quartz [she/her]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: July 29th, 2020
  • quartz [she/her]toaskchapo•What will organizing look like now that WFH is normal?
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    4 years ago

    Well, actually the outlook is pretty bad. The bosses got the NLRB to determine that even though it's communication in the workplace, you do NOT have the right to perform concerted activity relating to job conditions, exploitation, etc over the email system. They can just ban you from speaking about this supposedly legally protected class of subjects. So that makes things a lot tougher, especially because it's harder to convince someone of something over the internet, without the benefit of body language.

  • quartz [she/her]togames•Thoughts on “papers please”?
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    4 years ago

    It's probably more anti-Eastern European than anything. There's a whole genre of white people who are super-racist and hate slavic peoples. Many of these are in the White House and Nato right now.

  • quartz [she/her]toPost Maine On Main•What if we just produced the vaccine that public funds already paid for, and brought back crucifixion?
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    4 years ago

    There's a very nascent movement online, seemingly parallel to anti-vaxxers but very much distinct from what I've seen. They appear to gravitate around pushing the government for cures. But they've correctly identified the forecasting and collaboration between the Feds and the Pharm on dragging this out into a blank check built on burned bodies. The allure of infinite booster shots made the bosses cream, and they figured people are already dying, it's not so bad if they wait for it to mutate in the resovoirs, it's not like they're killing people, just delaying saving them in their fucking minds.

  • quartz [she/her]toPost Maine On Main•In response to a cop killing a woman and cops brutalising more women at her vigil, the UK is getting undercover cops in bars and nightclubs to "protect women"
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    4 years ago

    It's fucked up. It can happen really fast, too. Remember the American public's regard towards China dropped something like 80% in two years. When the government and its NGOs and think tanks coordinate, they play both sides. A perfectly crafted narrative with a proposition and an opposition. Only the opposition isn't as far away as it seems, and seems like it agrees very well with the proposition on much of the problem.

    I am also concerned about Muslim people and people from the middle east. Nothing's ever sure, but I've got a hunch they'll hinge it around immigration. First, the proposition will be immigrants are evil and should be killed. Then, the opposition, which you can kind of see now: not all immigrants are evil, some assimilate into a white western way of living! Then, when atrocities begin, opposition is already weak because it's a weak position, and can be cornered into either defending "the bad Muslims" which they already hate, or deciding that the victims must be "bad Muslims" all along. The very human bias toward believing you're always on the right side will push people toward the latter. Of course, I don't know anything special and I'm just speculating.

  • quartz [she/her]toPost Maine On Main•ACAB
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    4 years ago

    Haha, you could probably use one. Or a metal detector. I don't really know, and I don't know if their newer implants use enough metallic components to be picked up. Back then it was very crude.

    Here's a bit of a source, from Smithsonian Magazine, referencing the limited hangout and then conflicting reports from 'former' CIA.

    spoiler

    In what has come to be called the “acoustic kitty” project, the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology proposed using a cat as a listening device. In their book Spycraft, the CIA’s Wallace and co-author H. Keith Melton write that the agency was targeting an Asian head of state for surveillance, and that “during the target’s long strategy sessions with his aides, cats wandered in and out of the meeting area.” The theory, says Bailey, was that no one would pay attention to the animals’ comings and goings.

    “We found that we could condition the cat to listen to voices,” says Bailey. “We have no idea how we did it. But...we found that the cat would more and more listen to people’s voices, and listen less to other things.” Working with Robin Michelson, a California otolaryngologist and one of the inventors of the human cochlear implant, the team turned the cat into a transmitter—with, says Bailey, a wire running from the cat’s inner ear to a battery and instrument cluster implanted in its rib cage. The cat’s movements could be directed—left, right, straight ahead—with ultrasonic sound.

    The fate of this asset has become serio-comic lore, obscured by conflicting accounts and CIA classification. Jeffrey Richelson, in his book The Wizards of Langley, quotes ex-CIA official Victor Marchetti on the program’s demise during a field trial: “They put [the cat] out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead!”

    But Wallace disputes that. “It was a serious project,” he says. “The acoustic kitty was not killed by getting run over by a taxicab.” His source? “The guy who was a principal in the project.” Wallace says Bailey’s name is not familiar to him, though he adds that by the time he joined the agency, “the animal work was really historic.”

    Bailey says ABE’s records were destroyed in a 1989 fire

  • quartz [she/her]toPost Maine On Main•ACAB
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    4 years ago

    Just the facts. That the project is or was a failure is, unfortunately, a part of the public zeitgeist now. It's always been a lie.

  • quartz [she/her]toPost Maine On Main•ACAB
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    4 years ago

    The idea that "the cat got run over", or "the projects were cancelled because they were dumb haha" is part of a deliberate campaign of disinformation that you have fallen victim to. That was the agency's story, like it is for MKULTRA or any number of declassified programs. It's a load of bullshit.

    It came out a while ago that the project WAS a success, DID see operational use in embassies, and was CONTINUED into other projects. Back in the fucking eighties (sixties, actually; they continued the brain implant research in earnest after the successes of post-MKULTRA designer drugs later, in the eighties) they were funding this research into cybernetic cruelty, you think they stopped once it started getting results? No, they kept the spy kitties, they improved them, and oh, look at that, Assange adopted a random kitten in Ecuador's embassy! Very interesting, wow.

    They simply also expanded to direct control of "animals". Dogs, being induced to turn, walk, stop, run. All of this with the neurological technology of the fucking eighties sixties! By the people who also do human experimentation. All the time. And kill the witnesses. And burn the records.

    So, what do you think they've been up to since?

    I believe you can check the Black Vault's FOIA archive of Behavioral Research for sources and information.

  • quartz [she/her]tonews•Good news everyone! The irrelevant dying imperial province of TERF Island is upping its nuclear arsenal!
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    4 years ago

    The review also warns of the “realistic possibility” that a terrorist group will “launch a successful CBRN [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear] attack by 2030”

    This right here. NOTICE THIS.

    They are "concerned" about rad. weapon falling into indvidual hands??? So they're making a whole lot more!!! And bringing in 'the citizenry' to the military!!!!

    That's a fucking setup! Don't believe ANYTHING they say when this shit goes down the way they just set it up. They're BEGGING for this to happen, they're PLANNING for it, they're FACILITATING it. This is like when the US government funded fundamentalists on flight simulators then said "oh, these fundamentalists might fly a plane into us uwu wait and see~~~" These fuckers are preparing to KILL YOU FOR NEW SECURITY POWERS AND A STRATEGY OF TENSION GOD DAMN