The Radical Right Research Robot is back with a vengeance (for now)
The bot that posts references to research on the radical right is back on Twitter, Mastodon & Bluesky
Tag: social media
You can now create deepfake videos in the safety and comfort of your home
I cloned myself and lived to tell the tale.
Will the real Naomi Klein please stand up?
Feed your inner sceptic, listen to this Big Picture Science Podcast from December 2023.
Political beliefs & multi-partyism, plagiarising politicians, the robustness of Twitter, and Alex Jones: 4 links I liked
4 short articles on stuff that interests me – the far right, social media, political beliefs – that I read and would like to share b/c they are worth your time
2 invite code for Bluesky (but Twitter is fine)
Twitter may be burning, but I’m not leaving yet (as I have said a thousand times before). Still, it is good to have alternatives, and so I set up an account on Mastodon back in November ’22 when we all felt the evil presence of You-Know-Who. But much as I like the ideas behind Mastodon…
So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish | snarfed.org
While you were occupied with the substack ban/unban, everyone’s least favourite billionaire is trying to make twitter profitable by 🥁 🥁 🥁 killing hobbyist projects like this.
The Radical Right Research Robot is on Mastodon
The Radical Right Research Bot is now also on Mastodon. Click here to find it.
Bots now fully able to replace the remaining human users on Twitter
I’m putting this here for your consideration. In my humble opinion, it is indistinguishable from the original. Probably it is time for us to go back to doing actual science stuff and things.
Automated niche tweets are a thing now
I asked an AI how Twitter relates to the Tannhauser Gate. This is what they told me.
Pinging Mastodon instances | Sociology, Statistics and Software
This small experiment is quite interesting, because it reveals a tiny bit of Mastodon’s network topology. I remember that I saw one of Brendon’s test posts.