Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Fri 28 Oct 2011 20:18

@MiyasSushi – oh you shall see me surely enough. Will be back in NYC in early December, then for a long stretch Jan-Feb-March-April

Fri 28 Oct 2011 20:17

Then will finish a piece for the The Baffler, on why we still don’t have robot factories and anti-gravity sleds. (I blame capitalism.)

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Fri 28 Oct 2011 20:15

Doing final edits on a long piece on The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk for the excellent new journal HAU http://t.co/H1DN7kfw

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Fri 28 Oct 2011 18:08

not a “worker’s rally”! A WWP rally! And I was just a conduit, they weren’t my ideas. Otherwise good. http://t.co/hiyxt1Pz

Fri 28 Oct 2011 06:35

RT @MMFlint: MT @apls452 @KeithOlbermann re: #ScottOlsen is “awake, no longer sedated” – an apt metaphor for the Anger of the 99%

Fri 28 Oct 2011 02:00

RT @GreeGreece: Beyond Power/Knowledge an exploration of the relation of power, ignorance and stupidity Professor David Graeber @agent139

Fri 28 Oct 2011 00:06

RT @revbillytalen: @davidgraeber david, its raining in nyc- please watch our song from the declaration of the occ http://t.co/ou4yZyfB …

Fri 28 Oct 2011 00:01

RT @samobile: God: capacity to create society. Consensus is a ritual of sacrifice of egoism, which brings into being that very god. (Aft …

Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:58

@DougHenwood – the first part happens all the time in revolutionary situations. Problem is ensuring the prisons don’t _come back_

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Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:49

@brianarchist – can’t prove a negative but there’s much video of the whole day, no rocks, and if cops had images of it why keep them secret?

Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:47

RT @chegossett: @davidgraeber yes to the media aspect! in terms of the prison ind complex, have an “impossible” hope for systemic refusa …

Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:47

@OccupyAlabama -best approach is to do as gov’t does: reward sympathetic media (ie who tell truth) with privileged info, blackout for liars

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Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:46

@OccupyAlabama – it’s been tried. Whipcream on the lens is very nonviolent but also effective.

Thu 27 Oct 2011 19:45

RT @Rubber0Cement: @davidgraeber pass on the overhead video of KRON tv. the whole riot blow by blow is on there… its all on the tapes.

Thu 27 Oct 2011 18:42

@patrickejones – yes I’ve been working on it for 10 yrs apparently, esp clever of me since it was long before I thought of writing the book

Thu 27 Oct 2011 18:40

@chegossett – yes but at certain points elements in the media break ranks, just as at certain points cops and troops refuse to fire

Thu 27 Oct 2011 18:39

RT @TheOther99: CONFIRMED UPDATE: Scott Olsen upgraded to “fair” cond. -Family reportedly en route to hospital.. http://t.co/XVNq75co #O …

Thu 27 Oct 2011 18:36

Cops always say it, media always print it as fact, but even when it’s definitively proved to be a lie, media plays along anyway. #ows

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Thu 27 Oct 2011 18:36

What do we have to do to convince the media that cops systematically lie when they say protestors threw things at them? #scottolsen #ows

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Thu 27 Oct 2011 17:18

@NduguSumu – yes I am as you might imagine ambivalent about the very idea of self-marketing

Thu 27 Oct 2011 07:38

RT @yvonnegraphy: @davidgraeber Occupy Oakland just voted on a general strike Nov. 2. Whee!

Thu 27 Oct 2011 07:38

@GreatNeighbor – the Graeber side were from Bartenstein, East Prussia and came over in 1848