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Terence Tao

Over the last few years, I have served on a committee of the National Academy of Sciences to produce some posters and other related media to showcase twenty-first century mathematics and its applications in the real world, suitable for display in classrooms or math departments. Our posters (together with some associated commentary, and some webinars on related topics) are now available for download at nap.nationalacademies.org/reso .

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Study: Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior

From the abstract:
[...] Finally, we find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.

⚠ "NO evidence".

nature.com/articles/s41467-022

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This post is intended to document a social problem i.e. the delegitimization of other people's ideas and refusal to argue.

🟢 I replied to a controvertial opinion with my own opposite controvertial opinion and provided a scientific publication to support it and for further insights.
🟡 No reply but legitimately unfollows me.
🔴 A third person replies that my post was "stupid" and immediately blocks me.

qoto.org/@post/109687129186805

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@chrisoffner3d

Definitely, thanks for linking the paper.

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*so many

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@ngons @TodePond

mastodon.art has blocked to many instances and fragmented the Fediverse so much that should be avoided especially for brands.

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@TodePond

fosstodon.org or webtoo.ls

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@chrisoffner3d

Continuous also in space and time, right?

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@garrett @f00fc7c8 @Migueldeicaza

Elon Musk has done humanity a great service by buying up Twitter and exposing the systematic and criminal manipulation it operates.

Twitter has censored reputable doctors in favor of corrupt institutions that have enforced a narrative and measures without scientific evidence.

It was already clear what was happening with the Lancet-gate and the rest, but it is good that the involvement of social networks has been confirmed.

Here there is even a study on the suppression of dissent on Covid19:

doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-094

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Garrett LeSage

@cassidy I think it'd be nice to have e2e messages in Mastodon, just because I have people here I don't want to give my phone number out to just to have a truly private chat in Signal.

This points to at least two problems with Signal:

1. Signal is wrong to use phone numbers (even still).
2. It should be easier to hop over to e2e chats with people regardless of the tool. (Like one time links to hop on to an e2e chat.)

Having e2e in Mastodon would alleviate it a bit.

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@garrett

But at least corporations are run by professionals which are often limited by some measures to ensure privacy and it's hard one would risk to be fired just to read a random conversation by strangers.

Instead on Mastodon the instances are managed by enthusiasts and are often not professional, but ideological and childish and I can definitely see them looking at private conversations.

Let's face it, most people just can't handle power responsibly.

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@hasmis

Yes. Literally impossible for a skeptical¹ person to being convinced because the vast majority of people have accepted everything passively and therefore do not know how to argue.

[1]: skeptical in its orginal meaning of "who is in search", not only doubting (from Ancient Greek σκέψις / sképsis = research).

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Mallory

Just found out ChatGPT is three Wikipedias in a trench coat.

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@Pat @freemo

Context: it's me that was reported days ago for sharing papers and the mod of this instance had to chim in and state that it was controversial but legitimate.

I'm literally questioning others to teach myself but many people are too lazy to counterargument and prefer to report as misinformation what doesn't fit whatever narrative they inattentively listened to from the mass media.

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Let's add to the list "reporting users on Mastodon for misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories" @freemo

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Study: "Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics"

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The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.

link.springer.com/article/10.1

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@axi0kers0s @naciketas @rothgar@mastodon.uno @emama @steffy @macfranc @scuola

Guarda che una sindrome è un insieme di sintomi, questa cosa del far finta che una sindrome come ADHD sia una patologia di cui si può essere affetti è solo un modo per vendere più droghe legalizzate ("psicofarmaci") ed una scusa per non ammettere quanto avvilenti e disumani siano diventati gli ambienti come quello scolastico.

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Why keeps changing its data? Here there is a link to my post from 4 days ago and it's not the first time they change the whole 2022 records:

qoto.org/@post/109655852322001

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US Politics 

From: twitter.com/Snowden/status/161

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@garrett @tbernard

Also it's worth noting that Protocol Labs (the ones who invented and develop ) has hosted over the years a lot of conferences about research on protocols, check their YouTube channel, it has a great variety of high-level content:

youtube.com/channel/UCJvMzILpV

The focus of Protocol Labs, rather than supporting the world of cryptocurrencies, is to promote the development of protocols rather than services.

We can say that is precisely this concept: a set of protocols like as opposed to a centralized service.

Also notice that many are interested in taking advantage of IPFS both in and in the Fediverse, in particular in that is currently based on but it could also take advantage from IPFS deduplication and ease of helping with seeding.

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