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Darius Kazemi: The Bot Scare
Darius Kazemi: The Bot Scare
It's clear upon inspection that the media narrative about an influx of Russian or otherwise foreign bots influencing politics in America is built on flimsy data and enormous leaps of logic. Further, the narrative empowers conspiracy theorists to make essentially whatever claims they want about anyone. The bots that do exist are drops of water in the ocean of social media, but I believe that the effect of constant front-page news stirring up fear about foreign influence can have far-reaching negative effects on any democracy.
·tinysubversions.com·
Darius Kazemi: The Bot Scare
Paul Ford: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning (The New Republic)
Paul Ford: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning (The New Republic)
The lesson of that kind of reading is a simple one. It has taught me that my own life is ephemeral. Despite all the heroic myths about the unique, irreplaceable preciousness of our daily lives, I am absolutely convinced that someone, someday 50 or 100 years from now, will be working at a computer near where I am seated right now, and he or she will come across the address of my office mentioned in this article—902 Broadway—and will read with amusement or wonder or puzzlement about my experiences. I greet you, and the people who follow you, and the ones after them, and I hope that I give you a moment’s satisfaction, and that you take as much pleasure from your search as I did.
·newrepublic.com·
Paul Ford: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning (The New Republic)