The Hawk and the Squirrel
Some lessons take longer than others.
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Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
michaelvera.org
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Category Denial
My Country is a Liar
My country is a liar dressed in red, white, and blue.
Confidence as Rhetorical Form: AI as Denialist
Once the performance of confidence is recognized as mere linguistic style, it can be evaluated in the same way as any other rhetorical gesture.
Internet Chess: Death by Logical Failure
Internet chess platforms forbid computer assistance while requiring total reliance on computer assistance.
Defining AI Output As Hallucination
Perhaps every token of output from AI is hallucination.
Mastodon’s Federated Fallacy: When “Decentralization” Masks Centralized Control
Mastodon’s tools of autonomy became the engines of ideological isolation.
Outrage Casino: How Twitter/X Gambled Away Human Conversation and Won the Jackpot of Slop
"X killed real conversation; it's bots talking to rage farms now."
From Knee on Neck to Siege on Gaza: Scaling Police Brutality to State-Sponsored Genocide
This is what happens when police brutality is scaled to the level of a state and shielded by a global superpower.
Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics
By reframing dismissal as a form of denial, it opens the door to discussing how science should welcome exploration and critique rather than shutting it down.
Stages of “Genocide Denial”
These stages are not always linear and can be used in various combinations to deny or diminish the reality or severity of a genocide.