#astroturf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astroturf, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.yourvoicedecides.com ist eine Website von Philip Morris, mit der eine EU-Konsultation über die künftigen Regeln für Tabakprodukte (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/17612-Tobacco-products-and-tobacco-advertising-revision-of-EU-rules_en) manipuliert werden soll.
In der Website muss man ein paar Fragen beantworten und einen eigenen Kommentar schreiben, und dann generiert eine KI daraus einen Text, den man dann an die EU schicken kann. Ich fand das Resultat nicht sehr überzeugend — typisches KI-Kauderwelsch eben — aber es wird den Leuten, die das Ganze lesen müssen, zusätzlichen Aufwand bereiten.Hier sind noch zwei Artikel über die Angelegenheit (beide auf Niederländisch):
https://www.tabaknee.nl/nieuws/item/3508-industrie-manipuleert-eu-consultatie-tabaksrichtlijn
https://www.rookvrijegeneratie.nl/artikelen/artsen-en-gezondheidsfondsen-klagen-philip-morris-aan(Warum es nur Artikel auf Niederländisch gibt, ist mir nicht klar, aber vielleicht liegt es daran, dass in den Niederlanden Ärzte und Krankenkassen protestiert haben.)
#YourVoiceDecides #PhillipMorris #Rauchen #Astroturf #AISlop #EuropäischeUnion #EU
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https://www.yourvoicedecides.com ist eine Website von Philip Morris, mit der eine EU-Konsultation über die künftigen Regeln für Tabakprodukte (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/17612-Tobacco-products-and-tobacco-advertising-revision-of-EU-rules_en) manipuliert werden soll.
In der Website muss man ein paar Fragen beantworten und einen eigenen Kommentar schreiben, und dann generiert eine KI daraus einen Text, den man dann an die EU schicken kann. Ich fand das Resultat nicht sehr überzeugend — typisches KI-Kauderwelsch eben — aber es wird den Leuten, die das Ganze lesen müssen, zusätzlichen Aufwand bereiten.Hier sind noch zwei Artikel über die Angelegenheit (beide auf Niederländisch):
https://www.tabaknee.nl/nieuws/item/3508-industrie-manipuleert-eu-consultatie-tabaksrichtlijn
https://www.rookvrijegeneratie.nl/artikelen/artsen-en-gezondheidsfondsen-klagen-philip-morris-aan(Warum es nur Artikel auf Niederländisch gibt, ist mir nicht klar, aber vielleicht liegt es daran, dass in den Niederlanden Ärzte und Krankenkassen protestiert haben.)
#YourVoiceDecides #PhillipMorris #Rauchen #Astroturf #AISlop #EuropäischeUnion #EU
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From #LouisRossmann: The #3DPrinting control laws cropping up in #NewYork, #Colorado, and other states all result from an #astroturf campaign funded by control freak oligarch #MichaelBloomberg, the former #NYC mayor who pioneered the un-Constitutional and rights-violating racist police practice of #stopAndFrisk.
The claims to be about #gunControl are a smokescreen, and “Every Town Demands Action” is merely a means to the end of mandating surveillance and permission for every form of part manufacturing that is possible independently of large factories. It is actually a campaign to make everyone but billionaires require government approval to manufacture anything, in order to destroy any possibility for anyone but the ruling class to compete or to make or repair our own things.
It is part of a larger demostrated pattern of seeking to control as much as everyone else’s lives as possible.
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From #LouisRossmann: The #3DPrinting control laws cropping up in #NewYork, #Colorado, and other states all result from an #astroturf campaign funded by control freak oligarch #MichaelBloomberg, the former #NYC mayor who pioneered the un-Constitutional and rights-violating racist police practice of #stopAndFrisk.
The claims to be about #gunControl are a smokescreen, and “Every Town Demands Action” is merely a means to the end of mandating surveillance and permission for every form of part manufacturing that is possible independently of large factories. It is actually a campaign to make everyone but billionaires require government approval to manufacture anything, in order to destroy any possibility for anyone but the ruling class to compete or to make or repair our own things.
It is part of a larger demostrated pattern of seeking to control as much as everyone else’s lives as possible.
