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".. a programme of warning people about false narratives, teaching people how to fact check themselves, and supporting high standards of discourse and behavior – especially from political leaders – is what works." @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social

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“Refusal to secure our information sphere is a refusal to secure our country. It’s time that all of our political parties face up to that and act. We don’t have much time left before it really is too late.” ⏰

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Important read. We are at the thin end of the wedge and we need to be prepared.

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More than ever before in my life time, this is important.

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Our very own @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social in the Spinoff today writing about why evidence-based counter disinformation programmes matter for New Zealand.

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A special thanks to @melanienewfield.bsky.social and @brainnotonyet.bsky.social and all of our students for a really wonderful start to this cohort of classes 💜 It was so fabulous to spend time learning with you all!

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“As far as I can tell, the current foreign policy priorities of the US government seem to involve terrorising the people of Gaza, annexing Canada, invading Greenland, and bullying Panama. We felt confident that a review of our materials would not find them to be aligned with those priorities.”

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One danger of Weaponized unreality is that eventually the truth starts to sound like absurdist conspiracy theory because the autocrat has accused the world of doing they in fact are guilty of and the conspiracy culture of the movement has mainstreamed and neutered the language needed to fight back

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"Henk says the US Embassy also requested a “list of registered participants for the online classes,” which Dark Times Academy also declined to provide as compliance would have violated the New Zealand Privacy Act of 2020."

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Everyone out there sitting on a US grant who is facing a fundamental change in the terms (be more racist! show us your materials! tell us who your students are!) needs to take this same step. It's hard and it's scary but you can do it and you should.

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We have our first class for @melanienewfield.bsky.sociall's Demystifying Risk course today and we are so excited! She's going to help us think about and better understand risk, which seems pretty important given the ever increasing level of risk rising all around us. Not too late to sign up!

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Do sign up to our newsletter for more info about our classes and to be the first to know when we tell Trump and Musk to get bent

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New Zealand continues to be a fairly bright light in, um, dark times. This is a clear example of "the correct response."

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Well done NZ Dark Times Academy

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Well, I guess I can say something now, but the federal government decided to try and say they could snoop around in course material at-the community school that I have been working with And will be teaching at starting tomorrow. this is a response to their attempts to get access.

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Here's a story about the community counterdisinfo school I have been helping get started, @darktimesacademy.bsky.social. We had to tell the Trump State Department to take a hike after they started demanding student lists and class materials

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We told the Trump administration to fuck right off their bullshit.

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“As far as I can tell, the current foreign policy priorities of the US government seem to involve terrorising the people of Gaza, annexing Canada, invading Greenland, and bullying Panama. We felt confident that a review of our materials would not find them to be aligned with those priorities.”

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This is the community school I helped get going. Some announcements about it coming soon!!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

So how do we even talk about sustainability with <gestures around>? If you want to hear from some of New Zealand's best thinkers and sustainability experts, please join us for this 8 week class!

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Hey Aucklanders, this looks like an AMAZING workshop from Jennifer!

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This is a GREAT time to sign up for our newsletter!

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I haven't been talking about @darktimesacademy.bsky.social lately but that's about to change. Now taking students for all our classes:

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Seriously, this moment is almost certainly the most dangerous the world has experienced since the Cuban missile crisis. Understanding how we got here--and how we can get out--is vital to all of us. I drop hope you will join us--independent community education is crucial for all of us. ♥️

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So Elon Musk did a coup . . . if you're interested in exploring how he used media manipulation and control to do it and what you can do to help fight it, join @brainnotonyet.bsky.social for our upcoming class Media Capture, Control, and Misinformation. mediacapture.lilregie.com

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We are so excited to have this week's newsletter out. Just to let you all know, Piers has been unwell, so Nathan Surendran is stepping in to co-teach alongside Sahra for Facing the Future. We also have amazing guest lectures coming from Mike Joy, Gareth Hughes, Catherine Dyre, and Giles Speeden ♥️

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Hey y’all if you wanna take a class led by yours truly on Modern misinformation, media capture state capture, and the control of information systems in modern autocratic states (which include the US now now.) This starts next week and seats are still available.

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Look everything really sucks, but if you want to talk about it and learn some ideas for how to make things better--in real lasting ways, please join us for Facing the Future!

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We are so excited to have this week's newsletter out. Just to let you all know, Piers has been unwell, so Nathan Surendran is stepping in to co-teach alongside Sahra for Facing the Future. We also have amazing guest lectures coming from Mike Joy, Gareth Hughes, Catherine Dyre, and Giles Speeden ♥️

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Check out this great interview with Dark Times Academy co-founder Mandy Henk by Bryan Bruce on the Head2Head podcast: bryanbruce.substack.......

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Our upcoming course 'Media Capture, Control, and Misinformation in the Digital Age' is presented by Karl Folk, founder of the Institute of Unreality. For more information, including a Q&A with Karl, see our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/darktimes...

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If we have one bit of advice for folks, it's to make sure you get paid upfront when accepting grants from governments. ♥️

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