Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Andrew Marantz, Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

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At Amazon, Andrew Marantz, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation .
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Outrageous Internet Campaign of Lies and Smears Destroyed This Man's Life

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You might think something like couldn't possibly happen, but the internet being what it is, I must say, this is one of the worst cases o...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

More Powerful Than the President of the United States?

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 There's no "debate" over "publisher" or "platform" anymore. This man, Mark Zuckerberg, is a danger to the...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Viral Ocean Spray 'Dreams' Star Nathan Apodaca

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I saw it on Twitter the day it went viral, and boy did this guy gain fame fast. At Hot Air, " Thanks to Nathan Apodaca Something Positi...
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Monday, September 14, 2020

Between 30 and 50 Percent of West Virginia Schools Lack Internet Access

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Fascinating. Kinda sad, but fascinating. Not sure if the figures include private schools, but either way, it's unreal. At WSJ, "...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Paul Joseph Watson Also Banned in Facebook Purge (VIDEO)

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Following-up from yesterday, " Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos ." Big tech contro...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos

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It's no surprise, although it raises the long-standing questions of whether the social media giants should be the speech police of Ameri...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Life Without the 'Big 5' Tech Giants

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Some time ago I posted the link to " Social Media Self-Defense ." I have not yet implemented the plan, but I do think about it o...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Jean M. Twenge, iGen

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At Amazon, Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Comple...
Monday, December 31, 2018

The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics

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At Foreign Affairs, " Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War ": @BobbyChesney and I have a piece coming out in @ForeignAffairs...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Jean M. Twenge, iGen

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy ...
Monday, November 5, 2018

How #JobsNotMobs Took Off

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At NYT, " Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan ": Fascination: Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The NPC Meme is the Best!

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This is the craziest thing ever, and boy did it make the Twitter administrative leftists mad! At Zero Hedge, " 4Chan Sparks Mass Trig...
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Monday, September 3, 2018

Twitter Struggles to Police Bad Actors

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If there were a decent alternative I'd use it. But that alternative is not Gab.ai, which is the home to white supremacists mostly (AFA...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

'Social media, metrics, bad faith readers, columnists, instant and bad takes, blogosphere nostalgia, and online abuse have created an op-ed internet culture...'

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At n + 1, " The New Reading Environment ": Grouchy / interesting piece in @nplusonemag on the op-ed's post-Trump renaissa...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

How Our Online Experiences Shape Our Political Identities

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Online culture is predominantly political culture nowadays. I'm really fascinated by this idea and look forward to reading more empirica...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Adam Alter, Irresistible

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked .
Friday, May 25, 2018

Woman Says Alexa Recorded Private Conversations, Sent Them to Contact in Family's Address Book

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This isn't creepy at all. At Instapundit, " I DO NOT TRUST THE “INTERNET OF THINGS” (CONT’D): Woman says her Amazon device record...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam Was Mentally Ill

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That's my main conclusion after seeing so many tweets about this woman last night. She was a no-talent Internet wannabe who became enrag...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

David Weinberger, Too Big to Know

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At Amazon, David Weinberger, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the ...