@MentORPHEUS One takeaway is that the next money grab will be for tracking and controlling "hate". If you wanted to study squirrels then you had a better chance of being funded if you could throw in "in regards to global warming". The mutual itch scratching is that the uni research gets funded and on the other side that elaborate justifications are created that make it all unbiased by the books.

  @MentORPHEUS As a computer science strategy game playing guy I'm inclined to buy into the fancy words like an autist but that is their play. Read it again as though someone said "1) Justify all of our research budget, 2) justify the heavy handedness and bias of social media, 3) Open up a path for a Chinese-style social media system.

Jordi tech the tech they are teching us!!!

  @MentORPHEUS In the end they come to the conclusion that "oops what we really need is a Chinese social credit score system because our tools ain't shit".

  @MentORPHEUS I first read it as a technology article but then I realized that its a policy article dressed up, aka Tech the Tech. The university needs to justify its research budget and this bleeds through everywhere. Might as well call it "Tracking hate for prevention and confinement of AIDS in the context of global warming and the diminishing tiger salamander population".

  @redpillschool Good overall, excellent navigation now, left a few notes in the dev tribe.

  @GayLubeOil That article has some useful takeaway for understanding how communities form and grow. One can learn to use this to his own advantage, both building his own networks and defending them against enemies, even offensively against enemies.

I see a lot of people reject articles like this based on WHAT they are analyzing, thus missing important info on HOW to analyze using the tools.

  @redpillschool How many people can be blocked with the new update? Could a user block everyone and post in their own echo chamber?

  @MentORPHEUS how do you like it?

  @winninglosing I'm not hard suggesting that you detach from these people. It may be inevitable though. A lot of it depends on you and them. I hard broke with almost everyone I knew at 27 and then didn't have any friends for several months. It freed me up to reconnect with lost people whom better served me. Its easy though to price yourself out of the friendship market if you can't find people.

  @destraht Interesting. I am noticing myself distancing myself from conversations of any depth/conversations at all with my family, friends, girls because I find them too painful / useless / a waste. This may be what you are talking about? Are you suggesting I purposefully detach myself from these people?