#mood manipulation

Recent Rank MANTIS

Community lore expert @JayAxe_ predicts Mantis will come to @MarvelChampions in December!

She's a very common inclusion in Marvel mobile games.

#91 on the Wishlist (a relatively high rank)

#Mantis #MCoC 

Series: Characters Not Yet on the Wishlist Nor in a Tournament

Venus (Aphrodite)

-Olympic pantheon (Hercules, etc.) -strongest love powers in Marvel -ally of Champions, foil to Avengers -had her own comic -chaotic neutral -telepathy, telekinesis, neutralize weapons -Blinding aura; emotion manipulation

ASIAN AND PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH: MANTIS

We haven't seen it yet in the MCU, but Marvel's prime Vietnamese character is more than an empath. She's among the purest skill fighters, a telepath, and an Avenger. Recent MCOC Wishlist rank: 175th:

Articolo stupendo che parte del caso degli esperimenti di manipolazione del nostro umore da parte di Facebook per riflettere in modo molto lucido ed esplicativo sulla distinzione tra strumento di comunicazione e prodotto informativo commerciale, tra libertà, libero arbitrio e neo-liberismo.

Da leggere.

Alcuni passaggi da conservare

Facebook most of all, truly violates a century-old distinction we know very well, between what were two, distinct kinds of information services. On the one hand, we had “trusted interpersonal information conduits” — the telephone companies, the post office. Users gave them information aimed for others and the service was entrusted to deliver that information. We expected them not to curate or even monitor that content, in fact we made it illegal to do otherwise…On the other hand, we had “media content producers” — radio, film, magazines, newspapers, television, video games — where the entertainment they made for us felt like the commodity we paid for (sometimes with money, sometimes with our attention to ads), and it was designed to be as gripping as possible. We knew that producers made careful selections based on appealing to us as audiences, and deliberately played on our emotions as part of their design. 

“Neoliberal strategy consisted, and still consists, in constantly and systematically guiding the conduct of individuals as if they were always and everywhere engaged in relations of transaction and competition in a market,” Dardot and Laval write. Facebook has fashioned itself into a compelling implementation of that strategy. Its black-box algorithms induce and naturalize competition among users for each other’s attention, and its atomizing interface nullifies the notion of shared experience, collective subjectivity.