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Content Moderation, Robust Learning, Archiving Floppies, and xkcd Charting Information Operations Directed at Hong Kong (Twitter) — Today we are adding archives containing complete tweet and user information for the 936 accounts we’ve disclosed to our archive of information operations—the largest of its kind in the industry. This is a goldmine for researchers, as you

Open Source Economics, Program Synthesis, YouTube Influence, and ChatBot Papers The Economics of Open Source (CJ Silverio) — I’m going to tell you a story about who owns the Javascript language commons, how we got into the situation that the language commons is *by* someone, and why we need to change it. State of the

Competition vs. Convenience, Super-Contributors and Power Users, Forecasting Time Series, and Appreciating Non-Scalability Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (Sparktoro) — We can see a consistent pattern: organic shrinks while zero-click searches and paid CTR rise. But the devil’s in the details, and, in this case, mostly the mobile details,

I Don’t Know, Map Quirks, UI Toolkit, and Open Power Chip Architecture I Don’t Know (Wired) — Two percent of Brits don’t know whether they’ve lived in London before. Five percent don’t know whether they’ve been attacked by a seagull or not. A staggering one in 20 residents of this fine isle don’t know whether