xniteHey @jjx thanks for the follow! It looks like you are out there doing some really great work! What is the thing that you take the most pride in publishing or doing right at this moment?
Jennifer (JJ) Minella@xnite what about you?
@jjx I wish anything as cool as writing a book! I wrote an article for 2600 magazine called "Twitter for fun and profit" which got cited in a paper by Defence Research and Development Canada.
I published the article in 2011 and it was basically PoC source code for doing social media psyop campaigns with automated network of twitter bots. Now after 15 years have passed I feel like someone took the idea way too far! So I'm not sure if I can say that it's my best work but here is the publication info for the research paper which cited my article anyway:
https://librarysearch.mtroyal.ca/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9923221464804656&context=L&vid=01MTROYAL_INST:02MTROYAL_INST&lang=en&search_scope=MRULibrary&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=MRULibraryResources&query=title,exact,Scientific%20Report%20(Defence%20R&offset=0
I published the article in 2011 and it was basically PoC source code for doing social media psyop campaigns with automated network of twitter bots. Now after 15 years have passed I feel like someone took the idea way too far! So I'm not sure if I can say that it's my best work but here is the publication info for the research paper which cited my article anyway:
https://librarysearch.mtroyal.ca/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9923221464804656&context=L&vid=01MTROYAL_INST:02MTROYAL_INST&lang=en&search_scope=MRULibrary&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=MRULibraryResources&query=title,exact,Scientific%20Report%20(Defence%20R&offset=0
@xnite that sounds really interesting!
@jjx It was very interesting for sure! But now I look at all of these bot-farms pushing propaganda over social media and it's just outright terrifying! Take what I had and attach an LLM, and the present state of things is what you get. Maybe I went too far? Ideas can be dangerous after all. 🤣
Certainly this was just bound to happen eventually.
Certainly this was just bound to happen eventually.