The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social
Meticulous & chilling piece from Alex de Waal on the international moral disgrace that is the Gaza famine:
‘The level of urban starvation in Gaza has not been seen since the Dutch Hunger Winter and the siege of Leningrad’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond...
jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
Aaaaah thank you so much for reading and highlighting and sharing! 🕺🫶
We spoke before Nov 5th and in retrospect I would’ve loved to have deepened the conversation on the US + the craziness that is likely to happen in a Trump II term, esp. when it comes to EU/US relations…alas. Hope this is still an interesting conversation and good overview of some of my arguments
hey look! big thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for having me for this interview
2: DM’s are centralised and not e2e (like Twitter; Mastodon they were also not e2e, but not broadcast to whole network; more like email in that only server admins could have access; Mastodon also baked in multiple reminders into its interface telling you to be cognizant of privacy)
Also important to know:
1: blocking is managed in a public manner on the protocol - ‘you can query the network for every person who is blocking or is blocked by JK Rowling’
‘Part of the concern I have with Bluesky presently is thus that people are gaining the impression that it's a decentralized system in ways that it is not’
Really helpful technical analysis from one of the lead ActivityPub devs
dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
maybe it’s a good time to plug the work of @gorwa.ca and me on hugging face’s moderation practices… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Short answer: quite a lot of interesting techniques, including audio hashing, working with transcribed text, and moving away from content to profile users more deeply…
cdt.org/insights/rea...
I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?
