Noupside

Noupside, 6 days ago to random

📣 SOME PERSONAL NEWS: 1 month from today, my book is out! 🎉

🏢 It’s about propaganda, influence, influencers, & institutions.

🪡It explains why people increasingly live in bespoke realities.

🤑 It breaks down how paranoid cranks run smear campaigns for clout, money, & power.

I wrote it during a wild year in which Jim Jordan subpoenaed me & Stephen Miller sued me. It’s time to tell the story.

Preorders are open — and really matter, so I appreciate your support!

https://amzn.to/44BjAII

Noupside, 7 days ago to random

This man unblocked me after NINE YEARS to imply I ran some kind of deep state sinister smear campaign targeting him.

Literally nine years ago this happened and I never interacted with him again.

Incredible.

Fragile man boosts fragile man.

(Nassim Taleb and Paul Thacker).

Cc @pluralistic do you remember this?

November 22, 2015 9:55 AM Edit Tweet NassimNicholasTaleb ® @nntalebr Further investigation shows that Cory Doctorow is in fact highly dishonest intellectually, pure charlatan. $doctorow GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic @doctorow @nntaleb l've read your article. I follow Taleb. You are the troll; and either stupid or dishonest. 11/21/15, 6:25 AM 7 RETWEETS 12 LIKES
< ...00 AT&T LTE November 21, 2015 7:51 AM 7:51 AM Tweet Edit Renee DiResta @noUpside Author of Fooled by Randomness defends homeopathy. 12h Boing Boing @BoingBoing assimNicholas Taleb O nntaleb tions can be rational if 1) harmless, 2) lower your an nt you from listening to forecasts by economists & B Longtime supporter of junk science now defends homeopa... - 13 Nov 2015 146 • 196 3

rodhilton, 7 days ago to random

When Jack first started talking about Bluesky, in the very early phases it involved the blockchain. I remember suggesting that I thought the reason he liked the idea was that he could theoretically build a version of Twitter where no tweets could ever be deleted, and therefore there'd be no pressure on him to moderate or ban anyone. He wanted to not have the power.

People always thought I misunderstood Jack's motivations but it turns out I was right about him all along.

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

Noupside, 10 days ago to random

The mattress I bought 3 years ago wants to redefine our relationship

Noupside, 11 days ago to random

Breathtaking insight from Elon’s discarded pet propagandist

Noupside, 13 days ago to random

Last week Twitter Files substack blogger Paul Thacker was back in my inbox, wanting to speak to the manager. Paul, if you didn’t send me stupid emails, I wouldn’t post them to the internet.

Here are excerpts from the latest bad faith media inquiry from the Bullshit Industrial Complex, shared to explain how it works. This man -a notorious hack- claimed to have “whistleblower” docs showing that I secretly ran election interference ops, particularly for the U.S. Dept of Defense.

This is a lie.

This whistleblower has also said that New Knowledge won an award from the DoD to create automated disinformation for elections. Again, you have denied such involvement in election disinformation and have tried to portray yourself as an actual expert on detecting disinformation--not creating it.

Noupside, 22 days ago to random

🦐 This One Weird Trick will help you grow a massive following on Facebook, sell products that don’t exist, and drive traffic to your weird machine-generated content farm…

Shrimp Jesus continues to fascinate audiences worldwide; we describe how the broader scam and scam pages work in this piece for The Conversation:

https://theconversation.com/from-shrimp-jesus-to-fake-self-portraits-ai-generated-images-have-become-the-latest-form-of-social-media-spam-226903

Noupside, 25 days ago to random

The CyberTipline is the main line of defense for children who are exploited on the internet. Tips -filed by tech companies and others who encounter exploitation content - lead to the rescue of children and the arrest of abusers. Yet after 26 years many believe the entire system is not living up to its potential, and generative AI threatens to make it ever harder to triage reports as investigators must determine whether a child is real.

