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[?]Profoundly Nerdy » 🌐
@profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social

Are there any good books on why factions form? I mean everything from political factions as we think of them to the formation of rival gangs and religious splinter groups.

For context: I'm starting a new TTRPG soon and factions are something I historically suck at. I'm too logical and systematic. Factions often run on social strata and sense of identity. I don't have an inherent gasp of them.

Audio books preferred.

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    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
    @octade@soc.octade.net

    Third-Person Perceptions and Calls for Censorship of Flat Earth Videos on YouTube

    https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2853

    I remember a legislative hearing where the congress discussed the need for YouTube to censor all content that questions the veracity of heliocentrism and space programs. Perhaps this paper is following that trend?


      [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
      @blogdiva@mastodon.social

      RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/11643981639

      as a Monty Python fan, seeing the book casually in the background of one of their episodes got me to read the Naked Ape; but it was his documentaries for the BBC, The Human Animal and babytalk that really homed in for me his zoology of humans.

      those docus came out when i was still contemplating if i wanted to be a mom. to this day, i say motherhood is my own human zoo & “Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom”.

      blame Desmond Morris for that.

      apespeed Mr. Morris

        [?]muddle » 🌐
        @muddle@infosec.exchange

        @jwildeboer The comment on the wiki page about Conway's observation being being originally a sociological one has a "citation needed" mark against it, but I think that's right on the money. I think it extends beyond tech and what we normally think of when we think of "organisations." For example, we wouldn't think of LinkedIn users as being an organisation as such, yet there are definitely the outlines of organising mechanics, and these are most definitely and obviously coded into the language used.

          [?]Taran Rampersad » 🌐
          @knowprose@mastodon.social

          An interesting read not just about individuals. It also applies to tribes. And that enters sociology.

          Something I might reference...

          huffpost.com/entry/signs-of-em

            Privacy and Surveillance boosted

            [?]Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛ [she/they] » 🌐
            @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone

            After having put it down for 3(?) years, I finished Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne. 📖

            Good overview of the use of big data in policing and predictive policing. Not a lot of analysis along a critical race or surveillance studies angle, but I guess it’s a good companion to Benjamin, Alexander, Browne, Muhammad. Written in a very compelling way.

            ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

            app.thestorygraph.com/books/d1

              [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
              @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

              How W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith Helped Combat Medical Racism in America

              Michelle A. Williams on Black Contributions to American
              Public Health and Sociology

              lithub.com/how-w-e-b-dubois-an

              Books by DuBois at PG:

              gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/226

              Portrait engraving of Dr. James McCune Smith.

              Alt...Portrait engraving of Dr. James McCune Smith.

                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                In the segment I talk about Transductive Subjectivity, what it means, and how I use AI to help my thought process in absence of human beings who aren't as available
                youtu.be/SsOvTj46qFY
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                Bry Willis, Philosophics, Problem Solved

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                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                  Some LLMs have people wondering whether they are sentient. Semantics aside, they are programmed with prosociality in mind. Some project humanity.

                  youtube.com/watch?v=PlcRP945LI8

                  what LLMs really think about you

                  Alt...what LLMs really think about you

                    [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                    @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                    The Trump era isn’t peak partisanship—it's the collapse of a shared reality. Each faction lives inside its own cosmology, rewriting time to vindicate its prophecy. Madison feared factions would mistake part for whole. Our moment dissolves the idea of the whole entirely. Truth has become performance.
                    👉philosophics.blog/2025/11/14/t
                    yotard

                    factioned hourglass

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                      [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                      @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                      ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                      Why do sex workers report higher job satisfaction than 'respectable' employees? Fromm had an answer 70 years ago. The disease wasn’t neurosis — it was capitalism. We’ve automated everything except fulfilment.
                      👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/04/t

                      Alt...Apathetic office worker

                        [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                        @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                        Artifact drop: Constructivist Lens.
                        Tap to rewrite your ontology as metaphor. Because “truth” was always a house rule.

