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#zeyneptufekci — Public Fediverse posts
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In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus. These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles blowing so loud, we cannot hear a single one.
-- Zeynep Tufekci (NYT Nov. 4, 2016)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ZeynepTufekci #Censorship #InformationOverload
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus. These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles blowing so loud, we cannot hear a single one.
-- Zeynep Tufekci (NYT Nov. 4, 2016)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ZeynepTufekci #Censorship #InformationOverload
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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"Artificial #GoodEnough Intelligence can unleash chaos and destruction long before, or if ever, #AGI is reached. Existing AI is good enough to blur or pulverize our existing mechanisms of proof of accuracy, effort, veracity, authenticity, sincerity, and even #humanity. The tumult from such a #transition will require extensive technological, regulatory, and societal effort to counter. But the first step to getting started is having the #rightnightmares."
#ZeynepTufekcihttps://slideslive.com/39055698/are-we-having-the-wrong-nightmares-about-ai
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RE: https://sigmoid.social/@spdrnl/115836455271494700
Interesting, I didn't know her. Thanks for sharing.
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_and_Tear_Gas
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As the #Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent
Opinion - Zeynep Tufekci
July 9, 2025from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.][as usual, independent thinking from #ZeynepTufekci ]
"What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced."
#news #press #climate #FEMA #NWS
#NationalWeatherService #DOGE #emergency -
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Inspirierender Beitrag von @RainerMuehlhoff zum US-Umsturz, den er digitalen Staatsstreich nennt https://rainermuehlhoff.de/DLF-Radiofeuilleton-Staatsstreich-Trump-Musk/
#ZeynepTufekci nennt es in der #newyorktimes den Autoritären den #root Zugang geben.
Es wäre bezaubernd, wenn wir in Europa nicht die gleichen Fehler machten!
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There is an intriguing piece by Mühlhoff on the #digitalcoup in the #US under #Trump & #MuskTufekci called it giving the #authoritarians root access in the #NYT
Please do not copy-paste, Europe!
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Pro-tip: if #ZeynepTufekci is getting alarmed, the #RestOfUs should sit up and take notice. #H5N1 #AvianFlu
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html
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Reflecting on #Qatargate and a July NYT piece by #zeyneptufekci (iterated upon by #mattiaferraresi in Domani), I am missing a convincing political alternative focused on addressing the climate crisis and socio-economic inequality that is built around how power works and how to affect it, and can therefore create lasting change (rather than just bring people on the street or create social media outrage).
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The next part of the article references #ZeynepTufekci’s theory that the last decade’s era of social-media protests can create instant, large-scale challenges to government power that are dramatic but essentially leaderless and don’t come out of strategic, long-term visioning.
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The next part of the article references #ZeynepTufekci’s theory that the last decade’s era of social-media protests can create instant, large-scale challenges to government power that are dramatic but essentially leaderless and don’t come out of strategic, long-term visioning.
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@kensanata "Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook"
There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s time to simplify! finally!―as anything other than decisions driven by a combination of self-serving impulses: namely, profit motives, the structural incentives inherent to the company’s business model, and the one-sided ideology of its founders and some executives. All these are forces over which the users themselves have little input, aside from the regular opportunity to grouse through repeated scandals. And even the ideology—a vague philosophy that purports to prize openness and connectivity with little to say about privacy and other values—is one that does not seem to apply to people who run Facebook or work for it. Zuckerberg buys houses surrounding his and tapes over his computer’s camera to preserve his own privacy, and company employees went up in arms when a controversial internal memo that made an argument for growth at all costs was recently leaked to the press—a nonconsensual, surprising, and uncomfortable disclosure of the kind that Facebook has routinely imposed upon its billions of users over the years.
Tufekci, 2018.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/
#ZeynepTufekci #facebook #MarkZuckerberg #surveillance #privacy #hypocrisy #trust #sincerity #credibility
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Do Protests Even Work?
It sometimes takes decades to find out
Zeynep Tufekci, June 24, 2020
... In the long term, protests work because they can undermine the most important pillar of power: legitimacy. Commentators often note that a state can be defined by its monopoly on violence, a concept going back to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and codified by the sociologist Max Weber. But the full Weber quote is less well known. Weber defined the state by its “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.” The word legitimate is as important as the words physical force, if not more. Especially in the modern world, that monopoly on violence isn’t something that self-perpetuates. Violence doesn’t just happen; it has to be enacted and enabled by people. The Soviet Union did not fall because it ran out of tanks to send to Eastern Europe when the people there rebelled in the late 1980s. It fell, in large part, because it ran out of legitimacy, and because Soviet rulers had lost the will and the desire to live in their own system. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/why-protests-work/613420/
(Emphasis in original.)
#FeetToTheFire #ZeynepTufekci #protest #legitimacy #MaxWeber
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The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information
Moderna’s vaccine was apparently designed in just a few days, over a weekend, after the genetic sequence became available on January 10th, 2020.
Here’s why that date matters: the sequence was published ten days before China acknowledged the severity of the problem by admitting sustained human-to-human transmission and shutting down the city of Wuhan, on January 20th. The sequence was published while China—and the WHO, which depended on China for information—were still downplaying what was going on, in their official statements. The sequence wasn’t published in an official document. Instead, it was published independently in an open-source depository by Yong-Zhen Zhang, a professor at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and School of Public Health.
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-heroes-who-gave-us-the
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257544
#ZeynepTufekci #COVID19 #YongZhenZhang #OpenAccess #vaccines #censorship #genomes #PublicGenome #OpenSource
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Zenep Tufekci has written some of the best online media analysis there is. She's got landlord problems
My landlord wants me to sign a new lease that gives me only two hours notice to show the house to potential buyers, upon which I am supposed to vacate the house—and if I don't do that three times, he can evict me. Two hours notice. In the middle of a pandemic.
-- Zeynep Tufekci
https://nitter.net/zeynep/status/1313212697706668037
This is unconscionable both for Tufekci and for renters everywhere. Please give this visibility.
#landlords #TenantsRights #eviction #ZeynepTufekci #pandemic #covid19
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Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect - Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTub... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6vewa0NpMwI/ #artificialintelligence #personalization #radicalization #zeyneptufekci #socialmedia #extremism #youtube #social #ai