturbating per day to those that masturbate for 48 hours straight non stop.

My personal belief is that it was intentionally amplified by marketers in the porn industry to bring it to mainstream in order to have this group of people grow as they’re the vanguard of porn culture. Now rather than identify negatively with what they do they identify as gooners proudly.

The mainstreaming of the word has flattened its meaning into any act of masturbation being a goon session.

Looks like a rocket ship

No no actually it reminds me of those scenes in Redline where the acceleration is so high everyone gets streeeeetched https://youtu.be/77nyAlwWLpE

Fucking lmao

They won’t even say their own ethnicity now? “The rest” being used to avoid saying “han chinese” ?

Rofl

Edit: Actually read the article. Lmao they absolutely are doing this because they don’t want to be “Chinese” anymore they want to convince people that they’re a totally different “Taiwanese” ethnicity to form a nation out of it.

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Volcel vanguard has nothing to with gooning. It came about because redditors are mostly porn-brained males that can’t stop making spaces on reddit uncomfortable for women at literally every single opportunity. Volcel vanguard spawned as a meme to shame people and counter that on the CTH subreddit.

It is useful and it is good and people absolutely do need to be told to shut the fuck up about it or else you end up with spaces that are made entirely uncomfortable for everyone else.

If I didn’t know that the director doesn’t give a shit about star wars lore I’d be guessing that she’s secretly a nightsister playing a long game or something.

Must have lived in some real fucked up conditions to need that

This dude has a terrible fucking relationship with his brother if he just goes on the media and starts fucking him over with political statements that will cause trouble for him, no matter whether it was left or right culturally it would cause issues with one or another group. Good family would not do this to you without checking in first.

Even if they don’t escalate it’s still over for any hope of a Kurdistan without an armed organisation that will form the base of it as a state.

PKK are reportedly disarming and disbanding

https://apnews.com/article/turkey-kurdish-militants-disarm-9f4347a04cba48ceb509d2e82023a19e

I don’t think this is accurate or the “control” of territory JNIM have in this mapping is tenuous at best. To my knowledge Burkina Faso gov still controls all of their mines, and those are scattered around a lot of the zones that this map labels as JNIM controlled territory.

I don’t think it’s JNIM controlled territory. I think it’s just territory that JNIM is known to be operating in but they don’t have control.

Here’s a map of Burkina Faso gold mines for example:

This picture of taking over a government office in Djibo is the first evidence I’ve seen of actually taking over control of territory.

https://archive.is/b032X

Reports that JNIM terrorists have taken over Djibo a town of 60k population in Burkina Faso. Image is inside government building with Traore’s portrait on the wall.

Quite a few videos of fighting with french shouting on Telegram coming out