Mekaru

@mekaru
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Sou como rês desgarrada nessa multidão-boiada caminhando a esmo (gradualmente aprendendo a mexer nisso aqui)
Tuito agora nem abrindo está, risos. Pelo jeito elão quebrou o brinquedo bem bonito
Sumiu a minha linha do tempo aqui! Que será que rolou?

"There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a biopolitical commitment to maintaining life in a pandemic … the problem is that the CCP’s overwhelming priority is its own legitimacy, with viral suppression becoming the locus of legitimising narratives during the pandemic. In this sense, the biosecurity embodied in China’s response to Covid-19 was less about ‘the securing of collective life against risk’, and more about securing the life of the Party."

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/12/02/biopolitical-binaries-or-how-not-to-read-the-chinese-protests/

#a4revolution #China

Biopolitical Binaries (or How Not to Read the Chinese Protests)

On 26 November 2022, prompted by a deadly fire in a highrise apartment block in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, protesters took to streets and university campuses across China calling for an end to the country’s restrictive ‘zero Covid’ policy (清零政策) (Davidson and Yu 2022). Unsurprisingly, the libertarian right, anti-maskers, and […]

Made in China Journal
when you won't quit twitter
Você sabia que se você remover todo o miolo de um queijo brie ele vira um brie oco?
A fascist worked out today...did you?

Can we cut out the clout chasing?

Influencer culture is what helped destroy Twitter, and it will destroy the Fediverse if we bring these same habits.

Stop begging for followers. It's gross.

Acordei com fome e sede de justiça! Bom dia, querides.
22:11:22 22/11/22
#palindrome
Social media, especially character-limit-focused social media like twitter and (vanilla) mastodon, has a reputation for being ephemeral. Peoples' estimation of its value, especially its value as an archive or historical record, or anything you'd want to hang onto for any reason, is low. And yet! As twitter crumbles we are realizing just how much of value will be lost if its archive goes away forever. To a great extent, history is simply the ephemeral in large enough aggregate.