Bard spotting on Bluesky 21 November 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Subreddits for trans creators / personalities, years ago, had people posting "Bigots are now starting to protest trans women in sports. Thoughts?" —

Which posts were their instant, unpaid, unconsenting, unconscionably-data-collected focus groups on that subject.

Stef Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):

I also suspect that the organized campaigns engage in A/B testing of different story lines and counterattacks through online cowtools, to determine what #disinformation will work best in widespread distribution.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The things we wrote about dignity, rights, personhood, statistics, the nature of biology & of sports -

All discarded.

All in the name of harvesting the issues that require immense efforts to humanise & a trivial appeal to hatred to exploit

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If bigots knew how much effort goes into finding the switches in their amygdalas that shrink their souls, the effort to turn them into balls of fear and rage —