Ignacio Castro

@ignactro
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Computational Social Science & Internet-related research, MENA, rugs, and random stuff. Assist. Prof. at QMUL https://icastro.info/

#TaylorSwift Fans Are Leaving #X for #Bluesky After #Trump’s Election

Swifties say they’re leaving X over #ElonMusk’s support of #DonaldTrump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.

#SocialMedia #TwitterExodus

https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-fans-leaving-x-following-trumps-election/

Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election

Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.

WIRED
#IMC2024 paper about Mastodon itself! Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network By Haris Bin Zia https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3689027
Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference

ACM Conferences
First #IMC2024 session on Cellular and Wireless is on! https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/program/
ACM IMC 2024 - Papers Schedule

@irtf not sure whether your handle for bsky is taken or you just wear many hats 🤓 https://bsky.app/profile/irtf.bsky.social
IRTF Cleveland (@irtf.bsky.social)

IRTF-the InterReligious Task Force on Central America, is a grassroots human rights organization that uses popular education, mutual aid and direct action to transform consumer behaviors, corporate and government policies for our collective liberation

Bluesky Social
📢 @irtf RASP RG agenda for #IETF121 is out with talks going from the economics of participation at SDOs, to code and LLM tooling to understand the data the
@ietf produces & analysis on the patterns of languages used. 👉https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/agenda-121-rasprg/
Agenda IETF121: rasprg

LLM #0
What a shame: BBC's HARDTak will finish. Is there a self-harm rank where UK is trying to excel? https://x.com/stephensackur/status/1846166070664511853
Stephen Sackur (@stephensackur) on X

THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵

X (formerly Twitter)
Quo vadis UK? (From the National Income Commision) t.co/nJibdPXkbz
In a parallel Internet bots complain that they have to prove that they are not human

ICANN is looking for a smart and enthusiastic policy and technology research writer to help support the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

This is a contract assignment for calendar year 2025.

Details can be found below. Deadline for submissions is November 7, 2024.

#FediHire

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V7C-Qdb4LTvcvwNBrS7cM6Yfo-DKrGqC/

Opportunities for ICANN Policy and Technology Research Writer.pdf

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