TODAY: A NAFO How-To with Matthew Pearce
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The plough became the transmitter, the harvest became the signal.
The world was still farming, only now the crop was attention,
and the earth itself had gone quiet, listening.—Matthew Pearce, When the Fields Fought Back, Part V, The Broadcast Century
We have a packed hour ahead today at 12:30 pm Pacific with NAFO founding member Matthew Pearce. I invite you to read his brilliant poetry in his Substack series titled: When the Fields Fought Back
Here is a link to Part V:
The writing and insight is both stunning and beautiful — he takes a meat axe to our culture and yet butterflies are still free.
Here’s a quote from him I particularly love:
We sold our silence for free chat.
Every scroll was a harvest, but not ours.
Algorithms learned us like lovers: our fears, our rhythms, our loneliest hours.
The result wasn’t enlightenment; it was capture.
In the old world, power hoarded information.
In the new, it floods us until we drown.—Matthew Pearce, When the Fields Fought Back, Part VI, The Network Harvest
Doomscrollers can relate. But Matthew will be talking about winning, a lot of winning.
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Below are the details for today’s Bette’s Happy Hour events, and our upcoming costume party with Dr Marci Shore!
Today, Tuesday, October 21, 12:30 pm Pacific with Matthew Pearce, a founding member of NAFO, a pro-Ukrainian decentralized fund-raising group of volunteers who accidentally reinvented information warfare. We will be talking about his brilliant work at his Mattppea’s Substack, powered by ‘righteous anger, ADHD, and Coffee.’ Pearce, a UK-based economist and technologist will walk us through his vital reporting on the cost of disinformation, the pipeline from Moscow to the West Wing, and his latest series on how the world set itself on fire. Plus, reality in Great Britain vs the lies being sold by the far-right. He will also offer some tactical advice on how to fight information warfare. As he noted in the following report: “The algorithm doesn’t care about your feelings or motives. It just chalks up another view for Trump. Outrage makes money.”
Tuesday, October 28, noon Pacific, please join me and Marci Shore for a Hair-Raising Halloween Happy Hour and Costume Party. Shore, an intellectual historian who wrote The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, and whose incredible insight often appears in my work, will be telling us spook-tacular tales on how to topple dictators. Costumes optional, but I encourage you to please join in the fun for a memorable mash up of how to defeat monsters.
You can read an excerpt from my latest Hot Type column featuring Shore’s insights here:
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