Nathalie Casemajor
@ncasemajor.bsky.social
Prof @INRS Montréal • Culture Technology Knowledge • Wikimedian • Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture
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Thank goodness for the archivists and librarians for they are the caretakers of our knowledge.
January 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thank goodness for the archivists and librarians for they are the caretakers of our knowledge.
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People are organizing on the fifth of February all over the country
www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...
www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...
This is an attempt at a master list to help verify and distinguish gatherings going forward
www.reddit.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
People are organizing on the fifth of February all over the country
www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...
www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...
February 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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When this measure passes—and the dean has been given every reason to believe it will pass—we’ve been told that faculty should expect to be required to defend our choices and judgments to *anyone* in the state. 8/
January 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
When this measure passes—and the dean has been given every reason to believe it will pass—we’ve been told that faculty should expect to be required to defend our choices and judgments to *anyone* in the state. 8/
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A measure has been introduced this session in the state legislature requiring all faculty to publish online and in advance of the start of classes all syllabi complete with summaries and explanations/justifications of all materials, lectures, and assignments. 7/
January 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A measure has been introduced this session in the state legislature requiring all faculty to publish online and in advance of the start of classes all syllabi complete with summaries and explanations/justifications of all materials, lectures, and assignments. 7/
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We’ve been informed by our governor that the Trump administration’s executive orders last week with regard to DEI and now A are considered part of state as well as federal law. (No, as far as I know the state legislature has not passed any measures to this effect.) 4/
January 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
We’ve been informed by our governor that the Trump administration’s executive orders last week with regard to DEI and now A are considered part of state as well as federal law. (No, as far as I know the state legislature has not passed any measures to this effect.) 4/
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I caught one yesterday
This is wild. I made a silly little post yesterday. Richard responded with a joke, and then "Cassandra" hopped in the thread. I thought her responses were weird, but then Richard caught on and posted this. Clever way to catch a bot!
January 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I caught one yesterday
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I thought this bit of advise was useful:
¨Paolucci advises that you don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever — just report and block them. ´An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better.´ ¨
¨Paolucci advises that you don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever — just report and block them. ´An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better.´ ¨
January 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I thought this bit of advise was useful:
¨Paolucci advises that you don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever — just report and block them. ´An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better.´ ¨
¨Paolucci advises that you don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever — just report and block them. ´An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better.´ ¨
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![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