Monthly Archives: August 2018

The illusion of immunity

A very interesting take on the impact of social media: “How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump” Zeynep Tufekci – Technnology review Security isn’t just about who has more Cray supercomputers and cryptography experts but about understanding how attention, information overload, and social bonding work in the digital era.

The fan

So the earning calls season it just over. Apple and Facebook and Youtube have much less to fear. Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars’ Alex Jones -The Guardian Most notably, Twitter doesn’t follow… It’s not as if the US President was using it as its primary mode of communication. Wait until the shit hits […]