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Trail information interpretive sign with the heading stating “Only Change is Constant” at Cedar Swamp Trail in the Dryden Kuser Natural Area at High Point State Park in New Jersey USA. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert

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Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?

Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.

Read More 2025-03-20

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Speak to your own representatives, as a constituent – once more, this time with feeling.

You’re not going to be heard by Hakeem Jeffries unless maybe you’re some kind of business mogul, and maybe, just maybe, if you live in his district.

Read More 2025-03-13

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There’s more than 1 way to disrupt, & some ways are better than others.

“The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder TEDx Talks Nov 4, 2013”

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“The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.” — Adam Curtis, Hypernormalisation, 2016

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Curtail use of social media and start connecting with people personally.

The big public social media platforms are not the entirety of the internet.

Read More 2025-02-13

An image of text from FROM HATE SPEECH TO INCITEMENT TO GENOCIDE, the part highlighted emphasis added states quote: “RTLM functioned differently than traditional radio.130 Listeners could call in to interact with messages from other people and gossip while RTML was broadcasting live. The announcers would then transmit the information without assessing its veracity.”

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Hinting atrocities.

I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic.

Read More 2025-01-02

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Jessica Pants On Fire

Why I don’t share this influencer’s content, and I don’t think you should either.

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Don’t pick battles on someone else’s say so.

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 014

Read More 2024-12-20

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Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.

It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.

Read More 2024-11-21

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Chloe on North of 48 podcast

2024-11-08

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What the powerholders do. Task: Maintain the status quo. Keep the issue out of sight and off the table. Control information. Deny the issue exists. Create myths and threats. Discredit the opposition. Appear to take action. Make minor reforms. Co-opt the opposition. From Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan.

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What the powerholders do and what the social movement needs to do.

2024-10-31

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Why Stanford for the pandemic denier convention?

2024-10-26

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Screenshot of Mike Hoerger’s twitter posts.

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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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Kite in sky over Scranton Pennsylvania USA

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Information alone is not enough. The levers of power don’t work themselves.

2024-08-05

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Jessica Misfire

So let’s logic this out. If the baddies can pay endless money to promote influencers to repeat lies with massive botnets & troll farms. How well can regular folks compete on that landscape?

Read More 2024-07-09

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Accelerationist apocalyptic hopium is a trick

2024-04-30

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SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL Strategic Services Field Manual No. 3 Office of Strategic Services Washington, D.C. 17 January 1944 - Image is of typewriter typeset pages describing tactics for sabotage in office settings.

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Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

2024-03-19

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Red Flags for Disruption Perpetual brainstorming Sessions that do not lead to any specific goal or next step. Strategy meetings that merely function as historic type critiques in the contemporary. Lots of “first date” type meetings with people, not a lot of follow-ups. Investing time & energy in actions at the wrong level or directed at inappropriate targets Sending comments to an agency or civil servant, outside a comment period or recognized process. Suggestions to contact elected representatives in a state you don’t live in. Boosting and promoting items and activities that are incongruent with the group’s current goals. Engaging in “food fight” controversy that goes nowhere and may serve to boost opposition framing. Disruptors or chaos agents Ingratiate themselves with leaders, key people, or governing committee members. Disrespectful exchanges with others, including overt verbal abuse or more subtle belittling Engages in gaslighting or tone policing. Disparages the already agreed upon projects of the group or criticizes activism generally. Remains mysterious in relevant ways that raise questions. References grandiose plans or extremely unrealistic goals. Talks of violence

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Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

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The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2023 by Chloe

Why is it that I have to continually ask about safety precautions when I need healthcare?

Read More 2023-11-02

Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

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