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Amarnath Amarasingam

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Prof@Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, sociology of religion, conspiracy theories, online community, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop🎤

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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In good, Declaration of Independence form, the Heritage Foundation has not only declared their support for a 2nd American Revolution in the form of Trump 2.0, they are also assembling a long list of grievances, er, enemies to explain why that revolution is justified. newrepublic.com/post/183015/...

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The word “reports” doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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🚨NEW🚨 article looking at right-wing extremism in the military based on a niche dataset of interviews with individuals who are both former extremists and have military experience.

👉 pt.icct.nl/sites/defaul...

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"More and more you're seeing ideas like the great replacement theory, QAnon, some of these movements quite quickly pushing everyday people who weren't even deeply immersed in these milieus push over, tip over into violence." — @amaramarasingam.bsky.social (Queen's University)

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🚨NEW🚨 article looking at right-wing extremism in the military based on a niche dataset of interviews with individuals who are both former extremists and have military experience.

👉 pt.icct.nl/sites/defaul...

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"The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“You ramp up the number of people who are hearing and talking in a hateful manner, and the percentage of one of those people actually doing something about it also increases.” — Amarnath Amarasingam on normalizing hateful rhetoric. Watch Unravelled.

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Just 10 "superspreader" users on Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05...

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"The war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has accounted for the last remaining fugitives indicted for genocide, bringing to an end the court’s 29-year mission to deliver justice for the 1994 slaughter that killed more than 800,000 Rwandans" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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"A Guardian investigation has identified former University of California, Irvine (UCI) lecturer Jonathan Keeperman as the man behind the prominent “new right” publishing house Passage Press and the influential Twitter persona Lomez." www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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🚨 NEW🚨 by Tina Askanius, Barbara Molas, and myself

Far-right extremist narratives in Canadian and Swedish COVID-19 protests: a comparative case study of the Freedom Movement and Freedom Convoy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Steve Saideman's avatar Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social
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MLI is doubling down on its transphobia. Dudes, I guess it is whoever is funding you, but punching down on vulnerable people and borrowing the worst bs from the US is more than a bad look. It is inciting violence against people who have done nothing to deserve it.

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“Euphoria” was the murder. “6:16” was the nail in the coffin. “Meet the Grahams” was him at the funeral telling Drake’s family why he deserved to die. “Not Like Us” was him grabbing the mic and telling everyone else at the funeral why he deserved to die. Kendrick is a problem.

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“The rise of Canadian hate science” is a great subtitle though. For like a thriller about an underground neonazi with a Bunsen burner or something.

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In March, Pierre Poilievre told his supporters to protest the carbon tax outside Liberal offices.

Now, MPs are being warned to lock doors and get somewhere safe amid planned protests.

But are they related?

This speaks to our “hyper-polarized” environment, @amaramarasingam.bsky.social told me:

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Well done Columbia admin you kicked off an international movement

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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And the administration accomplishes what a small group of students never could have done on their own. Well played.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Again, there were countless ways for the administration to calm things down but they chose to escalate it every step of the way. And now they’ve bringing cops in riot gear to clear out their own students. Make no mistake: If someone gets hurt, it is absolutely entirely on them.

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"Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes" - OHCHR news.un.org/en/story/202...

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The UK's ban on Terrorgram on 22 April offers NZ a model to confront the accelerationist threat to democracy. TDP's research shows urgency of this, as Terrorgram has already infiltrated online spaces of communities united by anti-government, and anti-vax grievances. www.linkedin.com/pulse/proscr...

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Emmett Macfarlane's avatar Emmett Macfarlane @emmmacfarlane.bsky.social
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The added irony, just yesterday the administration released results of a big employee survey showing how unhappy & distrustful many employees are with how the institution is governed. Allowing major news like this to spread, first by rumour and confusion, now by unofficial channels, is brutal.

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We are thrilled to announce this dashboard, in partnership with @mikeajensen.bsky.social and others at START. It will be a crucial tool for researchers and practitioners who want to visualize and analyze militant accelerationism and its global threats.

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Nate Schenkkan's avatar Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social
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What this article describes in detail is using algorithms to create a permission structure within which war crimes are normalized & treated as technical decisions

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Really must-read reporting on the Israeli government's use of AI tech and the bombing of Gaza

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The Israeli army "gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices...human personnel often served only as a 'rubber stamp' for the machine’s decisions" www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

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There are no apple cider vinegar traps for emails.

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No but that’s interesting. I think mine just have multiple degrees and they are just toying with me.

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Fruit flies are taking over my life. I kill like 20 every day. The three I don’t kill spend all night having orgies and there’s like another 20 when I wake up. And they have evolved beyond any fruit fly trap available on the market.

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Justin Ling's avatar Justin Ling @justinling.bsky.social
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Over his four years as mayor: -Homicides fell to a 10-year low -Baltimore bought two hotels for unhoused people; is selling abandoned homes for $1 -He's running a guaranteed income program for 200 families -He's suing car-makers for bad anti-theft tech This racist bullshit is particularly clownish

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Cus they’re already accustomed to small pricks

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“Federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant// Tap my cell and the phone in the basement”

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa 's avatar Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social
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TL;DR: Chapter in PhD was first in New Zealand to look at the fallout of the March 2019 Christchurch massacre on Twitter, after study 100s of 1000s of tweets, & millions of words. Access it at drive.google.com/file/d/1-8ES... Thread highlights 10 key findings of the research, & some personal takes.

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