Atrocious Joe posted:

the capitalists have the state the power and control the resources we need to survive. setting up mutual aid is good, but it's not enough. workers aren't allowed to have enough resources so support each other as a class independent of wage labor. capitalists won't let a system independent of them arise. we can just abandon capitalism, we need to organize to take power and put in place a new system.

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

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Scrolling through your Twitter feed, it may not be obvious when you come upon a bot account — something that is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.

To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots, they found. Of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% are bots.

The monitoring of tweets is ongoing and collections from Facebook, Reddit and YouTube have been added to the research.

"We're seeing up to two times as much bot activity as we'd predicted based on previous natural disasters, crises and elections," said Kathleen Carley, a professor in the School of Computer Science’s Institute for Software Research and director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) and Center for Informed Democracy & Social - Cybersecurity(IDeaS.)

Carley said multiple factors contribute to the surge. First, more individuals have time on their hands to create do-it-yourself bots. But the number of sophisticated groups that hire firms to run bot accounts also has increased. The nature of the pandemic matters, too. "Because it’s global, it’s being used by various countries and interest groups as an opportunity to meet political agendas," she said.

Carley's research team uses multiple methods to determine who is or isn't a bot. Artificial intelligence processes account information and looks at things such as the number of followers, frequency of tweeting and an account's mentions network.

"Tweeting more frequently than is humanly possible or appearing to be in one country and then another a few hours later is indicative of a bot," Carley said.

More than 100 types of inaccurate COVID-19 stories have been identified, such as those about potential cures. But bots are also dominating conversations about ending stay-at-home orders and "reopening America."

Many factors of the online discussions about “reopening America” suggest that bot activity is orchestrated. One indicator is the large number of bots, many of which are accounts that were recently created. Accounts that are possibly humans with bot assistants generate 66% of the tweets. Accounts that are definitely bots generate 34% of the tweets.

"When we see a whole bunch of tweets at the same time or back to back, it's like they're timed," Carley said. "We also look for use of the same exact hashtag, or messaging that appears to be copied and pasted from one bot to the next."

A subset of tweets about "reopening America" reference conspiracy theories, such as hospitals being filled with mannequins or the coronavirus being linked to 5G towers.

"Conspiracy theories increase polarization in groups. It’s what many misinformation campaigns aim to do," Carley said. "People have real concerns about health and the economy, and people are preying on that to create divides."

Carley said that spreading conspiracy theories leads to more extreme opinions, which can in turn lead to more extreme behavior and less rational thinking.
"Increased polarization will have a variety of real-world consequences, and play out in things like voting behavior and hostility towards ethnic groups," Carley said.

The research team cannot point to specific entities behind the orchestrated attempts to influence online conversations. "We do know that it looks like it's a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that," Carley said.

Carley adds that not enough is known to develop a counter measure. Blocked accounts can resurface, and the nature of the network is such that you can’t just attack at individual points.

But she said average users can do a lot to help protect themselves from bot influence. There is no guarantee, but closely examining an account can offer indications of a bot, such as sharing links with subtle typos, many tweets coming out very quickly, or a user name and profile image that don’t seem to match up.

anime was right posted:

im not going outside for like several more months at least

Steve Yun posted:

My birthday is tomorrow. It be a zoom for several friends. I built a Russian prostitute that pees Pinot Grigio on Trump, which I will be drinking from during the zoom.

no I am the furthest thing from depressed. could a depressed person accomplish this? look at her. no.

apatheticman posted:

These are our foster cats, they cannot see the world. I envy them.

Chair is comfy as gently caress though.

Atrocious Joe posted:

THE CURE WAS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE*
https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1263994756436307969?s=20
https://twitter.com/Richard27363694/status/1263893828265742336?s=20
https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1263969556868939776?s=20
https://twitter.com/ImranIsmailPTI/status/1262855654844309512?s=20

*lol pretending that we even tried for a cure

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Mickes, unlike most record shops in Europe, is still open for business. The compact store in southern Stockholm, crammed with thousands of vinyl LPs, last week enjoyed a steady stream of customers taking advantage of Sweden�s no-lockdown approach to coronavirus.

But owner Micke Englund said that while he was happy his shop was not closed, his business had still been hit hard by Covid-19. �When people became aware of coronavirus around March 12, we lost almost overnight 30 per cent. It�s OK. For a couple of months, it will work. But after that it will be very, very tough,� he said.

