I’d go with Necrophobic so that people get the impression I stayed at the party for twice as long as I was able to manage.

You can’t bring me down

I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.

For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.

Centrist managerial organisation says, be afraid of the far away enemy, ignore the web of class war we are waging on you with our allies.

Centrist organizations like this ascribe to the Western hegemonic information warfare paradigm.

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

At least

I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

Dear readers that antisemitism was describing the actions of the genocidal state of Israel.

Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.

“Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,” she added.

And that’s different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.

That’s uh…what she said?

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.

Devide

verb

Obsolete form of divide.

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I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.

This is a bit of context from the Dec 6th edition of Private Eye.

Statistics can help decern impact. But I think there’s always going this be some measure of subjectivity no matter which way you try to call it.

Intensity isn’t a specific enough criteria. It has to be impact.