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Here I study a question: "How to subdue people?"
I discuss sociology of dominations and history of reputation.
(I purposely do not propagate news.)

Banner: sepia photo of a 26-year-old facing the camera – Hannah Arendt in 1933

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estelle, to college
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"Dear members of the University community,

"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.

“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest

estelle, to SmashBros
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"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "

Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history

estelle,
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"Life expectancy at birth in Roman Egypt was just 27.3 for women and 26.2 for men."

"As the empire expanded, the Romans took the show—including all their diseases—on the road. In every location, “The empire’s arrival led to the hasty construction of the first town, in Roman style, with baths and aqueducts, drains, heating systems, and latrines. Despite the amenities, a reasonable answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ might have been ‘Got us sick.’ Mortality rates went up.”

Nadya Williams: https://currentpub.com/2023/05/18/kyle-harper-on-climate-and-deadly-germs-that-made-and-continue-to-make-history-part-i/ @history

#epidemics #malaria #propaganda #terrorism #AncientRome #empire #imperialism #crush #smash #history #destruction #conquest #Rome #RomanEmpire #civilization #civilisation #civilisationCollapse #civilizationCollapse #supremacy

estelle, to ai
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"I was running a research group looking at the social implications of #AI. I was pretty well known in the company and outside as somebody who discussed these issues in ways that were counter to #Google’s public messaging. I was an internal dissenter, an academic.

Toward late 2017 I had a colleague flag me that there was a secret contract known as [#Maven] between Google and the Department of Defense [DOD] to build AI systems for drone targeting. That for me was when my organising started, because I realised I had been presenting very clear arguments that people agreed with… but it didn’t really matter. This was not an issue of force of argument. This was an issue of the ultimate goals of this company are profit and growth and DOD contracts were always going to sort of trump these intellectual and moral considerations."

— @Mer__edith #Whittaker
at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/11/signals-meredith-whittaker-these-are-the-people-who-could-actually-pause-ai-if-they-wanted-to #bigTech #capitalism #ethics @ethics #aiEthics @ai #safety @ecosocio

estelle, to feminism
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In 1910 in Copenhagen, the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women adopted the idea of an "International Women's Day" from a proposal by Clara Zetkin (German Social Democratic Party), although no date was set.

The "Journal du CNRS" notes that "Women's Day was therefore the initiative of the socialist movement and not of the feminist movement, which was very active at the time". The historian Françoise Picq adds that "it was precisely to counteract the influence of feminist groups on the women of the people that Clara Zetkin proposed this day", rejecting "the alliance with the 'feminists of the bourgeoisie'": https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/journee-des-femmes-la-veritable-histoire-du-8-mars @histodons

estelle, to history
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Edith Margaret , born Edith Margaret Williams, was one of the first female martial arts teachers in Europe. She is known for training a unit of bodyguards in techniques for the Women's Social and Political Union, so that they could respond to physical attacks on them by some anti-feminist men.

@patriarchy

estelle, to Humor
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If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

estelle,
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Asking people to calm down protects privilege – and silences people who are hurting.

Tone policing: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/

#emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #RobotHugs #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #adultSupremacy #manliness #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #school #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy #JKRowling #transGender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transPhobia #transLaw

estelle, to IsraelPalestine
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University teachers suspended, employees sacked: in #israelPalestine, the authorities punish the slightest expression of support for Palestine on social media. In the course of a week, at least 170 people have been arrested for their online activities.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-war-political-persecution/

#war #CommOdon #Gaza #police #israel #repression #socialMedia #academic #972mag

estelle,
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"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."

by a former student: https://www.972mag.com/nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israeli-academia/ @israel @academicchatter

eric, to IsraelPalestine
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#Lavender is traditionally used in France to reduce the moth population.

Only a small proportion of French Jews emigrate to #IsraelPalestine. These Binationals are subject to compulsory military service.

This army prepared and launched the first #AIWar in 2021: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111510965384428730

A development team has designed a more efficient product, which a Frenchman has suggested calling Lavander: https://techhub.social/@estelle/112220409975979758 @palestine

#humour #innovation #techBros #ethics #Gospel #tech #AIEthics #AI

estelle,
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@argumento @eric @palestine

It is infuriating and certainly not funny.
Some citizens say that the army has to go periodically "mow the lawn". It reflects an awful colonial mentality.

Now the society has increased another step and decided of .
A cynical Frenchman chose an eradication image: .

Zionists have their own images. Sorry.

estelle, to random
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The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:

  1. An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”

  2. An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:

"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"

  1. "The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."

🧶

estelle,
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“The #protocol was that even if you don’t know for sure that the machine is right, you know that statistically it’s fine. So you go for it,” said a source who used #Lavender.

“It has proven itself,” said B., the senior officer. “There’s something about the statistical approach that sets you to a certain norm and standard. There has been an illogical amount of [bombings] in this operation. This is unparalleled, in my memory. And I have much more trust in a statistical mechanism than a soldier who lost a friend two days ago. Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”

Another intelligence source said: “In war, there is no time to incriminate every target. So you’re willing to take the margin of error of using artificial intelligence, risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it.”

