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NEW RESOURCES
New-to-me, from New Indian Express Indulge: An atlas of the past . “Launched in 2020, [Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia] is a collaboration between Cambridge and a host of archaeologists and researchers throughout India and Pakistan to develop an open-source and free database of heritage sites throughout the Indus River Basin. It aspires to be the first complete catalogue of heritage in the region and is funded in its current form until the end of March 2024.”
Irish News: Genealogy enthusiasts gifted new index of more than three million searchable names. “GENEALOGY enthusiasts have been gifted a new index containing more than three million searchable names, to mark the centenary of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Around 3.2 million name indexes, relating to valuation records for the period 1864 to 1933, are now free to access as a result of a partnership between PRONI and well-known genealogy platform Ancestry.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Daily Beast: Musk Melts Down as Threads Nears 100M Users: ‘Zuck is a Cuck’. “‘Zuck is a cuck,’ Musk tweeted under a screenshot of a Threads exchange between Zuckerberg and the account for fast food joint Wendy’s, referencing a sexual fetish in which someone enjoys watching their partner fornicate with someone else. He then abandoned all subtlety in tweeting a final request: ‘I propose a literal dick measuring contest.'”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
ProPublica: Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches. “A mysterious network called AdStyle is placing ads with fake endorsements from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Elon Musk on conservative sites based in the U.S. and abroad.” I see those on non-conservative too.
Kyiv Post: Fake Ukrainian Casualties Spread by Russian Propagandists. “StopFake, which is affiliated with the School of Journalism at the highly regarded National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, said that ‘Russian Telegram channels, as well as social media trolls, are spreading disinformation about alleged Ukrainian sites showing a large number of “victims of the counteroffensive.”‘”
Los Angeles Times: Inside the growing movement to digitize LGBTQ+ stories: ‘We’re reverse-engineering new memories’ of the past. “ONE Foundation seeks to engage people with LGBTQ+ history through personal stories to foster empathy and human connection across generations. ‘Periodically Queer’ strives to bring the intimacy and bond associated with physical archives to a digital landscape.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Dark Reading: Google Searches for ‘USPS Package Tracking’ Lead to Banking Theft. “Threat actors are impersonating the United States Post Office (USPS) in a legitimate-looing malvertising campaign that diverts victims to a phishing site to steal payment-card and banking credentials, researchers have found.”
Mother Jones: How I Got “Crime-Pilled” by a Bunch of Very-Online Web Sleuths. “…internet sleuths searching and gossiping about a ghost killer in Austin is the latest in a series of internet-fueled crime dramas that have played out across the country. Just recently for The Atlantic, McKay Coppins covered the town of Moscow, Idaho, a community left in paranoia and fear after social media detectives flocked to the area to ‘help’ search for a killer (spoiler alert: It made things worse).”
Reuters: Google accuses India antitrust body of protecting Amazon in Android probe. “Google has accused India’s antitrust body of ordering changes to its business model ‘only to protect’ rival Amazon, which complained about its struggles to develop a modified version of the Android system due to Google’s restrictions, legal papers show.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Mary Sue: Tumblr Continues to Be the Best Social Media Site in a Sea of Internet Chaos. “Listen. I’ve written about Tumblr before. I won’t hide that I unapologetically grift for this website, despite its storied history. Tumblr is a mess of broken social norms and skrunkly mcturgl humor. It has gone through multiple poor UI changes and has cost its investors thousands, if not millions, of dollars. Yet it’s exactly this nature of chaos, anarchy, and piss-n-grit sensibilities that make it the website I love to call home.”
MIT News: Study: Microtargeting works, just not the way people think. “A new MIT-led study found that tailoring political ads based on one attribute of their intended audience — say, party affiliation — can be 70 percent more effective in swaying policy support than simply showing everyone the single ad that is expected to be most persuasive across the entire population.”
Montclair State University: Study Examined Social Media Reactions to Affirmative Action, Student Loan Forgiveness SCOTUS rulings. “The study examined more than 150,000 posts between June 27 and July 3 on major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter. The research team utilized search queries to discover how social media users in the U.S. reacted to the separate, landmark rulings regarding Affirmative Action and Student Loan Forgiveness.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 11, 2023 at 05:32PM
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