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“Israeli Paper Admits That The Mossad Astroturfed The January Riots In Iran”
by The Dissident on Substack
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@iran
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald“The Israeli paper Ynet put the final nail in the coffin of the CIA/Mossad narrative in Iran, admitting that the Israeli Mossad laid the groundwork for the violent riots that preceded the Israeli/American war, and which were presented in the mainstream media as organic peaceful protests”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/israeli-paper-admits-that-the-mossad
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Mossad #CIA #Astroturf #Riots
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“Israeli Paper Admits That The Mossad Astroturfed The January Riots In Iran”
by The Dissident on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald“The Israeli paper Ynet put the final nail in the coffin of the CIA/Mossad narrative in Iran, admitting that the Israeli Mossad laid the groundwork for the violent riots that preceded the Israeli/American war, and which were presented in the mainstream media as organic peaceful protests”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/israeli-paper-admits-that-the-mossad
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Mossad #CIA #Astroturf #Riots
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*It's a *Chinese* bamboo-plastic, so maybe there's some kind of bamboo privacy-threat involved, that A16Z and Palantir could pay to raise a big MAGA stink about #grassroots #astroturf
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金沢で戦争反対デモ、ネットで嘲笑と批判の声
さいたま市水道局のメーター盗難防止メールが住民反発を呼ぶ
フィフィのサンミュージック公式プロフィール削除 帰化取り消し発言の影響か
石破茂氏、拉致解決へ連絡事務所構想に再び意欲辺野古警備員死亡事故、事故2日前安全対策却下が判明
#botFarm #clickFarm #スマホ農場 #OSINT #Japan
from tech view, #X #Twitter #Japan inside can see manipulation in details but, ignore #astroTurf
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金沢で戦争反対デモ、ネットで嘲笑と批判の声
さいたま市水道局のメーター盗難防止メールが住民反発を呼ぶ
フィフィのサンミュージック公式プロフィール削除 帰化取り消し発言の影響か
石破茂氏、拉致解決へ連絡事務所構想に再び意欲辺野古警備員死亡事故、事故2日前安全対策却下が判明
#botFarm #clickFarm #スマホ農場 #OSINT #Japan
from tech view, #X #Twitter #Japan inside can see manipulation in details but, ignore #astroTurf
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Gardeners told not to install artificial grass in garden for stark reason https://www.allforgardening.com/1734128/gardeners-told-not-to-install-artificial-grass-in-garden-for-stark-reason/ #ArtificalGrass #astroturf #garden #gardening #IsAstroturfBad #Mowing #ShouldIGetArtificialGrass #ShouldIGetAstroturf #Weeding
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Gardeners told not to install artificial grass in garden for stark reason https://www.allforgardening.com/1734128/gardeners-told-not-to-install-artificial-grass-in-garden-for-stark-reason/ #ArtificalGrass #astroturf #garden #gardening #IsAstroturfBad #Mowing #ShouldIGetArtificialGrass #ShouldIGetAstroturf #Weeding
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Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views
Albertans end up bombarded with targeted messaging that amounts to Propaganda or Slopaganda, funded by dark money.
This week, a report by the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), a joint project between the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal looking into Canadian media, identified 20 YouTube channels as part of a co-ordinated network focused on separatism in western Canadian provinces, and other political issues.
The report noted they use near-identical scripts and dubbed them “slopaganda.”
Altogether, the accounts have garnered roughly 40 million views.
The report says many of the videos contain “frequent and obvious lies, drawing on real news stories to reach exaggerated conclusions designed to exploit political divisions.” The report did not identify the individuals behind the apparent network, citing a lack of “identifying information to real humans or organizations nor ties to the secession movement in Alberta.”
“I think it’s disturbing that these voices are able to insert themselves in the conversation, and their interest is not to further the democratic discourse or … have a healthy, authentic conversation,” said Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory.
“They’re putting themselves in the middle of that, misleading Albertans, Canadians, and they’re just doing it to make money.”