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ @israel @data

#duty #conformance #AIRisks #risks #DataScience

estelle,
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B., the senior officer, claimed that in the current war, “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”

According to B., a common error occurred “if the [Hamas] target gave [his phone] to his son, his older brother, or just a random man. That person will be bombed in his house with his family. This happened often. These were most of the mistakes caused by Lavender,” B. said.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ @israel @data 🧶

#duty #protocol #conformance #AIRisks #riskApproach #risks #dehumanisation #AIWar #technoCriticism #ethics #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #industrialization #intelligence #AirForce #casualties #DataScience #DataScientist #SIGINT #Unit8200 #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #CrowdSourcing #OSINT #CROSINT #MilInt #military #army #ES2 #IDI #IDF #Unit8200 #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #dataDon #dataGovernance #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #israel

pvonhellermannn, to random
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I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza

estelle,
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@pvonhellermannn
The text pointed below may help. Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.”
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness

#Aziza #JewishCurrents #socialMedia #media #impotence #legibility #witness #witnessing #PalestiniansLivesMatter #mourning #grievability #news #israelGaza #GazaWar #warOnGaza #bias #information #coverage #violence #stateViolence #war #Gaza #israelPalestine #Jerusalem #press #IDF #occupation

estelle, to meta
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The CEO of , Mark , has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives to improve the wellbeing of teenagers on and , sometimes directly bypassing some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company:
https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-files-lawsuit-against-meta-instagram-for-unfair-and-deceptive-practices-that-harm-young-people

estelle,
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"Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content @palestine

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #antisemitism #israel #israelGazaWar #israelWars #israelHamas #censorship #freeSpeech #socialMedia #StandWithIsrael

estelle,
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Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'

A union leader said the leak probe has singled out employees ‘for their national origin, ethnicity and race’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/01/nytimes-leak-investigation-guild-intercept-hamas/

#racialProfiling #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #warRape #israel #doubt #press

estelle,
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"The Jerusalem bureau has long reviewed all #CNN stories relating to #Israel and #Palestine. Now, it’s helping shape the network’s coverage of the war."

"Every CNN journalist covering Israel and Palestine must submit their work for review by the news organization’s bureau in Jerusalem prior to publication, under a long-standing CNN policy."

One member of CNN’s staff described how the policy works in practice. “‘War-crime’ and ‘genocide’ are taboo words,” the person said. “Israeli bombings in Gaza will be reported as ‘blasts’ attributed to nobody, until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/ @israel

#journalism #professionalism #propaganda #manipulation #news #media #StandWithIsrael #israelism #bias #newspapers #information #coverage #Hasbara

estelle, to Quotes
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What's the difference between being assertive & being aggressive?
Your gender
⸺
Cartoon by Judy https://horacek.com.au/ via @ulrike https://the.curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html

estelle,
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estelle, to random
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Here is an overview of how British rich nobility weaponised "race" to deport people in servitude.

Let's start with a landmark book:

estelle,
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"Of course, one day the indentured period would end and the servant would be free. That is one of the fundamental differences drawn between white indentured servitude and black slavery. One was a temporary condition; the other was perpetual. Except that huge numbers of white servants didn’t live to see the day of freedom. In the early days, the majority of servants died still in bondage. Moreover, the bulk of those who did outlive their servitude ended up no better than when they’d arrived. They would emerge from bondage landless and poor (p. 111)."
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)

#colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #Race #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #EuropeanCulture #truth #supremacy #whiteSupremacy

estelle, to mentalhealth
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The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

🧶 @sociology @socialpsych

estelle,
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"If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."

"There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."

An interview with Isabelle Clair, in 2023 (fr) https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/sexualite/entretien-des-lage-de-15-ans-on-reve-detre-en-couple-explique-cette-sociologue-2fee21ae-cc7e-11ed-8144-e74efc02d2d3 @sociology @edutooters

estelle,
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Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."

Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."

(fr) https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/france-culture-va-plus-loin-l-invite-e-des-matins/violences-au-college-e-reputation-et-mauvais-genre-5265267

#reputation #SAAM #assault #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #sluts #whores #adolescence #violence #HappySlapping #film #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalization #subdue #subjugation #patriarchy #brutalization #moralPanic #responsibility #maleViolence #empathy #masculinity #truth #evidence #parenting #rumours #gender #SecondarySchool #HighSchool #harassment #targeting #school #sociology #education

estelle,
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"If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."

"There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."

An interview with Isabelle Clair, in 2023 (fr) https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/sexualite/entretien-des-lage-de-15-ans-on-reve-detre-en-couple-explique-cette-sociologue-2fee21ae-cc7e-11ed-8144-e74efc02d2d3 @sociology

#reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #quotations #bitches #whores #teenage #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalisation #normation #patriarchy #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #highSchool #SecondarySchool #sociology

estelle,
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Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.

Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".

Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."

(fr) https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/france-culture-va-plus-loin-l-invite-e-des-matins/violences-au-college-e-reputation-et-mauvais-genre-5265267

estelle,
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"It’s difficult to talk about #manliness in absolute terms. What is considered virile depends on social background and age. In my survey, being #manly meant asserting one’s body and physical strength, and accepting sexist insults. Younger people in particular anchor manliness in their bodies in this way. For older men, manliness can be achieved through professional integration. In the end, what is defined as manly is always defined in opposition to #feminine; so being manly is the obligation not to #feminise oneself."

"Dominance over girls is expressed in many ways. In adolescence, it manifests itself in the direct control of their sexuality (or any outward sign of sexuality, such as dress, geographical mobility and any form of communication with boys). As a result, they are the focus of #reputations that place them in two radically opposed categories: "good girls" and "whores"."

Isabelle Clair, "Les jeunes et l’amour dans les cités" (2008)

@edutooters @patriarchy

estelle, to mentalhealth
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The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

🧶 #longRead @sociology @socialpsych

#EstelleSays #assertive #selfCare #positive #self #selfStudy #bias #reputation #norm #conformation #normal #mentalHealth #sexuality #pervert #moralPanic #morals #EstelleInterprets #sociology #queer #LGBTQ #Deviance

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