This, my young friends, is a (West German) coin-operated payphone. Like cigarette and bubble gum vending machines, they were ubiquitous during my youth. Now, this is literally a museum piece, which I spotted in Frankfurt a couple of days ago. Very rarely, people forgot to collect the coins that remained when they ended their call.…
LLMs tackle Bluesky feeds, disinformation takes a backseat, AfD’s ticket scandal unfolds, and Europe grapples with far-right normalisation.
Why is Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party targeting me as a potential donor? I have no idea, and the algo doesn’t really say.
Everyone & their gran are leaving Twitter for Bluesky. Here are some links to help you get started.
Programmatically accessing Bluesky is a breeze with the atrrr package for #Rstats
The bot that posts references to research on the radical right is back on Twitter, Mastodon & Bluesky
I cloned myself and lived to tell the tale.
Feed your inner sceptic, listen to this Big Picture Science Podcast from December 2023.
4 short articles on stuff that interests me – the far right, social media, political beliefs – that I read and would like to share b/c they are worth your time
Twitter may be burning, but I’m not leaving yet (as I have said a thousand times before). Still, it is good to have alternatives, and so I set up an account on Mastodon back in November ’22 when we all felt the evil presence of You-Know-Who. But much as I like the ideas behind Mastodon…