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but note: « Even in the election year of 2016, politics was not a major field of Twitter for our respondents. In that year, among the four fields, the mean weight of politics is only .04, indicating on average less than 5 percent of the tweets were related to the politics field. Correspondingly, among 579 active Twitter users, only 5 percent (n = 29) were Pundits, whose tweets mainly emphasized politics. […] While a minor field, political engagement on Twitter increased in both weight and numbers of users in 2016. These numbers continued to increase in 2017. This finding seems counterintuitive to the omnipresent political tweets driving American news cycles. However, this field is likely a narrow one, with content dominated by elites and capital not easily obtained. »

well, i guess things DID change in 2016, huh

(from <https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11604/10748>)

imagine trusting the government to handle your data ethically

« Drawing on an original online survey from 2019 (N = 1,500), representative of the Chinese online population, this study reveals that concerns about data collection by government are low, albeit modestly elevated among individuals who are ideologically not aligned with the state. By contrast, concerns over data collection by companies are both extensive and consensual across key socio-structural and ideological divides. Surprisingly, the combination of government and commercially collected personal information does not multiply concerns. Thus, the Chinese authoritarian information state is perceived as a safety device for, rather than a threat to, citizens’ personal information. Extensive state interventions in the digital economy converge with broadly shared popular concerns about corporate information privacy practices. » https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12679/10753

sometimes i see people with a lot of energy and i’m like… who didn’t hurt you

oh, you mean PODCAST interview not like, interview interview

this is a post about design but also about a great many other things

almost by definition you have to make something knowable before you input it into the computer

so if you don't know, i recommend trying without a computer first

people using machines to create problems for other people

« The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with at least some subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure. »

lol https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned

« Can tentacle porn be feminist? ... Are your humours bent out of shape? »

clearly it was actually thousands of smaller ghasts

i don’t know how anyone could believe in Marx, the man literally thought a giant ghost was haunting Europe

in fact i don’t think this story is “brilliant”, i think it is entirely mundane, which is why it is necessary for us to discuss its contents