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Mainly, I've been using the account to track the Infopocalypse and related aspects contributing to the mess. However my usage here has evolved to include personal research and items, as well as hosting my personal artworks.

For indexing purposes I've been arranging channel names with emojis and special characters. Here's the browsing key:

※ - Main Channels
⁂ 📂 - Secondary, Case study
⁂ 📓 - Secondary, Personal study

♻ - Research channels for Infopocalypse. Legacy channels due to first usage of Are.na, and therefore are the messier of the channels.

Non-emoji/character tagged channels are just standard research pools and other usage.

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Neutering Twitter

※ Using Twitter on an mobile app or mobile browser is not recommended. Following plugins are useful to kill a lot of Twitter's mechanisms to at least lessen the site's addictive mechanisms.

Addons:

GoodTwitter - Forces previous Twitter layout - Chrome / Firefox

Twitter Demetricator - Hides Twitter metrics - Home page w/ plugin downloads

Manage Twitter Engagement - Separates Twitter's Tweets/Retweets/Suggested Tweets on previous Twitter layout (needs GoodTwitter currently) - github page w/ plugin downloads

Twitter Block Chain - Chain-blocks users on follower/following pages, useful for pileons avoidance - github page w/ plugin downloads

Leechblock - Not a Twitter-only plugin, site blocker with timer countdowns and other settings, useful to manage time on Twitter - Home page w/ plugin downloads

Neutering Twitter via Plugins

Alternative Political Resources Starter Pack

Political catchup:

- Capitalism: The Game by Michael Oman-Reagan:
https://medium.com/@OmanReagan/capitalism-the-game-ad9830907a5d

- PewDiePie and the Problem With (fake) Racism - 2019 by The Serfs:
https://youtu.be/2Orqtf6WgIs

- Nine forces Driving the Rise of Fascism in 2019 by Michael I. Niman:
http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/01142019/nine-forces-driving-rise-fascism-2019

- The Alt-Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studios:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

- World War F: Weaponized Social Media in the Age of Fascism by Michael I. Niman:
http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/04082019/world-war-f-weaponized-social-media-age-fascism

Internet:

- The Privacy Project by The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html

YouTuber recommendations:

Talkshow:

The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - https://www.youtube.com/SamSeder
Chapo Trap House - https://www.chapotraphouse.com/

Culturally relevant, scant traces of politics:

Wisecrack - https://youtube.com/thugnotes
Jenny Nicholson - https://youtube.com/JennyENicholson

Some places for news:

https://mediamatters.org/
https://workers.org/
https://unicornriot.ninja/
https://itsgoingdown.org/
http://dailypublic.com/ - SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS <3

※ American right-wing media is trash and most liberal media is half-trash. Please exercise media literacy when consuming for news (see last section)

Website resources:

https://eff.org/
https://fightforthefuture.org/
https://blacksocialists.us/
https://marxists.org/

Browser Stuff:

~! If you can afford it get a VPN !~
https://adblockplus.org | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
https://eff.org/privacybadger
https://eff.org/https-everywhere
https://www.torproject.org/

Media Literacy 101

With EVERY communication you receive, ask yourself:

Who is saying this?
Who is the INTENDED RECIPIENT?
What is REALLY being said (subtext)?
What ACTION do they seek to trigger?
Who will BENEFIT from that action?
Are any manipulation tactics being used?

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