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2021-07-04 Science & Technology

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-04 05:07|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 It's like when they learned to distill liquors - the death rate was terrific. But the survivors can cope with 40%+ alcohol.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-04 05:44|| 2021-07-04 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 This is rich. Purveyors of lies and disinformation complaining about the medium used to disseminate their bullshit

Posted by Fluling B. Hayes7514 2021-07-04 09:00|| 2021-07-04 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Media and tech titans prepare to gather for 'billionaire summer camp' at Sun Valley Lodge after conference was cancelled last year due to Covid

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-04 10:05|| 2021-07-04 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 They, of course, mean the wrong kind of social media. Meaning the free, uncensored kind.
Just think of the title for a few minutes: Stewardship of global collective behavior.
That should tell you all you need to know.
From the same people who brought you Climate Change.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-07-04 11:05|| 2021-07-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Will we look back fondly to the 90’s as the time when the “Internet was FREE” ? And forward to times where AI’s stealthily edit everything on the internet so they don’t need the ‘firemen’ of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 ?

I know that I do…

Posted by magpie 2021-07-04 19:04|| 2021-07-04 19:04|| Front Page Top

#6 "That sheep is, like, so out of bounds.
I am so, like, releasing the hounds."
Smith had really come round
Since employed at the Pound.
"Inappropriate movement and sounds!"

Posted by Zenobia Thud8506 2021-07-04 20:47|| 2021-07-04 20:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Canine Robots Improving Terroristic Inappropriate Content

Posted by Zenobia Thud8506 2021-07-04 20:50|| 2021-07-04 20:50|| Front Page Top

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