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#Hatred #ForYou #X #Twitter #Japan
児童手当の誤支給、外国人出国後も約350自治体で経験あり京都南丹市小6女児殺害事件 養父が逮捕・殺害認める
京都高麗寺土葬墓地拡張に懸念広がるも寺側は許可済みと説明
立川市で陸上自衛隊追放を訴えるデモが発生し警察が参加者を点字ブロック上に誘導
産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2%に回復し憲法への自衛隊明記賛成59.3%
産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2％に回復自衛隊明記賛成59.3％
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#Hatred #ForYou #X #Twitter #Japan
児童手当の誤支給、外国人出国後も約350自治体で経験あり京都南丹市小6女児殺害事件 養父が逮捕・殺害認める
京都高麗寺土葬墓地拡張に懸念広がるも寺側は許可済みと説明
立川市で陸上自衛隊追放を訴えるデモが発生し警察が参加者を点字ブロック上に誘導
産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2%に回復し憲法への自衛隊明記賛成59.3%
産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2％に回復自衛隊明記賛成59.3％
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オトイケ
@otonanoikenga
【悲報】高市総理、現状言い返せる部分無し…神谷宗幣「国民に謝れよ！」
一言だけでも…どうすか…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yeKKDU2qezs?feature=share#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #ShinzoAbe #UnificationChurch
#Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk #X #Twitter #botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurf
#オトイケ
#@otonanoikenga
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オトイケ
@otonanoikenga
【悲報】高市総理、現状言い返せる部分無し…神谷宗幣「国民に謝れよ！」
一言だけでも…どうすか…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yeKKDU2qezs?feature=share#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #ShinzoAbe #UnificationChurch
#Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk #X #Twitter #botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurf
#オトイケ
#@otonanoikenga
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#Japanese #SocialMedia #Hatred control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be
いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
これが今の池袋です😨#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd#botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurf #astroTurfing #Japan #OSINT #ElonMusk #X #Twitter
#Trump #Epstein #Iran #Israel #Paletine #gaza #Ukraine #Venezuela
#OSINT
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#PlasticPatrol: the #CitizenScientists tackling #litter in #Australian #waterways
#Plastics make up the majority of litter across the country. In the absence of regulation, the public are taking matters into their own hands
by James Norman, Fri 30 Jan 2026
"Neil Blake weighs a paper bag of fake grass fragments he has collected from a stormwater gutter near #DarebinCreek in #Melbourne’s north.
"Over the past three years Blake has conducted 56 collections of synthetic turf in the waterway alongside the KP Hardiman Reserve hockey pitch.
" 'I noticed that a local hockey pitch was being replaced and the plastic surface was running off into the local environment,' he says. Strong northerly winds and #LeafBlowers had helped shed the turf fragments into the local #environment.
"In addition to impacts on #AquaticEcosystems, scientific analysis suggests #PlasticPollution is exacerbating #ClimateChange, #biodiversity loss and #OceanAcidification.
"Australians produce more than 3m tonnes of plastic waste each year, and according to Clean Up’s annual survey of parks, beaches, creeks and other public spaces, plastics make up more than 80% of litter across the country. A review by the New South Wales chief scientist found that one #SyntheticTurf field could transport between 10kg and 100kg of plastic fragments into the #stormwater system or local waterways.
"Blake has taken advantage of the electronic scales provided by the newly opened community science laboratory in the Port Phillip #EcoCentre in #StKilda, to quantify his samples to present to the local council and the Environment Protection Authority. The lab hosts facilities including microscopes, measuring equipment, safety gear and access to advice from trained scientists.
"It’s one example of citizen scientists tackling the growing problem of plastics in #waterways, including #beaches, #rivers and dive sites around the country."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/okVtk#SolarPunkSunday #LitterCleanup #NewSouthWales #Australia #PlasticTurf #PlasticPollution #CitizenScience #WaterIsLife #Astroturf #PlasticPollution #Microplastics
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#PlasticPatrol: the #CitizenScientists tackling #litter in #Australian #waterways
#Plastics make up the majority of litter across the country. In the absence of regulation, the public are taking matters into their own hands
by James Norman, Fri 30 Jan 2026
"Neil Blake weighs a paper bag of fake grass fragments he has collected from a stormwater gutter near #DarebinCreek in #Melbourne’s north.
"Over the past three years Blake has conducted 56 collections of synthetic turf in the waterway alongside the KP Hardiman Reserve hockey pitch.
" 'I noticed that a local hockey pitch was being replaced and the plastic surface was running off into the local environment,' he says. Strong northerly winds and #LeafBlowers had helped shed the turf fragments into the local #environment.
"In addition to impacts on #AquaticEcosystems, scientific analysis suggests #PlasticPollution is exacerbating #ClimateChange, #biodiversity loss and #OceanAcidification.
