Ben Serrette

@bserrett
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IT Director of the Observatory on Social Media

Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way

IU's Observatory on Social Mediahttps://osome.iu.edu/
@researchbuzz This isn't just JavaScript. Date handling is the bane of my existence. Can't wait for us to colonize Mars where we'll have to establish a whole new set of timezones.
@PicardTips Enterprise and Tarmarians at El-Adrel.
IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
https://osome.iu.edu/research/blog/ius-observatory-on-social-media-defends-citizens-from-online-manipulation-the-opposite-of-censorship
IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship

When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...

I’m currently doing this challenge called January. Where you just try to make it through every day of January.
@mcc I think it's a lot simpler than all that. Facebook didn't want the competition, so they lobbied the government to ban it in the hopes that the tiktok users would migrate to Reels. Joke's on them, though, since everyone is heading to an app that's literally in China.

@jk

> it's like the 90s again.

Except we're doing it on purpose now.

@ZachWeinersmith You can't build a house on an index fund. And gold just looks pretty.
@eniko Source? This is relevant to my interests.

@andygates @thomasfuchs

As a large language model, I'm unable to give opinions on subjects such as the existential nature of being an AI.

@thomasfuchs

AI has made my rpg campaigns better (for my players, anyway).
Also, the grad students' powerpoint presentations are better.
As is the list of their potential dissertation topics.
And my emails have been more comprehensible since chatGPT.

Depending on how you look at it, it's also made social bots and fake news better, in that people are more likely to believe it.

Just gotta look at it with a glass-half-full approach. (I guess it can be half full of garbage, though...)