This barndominium does not exist, part IV

one of these things is not like the otherIf you’ve been on Facebook in recent years, you’ve doubtless encountered one or more of the many content farm pages that post…

Spam in the firehose, part IV

it’s really not that difficult to upload profile imagesOver the last 48 hours, swarms of remarkably similar and remarkably boring spam accounts have been following various Bluesky users at a…

Baiting the bot, part II: Customer Service

asking the big questionsA previous article on this blog, “Baiting the bot”, discussed the topic of keeping LLM-based chatbots engaged in meaningless conversations indefinitely though the use of far simpler…

Spam in the firehose, part II

we are totally real people who happen to have identical photographsA recent article on this blog discussed multiple groups of accounts identified by scanning the Bluesky firehose for repeated biographies,…