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Bullshit is Prionic
"Fight bad ideas with better ideas." The idea is appealing because it satisfies at least two virtuous constraints. The censor is denied entry. The…
Feb 26, 2022
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John Bjorn Nelson
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July 2021
Banning is a Defensible Moat
Metcalfe's Law states the value of a network is proportional to the square its users. It's not really an empirical description of our social universe so…
Jul 5, 2021
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January 2021
Probablistic P2P Content Moderation
Propagation is a Liberating Constraint In The Acoustic Space
Jan 29, 2021
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John Bjorn Nelson
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What Social Should Look Like?
Ephemeral By Default, P2P, and Algorithmically-Mediated
Jan 14, 2021
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What Social Should Look Like?
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On Censorship
Centralized Social Partitions Considered Harmful
Jan 9, 2021
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John Bjorn Nelson
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On Censorship
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September 2020
Misdirection on an Imaginary Line
Social Media's Cybernetic Problems (Part -1)
Sep 20, 2020
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Dunbar's Number is Quadratic
Social Media's Cybernetic Problems (Part I)
Sep 9, 2020
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April 2020
Where Did The Future Go?
When I was a child, my optimism was boundless. Infinite wonder surrounded me, and I saw it as exactly that. Life was for exploration! And I was lucky. I…
Apr 29, 2020
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February 2020
Ambient Intimacy is Intimacy
Ambient intimacy is seeing twitter's "What's happening?” prompt and answering, "How was your day?" instead. Given sufficiently personal expressions…
Feb 11, 2020
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The Real Supernode Problem
Barack Obama Tweets At the time of writing, Barack Obama has over 110,000,000 Twitter followers. Barack Obama is a supernode. [Image caption: A digraph…
Feb 7, 2020
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December 2019
May I have your attention, please
Allow me to introduce myself
Dec 11, 2019
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