i hate this

that tracks that fucking tracks

i’m pumped to see em in december

Bot farms are extremely common but at the same time very unsophisticated. LLM technology (like ChatGPT) is still nascent enough that bots aren’t really using it yet. Most bot farms are dedicated to those shitty YouTube comments about making $500 a day working from home. The technology isn’t there yet to make it pump up anything other than metrics - which is to say they’re only used to signal boost rather than change opinions explicitly.

Astroturfing as you’ve noted is also extremely common though that’s a metric that’s harder to measure since they at least attempt to be slightly covert. It is pretty obvious when you look at the content and the compare it to the engagement. This stuff is still pretty manual and me being a software engineer have no idea how it actually works under the scenes. Bot farms I have a bit of expertise.

BUT these two tools are obviously used in tandem. A few “marketers”/“propagandists”/“influencers” make astroturfed posts and they hit the switch on the bot farms to signal boost them.

marg bar

same but i’m also going to quit my job soon and then things will really start going downhill

i’m so sleepy

checking the google trends and apparently may 2022 was the peak

ddg since I use !s a lot

ok hexbears explain to me how this is communism

The Amazon company is not happy with me–that’s okay, I’ll still keep drinking that piss.

Yes

not surprising - I remember seeing cops in SFPD explcitly refusing to do their jobs as long as Chesa Boudin was DA.

what’s shocking to me is how utterly bloodthirsty they are - basically advocating for the wholesale murder of all Gazan inhabitants. what the fuck? what happened?

was there some sort of manchurian candidate-style trigger phrase that turned all of these people into genocide lovers overnight?

“democrats control both the state legislature and the governorship! that must mean they can pass all the bills they want and really enact some meaningful change!”

the democrat governor:

men loving men

read settlers

flip the before/after and that’s what it’s like to visit a swede’s home

so true bestie