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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree that huge social media systems need to be understood as disproportionately affecting misinformation. I don't know anything about Telegram, though.

  Are the pushback people fReEzE PeAChErs or something? Is Telegram just lovely? Dunno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone can be charged with any violation. He’s a billionaire who - specific to this scenario - gained much of his billions by using the press as a cudgel to get the political system to yield to him. He will never be held to account in his lifetime.

  As a side note, it’s more clear every single day that media literacy and critical thinking must be core competencies for everyone. We’ve skated on this for a hundred years and the planet is almost dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's an interesting twist. Sherlock seems designed to use legal data collection and digital advertising technologies — beloved by Big Tech and online media — to target people for government-level espionage. Other spyware, such as NSO Group's Pegasus or Cytrox's Predator and Alien, tends to be more precisely targeted.

  So . . . It’s just “digital customer engagement” and all the other euphemisms for online stalking, it’s just that the intent is pre-stated to be nefarious. Hm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "Burn Notice" worth watching?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re looking for a good show to binge with someone, it works well. Lots of fun guest stars and guaranteed explosions. It’s not a science documentary, but it’s not garbage reality television, either. Just fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Member when microsoft was convicted of being a monopoly? Only took a decade and several judges who didn’t know what a browser was. And then nothing changed. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Aware of How Your Life is Being Monitored by Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but it’s the first thing people will think. So, you’ll likely always be defending it. Just 2¢.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flash Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit to Dick Wonder on b3ta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The site has always been much smaller than Facebook, and it only mattered because politicians, journalists, and those who currently pass for public intellectuals were using it. Whether you read The New York Times or watched Fox News, you would encounter content that began its life on Twitter.

  This article is a big long hot take. Which is fine, it's kind of entertaining. But yeah if you care what the NYT and Fox News are printing on a daily basis you might feel a little untethered at the moment. Understanding that the two are linked is so close to understanding . . . something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet Trump wouldn't have been as destructive without it. Covid wouldn't have been as destructive without it. It was dead to anyone who knew what it was yet here we are, hoping the millions stuck in Apartheid Clyde's Magic Funhouse can escape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It'd be better if everyone posted non-paywalled links. Just sayin'. 12ft.io or archive is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the early nineties the term "droolproof" was, well, if not popular then at least existant. "Droolproof" instructions would be something like "do not expose your laser printer to open fire or flame".

  Mastodon needs droolproof instructions. A private company like Twitter creates a series of gates for users to jump through and rigs things on the back end to make it so that people are unable to screw up too much. It's like a Fisher-Price chainsaw versus the actual chainsaw of Mastodon.

  It's easy to forget how many people are active on social media who have never read a manual or a FAQ or who even know how to google very well, or at all. It's a huge proportion. Twitter serves them all by being, well, what it is. People give up their privacy and data patterns in exchange for a corporation making the experience droolproof.

  There needs to be a youtube of some photogenic person happily showing how to use it. Srs. If we want to kill Elmos Fascist Tea Party we need that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy crap I read the whole thread and article to find out there’s no new thing here - its the same news as earlier this year.

  I misread the title as “‘rick and morty’ gives up on recasting process . . “ and thought they were going to kill off the characters or something. Nope. No news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One case in point was a very big dispute, in 2009, played out in the public forum about how Facebook was handling accounts and posts from Holocaust Deniers. Some employees and outside observers felt that Facebook had a duty to take a stand and ban those posts. Others believed that doing so was akin to censorship and sent the wrong message around free discourse.
  
  Willner was in the latter camp, believing that “hate speech” was not the same as “direct harm” and should therefore not be moderated the same. “I do not believe that Holocaust Denial, as an idea on it’s [sic] own, inherently represents a threat to the safety of others,” he wrote at the time. (For a blast from the TechCrunch past, see the full post on this here.)
  
  In retrospect, given how so much else has played out, it was a pretty short-sighted, naïve position.