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@TheQuQu
Aug 17, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Trying to drive a wedge between the concept of "gamers" and the concept "#GamerGate" was successful, which is why they can get away with writing articles like this.

Try this frame:
"Gamers were angered by the #GamerGate scandal".
Move away from "gators".

To address the article:

Gamers learned that none of these blogs (they're bloggers, folks, not journalists) care about "journalistic ethics" codes. They care about bad PR that affects their brand or bottom line.

Since IGN fired the guy, sufficient bad PR was clearly generated.
I would hesitate to say "IGN did the ethical thing" or other platitudes like that. IGN reacted to public pressure.

Blogs have two options to deal with scandals: damage control, or addressing it head on. Most choose the former, because SocJus is a PR racket. IGN chose the latter.

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Oct 7, 2018
NPCs can be persuaded to perform activism on your behalf. But how? I'll show you.

How to recruit NPCs to be your own personal army: A thread.

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The voice in the video is BJ Fogg, PHD. A behavioral scientist at Stanford persuasive tech lab. This lab has been researching how to use technology to persuade people to take action since the early 1990s. Every political movement and campaign uses BJ Fogg's behavioral model. 2/
Whether they cribbed his research or landed on the same strategy independently is hard to tell. Either way, you can not avoid the BJ Fogg behavioral model. 3/
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Aug 17, 2018
Retraction: Zimmerman DOES approve of DefDist. Deleting the tweet
Triple retraction: it depends. Contrast the two different articles below. Now this is an interesting rabbit hole. Both from WIRED. Both by @a_greenberg. Weird!
Archives:
archive.is/uqjGL
archive.is/XbC8c
Zimmerman either approved of the lawsuit then but not now, or (the more nuanced position) approved of the lawsuit but thought the analogy was weak.

Either way, this echoes the PGP situation even closer now.
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Aug 5, 2018
"There's this clown, he loves cherries. So he buys a castle where the floor tiles are cherries. But it's infested by unicorns. So, he has to smash cherry tiles with a hammer, and crush unicorns under the falling tiles.."

Brainstorming the design for Mr. Do's Castle involved acid
I didn't even get into the secret door in the ramparts with keys stuck in floor tiles which unlocks a magic shield that turns unicorns into alphamonsters, which are walking containers that hold letters that spell EXTRA...

Or the death tiles with little skulls on them...
Or how unicorns can reproduce asexually (if you take too long) by splitting into two unicorns, but they mutate into uglier and more vicious mutant unicorns when they do this... umm...
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Jul 1, 2018
Can Free Speech Be Progressive?

New paper forthcoming in Columbia Law Review. Guess the answer!
The answer is "no". I quote from the abstract:
"Free speech cannot be progressive".

Full paper here:
my.mixtape.moe/nibtdl.pdf
So when you see publications saying that "free speech" is a right wing position, and movements that value free speech are right wing movements, and people advocating for free speech are right wing?

This is 100% consistent with the current position of the academic Overton window.
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