After a week of sloganeering and repeated disruptions over the Manipur violence issue, the Rajya Sabha witnessed a marked escalation in the form of a showdown between Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Trinamool Congess MP Derek O'Brien today.
#Theatrics #JagdeepDhankhar #DerekO'BrienFace #House
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/engaging-in-theatrics-jagdeep-dhankhar-derek-obrien-face-off-in-parliament-4247968

Over the past year or so, I've been struggling to articulate exactly why the practice of #data #protection has frequently felt like a defeatist slog. A few days ago, I read an amazing piece by Zvi Mowshowitz (#thezvi), and it helped to define a form for all the thoughts swirling in my head.

It's really very simple: The current approach most of us have towards data protection and #privacy does not motivate anyone towards positive action that meaningfully protects data or privacy. Instead, we're encouraged to spend cycles on pointless privacy #theatrics, so that we can signal to others and ourselves how much we all care about privacy.

This is a broken model, and I've got some ideas for how to fix it.

I really think this is one of my better pieces, so if you're in this space (or interested) have a read and let me know your thoughts.

I posted it on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7047855109925429249/

And on my website here: https://knowligence.info/beyond-privacy-theatre-or-why-our-laws-mean-we-cant-have-nice-things/

A quotation from Child, Julia:

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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/child-julia/59548/

#quote #quotes #quotation #context #cooking #drama #presentation #spectacle #theatrics

#acting #ukraine #biden #theatrics #wagthedog #wagtheBiden

‘Treason!’ Moorish Americans facing gun charges create disarray in Md. courtroom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/30/moorish-americans-gun-charges-court-maryland/

This is disturbing --
1. These people are willful bad actors
2. Mental health issues with their followers being leveraged
3. They want public attention by creating a fiction
4. Future potential for others to create more fiction to become popular
5. Lunatics also get help from politicians to grab public attention

#SocialMalaise #theatrics #criminals

House #GOP leader Kevin #McCarthy promised to spend time reading the constitution on House floor after new #Congress is formed. And Americans seemed not to care.
1. The party that dishonored #constitution
2. Attempted #coup on #election undermining #democracy
3. Plan to waste tax dollars and time with #theatrics
#outrageous #corruption

"#Russian love for #theatrics & media propaganda compromised Russian military operations once again....Russian troops, which were supposed to hold their position & inflict damage on Ukrainian de-occupational forces, ran from their position & retreated without fighting.

3 pillars of #Russia are “Putin, army and Russia as an idea”. Idea of “a strong Russian Army” is destroyed. Idea of Putin as a “strongman” is tarnished & Dugin is calling for “a murder of the Czar”..."

https://wartranslated.com/day-261-november-11th-summary-of-arestovych-and-feygin-daily-broadcast/

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com
"Be peaceful" and most people were, from what we saw which admitedly we didn't see much.

But after the narratives about bad ballots and the more genuine issues of suppression by socialMedia giants that we all saw, they would've wanted more #theatrics. It had been pumped up across the news cycle, and a loitering crowd, touring the halls was probably not sensational enough.

They wanted steam to be let off that day.

Maybe we are too cynical, but you can't blame us, right?
@realcaseyrollins