This is an interesting scenario. A teenager shows a website where you can make money doing surveys. THat website is used for research, but having the TIktok go viral drew a large number of people to the website, who were a whole different demographic than the usual surevey takers, and becuase of that the data of thousands of scientific studies are ruined. If you apply care ethics this is harmful, but if you apply utilitarianism from the Tiktoker's perspective then its a blurred line, as she gained virality on that video with 4.1 mil views at the expense of thousands of scientific studies.

Yeah, this course was really good at introducing me to coding concepts, as a person who has never coded before. I am able to now understand most basic code, and edit accordingly. It also has peaked my interest and I may try to learn to code more in the summer!

Lua was created in 1993 by members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group (Tecgraf), Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, in Brazil, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. It was created by due to the Brazil's strong trade barriers from 1977 to 1992, since Tecgraf's clients could not afford to buy the customized software from abroad.

Another example of this trope is in Hidden Figures where the white male boss of the female black employee in a white and male dominated field (NASA Calculations) stands up the woman by destryoing the bathroom sign that says "colored." In the true story this movie is based off of this never happened.

My hometown had an Albertsons, but it closed down years ago. It turns out that Albertsons owns Safeway which was built a few years ago in my hometown. On the Albertsons website I saw the brand Organics, which now makes sense why I see them in Safeways. Additionally, Albertsons owns a lot of other companies such as ACME and Amigos.

Adobe is similar to a monopoly, since they are considered the industry standard, so artists and designers who wants to be taken seriously and keep up with their competitors must keep paying the absurd subscription price. There are cheaper options but Adobe is the name brand.

The bottom examples of children making excuses to avoid shame is interesting. I somewhat relate when it comes to events that go wrong. I first acknowledge my share of the blame, but after a while my mind wonders about if other factors weren't against me would the outcome have changed. The last step is accepting my faults in the situation and just trying to do better next time.

I think the Ellen Show had a similar thing. As it became canceled people looked back at pranks or interviews to review how celebrities were treated, to gain proof against Ellen DeGeneres.

This is really prevelent in current day since almost half the interactions people do are likely online. Since its a drastic way to get under someones skin and harm them its often used. This can either be to get back at someone or to harass them.

This is gettting so scary now because without a person's consent someone could basically fake porn with a person's face. This could get them to lose their jobs and ruin their reputation. Currently, the laws around AI haven't been developed yet, so sometimes people take advantage of that.

I've seen alot of different types of GoFundMes and kickstarters. Some are for medical treatment, or emergencies, other are to launch products or to keep platforms going. Wikipedia for example sometimes asks for donations since they aren't a profit based organization.

I can understand why an influencer posts so much, but a Wikipedia editor? I wonder what their goals are and why they choose to write the articles, especially with this statistic. What drives them to do such a service for people? And how much time would they need to invest to write all those articles?

I didn't know that the full name of Incel stood for involuntary celibate. I was aware of the definition due to memes, or videos about the topic, but not the full name of it. The general definition is a male who is unable to get a partner/relationship, despite wanting one, and often they become bitter and blame women. There is a female version of the term: Femcel, which means the same thing however for women. I'm pretty sure theres a Reddit community for both versions, since it has become pretty prevalent within recent years.

I agree with this sentiment. In this day and age is is nearly impossible to avoid technology, and even if you did you would lose out on a lot of experiences that your peers may have. I grew up with free reign on technology and got to learn and experience a lot, even with a few drawbacks.

This is definitely an example of echo chambers, but also how recommendation algorithms can really influence how someone experiences social media. It can lead to a pipeline, like in this article how the people interviewed were suggested flat earth videos after watching conspiracy theory ones.

I usually try to keep apps from getting my contacts lists, but sometimes they end up reccomending people I know. It's pretty scary how they can have access to your info, even if you try to keep it away from them.

I think this is such a cool empowering product. It lets people with parkinson's disease to regain a sense of normality, which can be really important. One question I have is if there is a way to make this product without the tech, such as having the rubber part be filled with liquid or a weight. Possibly this way this product can be cheaper/more accessible to people.

I think I have ADHD, I haven't been tested/diagnosed, but often I do find myself hyperfixating on things when I shouldn't be. Or I also have trouble prioritizing things too, like once for my design final I focused way too much on trying to export my photo when I should've got the printing done ASAP, since the jpg was not due until later.

This is kinda scary that people go as far as, and know to use people's sympathy/humanity to get important information. Like, if security questions didn't exist that would make it worse. Some people even use fake crying noises, dog barking, etc. to try and distract the phone operators, to get information more easily.

I didn't know how drastic having a password compromised is, even on a dummy account. I just thought it would be self contained on one website. This makes me want to change most of my passwords to stronger things

Its so creepy that they collect all these pieces of data about you. No matter how vague or random, examples in the article range from circle to what political party you prefer. The crazy part is it follows you to other websites too and relays back the information.

Whenever I google something with a potential product I get ads about that product for like days. It's pretty creepy since I try to keep them from tracking me. I guess it is hard to keep them from doing it.

They are mostly known for trolling, but also are famous for solving mysteries or finding lost media. I've seen a lot of videos about things like that where the timeline for finding lost medias span from months to years, and with somewhat organized groups too, within the 4chan community.

I remember when I was a kid prank videos would be popular and they were funny and usually harmless, but nowadays I see pranks that are borderline cruel or sometimes faked.

I remember this movement and sometimes hear people refer to it to this day. I believe this is because it was really important, since before it, there had never been such a widespread event that supported the victims of abuse. I think it helped a lot of people speak out about their situations/truama because alone they may not have any power against the people in Hollywood.

I remember seeing a youtube channel a while back having a similar format. It had originally been mundane, but branched out to being supernatural. I feel nowadays these types of content hae been popularized: childrens' content, analog horrors, etc.

This video goes over the relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but in a drunk fashion. So basically they were good friends, even worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence, however after Adams became president they began having disagreements and turned against eachother. This all leads to Jefferson becoming president. they continue to fight and avoid speaking to eachother. Years later, Adams writes a letter to Jefferson and they both reconnect, become good friends again, and end up dying on the same day.

I absolutely hate that designers do this. You can almost never avoid actually clicking on the ad since they're not only designed to discourage you, but to also get you to download their app. Its like those email lists that make it hard to find the unsubscribe button.

I remember before it was named X, Elon Musk complained about Twitter censoring him and other people. Then he would go into negotiations with them to buy Twitter. Then there was news going around where he wanted to opt out of the deal but it would cost $1 billion, which of course never went through because now he own the app and its called X.

One example oof perniciuos ignorance is when people support problematic people, who have evidence against them. They choose to overlook it because it's their favorite celebrity or influencer, but overlooking the bad side harms the victims.

I feel that bots like this are harmless and can bring joy. Judging by the 235K followers people really enjoyed this bot, until it stopped running. It's last post being on Jul 9, 2022. I also noticed that the posts seemed to repeat the images, sometimes in a pattern and other times randomly. On the link of in the bio the page seems to still run though, and it has a wider range of red panda photos.

For me the click farm reminds me of factory workers and dangerous labors, although, of course, not as dangerous. I also feel it allows for child labor to be exploited or justified because it is safer than working in dangerous conditions.

There is a subcatgory of nihilism called optimistic nihilism where the idea of nothing mattering is liberating. As result, many optimistic nihilists look for fun without feeling the need to have a complex reason for it, other than just having a good time.

I feel like young teens are prone to following the nihilism framework. I certainly had a short phase of it in middle school, which now I believe has evolved into existentialism. Truth is that we're all on a floating rock in space.