Favorites June 17th 2022: Control of Content and Dino Vomit

September 2017, Amsterdam

Tom Stafford @tomstafford

Reconsidering Tweets:Intervening during Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS… a native, inside twitter, intervention run as an RCT which enrolled 219,052 users. Picture shows intervention

Skimming the paper, it seems like seeing the prompt not only reduced offensive content in that tweet, but reduced the rate of offensive content going forward.

B. Dave Walters: I Say Words About Things @BDaveWalters

SCIENCE

This is from a real book, Dinosaurs Without Bones, about the study of trace fossils. "This includes urolites: trace fossils created by the erosion caused by the evacuation of liquid waste. Like urine. And vomit."

Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite

In the past week, I listened to recordings of more than 80 internal TikTok meetings about Project Texas, the company’s effort to restrict access to US user data. TLDR: TikTok has been having a really hard time shutting down Chinese access to this info.

buzzfeednews.comLeaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.

Not great, but as many have said before, the problem is that Chinese authorities have control over the content!

canada/denmark border patrol @Theophite

holy shit. in conjunction with the "long COVID shows no correlation with any major systemic dysfunction" paper, this is incredibly good news: the problem is the virus and we are getting much, much better at killing it.

Nick Harrold @breakfastnick

Harvard researchers find circulating spike protein in the blood of long haulers, but not controls, 12 months post diagnosis. Big paper. https://t.co/LmrNnpSl3i

Also, Paxlovid appears to significantly help folks with long COVID, which makes sense given this new info.

Ryan Radia @RyanRadia

250 miles of gas as a percent of median usual weekly earnings (updated through June 2022) datawrapper.de/_/Z9mmS/

So, yikes, but also, I'm surprised that this statistic was higher as recently as 2014.