Since 2016, the number of papers on #misinformation or #disinformation has skyrocketed. It's hard to imagine another phenomenon for which there exists such a complete dataset, but this field must label things as true, biased, etc., sticky concepts to define at scale.

#50501 is a case study in a pathological organizational pattern we've discussed before, but now is not the time to wish that the resistance were otherwise structured. #50501 is here. What is to be done? Here's my contribution to that discussion:

theluddite.org/post/50501.h...

Many studies conclude that #TheAlgorithm has a right wing bias. Here's a post that tries to understand why by comparing the substance of the right's politics to the design of #SocialMedia.

theluddite.org/post/intelle...

"Blockchain Radicals" argues that the left ought to embrace blockchain. Here's my 2 part review, which first critiques how the book does theory, then examines Dávila's own Breadchain Cooperative. tl;dr Whatever his intentions, Breadchain is, structurally, a grift.

theluddite.org/post/blockch...

Study claims that "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably." WaPo, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and others picked it up. Here's my response.

theluddite.org/post/ai-poet...

#AI