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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 15h

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Anne Bertucio @annebdh.bsky.social · 15h

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety.

This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

ROOST.tools hiring Staff Software Engineer in United States | LinkedIn

Posted 8:52:18 PM. About ROOSTROOST is a community effort to build scalable and resilient safety infrastructure for…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 1d

what could go wrong with talking about moderation on substack

Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 1d

Of course, people don't agree on what is "safe" and "fair" and that's why moderation is hard. But you can't solve a network-level problem with individual-level tools

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 1d

Moderation isn't simply about taking things down, it's also about building a collectively safe space. Telling someone they can just "label" (or hide/block) something they don't like won't address their concern that their community isn't safe

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 1d

Do I start a blog simply to write why "labelers" aren't enough?

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

This is the Libs of Tiktok problem that Yoel Roth wrote about and the problem of legal formalism in content moderation.

This isn't some new issue to moderation teams. It's a well-known problem.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cont...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture.

it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented.

this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderatio...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

a bunch of folks are wondering about how mod comms work for other PDS instances. this is also a problem for, eg, labelers trying to reply to appeals.

the plan is this proposal, which we have been making slow progress towards (it has been a very very busy 12 months for mod eng team)

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Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net · 4d

Wanna contribute to BlackSky? Here’s your chance:

https://opencollective.com/blacksky/contribute/backer-59760/checkout?interval=month&amount=7&name=&legalName=&email=

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

The tech-centric solution to “everybody is always yelling at us” is “let’s make it so they can run their *own* platform”, with the idea that they can then say: If you don’t like it, go run your own service with rules you like better. That’s literally one of the design goals Bluesky was made for.

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

"but Ryan the whole point of ATProto is that you can just do it, why don't you???"

because I work a full time job and I don't love coding enough to do it 24/7

Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

I think Bluesky is building dated approaches to moderation and resolution, compared to how modern the other aspects of the protocol feel

It feels like they pull in the latest tech innovations for the protocol, but none of the latest cutting edge ideas for moderation and trust & safety governance

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

There are a few challenges here, though. Building an ecosystem of alternate moderation systems requires third parties — both devs _and_ moderation experts — to trust in you all as both stewards of the infrastructure for that ecosystem *and* operators of the biggest/default instance of that system.

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

I get that it's a different skill set than the engineering that's been needed to get things running to date, but I think that's more worthy than going down the ambiguous rabbit hole of "healthy discourse"

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

I think Bluesky is building dated approaches to moderation and resolution, compared to how modern the other aspects of the protocol feel

It feels like they pull in the latest tech innovations for the protocol, but none of the latest cutting edge ideas for moderation and trust & safety governance

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

With respect to The Discourse™, I think the biggest thing is fairness, transparency, and accountability with moderation. I think the cloak and dagger form of moderation of social media past where minimal evidence and recourse is available to navigate takedowns leads to inequities and confusion

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

I'm not saying it's bad to aim for "healthy discourse," but this is literally what Twitter and Facebook tried in response to the 2016 US election, and it didn't really solve any core problems

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 4d

Trying to engineer "healthy discourse" is literally a 2018 mindset of social media. It's dated, and it doesn't get to the crux of what people want or need from online spaces

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Osaka/bun - more robot, less AI please @osakanone.bsky.social · 5d

Friendly reminder:

Social contagion is a network modelling tool, not a material phenomenology. They don't exist.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5d

If the Democrats don’t cave on the government shutdown, Trump will fire lots of federal workers (which is also exactly what Trump did when the government was open)

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boo-liet shen 👻 @julietshen.bsky.social · 5d

Tools like osprey have been around and used by T&S teams for years, and we're super excited to keep improving on the v0 that's currently out!

Prior art in this space (that's public) includes Pinterest's guardian tool

medium.com/pinterest-en...

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