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holyfuckabear:

So, I’ve been marinading in my thoughts about this week’s episode, and boy was it a doozy.

Not to be like, one of those white people who only focuses on the white character in a show with a mostly black cast, but I am continually fascinated with the use of Christina/William as a character and what she consistently provides/represents within the narrative.

As a character she represents White Privilege, and it is something the character wields and is aware of. Something refreshing about her is that she does not play down or deny her privilege, she often weaponizes it. Sometimes she does this in the favour of the other characters. A literal White Knight, protecting Tic, Leti, and George in the pilot, then again being called to for protection THREE TIMES in episode 8. And then again in the trailer for episode 9.

Begging Christina for protection goes hand in hand with the source of fear and anxiety in this episode: the lynching of Emmett Till.

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hater-of-terfs:

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queeranarchism:

afraidofamericans:

37womenwieldingknives:

void-slvt:

void-slvt:

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES

i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word.

above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

I love all of this. anyone have recommendations for chrome users?

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses TrackMeNot, WhatCampaign, and Privacy Possum are all available through the chrome store, and although google has tried to ban Ad Nauseum, you can still get it directly from the developers

Though if you’re trying to subvert tracking and lose surveillance companies money, a good first step is to switch to Firefox if possible

phoenix-ace:

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zvaigzdelasas:

violaslayvis:

I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people

also the american eugenics movement which started in the late 1800′s was a huge inspiration for Hitler, and was even where the idea of blonde hair blue eyed superiority came from, and the idea of a “gas chamber” to take care of “undesirables”. In the early part of the third reich, the american eugenics movement saw it as the logical conclusion of their ““research”” and republished lots and lots of nazi propaganda 

but yeah, nazism is so un-american uwu 

Hitler praised American immigration restrictions in Mein Kampf. When the nazis wrote the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime, they specifically modelled them after the Jim Crow Laws, the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.  

Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust. 

Welp

That is why you cannot talk about Nazism in The Americas without talking about antiblackness and anti native racism. All that does is absolve the U.S. of the policies it supported (and enforced) by pretending it was purely a foreign invention that they actively tried to resist.