#IT #socialmedia #politics #democracy
Why radical right-wing networks thrive on social media
https://projects21.org/2018/04/04/why-radical-right-wing-networks-thrive-on-social-media/
y'all
adding #science #fact #reason to your political opinion doesn't make it right
neither does one study. I don't believe there's been an honest attempt to engage with the literature.
the trend is also the fault of those who fall for it
let's shut out the stembro contingent by
- holding points self-tagged as particularly scientific to correspondingly high standards, no boosts if you aren't sure it's our collective best attempt at an honest representation.
- flood some actual, boring, unsexy, everyday science into the #science tag.
We are all living in every second. Don't let an awful minute or day affects your whole life.
#storyinpicture
Tracking the coronavirus across Europe - How countries and regions are coping with the covid-19 pandemic https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/03/tracking-the-coronavirus-across-europe
“If scholars scan each others' collective work—every word written or recorded—searching for the least charitable reading of every snippet, we can all destroy each other.”
#cancelculture
— #JonathanHaidt
https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1279443900789374976
The screaming no-masker was fired from his job https://boingboing.net/2020/07/08/the-screaming-no-masker-was-fi.html #boingboing ##COVIDIOTS
Looks like a transferable concept:
https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail
I wholly agree with this.
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Stalkerware is installed on phones without device owners’ knowledge or consent, and is often used by abusers to read text messages, monitor phone calls, see photos, videos, and web browsing. Thankfully, antivirus makers are starting to detect it.
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/how-security-researchers-are-working-to-expose-stalkerware-on-your-phone/
Oh god. Going through radical.town is surreal. It's not merely an echo chamber: it's basically a left-wing version of Gab with more hate and a dash of potentially illegal activity here and there.
I think I'm going to block a bunch of accounts from there now. There are some people I don't want anything to do with.
EDIT: Muted 3 accounts.
Ehhh, I'll just publish the links to the threads.
https://radical.town/@lesbianhacker/104454097887941202
https://radical.town/@lesbianhacker/104458197661529818
Advice? Was I too harsh, or was her response totally out of proportion?
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2