Tag Archives: Twitter

The 2020 Election, Benford’s Law, and Twitter

Posted on November 9, 2020 by David K.

In response to allegations of rampant voter fraud, and subsequently digging into the details of the voting, Scott Adams tweeted (and I’m embedding static images, for reasons which will become clear): Knowing what he was talking about, I laughed, and … Continue reading →

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Cruz in heated exchange with Twitter’s Dorsey: ‘Who the hell elected you?’ | TheHill

Posted on October 29, 2020 by David K.

Dorsey noted that every person or organization that signs up to have an account on Twitter agrees to its terms and services. Source: Cruz in heated exchange with Twitter’s Dorsey: ‘Who the hell elected you?’ | TheHill In a world … Continue reading →

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Alas Imgur

Posted on October 8, 2020 by David K.

I killed my Twitter account for the umpteenth time a couple days ago, so I tried looking at Imgur for amusement purposes. I didn’t get far. It seemed like a solid chunk of the top posts were screenshots of tweets … Continue reading →

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Alas Twitter

Posted on October 6, 2020 by David K.

I’ve tried to work with Twitter. I’ve tried pruning my follow list. I’ve tried blocking terrible people and muting terrible subjects. I’ve tried turning off retweets for people who, otherwise, had interesting things to say. But all of this is … Continue reading →

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Dunbar’s Number – Wikipedia

Posted on October 6, 2020 by David K.

Dunbar’s Number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number … Continue reading →

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On the Twitter Hack – Schneier on Security

Posted on July 21, 2020 by David K.

Whether the hackers had access to Twitter direct messages is not known. Source: On the Twitter Hack – Schneier on Security It would seem to me that Twitter probably has at least a really good guess right now, and the … Continue reading →

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Twitter DMs of Obama, Musk and Biden Could Have Been Stolen in Hack, Experts Warn

Posted on July 16, 2020 by David K.

“Absolutely, 100 percent that the DMs could have been compromised,” Jackie Singh, founder of Spyglass Security, told Newsweek. “I mean it looks like they had ‘god mode’ with seemingly few limitations and we don’t know how long they had it … Continue reading →

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Amazon and AI/ML

Posted on April 15, 2020 by David K.

At this point in our glorious capitalistic society, it’s the companies who are running the country, and they’ve got us by the short hairs. Who could have guessed, even 25 years ago, that the American public would literally fall over … Continue reading →

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ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019 – YouTube

Posted on November 22, 2019 by David K.

It’s time to regulate Facebook, Twitter, Google, et. al. I love just about everything about this, but the money quote, for me, is this, at 15:40… “… when discussing the difficulty of removing content, Zuckerberg asked “where do you draw … Continue reading →

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“Best Twitter Content,” by JWZ

Posted on September 13, 2019 by David K.
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