Hugh powell
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Earlier this month, a study went viral — a social listening firm said it had traced "inauthentic" social media activity that helped to spread narratives that Taylor Swift was using Nazi symbolism. Then all hell broke loose.
I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...
I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...
A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe
A sloppy report has triggered a new wave of viral discourse.
www.theverge.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Earlier this month, a study went viral — a social listening firm said it had traced "inauthentic" social media activity that helped to spread narratives that Taylor Swift was using Nazi symbolism. Then all hell broke loose.
I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...
I tried to get to the bottom of it: www.theverge.com/report/84572...
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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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I think people might be missing some of the full implications of this. It's not *really* about protocols. They play a big part! But it's more about monetization imo
Currently: free product act as honeypot for your data, which is sold to companies, and fed back to you as ads
But if atproto wins? 🤷♀️
Currently: free product act as honeypot for your data, which is sold to companies, and fed back to you as ads
But if atproto wins? 🤷♀️
if atproto gets really big, i wonder what meta’s existential take on it will be. like would they go out of their way to try to make it not happen, or would they embrace it at some point and build stuff around
November 26, 2024 at 5:09 AM
I think people might be missing some of the full implications of this. It's not *really* about protocols. They play a big part! But it's more about monetization imo
Currently: free product act as honeypot for your data, which is sold to companies, and fed back to you as ads
But if atproto wins? 🤷♀️
Currently: free product act as honeypot for your data, which is sold to companies, and fed back to you as ads
But if atproto wins? 🤷♀️