Kailaria

Trans, autistic speedrunner

I like playing games with high amounts of replayability/customizability (meaning roguelikes, mostly, but also rhythm games), and sometimes also automation sims since I like programming so much that I do that professionally.


Xylaria
@Xylaria
This post has content warnings for: mass shooting, transphobia, radical violence.

NireBryce
@NireBryce

I recommend people go grab the anti-trans coordination emails off maia.crimew.gay.

I recommend you find a group working on a specific aspect of it (journalism, analysis, connection/power mapping, cataloging enemy capabilities, learning from them and using it to social engineer these clowns, running a spy ring inside them, etc.

and for the love of Post Hog, don't do it alone. You're way more powerful together, just definitionally, thanks to skill diversity and wildly different metaphor libraries from varied life experiences.

The background is this:

Elisa made a mistake, got used, and then our opponents got greedy and started pulling her in many directions until she fully broke and realized everything that had happened, retransitioned, and.... gave us every email they ever sent her, with the full TO and FROM fields.

They broke their weapon, and in turn, she gave us nuclear warheads.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

and find others, teams make faster progress than individuals because every skillset has a use.

you just need to be able to maintain detachment reading them. the last drop of 800 i would honestly recommend starting with first, or reading the article linked above, at least. you need the context.

we are at war, right now. but as much as it doesn't seem like it, we're in a cold war.

there's proxy conflicts, there's political and legislative maneuvering, there's small fights. In that environment, and even in a hot war, the most effective thing you can do is find the weak points in their leadership and reporting structure, and apply unexpected and overwhelming force to the weak point, and then disappear before they can recover, immediately doing it again while they're responding to the first. Your goal is to make it impossible to plan, causing them to think on the fly under stress, while their reports keep asking them for orders and sign-offs, which they then can't send up the chain, because they're doing the same to the chain above them.

your goal is to find places to try and cause a failure cascade. We don't have numbers yet to fight people toe to toe. But showing up unexpected, or blockading, or catfishing, or being a spy, or running spies, or turning their people into spies? sure. watch defcon talks and have ideas, just don't violate the CFAA.

no one wins in a shooting war, which is why it's important to do everything possible before considering that.

but for it to work, people need to work together, coordinate, and try to have things happen at the same times, not drips and drabs of dox, the lowest hanging and most progressive-support-losing tactic. if pol are gonna do it, at least wait.

back in WWII, we had to make some hard choices.

one of them, Allies command knew a village was going to be bombed a day in advance. They had to let the village die, they couldn't even call an evacuation, or scramble fighters.

because no recent ships had sunk, no codebooks stolen, for this months batch of encryption keys. and if they saved the village, Germany would know the Enigma encryption had been broken.

try not to release anything early.


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in reply to @Xylaria's post:

If this is what leadership is - this cold pit of fear in my stomach, ready to vomit thinking about what's coming next, and doing everything I can to try and get someone, anyone to listen and stop it - then leadership is fucking horrifying.

not talking content, but tone, vibe, structure? yeah.

but I also didn't read a call for warfighting in the streets, but one of overwhelming response from whatever areas.

you should read the emails. They're... grim at times, but I think it will better inform your strategies, and give you a better vibe on our enemies.

they're over on maia.crime.mew, the first 1600 in pdf, the last 800 in a pile of .eml that you'll need to use thunderbird or something for.

people are currently mapping them, finding leverage, expanding the node graph. there's other things that can be and are being done to shift them to the back foot if it does escalate.

but there's so much more that's possible after elisa turned on her handlers and gave us every single email they sent to groom her into a weapon, and it shows how and where the power flows, and who must be discredited, de-licensed, disbarred, forced to resign, or other things. community defense is doing all the work before the rifle, after that happens you're just another insurgent.

all I'm saying is, one can have much wider reaching results without needing to fire actual shots, by knowing the social graph and becoming an intelligence agency. it was much harder to do when we didn't have the full TO and CC fields of everything they wrote to their weapon.

but your tone, yelling-without-yelling, repeating the right things, giving enough context, calling to action? that's leadership. the rest comes with practice and trust building. leadership isn't about being the first one in the door, it's about force multiplication and knowing who needs to do what and who can help with it, knowing your team well enough to deploy their resources where they need to go so the whole team gains more productivity than just another person. it's both facilitator and orator, both manager and coach, and most of all, it abstracts to using your team members like software libraries while you build the thing, but in a more comradery-having and joyful sense than the corporate idea of it.

teams are always more effective than solo, leadership in abstract is about bringing ppl together, giving them context, and applying their skills to the places you see need it most. even if that's just speeches that check those boxes.