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The Riksbank, the country�s central bank, has an even gloomier outlook, estimating that GDP will contract by 7-10 per cent, with unemployment peaking at between 9 and 10.4 per cent. These are disastrous figures for the Scandinavian country.

�It is too early to say that we would do better than others. In the end, we think Sweden will end up more or less the same,� said Christina Nyman, a former deputy head of monetary policy at the Riksbank who is now chief economist at lender Handelsbanken.

Malcolm XML posted:

people be saying this but irs been several weeks since chud states opened up and we aren't yet seeing hospitals get flooded

Dumb Lowtax posted:

The mathematician who invented Conway's Game of Life died. His name was Donald J Trup

Atrocious Joe posted:

the capitalists have the state the power and control the resources we need to survive. setting up mutual aid is good, but it's not enough. workers aren't allowed to have enough resources so support each other as a class independent of wage labor. capitalists won't let a system independent of them arise. we can't just abandon capitalism, we need to organize to take power and put in place a new system.

mastershakeman posted:

Had a long talk with my wife tonight abiut how I was willing to relax and have my dad come help fix up the house and she got mad that I was giving up after convincing her to be cautious at all times

I basically think 2 things now
the spread was so slow in may that we won't burn out by the end of July , meaning school will happen and spread to everyone
And also that spreading only happens in close quarters where people are talking, the louder the more it spreads

The one factor I don't know is a/c and if it means grocery stores are dangerous or safe

mastershakeman posted:

The one factor I don't know is a/c and if it means grocery stores are dangerous or safe

COVID-420 posted:

Top 5 New Cases In USA Today

1. Illinois +2,758
2. California +2,387
3. New York +1,579
4. Texas +1,109
5. Pennsylvania +959

New York in third place. Texas skyrocketing to 4th for the first time. Illinois and California racking up some of their highest totals yet.

This weekend is going to be like pouring gasoline on a fire that's already burning quite nicely.

Paradoxish posted:

We're gonna keep getting stories like that hairstylist and eventually nobody except the chuds will go anywhere and everyone's going to be like "we opened er up why economy no good "

snoo posted:

I don't want to do this anymore

CODChimera posted:

remember when we were all freaking out and buying up all the beans

theflyingexecutive posted:

grocery stores are much much safer than gyms or restaurants because you�re not going to take off your mask or be close to any one individual for more than a minute or two

mastershakeman posted:

Had a long talk with my wife tonight abiut how I was willing to relax and have my dad come help fix up the house and she got mad that I was giving up after convincing her to be cautious at all times

I basically think 2 things now
the spread was so slow in may that we won't burn out by the end of July , meaning school will happen and spread to everyone
And also that spreading only happens in close quarters where people are talking, the louder the more it spreads

The one factor I don't know is a/c and if it means grocery stores are dangerous or safe

ricecult posted:

If there's a time for a general strike, it's probably now. Or in the US, Tuesday.

Strep Vote posted:

It's so funny watching you talk yourself out of your caution when you've been upset for two months that people around you weren't taking it seriously. They justified it to themselves the same way you are now.

If any of you find yourself antsy to get out and get Corona or get it over with, you are the wheat ripe for the reaping. It's You.

Toys For rear end Bum posted:

108,400 new infections yesterday

Outrail posted:

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

"several weeks" isn't long enough for things to get flooded yet, especially since

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

C. despite the "average R0", it sounds like there's larger chunks towards either end instead of the actual average-- either you don't infect many people because you start coughing and stay home, or you go absolutely hog wild batshit and infect 20 people because you're a dumb rear end in a top hat incapable of putting together cause and effect

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Wow, it was actually easy to find. I was half expecting having to trawl through the C-SPAM thread to find it again.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all

Based on those numbers, 90% of infected infect 1.3 other people on average, while the remaining 10% infect 45. If you assume it fits an y=e^ax curve, you'd actually need to get into the 70th percentile before you get to people who are gonna infect at least one other person, which is consistent with the claim that most people do not infect, ending at around 80 infections for the top 1%.

The Pussy Boss posted:

Who's the highest profile person to die of corona? Ellis Marsalis maybe? I feel like things would be different if say, Tom Hanks or the British Prime Minister had died

Lpzie posted:

i got a plume of covid for you rigth here buddy *points @ rear end*

Homeless Friend posted:

this is going to be the real lol when it happens

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Australia inexplicably never closed schools. Or barbers. Not sure how we're lucking through this.

Burn Zone posted:

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1263894758298173441