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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Screenshot of direct message conversation. Sooo something weird is going on here… when I search @PPEtoheros I don’t get results in the People tab — Image is the Twitter 404 rubber chicken, text reads No results for @ppetoheros Try searching for something else, or check your Search settings to see if they’re protecting you from potentially sensitive content.

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The Shadowbanning of Nicolas Smit

2024-03-26

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Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.

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I had a dream of soylent chatbots made out of people.

2024-03-15

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Scammers and Human Trafficking

2024-02-23

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The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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False hope in “60 Minutes” covering the indoor air quality issue.

2023-11-04

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Jessica Whatever Validates Your DoomScroll

2023-10-29

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Influencers and Direct Marketing

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 006

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Too much money incentivizes shmoozing.

2023-10-14

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, and Botnets – The Internet of Fakes

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 005

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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Shitposting into a void

2023-10-03

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Accusation in a Mirror

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 004

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Anti-mask Woke-washing

2023-08-31

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Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public

2023-08-25

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023 photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. Picture is a photograph looking downhill on a residential street with a brown haze over everything and visible smoke in the air against the backdrop of houses and trees and telephone poles, and mountains in the distance.

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The push against public health is all part of the same problem: profiteering on a wrecked living environment.

2023-06-12

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Ally, role model, or celebrity influencer? For Thee But Not For Me is not public health.

2023-06-01

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Deplatforming is not silencing. Voila: the evidence.

2023-04-29

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And Voila, An Anti-Mask Twitter Rando

2023-04-07

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Seek protection from noise and spiraling gloom

2023-02-16

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Anti-vaxxers attempt to co-opt disabled community social justice language for anti-vax purposes.

2023-02-06

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Disinformation and abnormal influence is big money on social media

2022-12-18

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A collage of photos of doctors, scientists, public health and clean air experts partying, dancing at conferences or on social media, at book tours, older passengers on an airline flight, social media posts, nurses singing at the White House, maskless selfies, January 6th rioters, a crowded sports stadium,, a Joe Biden rally in Wilkes-Barre with signs that say Safer America, almost nobody wearing masks, and includes a ribbon cutting ceremony where the ribbon is made of masks that is cut and celebrated.

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Forcing Normal in the Roaring 2020s

2022-12-13

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