This reminds me of the curious case of the popular youtuber SIivaGunner. SIivaGunner has been on the internet since the early 2010's, and their content has focused around uploading high quality songs of various video games, and if you were to look at their channel you'd see just that, videos of video game songs labeled accordingly, at least that's what it seems. If you were to watch any of these videos, you may quickly realize that the songs are slightly, if not very different to what you would expect. That is the crux of SIivaGunner, they upload songs that seem to be accurate riffs from the game their from, but instead the songs have been altered and remixed to reference and sound like another song entirely. This is technically trolling, but in a harmless and fun way, with people loving the altered songs and memes, that is until the channel got banned by Youtube for "false thumbnails". The channel actually got banned multiple times, each timer the team made a new channel with a similar name (ie. SilvaGunner, GIlvaSunner). The Youtube channel is mostly safe as of now with the workaround they came up with, were they give the titles of the songs a seemingly true but made up versions of the song, such as "Beta Mix" or "JP Version".

Reading this reminds me a lot of modern day Discord, so you could defiantly say that IRC was ancestor of modern multiple room based chats like Discord and other similar things. Even the layout as shown in this image is almost exactly like Discord and how it is laid out now, with a series of "channels" with different conversations to switch between on the left, the main conversation for that room in the middle (complete with the handle of whoever said something with when they said it), and the list of users on the right. If it ain't broke don't fix it I guess.

About 75.85% of Twitter traffic during the 2024 super bowl was fake bots accounts according to a cyber security firm. At the time, even most Twitter users could tell the increase in the number of unauthentic content, and this Superbowl situation shows how it's likely not all false

This is something I kind of want to learn about, and that is how exactly this compression algorithm works to get this kind of output. The ways images are compressed are always very consistent in how they appear, and very consistent in how bad they are, especially how they often create these sort of yellowish/greenish tones where there weren't before, or at least in the same way (see the yellowish area below the lips on this image).

This is a site where you can buy follows for not just TikTok but for a multitude of various platforms. They do say however on their why page that they do not use bot farms and that real people will be liking and following your account if you buy their services, so according to them they are not a bot farm.

This kind of touches upon an issue I've seen that affects bots and generative ai. Often, a bot or ai that is designed to learn and change based on data fed into it can majorly backfire if the data being sent in is biased in some way, like being racist or antisemitic. I want to say that a lot of this happens because these bots scrape info from the internet (where else?), but as we all know, people can say some pretty awful stuff on the internet thanks to anonymity and echo chamber communities, so if you're not careful your ai can easily be trained on that exact data.

This may be a little silly but the way I interpret this or summarize this ethical framework is that a person who practices American indigenous ethics would not care for hypotheticals. In an exaggerated a way, if you were to ask a person who practices American indigenous ethics their solution to the trolly problem, they may disregard the whole idea being that it is based on a highly unlikely hypothetical event, which would have little to do with actual reality

Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it io X (I will still be calling it Twitter going forward), Elon has been trying to market Twitter not just as a platform for sharking text and pictures like this passage says, but as an "everything app" as the unofficial slogan goes. based on the tweet where Elon said the same thing. This is the exact opposite of the idea of making a platform minimalist or for a specific group, this is social media maximalism, a way of attempting to make a social platform as broad and all-encompassing as possible. As someone who does in fact use Twitter often I can safely say that Elon here has not really delivered on that idea.