@grumpybozo

"Reflexive control" is a phrase we should learn about and consider carefully, if we hope to have a future worth having.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_control

#Hybridwar

https://open.substack.com/pub/nadinabbott/p/admissions-and-elections?r=9kta6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

There are local elections today in #Russia. As usual, they are not clean. They also intend to run another #hybridwar campaign against us and our elections.

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania will shut Belarus border if ‘critical incident’ occurs https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/poland-latvia-lithuania-will-shut-belarus-border-if-critical-incident-occurs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #hybridwar #Latvia #Lithuania #migrantcrisis

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania will shut Belarus border if ‘critical incident’ occurs https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/poland-latvia-lithuania-will-shut-belarus-border-if-critical-incident-occurs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #hybridwar #Latvia #Lithuania #migrantcrisis

It was from some GOP congressman there, saying they had just gotten back from a fact finding trip to Ukraine.

One of them marvelled about how Ukraine was facing an onslaught of sophisticated Russian propaganda.

An attack on minds. An attack on reality that conveyed an advantage to the aggressor. A swarm of lies deployed to bend people.

I think that there was some quick progression from them being startled and worried, to wanting that "political technology" for their own use.

#HybridWar

Slovak police charge intelligence chief with forming criminal group https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/slovak-police-charge-intelligence-chief-with-forming-criminal-group/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #eurosceptics #hybridwar #populism #RobertFico #Russianinvasion

Latvia sends army to guard border with Belarus as illegal crossing attempts mount https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/latvia-sends-army-to-guard-border-with-belarus-as-illegal-crossing-attempts-mount/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #hybridwar #Latvia #Poland #Russianinvasion

Poland to send additional 2,000 troops to Belarus border https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/poland-to-send-additional-2000-troops-to-belarus-border/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #hybridwar #migrationcrisis #Poland #Russia

Poland to send additional 2,000 troops to Belarus border https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/poland-to-send-additional-2000-troops-to-belarus-border/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #hybridwar #migrationcrisis #Poland #Russia

The point is this: if Trump wins his assault on our laws, no laws will matter, except insofar as they are weaponized against the poorest and most vulnerable members of society. We risk an anti moral regression into lawlessness.
This is way beyond culture wars;
this is abuse of all of US. #HybridWar #LawlessGOP #NoMoreLies 🇺🇸

Sweden says it’s target of Russia-backed disinformation over NATO, Koran burnings https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/sweden-says-its-target-of-russia-backed-disinformation-over-nato-koran-burnings/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #disinformation #hybridwar #Koran #Nato #Russianpropaganda

This place is just some software with good intentions. This place is just a bunch of nodes in various colo racks with fans hissing.

This place is here as long as the bill for the electricity, connectivity, and rack space are paid.

So let's generalize:

How can we build on what works for us?

How can we fight off what kills us, kills us inside and kills us physically?

How can we build a good resilience and a good power, one that brings us victory in this weird new world war?

#Hybridwar

New leader of Moldovan region of Gagauzia backs ties with Russia https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement-neighbourhood/news/new-leader-of-moldovan-region-of-gagauzia-backs-ties-with-russia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #corruption #electoralfraud #Gagauzia #hybridwar #Moldova

@wdlindsy

Yeah. That term. I like it.

"Stupid Sauce"

People can be marinaded in it for decades, until it soaks into them good, makes them plump, juicy, and tender-minded, all ready to do any fool thing needed.

There is a science to this, then.

There are chefs.

Chefs who are experts at making pots of stupid sauce, then ladling it out on various noggins.

#HybridWar

Here, a fictional character speaking directly to evil:

"Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve.” — Ray Bradbury

Sometimes then, better to do the things that starves the attention-hunger of evil.

Refuse to parrot the words.

Refuse the framing evil offers.

Break the narrative.

Refuse to follow the script.

Break the spell that enchants us.

#HybridWar

Waste two bytes.

If we want to say what someone said, then let's carefully put two double-quote chars around the quote, in front and at the back.

Then say who said quote.

So everyone can see clearly, quickly, without confusion.

Especially if the quote is monstrous.

Especially if a monster is saying it.

#HybridWar

#HybridWar #ProLife #NoMoreLies

Increasingly, civilians globally will be harmed by the nihilistic Russian war on freedom. That is reality. #StopRussia #HybridWar #NoMoreLies

Blaming the victim and apathy towards lives impacted by abusers appears to be a large part of this #HybridWar

If we must address evil nonsense...and yes, sometimes we have to...then let's figure how to do so safely!

Study water contaminated with dangerous microbes by looking at it under a microscope! By handling with gloves on! By washing carefully afterward.

Don't drink the contaminated water!

So it is also, when dealing with dangerous nonsense...

#HybridWar