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The mayor of Cascadia's largest city, Bruce Harrell, called these tech bros "smart innovators" last night
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"The FCC is run by Brendan Carr, who did write the playbook for the FCC chapter in Project 25. We know that our current president surrounds himself by some of the smartest innovators around. When we drop names like Andreessen or Peter Thiel or David Sacks or Elon Musk, these are smart innovators."
February 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The mayor of Cascadia's largest city, Bruce Harrell, called these tech bros "smart innovators" last night
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Reposted by Jenne Hsien Patrick
![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu@jpeg)
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
yay poets!
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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