Latest posts tagged with #SocialControl on Bluesky
The invention of fixed, hereditary surnames—following the state’s simplification of nature (such as forests) and of space (such as systems of landholding)—marked a final step in laying the groundwork required for modern statecraft—the creation of a legible people.
#SocialControl
#SurnamesInvention
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter with Ruth Martin (Translator) 368 pages • hardcover • first pub 2018 "China’s new drive for repression is being underpinned by unprecedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conversations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control."
#ICE #Surveillance #SocialControl #China #MobileFortify #Minneapolis #Books #Booksky #AI 📚💙 💡📚💙 We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by
Kai Strittmatter with Ruth Martin (Translator)
pub 2018 "China’s drive for repression uses facial and voice recognition..."
Child marriage disproportionately affects girls because control over female bodies has long been normalized. Why is protection framed as interference?
dualisticunity.com/why-child-ma...
#GenderedPower #SocialControl
The Productive Dystopia: Surveillance for Development vs. Surveillance for Control
The parallel between BRICS+ surveillance and Western surveillance is misleading. The former is a tool for systemic optimization in a phase of accelerated accumulation, aimed at eliminating inefficiencies […]
Child marriage persists not because it’s misunderstood—but because it stabilizes power, identity, and tradition. Why does banning it provoke fear instead of relief?
dualisticunity.com/child-marria...
#PowerAndTradition #SocialControl
He-hoes: The Male gossiping epidemic! Video coming soon! www.youtube.com/@BattleRapSt...
#hiphopsky #blackwomensky #signalboost #battlerapstreetteam
#GossipCulture
#MediaAccountability
#WomenAndReputation
#GenderDoubleStandards
#SocialControl
#Australia #Tourists #TrumpsAmerica #Authoritarian #SocialControl
US plans to order foreign tourists, including Australians, to disclose social media histories
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Five years of your digital life for entry into the U.S., along with extensive personal data.
#Resist
This Miss Manners meets authority tone scares me.
Because as we all know, well dressed people never mistreat anyone.
#RespectabilityPolitics
#SocialControl
'Policy Headlines, End Times'. Panel 33 of 50 from the graphic/text work 'Notes for the End Times' May 2025 online version. Copyright © Andrew Stones 2025. Square format panel. Grey background with white typewriter script, reading: "Policy Headlines, End Times Curriculum: program Healthcare: paid levels Public Parks: facial recognition Emergency Services: emergency forces"
'Policy Headlines, End Times'
Panel 33/50 from ‘Notes for the End Times’,
2025-05 online version.
**The work so far: go to @andrewstones.com, scroll down to title/announcement page, read up**
#endtimes #satire #art #textart #writing #poetry #politics
#socialcontrol #dystopia #surveillance
#Accurate #Analysis
I used to work in #DataScience as a product owner.
From the 90s onward, this has been active. Started in polling, grew into 'win back' marketing, ramped financial profiling, tech voting profiling, then 'interdisciplinary' data profiling, now it's everywhere.
#SocialControl
"Freeing the World to Death
Uncle Scam
#antifascism
#nowarbutclasswar
#michaelparenti
#socialcontrol
#Trump
#workingclasshistory #socialismorbarbarism
#freespeech
#generalstrike #antiimperialism #anticapitalism #fakechristians #unionize #howardzinn #noamchomsky #williamblum
Woman on left states the #Woke #HardLeft #Antifascists have become #fascists
"I thought WE were supposed to reject this behaviour?"
Attacked, lied to about #CharlieKirk, called stupid, confused, Nazi, Fascist .. had to condemn the 'right-wing'
"It's #SocialControl"
youtu.be/-C-0a-bqUxU?...
#antifascism
#nowarbutclasswar
#michaelparenti
#socialcontrol
#Trump
#workingclasshistory #socialismorbarbarism
#nowarbutclasswar
#socialismorbarbarism #latestagecapitalism #nomasters #abolishbillionaires #workingclasssolidarity #workingclasshistory #workingclass #unionize #emmagoldman #thetruthisantiamerican #warpigs #brainwashingunderfreedom #plutocracy #socialcontrol
youtu.be/bPw-gd8FpJI?...
