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“The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire”

by Barret Brown in Byline Times on Substack

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“How Neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-neo-nazi-enforcer-who-helped

#Press #SocialMedia #Palantir #Thiel #Auernheimer #NeoNazi #MemeticWarfare #UK #NHS #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #Weev #EpsteinFiles #Giesea

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

In #memeticwarfare:

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

See also:

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116352003680380839

* #AI is marketing/anthropomorphization choice, not a technical description. There’s no intelligence in AI

#memeticwarfare #ai #PeterThiel #nerdreich #promptingwithhitler #freedomofpress #llm #aicon

Geez guys, the Big Announcement with those stupid Marvel pic is the #memeticwarfare, Jeff Giesea level. Don’t you see what kind of amplification it gets? Humongous!

@Stoori Recognising the fascistic tendency or potential of communications modes and media formats is actually precisely what I'm encouraging here.

It's not that "all memes are fascist".

But you'll find that very nearly all fascists uses memes.

I'm reminded of the parallel with a famous observation of John Stuart Mill on stupidity and conservatives:

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/23qdkr/john_stuart_mill_i_did_not_mean_that/

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1866/may/31/committee-adjourned-debate#column_1592

My view (supported by the work of Arendt, Paxton, Eco, MacDonald, and others) is that fascism is a behavioural mode, not an ideologial one, one that tends to be highly emotive, low-information, and reactionary. It probably emerges in times of high social and political stress.

Knowing that, and being aware of the risks and signs is valuable.

Yes, fascism wears ideological trappings, but those serve its behaviours and not the other way 'round. The specific ideologies claimed are fluid and flexible and inconsistent both internally and over time.

See the commentary on this post:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6wuenu/is_politics_truly_ideological_or_is_this_a_20th/

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#fascism #ideology #HannaArendt #FrankfurtSchool #Memes #MemeticWarfare #RobertPaxton #UmbertoEco #DwightMacDonald #MarshallMcLuhan #AdamCurtis #CenturyOfTheSelf #NoamChomsky