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/cybertipline-report

Noupside, 26 days ago to random

“The word censorship has an actual meaning”…and it’s not a private social media platform slapping a label on bullshit.

https://techpolicy.press/the-word-censorship-has-an-actual-meaning-a-defense-of-content-moderation

Noupside, 27 days ago to random

Metatext. I reinstalled and it didn’t fix anything. Maybe an instance problem? Today I’ll try another app.

Noupside, 28 days ago to random

Testing 123 my image uploads all look blurry but apple says the app is up to date. What do you see?

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

Facebook is such a fascinating ecology. The species fittest at gaming the algos grow prolifically; the platform shifts the environment a bit; new & novel species rise. There were the weird food videos of Rick Lax et al. Now, the proliferation of generative AI content (Shrimp Jesus). One variant of cane toad after another.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

carnage4life, 1 month ago to random

I wonder how social media will survive the distrust that will come from the flood of generative AI.

People question whether a song from Drake is actually by AI. VCs question if you wrote the email because of word choice. I got accused of using AI to write a description of a talk.

People are growing increasingly distrustful of any content they consume and spend energy worrying about its provenance versus actually reading, watching or listening to the media.

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

I used to reference chemtrails in 2015-era talks as one of those conspiracy theories that were prevalent in online fringe groups but which largely stayed confined to niche communities…and now these sorts of things are popping up and passing in state legislatures https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/05/minnesota-republicans-introduce-legislation-inspired-by-the-chemtrails-conspiracy-theory/

"If you look at a thousand planes, you won't see one (chemtrail). But then all of a sudden you see one," the author of the Tennessee Senate bill told the Tennessee Lookout last month. "So we're just asking the question: Are they putting anything in the air that could be toxic?" The Minnesota House version of the bill was authored by GOP Rep. Jeff Dotseth of Kettle River and co-sponsored by Reps. Pam Altendorf of Red Wing, Dawn Gillman of Dassel and Krista Knudson of Lake Shore. The Senate version was authored by GOP Sen. Eric Lucero of Saint Michael and co-sponsored by Sens. Glenn Gruenhagen of Glencoe, Bruce Anderson of Buffalo, Nathan Wesenberg of Little Falls and Eichorn, the assistant minority leader. Some of the language in the bill is nonsensical. "I don't think xenobiotic electromagnetism and fields is a thing - it doesn't even make sense," Buck said. The lead authors of both chambers' bills did not respond to a request to define "xenobiotic electromagnetism," or to provide a real-world example of it.

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

Apply! This is a really fun program (I gave a talk last summer, and really loved seeing all the participant projects) and prob right up the alley of a lot of people on Mastodon.

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/cfa-summer-of-protocols-2024

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

Does media shape public perception or is it just people’s firsthand experiences of government not working for them?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/27/republicans-democrats-democracy-polling/

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

Matt Taibbi has now gone on the Hill TV and claimed that my work is sponsored by DHS and State (it is not), so my calls to use section 230 to “bring these companies to heel” were an “overt threat” (I said no such thing; he lied about this below). CHD is quoting the appearance for their audience. This repetition is how they launder their lies into reality for their followers.

https://saturation.social/@Noupside/112128214710568718

Noupside, 1 month ago to random

Matt Taibbi is currently having a multi-day meltdown over the extent to which his Twitter Files conspiracy theory was destroyed in SCOTUS oral arguments Monday. And in keeping with his deception over the last year, he deliberately misquoted and lied about me again.

First image is Matt’s post. Second is what I actually said. I was literally expressing the opposite point of view - that CDA 230 is not a fix for misinformation and it’s a waste of time when Govt tries to use it that way.

"Asking or expecting the platforms to take action on certain types of health misinformation may be reasonable, but this sort of dynamic that we've all watched unfold over the last year and a half makes clear how this approach has some potentially problematic pitfalls," she said. DiResta also warned that focusing narrowly on how platforms handle specific types of content, whether it's lies about vaccines or baseless claims of election fraud, risks ignoring the bigger picture of how information is created and spread - both on social media and in other channels. "There's hope that we can cure all of the problems of the world by amending [Section 230]," she said. "It's not so simple as we're going to regulate social media platforms and this is all going to go away."