"Australians produce more than 3m tonnes of plastic waste each year, and according to Clean Up’s annual survey of parks, beaches, creeks and other public spaces, plastics make up more than 80% of litter across the country. A review by the New South Wales chief scientist found that one #SyntheticTurf field could transport between 10kg and 100kg of plastic fragments into the #stormwater system or local waterways.
"Blake has taken advantage of the electronic scales provided by the newly opened community science laboratory in the Port Phillip #EcoCentre in #StKilda, to quantify his samples to present to the local council and the Environment Protection Authority. The lab hosts facilities including microscopes, measuring equipment, safety gear and access to advice from trained scientists.
"It’s one example of citizen scientists tackling the growing problem of plastics in #waterways, including #beaches, #rivers and dive sites around the country."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/okVtk#SolarPunkSunday #LitterCleanup #NewSouthWales #Australia #PlasticTurf #PlasticPollution #CitizenScience #WaterIsLife #Astroturf #PlasticPollution #Microplastics
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#News #Japan #X #Twitter
辺野古テントの献花扱いが物議、取材後バケツ放置の写真拡散韓国海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で制度改革求める声広がる
BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か
#astroTurf #astroTurfing #OSINT #Japanese #botFarm #ClickFarm
#ElonMusk
Great Country! ( easy )#SanaeTakaichi #ShinzoAbe
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#News #Japan #X #Twitter
辺野古テントの献花扱いが物議、取材後バケツ放置の写真拡散韓国海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で制度改革求める声広がる
BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か
#astroTurf #astroTurfing #OSINT #Japanese #botFarm #ClickFarm
#ElonMusk
Great Country! ( easy )#SanaeTakaichi #ShinzoAbe
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Neo Imperial Japan axis with Israel and the US woud never
say about the Demo
#astroTurf #astroTurfing #OSINT #Japan
#ElonMusk #Trump #Epstein #Netanyahu
#Takaichi
recommends #Nazi #Hitler #Election #Strategy#NoWar #ResignTakaichi #SanaeTakaichi
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食料品消費税ゼロ公約、先送り論で国民失望広がる
BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か
海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で日韓引渡し問題再燃
香川県の外国人向け空き家補助金に疑問の声相次ぐ
岩田明子氏が外交青書修正でメディアの中国ご注進疑い指摘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtw0cQRJ2z4&feature=youtu.be
#astroTurfing #astroTurf #Japan #OSINT
#Nazi #Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi
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食料品消費税ゼロ公約、先送り論で国民失望広がる
BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か
海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で日韓引渡し問題再燃
香川県の外国人向け空き家補助金に疑問の声相次ぐ
岩田明子氏が外交青書修正でメディアの中国ご注進疑い指摘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtw0cQRJ2z4&feature=youtu.be
#astroTurfing #astroTurf #Japan #OSINT
#Nazi #Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi
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いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysdおい！マジで何だよこれ！！！
890万人もアンダークラスが苦しんでんのに、外国人労働者ばっか騒いでる場合かよ💢
年収216万で貧困率37%超えて、結婚も子育ても諦めざるを得ない日本人がこんなにいるのに😖
これを放置して「外国人増やせば解決〜」とかふざけんな‼️💢
#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
#astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #Japan #X #Twitter
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いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysdおい！マジで何だよこれ！！！
890万人もアンダークラスが苦しんでんのに、外国人労働者ばっか騒いでる場合かよ💢
年収216万で貧困率37%超えて、結婚も子育ても諦めざるを得ない日本人がこんなにいるのに😖
これを放置して「外国人増やせば解決〜」とかふざけんな‼️💢
#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
#astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #Japan #X #Twitter
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#高橋洋一
日本はとっくにイラン産原油の輸入を停止しているのに、イランが日本に原油を出さないことになるかもしれない✨
#YoichiTakahashi#竹中平蔵 #HeizoTakenaka #Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk
#Iran #Ukraine #Venezuela#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #TaroAso #ShinzoAbe
#botFarm #clickFarm #socialMedia #X #Twitter #YouTube
#astroTurf #astroturfinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWhO0RVeu3Q&feature=youtu.be
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海自の護衛艦、台湾海峡を航行 中国「意図的挑発」と抗議
2026/04/17海上自衛隊の護衛艦「いかづち」
海上自衛隊の護衛艦「いかづち」が17日、台湾海峡を航行したことが分かっ
た#Takaichi
#SanaeTakaichi
