#socials — Public Fediverse posts

It turns out that socials at conferences aren't great ways to meet new people. Here's why — and how we can do better.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/03/socials-arent-great-ways-to-meet-new-people-at-conferences

#meetings #EventDesign #socials #mixers #connection #MeetNewPeople #eventprofs

While various clowns on #socials are busy calculating how many earthen jugs of water
It will take to cool the entirely impossible #datacentres in orbit...
...the first #AI orbital test installation has been up in orbit since November...

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/starcloud-1-satellite-reaches-space-with-nvidia-h100-gpu-now-operating-in-orbit/

#orbit #llm #StarCloud

New Blog post out now!

It's about why and how I help a small musician with IT and why you should get to know her.

https://blog.spoljarevic.sh/helping-a-musician-with-it/

#musician #it #socials #linkstack #help #support #blog #writing #story #ionos #hosting #domain #cloudflare

@geeknik

Propagandist's Playbook target: Teens

1. Exploit transition glitches. Rapid emotional pivots (calm > outrage > vindication) keep adolescent brains dysregulated longer than single-emotion content.

2. Sustain background threat. Feed outrage, then "safe" content that looks reassuring but maintains low-level anxiety. Brain never fully exits threat-mode.

3. Fast cuts > slow cuts. 1-2 second scenes prevent emotional state completion. Brain processes previous emotion while encountering new one. Adolescents lag ~50-100ms; exploit that lag.

4. Shock hits harder. Adolescents under-recruit threat-detection during happy > angry transitions. Graphic/sudden content hits an unprepared neural system. Psychological impact amplified.

5. Algorithmic oscillation. Detect outrage engagement > feed calming content (incomplete cool-down) > feed more outrage. Keep them in the glitch zone.

Core insight: Engagement #algorithms reward content that creates dysregulation. You're not accidentally exploiting #adolescent #neurology you're deliberately architecting for it.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1697260025001073?via%3Dihub

#propaganda #brainwashing #socialmedia #socials #broligarchs #psychology #computationalpropaganda