Anti - Social

Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify. With Anti-Social, you’ll be amazed how much you get done when you turn off your friends. http://anti-social.cc

http://persecuting.us

One million U.S. citizens are sorted by political affiliation and exposed to public persecution in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election.

For months, Paolo Cirio secretly stole data from Twitter.com on over one million Americans. Using a sophisticated sifting process, he determined the political affiliation of those people and scored their public statements and social connections in terms of the likelihood that they aligned with a political position.

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Persecuting.us offers a platform where everyone can take part in a participatory model pushed to extremes, engaging people in surveying and persecuting each other in a form of info-civil-war of political polarization, which can potentially erupt into defamation, intimidation and oppression of domestic enemies.

This art project is a massive citizen-sorting database organized along political lines, much like the private holdings that have amassed databases of voters in order to influence and monitor the electorate.

SOCIAL SORTING

During the last election, Twitter was used to track down people’s opinion, promote candidates by buying trending topics in public debates and invite citizen participation through tweeting their political statements. However, Twitter is a private company which monitors, manipulates and sells data on personal and public trends.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA

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Battleground Twitter

As the Gaza conflict rages online, is social media now an instrument of war?

On Nov. 14, 2012, the IDF targeted Ahmed Jabri, the head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip

First Twitter war declaration? Israel announces Gaza operation on social media site

The days of declaring way with a lengthy proclamation signed by a prime minister or president are in the past. Israel announced on Tuesday that it was launching a strike on the Gaza Strip with a single tweet.

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Ass for Gas - m4w - 28 (Queens, NY)

I have four (5) gallon and four (2) gallon red gas storage containers filled with premium unleaded gas.

I originally stocked up to supply gas to run the generator, but now I have electricity.

Tired of waiting 4-8 hours just to find out that a gas station is out of gas?

Well, I'm ready, willing, and able to trade the gas (and container) in return for something non-financial.

However, you must make the initial offer, and I'll have to decide if it's even worth accepting.

You know how much gas I have, now it's all a matter of how much you want and what you're willing to offer.

Replies without a picture will be ignored.

Interested only in white and non-ghetto hispanic.

    Location: Queens, NY
    it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 3386276747

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lactivism

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What is it what everybody does ... it’s a lot like Paul McCartney talking about hip hop

A great deal of the time, journalists appear to be asking: What is this thing that everybody’s doing? It appears to be completely normal, so why can’t I write about it correctly?

IN No particular order :

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Cuba's government seems to misunderstand the concept of a RT

State media on Wednesday responded at last to the rumor floating around since Monday that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had died. An article on the state-run Cubadebate Web site said that the rumor is just that — a rumor. MORE

Farewell Facebook (Short film about Digital Suicide)

How Paulo Coelho Uses Social Media

Paulo Coelho is one of the most successful fiction writers today and he actively uses social media to engage with his readers. For the past 25 years the Brazilian author has written many inspirational books, which have garnered him a huge fan base all around the world. MORE

New Social Networks With Old Technology - What The Egyptian Shutdown Tells Us About Social Media

Egypt is the latest in a series of countries to witness the powerful potential of modern social media to catalyse and mobilise people around social issues. The Egyptian government response was to have the internet and mobile networks completely shut down. This was, however, not the end of the role that social media ideas played in the events that followed. People inside and outside of Egypt collaborated to re-create the missing networks using the still-available technologies of landlines, dial-up and ham radio...

Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)

As others, I have recently been transfixed by the Economist’s recitation of wondrous examples of:
“Development 2.0”—meaning a mobile-driven transformation of how poor countries develop… the potential of mobile services should not be underestimated. If they take off, they could transform lives and livelihoods, not just by connecting the world’s poor to the infrastructure of the digital economy, but by allowing them to become digital producers and innovators....

Egypt’s Revolution-Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Middle East’? - by F. W. Engdahl

Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as "creative destruction."

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German Tunesians thank Anonymous

(engl. translation on youtube in the description)

Egypt's protests in social media

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China: An alleged list of banned SMS terms

Elaine Chow from Shanghaiist reports on an alleged list of banned SMS by major mobile companies in China in 2010. The documents, distributed by @zuola via Twitter, are claimed to be composed by a SMS service company, Boer, which tried to inform their users on all the banned terms adopted by major mobile companies including China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.The terms can be grouped into 6 major categories including:

1. National security and political terms, which consists of more than 700 terms such as “Cultural revolution”, “Xinjiang independence”, “Propaganda department”, “national security”, “anti-corruption”, “violence”, “riot”, “June 4″, “people”, “human right”, “democracy”, “CCP” and etc.
2. Around 200 Falun Gong related terms
3. Around 200 sensitive news related terms such as “telling the truth”, “petition”, “SCMP”, “Asia Magazine”, “suicide”, “public opinion”
4. More than 600 vulgar terms, such as “fxxk”, “gambling”, “sex”, “pornography”, “naked”, “dick”, “breast”, “fart”, “loser”, “dog shit”, “slut”, “illegal”, “bomb”, “adult movie”, “heroin”, “chat chat”, “prostitute”, “lonely”, “apartment”, “fake money”, “oral sex”, “waiting for you”.
5. Around 800 names, including historical figures, political leaders and dissidents.
6. Around 500 commercial spam.

Others are sensitive English terms and number combination (such as 8964).
As Elaine Chow points out “there's some doubt to whether these words are actually anything close to an official black list, or if they were just compiled by netizens gleefully supposing what the relevant bureaus would want to censor.” Since the censorship criteria and mechanism is non-transparent, different companies may have a slightly different set of filtered terms in different period of time, ordinary citizens are kept in the dark and it is very difficult to get hold of the full picture.

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Facebook stalker

Facebook Stalker from Doug Strodtman on Vimeo.

Nice sorry page isn't, I wanted to give the man his credits however, click and all turns out well.