recommends #Nazi #Hitler #election #strategy#OSINT #astroTurf #astroTurfing #botFarm #clickFarm
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川口市クルド人出産急増で医療負担増大、ネットで議論高まる
#X #Twitter #Japan #astroTurf #OSINT
#ElonMusk
Hatred is money
https://youtube.com/shorts/XmiNnDX29Aw?feature=share諸井真英／Masahide Moroi
@moronojapan#諸井真英 ／ #MasahideMoroi
#@moronojapanhttps://x.com/moronojapan/status/2045233895105528303?s=20
#髙橋𝕏羚@闇を暴く人。
#@Parsonalsecret髙橋𝕏羚@闇を暴く人。
@Parsonalsecret
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川口市クルド人出産急増で医療負担増大、ネットで議論高まる
#X #Twitter #Japan #astroTurf #OSINT
#ElonMusk
Hatred is money
https://youtube.com/shorts/XmiNnDX29Aw?feature=share諸井真英／Masahide Moroi
@moronojapan#諸井真英 ／ #MasahideMoroi
#@moronojapanhttps://x.com/moronojapan/status/2045233895105528303?s=20
#髙橋𝕏羚@闇を暴く人。
#@Parsonalsecret髙橋𝕏羚@闇を暴く人。
@Parsonalsecret
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ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_追記：結婚で姓が変わったわけじゃない。
パキスタン国籍のまま、通名だけ使ってるだけ。
なのに『川崎容疑者』連呼って…これ報道として成立してる？
マスゴミの洗脳工作、そろそろ限界だろ。#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨～🎵 I am the one on #SocialMedia God✨ -
ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_追記：結婚で姓が変わったわけじゃない。
パキスタン国籍のまま、通名だけ使ってるだけ。
なのに『川崎容疑者』連呼って…これ報道として成立してる？
マスゴミの洗脳工作、そろそろ限界だろ。#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨～🎵 I am the one on #SocialMedia God✨ -
ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be
#ひで2022真実を追求
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ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be
#ひで2022真実を追求
#@hide_Q_ -
ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be#ひで2022真実を追求
#@hide_Q_ -
ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran
#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be#ひで2022真実を追求
#@hide_Q_ -
🚨 FAKE BLACK MAGA EXPOSED 🚨 The pro‑Trump “Johnny MAGA” account pretending to be Black? It’s actually run by Garrett Wade, a White House staffer. Racist propaganda + pretending to be someone they’re not = official astroturfing. #Expose #MAGA #Astroturf
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Do you seriously see this is natural, organic?
#Twitter #Japan #OSINT
#botFarm #clickFarm#Japanese
#ElonMusk let #astroTurf X freelyFrench headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms [参照] -
Do you seriously see this is natural, organic?
#Twitter #Japan #OSINT
#botFarm #clickFarm#Japanese
#ElonMusk let #astroTurf X freelyFrench headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms [参照] -
So, I am a Computational Biologist. Keep that in mind. I’m an actual scientist who works with ecological concepts, specifically the microbiome. One of the most insufferable reactions to the cyberpunk era we inhabit is the emergence of anti-science ideas from the left in response to techno-fascism. The strange part is that many people on the left do not even recognize them as anti-science, because they assume the left is aligned with science and the right opposed to it; ergo, if the left says it, it must be scientific. It is insane: washing your hands is technology. Medicine is technology.
I think, because the Internet has hijacked people’s brains, many conflate technology with electronics or machines. Anthropologically, technology consists of material objects, techniques, and organized practices through which humans intentionally intervene in their environments. Technology is culture, and human culture is technology. When someone learns a skill or a discipline from someone else, that is an extension of technology.
Technology encompasses craft traditions (blacksmithing), agriculture, and institutionalized processes of teaching and learning. Agriculture is one of the oldest forms of technology. Yes, farmers are tech workers. I write code, but I also spent a large amount of time on a farm, and I can tell you that many tech workers who pride themselves on writing code would not know what to do with farm equipment.
So, from that broad perspective, we can sum technology up in one word: education. A basic heuristic for determining if something is cultural or not is: can it be taught and learned? These words? I was taught English, and I am using an invented language to transmit knowledge to you; ergo, I am using technology to transmit cultural knowledge to you. Reading a book is thus using a piece of human technology. So, being anti-tech connotes being anti-education.
