Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

What’s Really at Stake in the Battle for “Ideological Diversity” at Elite Media Outlets https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/kevin-williamson-atlantic-ideological-diversity/

Hot take: authenticity is a separate issue from control. ‘Selling out’ is a matter of centralized control of media, not of compromised ‘individuality’. People are often genuinely individually awful.

Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956

Media Design, Auckland | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/talk

Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/

The truth about social media and “influence”: it’s a scam we‘re al… https://theoutline.com/post/3443/devumi-twitter-bots-savviness-gap

The problem with building a “fair” system - O‘Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-problem-with-building-a-fair-system

DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, cultur… http://ajroach42.com/diy-media/

Request Rejected http://www.typewritten.org/Media/

The New Media‘s coming of age | Dan Carlin | TEDxMtHood - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K57kcs15DY

@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff

Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/

Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good

Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the Mainstream Media and the World https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-troll-princess-duped-the-mainstream-media-and-the-world

Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion

Welcome To The Secret World of Internet Bots | Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-ethics-of-internet-bots

What is Satanism? Real Satanists, Satanist Guy & Other Media Imposters - Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/what-is-satanism-satanist-beliefs-imposters

Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1

#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller - Reply All by Gimlet Media https://gimletmedia.com/episode/104-case-phantom-caller/

Why the Media Refuses to Understand Antifa - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/social-justice/understanding-antifa?curator=MediaREDEF

1. build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic

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

What Happens When The Pro-Trump Media Get Actual Scoops? https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/what-happens-when-the-pro-trump-media-get-actual-scoops?utm_term=.dcZ9AZGg8#.jy33XlZ6o

Newer UFO generations deploy memetic camouflage, invariably appearing like bad photoshops when caught on digital media

“And we made room for two additional sets of mandibles! Media-to-nerve in even higher fidelity! Experience fleshy communion with the net!”

#freedeniz https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/action-free-turkey-media/

Gods love to play the game “let’s hide our names in the past”. Near always, their arrival will have been foretold by obscure old media.

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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my hobby: putting “free in case of zombie apocalypse” into terms of service to perverse-incentives people into starting one https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzwDDkpXAAAQrIz.jpg:large

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

Hello I am actually a traveller from a nearby star, we would like to initiate ‘sex’, see we learned about it from your ‘hentai’ media, and

glitch catalog by media: analog radio, satellite TV, VHS, audio cassettes, JPG corruption&overcompression, acid, dreams, analog photography

Sent by unscrupulous media companies and black operations, they map dreamtime and drill for promising wells.

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

Thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs shared with us this month his thoughts on Flash:

“Flash was created during the PC era —for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards —all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch vi … ⌘ Read more

More changes coming
For the first time I am working on creating a complete theme here. The last time I had a decent one was back when WordPress 1.5 was around, for which themes weren’t implemented as they are now.

No much have been happening in life. I don’t have much to tell right now, other that those minor breadcrumbs of life. Actually, I have a few things I want to write, if anything to keep record online of what happened. Those few things involve GoDaddy and Media Temple. But it will be a future top … ⌘ Read more

Why Vista is not going in
I was talking —well, chatting— the other day with a friend of mine and he was telling me some bad experiences he had had with a Windows Media Center upgrade. That got me talking about Windows Vista, perhaps it is because Windows Vista Ultimate comes with it, I am not sure. Anyways…

I told my friend I am not installing Vista (although I have Windows Vista Ultimate —the final version of Vista, no beta, no RC, but final— as … ⌘ 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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Downing Street Memo
I have known about this since it was released to the News media, but I haven’t comment about it here. I am providing a link to the contents of the Memo (pretty small read, I assure you) as they showed on the Times Online on May 1st, 2005. Draw your conclusions. I just want to quote a few parts of it. … ⌘ Read more