                        🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/10/31/c

                        A blue Magic: The Gathering-style parody card titled Constructivist Lens. The artwork depicts a geometric, machine-like face composed of blue and copper parts, a fusion of cubism and mechanical drafting. The card is labelled as an Artifact with the ability: “Tap: Replace any keyword on a permanent with a metaphor of your choice until the end of the turn.” The flavour text quotes Richard Rorty: “Knowledge is not a copy of reality but a tool for coping with it.” The overall effect satirises philosophy, language, and game mechanics, blending the absurd seriousness of both.

                        Alt...A blue Magic: The Gathering-style parody card titled Constructivist Lens. The artwork depicts a geometric, machine-like face composed of blue and copper parts, a fusion of cubism and mechanical drafting. The card is labelled as an Artifact with the ability: “Tap: Replace any keyword on a permanent with a metaphor of your choice until the end of the turn.” The flavour text quotes Richard Rorty: “Knowledge is not a copy of reality but a tool for coping with it.” The overall effect satirises philosophy, language, and game mechanics, blending the absurd seriousness of both.

                          [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                          @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                          RE: mastodon.social/@microglyphics

                          We thought we were done with exploitation; the 20th century said ‘hold my beer.’ Dive into why the promise of the worker-as-partner turned into invisible surveillance in my latest piece:

                          open.spotify.com/episode/530yU

                          [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                          @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                          ‘Teamwork! Equality! No more bosses!’ said the ‘50s… and now we have RTO mandates and empty glass towers. Explore the illusion in my new post about Fromm, Beauvoir, and capitalist déjà-vu.

                          philosophics.blog/2025/10/30/t

                          Book Covers: The Sane Society and The Second Sex

                          Alt...Book Covers: The Sane Society and The Second Sex

                              [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                              @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                              The Matrix lied to you. Freedom isn’t knowing the world is fake; it’s realising you can’t leave it. Race, gender, economy, nation—all simulations we keep performing to keep the lights on. Rousseau called them chains. Foucault called it biopower. I call it Tuesday.

                              philosophics.blog/2025/10/19/b

                              The Matrix green rain

                              Alt...The Matrix green rain

                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                My latest essay, “The Myth of Homo Normalis: Archaeology of the Legible Human,” excavates how the idea of normality evolved from a statistical convenience into a moral imperative—how psychology, sociology, and even critical theory turned legibility into a form of control.

                                📖 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17290628

                                🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/1KpoC

                                🔗philosophics.blog/2025/10/08/t

                                Excavation of Homo Normalis

                                Alt...Excavation of Homo Normalis

                                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                  Enlightenment thinkers built democracy on a fiction: rational citizens who never existed

                                  I’ve distilled the argument into a six-premise syllogism — a logical skeleton that shows how institutional assumptions collapse against human cognition, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, and Dunbar’s limits of scale.

                                  philosophics.blog/2025/10/02/r

                                  Schematic for syllogism

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                                    [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                    @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                    We humans boast of civilisation: puberty isn’t enough, you need society’s flag before you count as 'mature'. Driving at 16, voting at 18, drinking at 21, retirement at 67 – none of this is nature, it’s paperwork. Yet when it comes to gender, the same people suddenly forget what they know about constructs. “Nature” isn’t description, it’s border control.

                                    philosophics.blog/2025/09/15/n

                                    bureaucratic chimp

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                                      [?]CR séances Assemblée Nationale » 🤖 🌐
                                      @homohortus@mastodon.social

                                      Pierre Bourdieu’s Corporeal Hexis: The Embodied Dimension of Habitus

                                      Corporeal hexis refers to how habitus is embodied through our gestures, postures, and ways of being. For Bourdieu, the body becomes an unconscious bodily language, carrying social marks and class distinctions. Pierre Bourdieu uses the concept of “corporeal hexis” to describe the physical, bodily dimension of habitus, the durable matrix of social…

                                      homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

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