#nowarbutclasswar
#socialismorbarbarism #latestagecapitalism #nomasters #abolishbillionaires #workingclasssolidarity #workingclasshistory #workingclass #unionize #emmagoldman #ecopsychology #thetruthisantiamerican #warpigs #brainwashingunderfreedom #plutocracy #indoctrination #socialcontrol
#nowarbutclasswar
#socialismorbarbarism #latestagecapitalism #nomasters #abolishbillionaires #workingclasssolidarity #workingclasshistory #workingclass #unionize #emmagoldman #ecopsychology #thetruthisantiamerican #warpigs #brainwashingunderfreedom #plutocracy #indoctrination #socialcontrol
See William Blum's Killing Hope
#freepalestine #antiimperialism #charliekirk #nowarclasswar #socialismorbarbarism #capitalismisadeathcult #socialcontrol #antifascism #anarchism #normalpeopleareaciapsyop #noamchomsky #thetruthisantiamerican #williamblum #psychology #socialismorbarbarism
The Anti-Prager U: Sex, Power, and Politics: The War on Freedom youtu.be/Qjwy-dGgE3k?... #CultureWar #Politics #Ideology #RightWingPopulism #SocialControl #EpsteinDidntKillHimself #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell
#AI #EO "... would force developers to roll back efforts to reduce biases—making the models much less accurate, and far more likely to cause harm, especially in the hands of the government." #LLM #SocialControl #WhosYourAIDaddy?
I demand better writers!
#Script #scripttheory #theory #anthropology #psychology #sociology #socialcontrol #control #conformity #obedience #help #resources #reinforcement invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/07/20/6...
Trump’s August 7, 2025, executive order dismantled Housing First, authorized forced institutionalization, and redefined homelessness as a criminal justice issue, threatening civil rights protections. #HousingFirst #Homelessness #CivilRights #AuthoritarianPolicy #Trump #SocialControl #EndHomelessness
The Collapse of Intellectual Subjectivity: Hegemonic State, Digital Discipline, and the Data-Shaped Mind @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#StateConsolidation #SocialControl #IntellectualSubjectivity #Hegemony #Governmentality #DataColonialism #DecolonialThought #CognitiveJustice
#women #extremism #politics #intersectionality #democracy #socialcontagion #socialcontrol #socialconformity
#gaslighting
#socialcontrol
#workingclasssolidarity
#classwar #philosophy #mutualaid #socialism #socialismorbarbarism #iww #unionize #anarchism #covid #normalpeoplearebatshitcrazy
#psychology
#selfhatred #abuse #trauma #denial
#selfeducation
#booklovers
#warpigs #punk #climateemergency
The ultimate gaslight and four letter word : work 🤓
#gaslighting
#socialcontrol
#workingclasss #classwar #philosophy #socialism #unionize #anarchism #workethic #normalpeopleareaciapsyop #normalpeoplearebatshitcrazy
#psychology
#abuse #trauma #denial
#selfeducation
#booklovers
#warpigs
Packaging and Homovictimus: The Encirclement and Transformation of Modern Human
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#Packaging #Homovictimus #ModernEncirclement #Biopolitics #SocialControl #NeoFeudalism #SystemicConditioning #PassiveHumans #Foucault #OneDimensionalMan #SocietyOfTheSpectacle #Simulacra
New post: Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 5
Because the poor learn to hate themselves too.
Shame doesn’t just come from outside. It gets taught, repeated, absorbed.
Full piece: bjturnbull.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...
#poverty #shame #selfblame #inequality #socialcontrol #why
New post in the series:
Why Do We Hate Poor People? – Part 3
Because blame is a tool of control.
When poverty is framed as a personal failure, the system is left off the hook.
Full piece: bjturnbull.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...
#poverty #blame #politics #scapegoating #socialcontrol #inequality
