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Herd compliance: algorithm addiction.

Hi everyone,

I thought I’d finish up these musings on Herd Compliance with the sneakiest one we have to deal with, a mode of enforcing compliance you can’t alway detect: online algorithms. There are a couple of levels of sneakiness here....

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Well, holy smokes. 200 Subscribers.

Many thousand thanks folks!

But what in the world would Zarathustra say?

And here we are.

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Herd Compliance: The-Worst-Kindergarten-Teacher in history

Whew! Sorry about the delay. I took off for a weekend last month to try to recall the whole year, spent some profitable introspective Iron John time howling at the moon, and then came down with a really lousy cold — not even covid or the fl...

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Digital compliance: kick-the-can vs video games - chapter 3

“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” Alexander Pope

“Those damned video games are making kids stupider,” says my inner Boomer-era daemon.

Sure, I’m turning into my grandfather, like everyone does at a certain age. You know, complaini...

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Having the right "friends." Herd compliance - chapter 2

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Black and white, us and them, self and other… these are the easy binaries through which the MAGAHerd lives and dreams and has its being. Demonizing the other… all that stuff. You’ve heard it. Simplistic answers like this infec...

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