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  1. May 2026
    1. r several years after my ex published the Manifesto, ifsomeone tried to find my games through a search engine, the first thing Google would suggest was “ZoëQuinn Five Guys.

      this is because this drove the highest number of traction and views.

    2. Popular is assumed to be high-quality, accurate, and created in good faith and is promoted as the verybest a site has to offer you, dear reader.

      even if something is viral, it doesnt mean it is truthful or good.

    3. economy of attention, and thus, theinfrastructure of those services becomes another hammer with which to hit someone.

      economy of attention is good way to phrase how to internet runs on clickbait and attention.

    4. The networked nature of the internet doesn’t justmake it easier for stalkers to find you; it also makes it easier for them to find each other.

      this adds another layer to the algorithm part of things, and how not only does the algorithm of the internet flame hate, it also groups hate together.

    5. Stormfront users have been disproportionatelyresponsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995. Inthe past five years alone, Stormfront members have murdered close to 100 people.”

      The internet helps these subgroups of people find each other, and band together to spread even more hatred in communities.

    6. I spent countless hoursdocumenting everything that was happening in reports to tech platforms, only to be shruggedoff. I talked to lawyers and took out restraining orders, only to find myself beating my headagainst the brick wall of a legal system ill-equipped to handle the idea that anything realhappens on the internet. In courtrooms and judges’ chambers, I was told that my life onlinedoesn’t really matter and that if I want to live without this treatment, I should abandon thecareer I worked so hard for and get offline. I cried as I watched Ice-T help a fictionalizedversion of me on Law and Order: SVU mere weeks after a magistrate had told me to just get anew career.

      shows how her trauma and torment was used for content while she was left to suffer.

    7. Multiple people stepped in to helpme delete those messages, and then those people quickly became new targets for the mob.

      once again, instead of platform moderates, it is potential victims that step into help. This, in turn, makes them the victim.

    8. My friends and I reverted it, only to find ourselves in a tug-of-war with numerous would-be vandals, removing anti-Semitic slurs, swastikas, and threatsfrom my page all night.

      once again, it was up to them and their friends to take down these threats, slurs, and demeaning words that people were posting.

    9. Trying to report every new threat that came in from any socialmedia platform quickly became impossible and pointless, because by the time I would finishreporting one threat, three more would have taken its place

      the victim was the one who was left responsible to clean up this mess.

    10. to keep in touch with my global network of friends and loved ones, the placesthat are a fundamental part of my life—were now flooded with messages threatening to rape meand telling me to kill myself.

      this highlights how interconnected the internet truly is, and how victims of this type of abuse are impacted in different mediums and levels of their lives.

    11. They’re predictable, and anything that can be predicted canbe disrupted, dismantled, and destroyed

      This is a core part that identifies this as an algorithm. This can be predicted, disrupted, dismanted, and destroyed because it is predictable.

    12. the witch hunt spread across everysocial media networking platform in a matter of hours and escalated fromthere.

      Use of witch hunt is intentional here. The algorithm flames the fire of hatred towards a group and duplicates an experience similar to that of a with hunt.

    13. Thousands of peoplewho had never heard of me before rallied around his banner and took up thecrusade, latching on to me as a stand-in for any number of things theyhated

      This highlights how some people are fueled by hatred and by common goal of destroying something. To these people, it does not matter if things are true or real, it matters that they can put others down and get away with it.

    14. But for all its awesomeness, theinternet has become such a volatile place that anyone can become a targetof devastating mob harassment in an instant. Including you. Including me.

      This highlights how it doesnt matter who you are. If the algorithm chooses you to be a victim, and everyone's spectacle, you will become that.

  2. Nov 2024
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      Amber Wiley’s article “Schools and Prisons” examines the links between the architectural and spatial designs of schools and prisons, highlighting how these environments shape the experiences and behaviors of those within them. Wiley argues that the architecture of schools often mirrors that of prisons in ways that reinforce social control, surveillance, and restricted movement. This parallel reflects broader systemic issues, including the criminalization of marginalized communities and the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects Black and Brown students.

      Wiley critiques how both institutions use architecture to impose discipline and conformity, questioning the implications for students' psychological and social development. She advocates for rethinking the design and purpose of educational spaces to create environments that encourage creativity, freedom, and holistic development, moving away from the punitive models that dominate current structures. Wiley’s analysis connects architectural choices with cultural and institutional values, urging educational reform that acknowledges and addresses the overlapping structures of oppression inherent in these spaces.

    2. could be saved through education

      education as means of "saving barbaric communities" that did not fit the status quo present in mainstream society

    3. normalized a narrow canon of thought, behavior, dress,and language while punishing divergence from culturalhegemony, at times through corporal discipline.

      how school makes us into money-making machines rather than intellectual individuals with our own thoughts and ways of thinking

    4. Schools were places where young members of these diversepopulations left behind the comforts, familiarity, andcustoms of their home life, family, and cultural traditions

      banking concept, and school as a weapon to colonize individuals

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  3. Oct 2024
    1. haracterized byan ultimate commitment to brand expansion and accumulation of patent,publication, and prestige

      prevalence of our systems being overshadowed by deeper ambitions towards materialistic desires.

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