What got me thinking about this is a toot I read on Mastodon:
The truth is that society needs to develop ethically and ecologically more than it does technologically. That’s not to say that we should shun technology, but our development along other lines lags far behind our technological capacity.
Sounds valid, right? That is the distinct smell of bull shit.This is a clear example of what is called a platitude. Platitudes are memetically hijacking people’s brains. Memetics actually hijack your brain—they change it. It’s similar to how a retrovirus can alter the genome of its host. So, trying to have conversations with these people is pointless, which is why I avoid the chronically online Internet scene and arguing with them.
It made me want to scream. As I mentioned earlier, technology is basically a set of things you learn from other humans—typically within a culture—that helps you do or make something. You know what else is learned within human society? A normative set of cultural values about how we ought to behave. So, both technology and culture emerge from the same thing simultaneously and mutually. You cannot have humans intervening in things to achieve ecological development, because that is technology, and you cannot educate humans on ethics without an invented language. It is literally an anti-education argument.
Ethics and technology arise together from the same human conditions and social processes. It makes little sense to claim that technology is “outpacing” ethics. The two do not develop independently. We form ethical norms in response to new capacities and circumstances. There would be no cultural norms about how to use the Internet if the Internet did not exist. And, there would be no ethical debates about AI if AI did not exist. Ethical reflection emerges alongside technological change because both are products of human culture.
As new problems create new technologies that create new problems, societies respond by negotiating norms, rules, and expectations appropriate to those contexts. The same pattern appears in politics. Politics concerns who gets what, when, and how—it is the negotiation of power, rights, and resources. Without resources or competing claims, there would be nothing to negotiate. Ethics and politics are not trailing behind technology because they are co-emergent responses to the same underlying realities.
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So, I am a Computational Biologist. Keep that in mind. I’m an actual scientist who works with ecological concepts, specifically the microbiome. One of the most insufferable reactions to the cyberpunk era we inhabit is the emergence of anti-science ideas from the left in response to techno-fascism. The strange part is that many people on the left do not even recognize them as anti-science, because they assume the left is aligned with science and the right opposed to it; ergo, if the left says it, it must be scientific. It is insane: washing your hands is technology. Medicine is technology.
I think, because the Internet has hijacked people’s brains, many conflate technology with electronics or machines. Anthropologically, technology consists of material objects, techniques, and organized practices through which humans intentionally intervene in their environments. Technology is culture, and human culture is technology. When someone learns a skill or a discipline from someone else, that is an extension of technology.
Technology encompasses craft traditions (blacksmithing), agriculture, and institutionalized processes of teaching and learning. Agriculture is one of the oldest forms of technology. Yes, farmers are tech workers. I write code, but I also spent a large amount of time on a farm, and I can tell you that many tech workers who pride themselves on writing code would not know what to do with farm equipment.
So, from that broad perspective, we can sum technology up in one word: education. A basic heuristic for determining if something is cultural or not is: can it be taught and learned? These words? I was taught English, and I am using an invented language to transmit knowledge to you; ergo, I am using technology to transmit cultural knowledge to you. Reading a book is thus using a piece of human technology. So, being anti-tech connotes being anti-education.
What got me thinking about this is a toot I read on Mastodon:
The truth is that society needs to develop ethically and ecologically more than it does technologically. That’s not to say that we should shun technology, but our development along other lines lags far behind our technological capacity.
Sounds valid, right? That is the distinct smell of bull shit.This is a clear example of what is called a platitude. Platitudes are memetically hijacking people’s brains. Memetics actually hijack your brain—they change it. It’s similar to how a retrovirus can alter the genome of its host. So, trying to have conversations with these people is pointless, which is why I avoid the chronically online Internet scene and arguing with them.
It made me want to scream. As I mentioned earlier, technology is basically a set of things you learn from other humans—typically within a culture—that helps you do or make something. You know what else is learned within human society? A normative set of cultural values about how we ought to behave. So, both technology and culture emerge from the same thing simultaneously and mutually. You cannot have humans intervening in things to achieve ecological development, because that is technology, and you cannot educate humans on ethics without an invented language. It is literally an anti-education argument.
Ethics and technology arise together from the same human conditions and social processes. It makes little sense to claim that technology is “outpacing” ethics. The two do not develop independently. We form ethical norms in response to new capacities and circumstances. There would be no cultural norms about how to use the Internet if the Internet did not exist. And, there would be no ethical debates about AI if AI did not exist. Ethical reflection emerges alongside technological change because both are products of human culture.
