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An old meme. A meme of control. A meme about wanting to control you."issue is not breast feeding, but is rather Washington's use of the tax code to tell people how to run their lives."https://t.co/6ifWDtQy0dWhy do you hate babies / mothers / liberties / freedom? </sarcasm>
A sort of conformity force built in to our biology -> repeat the way our elders taught us or feel pain. Would normally be adaptive in our ancestral environment, but with modern educational systems & propaganda, it leads to the perverse states we see today.https://t.co/gif2565r8u
I just read a time magazine article pointing out how Fakebook's recommender systems are directing people interested in Norse and Viking history into honeypot traps set by Ukrainian white nationalists.https://t.co/di9PWSnB3pI hate this timeline. https://t.co/4xuaVEEV7f
All these 'security researchers' are doing when they try to divine facebook's 'shadow profiles'? There're just mapping the effects of what places like Acxiom's data platform, and Oracle Data Cloud is able to do. They are the "shadow profiles" all of this 'research' is seeing.
Watching American Politician's get a free pass to spam you via radio, television, snail mail, email, social media, and now you're going to get texts.https://t.co/xB72zFv0w0State sanctioned propaganda looks a heck of a lot like paid spam machines.https://t.co/8HljGZpN1O
Targeting ads to landline numbers cross correlated via shadow profiles built using aggregated data from 3rd parties, and implicitly tied to your social networking account.Facebook probably doesn't even have that number on file, but with enough metadata that it doesn't matter. https://t.co/O1SQGNg4WP
So you built a system to game people's attention, based on incentives around growth and user aquizition. And you use it to sell ads. Would be a shame if someone were to come along and use it as the basis of a self-bootstrapping propaganda machine. https://t.co/MT1lNRvcvE
Do you ever dance between learning theory and the social construction of knowledge while eating memes about propaganda as model of information spread and simultaneously thinking about how state of your gut microbes impact on learning and emotion?https://t.co/VT3eBfOOJXWhy not?
"… system that's still based on attention, and grabbing attention, and harvesting and strip mining our brains: you still get maximum polarization, addiction, mental health problems, isolation, teen depression, suicide, um polarization, breakdown of truth"https://t.co/XEFGzboUv4
"trading algorithms already exist that analyze millions of Tweets and online posts in real-time and make trades in a matter of milliseconds based on changes in public sentiment. Algorithmic trading and ‘algorithmic public opinion’ are already connected."https://t.co/2wxqogWD15
If I ever get something published, I'm going to straight up tell the interviewer that my discovery might be a stepping stone toward the utter annihilation of humankind on par with Oppenheimer's little boy, then allude to accelerationism as being the devil.https://t.co/ISXZyeiuwe
"Does this woman understand that Accelerationism is even about? ALL of your ideologies, feminism included, will be sacrificed on the alter of progress.""She's one of the founders of accelerationism, so I'm sure she understands it very well."LOLhttps://t.co/ed3YAvWKiv
At best, these kinds of data will likely be turned into something that any employer, police, government agent, corrupt power, private eye, bounty hunter, concerned citizen, can end up paying to access. If not illicitly, just straight up thru a service.https://t.co/IKLIWOeJSO
You see.. we gotta do mass collection of people's web browsing history so that disenfranchised people will be able to access loans. Please ignore how this data can and will be abused once collected. https://t.co/Fu2YOkrMxBhttps://t.co/48dnJ9GBuH https://t.co/0CK9AY51Wr
I'm over here trying to meme you into building virtual girlfriends. Meanwhile Facebook is trying to dopplegang on the scale of a country."We’re trying to build more than 1.5 billion AI agents—one for every person who uses Facebook or any of its products"https://t.co/nW7wkB3bUV
"With the capability of AI to cater to the public’s media consumption according to their preferences and demands, media companies have begun to invest in this technology to go with the projected $2 trillion global media spending projection in 2019."https://t.co/JXd0xBM66Q🎭
Here's a brand that decided to pay money to twitter to show this to me.They're literally advertising on the fact that they use emotional sentiment tracking to adjust the price of their brand, using it as a marketing stunt.Think about that for a minute.https://t.co/IRV41qkzsN https://t.co/hAPqplrR1D
Anyone interested in leveraging these tracking norms are going to find how to do it pretty quick. Here's an article about it in adweek from when the started talking about their plan.They're literally (and figuratively) feeding your world back to you.https://t.co/nnw2XYvBgQ https://t.co/stctciNIIA
"I think we're going to very soon start to build models, predictive models of people, that are so accurate. And then nobody will accept the existence of free will anymore. I'm sorry people who thought... this really upsets some people..." https://t.co/GxkkakpWcq
Targeted advertising will improve your ads, they said.It's not just a big lie to harvest money via rent seeing, they said.Pay no attention to the bullshit ad platforms behind the curtain, they said.Improve your conversion today, they said.#adnoyancehttps://t.co/JVDxqVqBAz
"it will be a tragic error if the race to develop (and profit from) the things that are confusingly called “cryptocurrencies” end up developing dossiers or surveillance societies such as the world has never seen. I’m just saying there’s a danger."https://t.co/T2z9a5TDhU
Autocatalitic propaganda."can be emergent (a “stand alone complex”?)—perhaps someone saw a clip and didn’t notice the metadata, or posted it with no metadata and a viewer assumes it’s real and reshares it, and that is how the viral hoax comes into being" https://t.co/BWcKN0Sls8
I'm so happy that reddit tracks all this information about me. Like how long I spent with a tab open on r/birdsarentreal while researching a droneI'm sure that this information isn't going to be pooled into some sort of surveillance-esque dossier or anything like that. https://t.co/qRFy8NbVlx
A medium engineered for as many people as possible to project identity into, combined with an addiction funnel that keeps you coming back because it's the only support community you have in the modern digital world? And your telling me its not he only one?https://t.co/cdRR0iqUsH
This isn't restricted to triple_byte. It's a symptom of job hiring platforms as a whole. Everyone in this space is vying for limited attention of job hunters, whom by their very nature are transient.My skin crawled as I went to remake LinkedIN profile. https://t.co/J0joaeyUuL
So a company create a digital doppelganger of you by running machine learning algorithms on your phone, and then uploads a model of your habits to their servers and use that to generate predictions about you.Have they stolen your soul?Have they violated your privacy?
"the latest example of how some advocacy groups have leaned on the immense power of corporate speech — and specifically digital advertising, the lifeblood of many tech platforms — in attempts to shape tech companies' behavior."https://t.co/u9Ds0UTsIdhahahttps://t.co/nSykawhZbX
I spent 5 hours talking with ChatGPT about the nature of surreptitious censorship. It told me how to implement a system to silently spread propaganda, and helped me learn about past cases where governments & political parties have abused these things.https://t.co/jHMwhPLZ4K
"the mechanisms of what Chomsky and Herman identify as “effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function” might work in the age of Twitter just as they did in one dominated by network and cable news." https://t.co/i2P96a4g8i
Apple has always been an ad company. They know how to manipulate you.> "For a special post-election edition of Newsweek in November 1984, Apple spent more than $2.5 million to buy all of the advertising pages in the issue"https://t.co/3PP081M2w9https://t.co/21iLJCKTCU
Advertising shits in your head... Everything is bullshit:https://t.co/UjJixLSK0f https://t.co/ACDVos369C
