Notices by Howard Rheingold (hrheingold@mastodon.social)

Counter-Propaganda
An engineer's view of an approach to counteracting right-wing propaganda (now called "vibes")

By Lee Felsenstein (see previous post)

https://leefelsenstein.substack.com/p/counter-propaganda

To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity

https://medium.com/institute-for-the-future/to-protect-democracy-we-need-to-upgrade-our-cognitive-immunity-a555d5f57936

It is more than a decade old, but this document has more than 100 resources for crap detection/fact checking

#misinformation

http://bit.ly/crapdetect

Cascading Collapse in Online Social Networks

#socialmedia #onlinecommunity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17135-1

“Amelia… was recently looking at the famous triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch with a friend when they noticed a man on the right-hand panel with musical notes written on his butt. Highly amused, Amelia then transcribed these notes into modern notation and created a little sound clip that has been colloquially called “The Butt Song From Hell” — which is available for listen on her Tumblr.”

https://www.tumblr.com/chaoscontrolled123/76305632587/luke-and-i-were-looking-at-hieronymus-boschs

Annenberg Public Policy Center, finds that 2 in 5 American adults (39%) correctly named the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.

https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/political-communication/civics-knowledge-survey/

Are Americans too ignorant and easily misled to self-govern?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/are-americans-to-115752736

Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical #cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside customers' houses – to train the company's #ai models.

#technology #privacy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

https://www.wholeearth.info/

For 5 years, I taught an online course on intro to #cooperation studies: what we are learning from converging biological, evolutionary, psychological, sociological, economic, computational, political inquiries into how humans and other critters get things done together. I've compiled the videoconferences, lectures, syllabus in a free pdf

http://rheingold.com/texts/IntroToCooperationStudies.pdf

#bloomscrolling

Art making and the life force
#art #artist #artwork

https://www.patreon.com/posts/art-making-and-32282276

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where immobilized patients stare at cottage cheese ceilings while robots irradiated them. Couple years ago, a friend who required treatment told me that the painting is still there.

When I was being irradiated, the radiology crew commented on my painted shoes, so I gave them a link to some of my paintings online. The next day, I saw that they had downloaded one painting and were using it as a screen saver in their control room. So the day after that, I gave them the original, which they hung in the control room. Then they were told they couldn't hang things there, so they put it in the treatment room,

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A pair of my painted shoes. "Snakeyes"

#artwork #painting

Poplar-Walnut-Alder bowl I turned for my grandson.

#woodworking

Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains
Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war

#disinformation #memes

https://www.theframelab.org/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003215929/routledge-handbook-collective-intelligence-democracy-governance-stephen-boucher-carina-antonia-hallin-lex-paulson

30 years ago, a 19 year old Swarthmore student started blogging EVERYTHING that happened to him. In 2004, New York Times Magazine declared him "the founding father of personal blogging." I mention this because this is the 30th anniversary of his site:

#socialmedia #blogging

https://links.net/

For 5 years, I taught an online course on intro to #cooperation studies: what we are learning from converging biological, evolutionary, psychological, sociological, economic, computational, political inquiries into how humans and other critters get things done together. I've compiled the videoconferences, lectures, syllabus in a free pdf

http://rheingold.com/texts/IntroToCooperationStudies.pdf