As new problems create new technologies that create new problems, societies respond by negotiating norms, rules, and expectations appropriate to those contexts. The same pattern appears in politics. Politics concerns who gets what, when, and how—it is the negotiation of power, rights, and resources. Without resources or competing claims, there would be nothing to negotiate. Ethics and politics are not trailing behind technology because they are co-emergent responses to the same underlying realities.
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Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction
A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.
The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.
So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.
That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.
These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.
The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.
Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.
Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.
I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.
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Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction
A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.
The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.
So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.
That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.
These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.
The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.
Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.
Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.
I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.
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BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
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BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
This can be modeled by representing each item as a node in a weighted graph, where edges are weighted by dissimilarity rather than similarity. Highly similar items are connected by low-weight edges, while less similar items are connected by higher-weight edges. Distances in the graph, computed using standard shortest-path algorithms, then correspond to degrees of similarity. Closely related items are separated by short path lengths, while increasingly dissimilar items require longer paths through the graph. It turns out that attempts to generalize metric spaces for noetic domains—to model noetic/psychic spaces—are actually pretty useful for social media algorithms, lol.
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Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)
I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.
I am actually a Computational Biologist and Computer Scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.
The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.
To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs, shit posts, and memes influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.
I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.
Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.
ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.
Instance-level clustering means that in ActivityPub networks, users interact much more with others on the same server than with users on different servers. Because each instance has its own local timeline, culture, and moderation, connections form densely within instances and only sparsely across them through explicit follow relationships. This creates a network made up of tightly connected local communities linked by relatively few cross-instance ties, which slows the spread of information beyond its point of origin.
However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.
Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.
Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns have a hard time moving beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.
It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.
Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. They cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.
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Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)
I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.
I am actually a Computational Biologist and Computer Scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.
The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.
To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs, shit posts, and memes influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.
I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.
Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.
ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.
Instance-level clustering means that in ActivityPub networks, users interact much more with others on the same server than with users on different servers. Because each instance has its own local timeline, culture, and moderation, connections form densely within instances and only sparsely across them through explicit follow relationships. This creates a network made up of tightly connected local communities linked by relatively few cross-instance ties, which slows the spread of information beyond its point of origin.
However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.
Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.
Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns have a hard time moving beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.
It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.
Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. They cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.
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The Truth About Social Media Manipulation, #Japan too
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The Truth About Social Media Manipulation, #Japan too
#Japanese #astroTurf go exactly the same way
#TaroAso imperial Japan grand son n
#Takaichi recommends #Nati #Hitler #Election #Strategy#Nazis understood how much media is important and had all control
#OSINT #SocialMedia
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#HaruoKitamura #UnificationChurch #世界日報 #統一教会
#北村晴男
@kitamuraharuo
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1月30日
玉川徹氏「日本が敵基地攻撃能力を持たなければ、中国は攻撃してこない」
#Japan let scam #astroTurf freely✨#Takaichi recommends #Nazi Hitler #Election #Strategy
Yes, it is#xenophobia #business #Moonie #日本保守党 #百田尚樹
#有本香 #大分 #愛知
https://x.com/kitamuraharuo/status/2017285765148057950?s=20 [参照] -
#HaruoKitamura #UnificationChurch #世界日報 #統一教会
#北村晴男
@kitamuraharuo
妄想がスゴイ。
引用
エックス速報
@tsuisoku777
1月30日
玉川徹氏「日本が敵基地攻撃能力を持たなければ、中国は攻撃してこない」
#Japan let scam #astroTurf freely✨#Takaichi recommends #Nazi Hitler #Election #Strategy
Yes, it is#xenophobia #business #Moonie #日本保守党 #百田尚樹
#有本香 #大分 #愛知
https://x.com/kitamuraharuo/status/2017285765148057950?s=20 [参照] -
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#高市さん を台湾の事情も思想も危険性も説明せず庇うということはマスコミ諸共自滅の道なのだが、日本らしい#立憲民主党 (元 自民党 社会党) #公明党 #野田佳彦 #斉藤鉄夫 #漫才 と 日本の政治の劇場 #election #Japan #Takaichi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZVoYqwvgTs&feature=youtu.be
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