# 2026-06-12

-   [[Zettled]]:
    -   [[Social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationally]].
        -   via [[How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’]]

-   [[Zettled]]:
    -   [[Language shapes what we think and what we can think]].
        -   via [[Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords]]

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-   [[Listened]]:
    -   [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]] 
        -   Says [[Extinction Rebellion]]'s analysis of non-violence is misleadingly selective of history of past movements.
        -   [[Women's suffrage]], [[Civil Rights Movement]], anti-apartheid, [[Poll tax]]. All had wings using violence that arguably contributed to the movement.
        -   Talks about [[Radical flank effect]].
        -   Malm not a fan of [[Gandhi]] overall.
        -   Discusses [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[MK]]. Non-violence until it was ineffective. Then violence.
        -   He says the question is not whether sabotage alone can bring about the change required (it can't). But can the wider movement bring change without the radical fringe?

-   [[Listened]]:
    -   Today in Focus: On the ground in the Belfast riots
        -   Thugs targeting anyone who is an immigrant.
        -   I felt sad and angered by the persecution of entirely innocent people.