Tag Archives: social media

Preposterous

Posted on Jun 11, 2021 by Henning Michael Møller Just

It should be no surprise that I subscribe to / “follow” people who might be blocked by current social media policies. This comment about a temporary ban on Facebook was interesting: Exactly those two points are interesting. Did she get … Continue reading →

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An idea for a really useful AI tool

Posted on Dec 29, 2020 by Henning Michael Møller Just

(yes, it’s a ML tool, but more people will get the headline when I write AI) It’s a supplement to this idea from Randall Munroe/xkcd: An idea that Youtube added for a short while as an option. — The idea … Continue reading →

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Haters and bullies were already transparent in 1847

Posted on Aug 24, 2020 by Henning Michael Møller Just

There is a form of envy of which I frequently have seen examples, in which an individual tries to obtain something by bullying. If, for instance, I enter a place where many are gathered, it often happens that one or … Continue reading →

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We all mess up, and we should be allowed to mess up

Posted on Jul 20, 2020 by Henning Michael Møller Just

We all make mistakes. Everyone over 35 talks almost incessantly now about how glad we are that we grew up in a time when social media wasn’t recording and sharing every stupid moment of our lives. Stupid moments of life … Continue reading →

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Bots may be a bigger problem than we think

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 by Henning Michael Møller Just

This thread raises serious questions: Wendig goes on to show that the “Ben Carling” account is most likely a bot-account, designed to respond to certain tweets. The account was recently created, never tweets but replies, only followed by one account … Continue reading →

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The influencer “scam”

Posted on Jan 20, 2020 by Henning Michael Møller Just

Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot of people. It won’t. It can’t. The math doesn’t hold up. Someone is going to win a lottery, but it probably won’t … Continue reading →

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Advice for online sharing

Posted on Jun 20, 2019 by Henning Michael Møller Just

From Benjamin Wittes: Here are six easy steps you can take to help control the problem of political disinformation: (1) Pause a moment–just a moment–before you share something on social media to ask whether you are being someone’s dupe and … Continue reading →

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The original social network

Posted on Sep 23, 2018 by Henning Michael Møller Just

How about if, instead of ditching Twitter for Mastodon, we all start blogging and subscribing to each other's Atom feeds again instead? The original distributed social network could still work pretty well if we actually start using it — Simon … Continue reading →

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Being run off social media

Posted on Sep 2, 2018 by Henning Michael Møller Just

Wil Wheaton is a good actor, a good writer and seems like a decent person. I actually once met him and I like him. He is, unfortunately, also an easy target for trolls*. Recently he left Twitter, for good reasons, … Continue reading →

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Traffic

Posted on Jul 24, 2018 by Henning Michael Møller Just

I don’t get a lot of traffic to my blog, but I do get some (and thank you for that!) I don’t obsess about it either, but logging into the WordPress back-end, the most recent statistics are shown to me … Continue reading →

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