First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/

Why does U2 irk so many people? A look at their struggle for pop hits and social justice | America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/07/17/why-does-u2-irk-so-many-people-look-their-struggle-pop-hits-and-social?curator=MusicREDEF

The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html

Inside the extreme Facebook fandom for old rental VHS tapes http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/07/inside-extreme-facebook-fandom-old-rental-vhs-tapes

When you design a biosphere and carefully nerf all the obvious paths to superintelligence, but some social mammals discover it anyway

https://mastodon.social/@enkiv2/7846052 https://mastodon.social/@enkiv2/7846052

social network that lets you search users by emotional state so that you can binge on certain emotions in times of need

idea addressed networking, a paradigm under which packets reach their destinations through social network shares and word-of-mouth

dunbar number but for number of social networks and circles of friends to keep track of

I recently tried to write a command like client to GNU social, but after reading the specs on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon i soon lost interest… :)

twtxt: The only social network where every new user starts by writing it’s own client.

Hard to believe
If you hear or read this somewhere else — whether on social media, or via your clueless uncle Olaf — you will find it hard, if not impossible, to believe. Now, finding it on Reuters is a different story.

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

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The social network does not love you, or hate you. But you are made of tasty attention that it can use to grow.

He has a few million social media followers and an impressive dakimakura collection he printed, mostly posts poems and holos of moonscapes.

Cats are a social parasite co-opting human reproduction. For our future’s sake, we must steal their niche and evolve catgirls and catboys.

Phase 2: Virtual consensus reality diversification - ideologies become completely irreconcilable as populous “social” realities hard-diverge

it’s twitter’s frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the “walls” of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins

“the egregore layer”, “memespace”, “social norms”, to name some

The whole sprawl is a music box, a mechanism performing an esoteric social symphony. Its gears will take you along and you won’t know it.

@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.

China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.

“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more

Felix Schwenzel über IndieWeb und reclaim social media ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1xo

The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem Schöner Artikel von Ben Werd über das IndieWeb und Idno! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1W6

Non-Social
Almost over two years ago I left Facebook. A few months ago I left LinkedIn and Twitter. Two weeks ago I left Google+. I also left Groupon (I don’t even know why I ever sign up for that junk!). Next is to leave here. I guess this is my way to pursuit happiness.

As Mark weblog is gone1 —perhaps step 9 was, “ Get rid of the weblog“— I enumerate what he wrote:

1. Stop buying stuff you don’t need.
   
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A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V

Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM

OpenWeb-Notizen: Open Social, OExchange, Portable Contacts ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wr

The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws

Heavy Microsoft ads on Freshmeat
Freshmeat is, in their own words, “the first stop for Linux users hunting for the software they need for work or play.” and it also “offers a variety of original content on technical, political, and social aspects of software and programming, written by both Freshmeat readers and Free Software luminaries.”

I have been very surprised to see, more and more, Microsoft ads on Freshmeat. All over the place. Quite often. Fre … ⌘ Read more

Craigslist founder will not sell

The founder of craigslist, the free social-networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he is not interested in selling out, just hours after MySpace.com was valued at $15 billion.

“Who needs the money? We don’t really care,” Craig Newmark said in an interview at the Picnic ‘06 Cross Media Week conference in Amsterdam.

“If you’re living comfortably, what’s the point of having more?” Newmark said.

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