sayhar

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by sayhar 2y ago
A lot of this is flatly untrue.
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by sayhar 5y ago
How could they tell you were on that subreddit? Presumably you were doing it from a separate browser on the phone -- can they really snoop on behavior in completely separate apps?
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by sayhar 5y ago
Well, consolidation didn't happen for decades, then it happened rapidly after the law was changed, so that's pretty clear evidence to me. I don't think you could accuse Matt Stoller of being in the pocket of any industry, and
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by sayhar 5y ago
This is a great article. Rabbitholed a tiny bit on this part: > Big companies got the law changed to enable ocean carriers to offer secret discounts in exchange for volume guarantees. To an article linked in the first article: https:&#x
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by sayhar 5y ago
Thank you for your service!
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by sayhar 5y ago
Thank you! (I wrote the article)
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by sayhar 5y ago
Hello, I wasn't aware we were on /r/politicalcompassmemes
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by sayhar 5y ago
dogman, thank you for the heads up about this social-cybersecurity group. It does seem related, and I'll be sure to check them out. Lately, someone has also mentioned m3aawg.org, which also seems adjacent. Personally, I do think the fi
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by sayhar 5y ago
You really think Frances is a deep cover op by Facebook? Really? Wow.
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by sayhar 5y ago
Yep! We both quit FB in 2019. This has been our (full time, volunteer, spending our savings) job since ~Jan/Feb of this year. It's taken a long time to gather people, build trust, figure out our strategy, find consensus, make our
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by sayhar 5y ago
yep.
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by sayhar 5y ago
I appreciate you. Thank you.
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by sayhar 5y ago
Hi! Thanks for the constructive question. I agree with you that it's nuanced, and also I'm sad that it's getting polarized/simplified in some venues. I don't think we have gotten an institute stance on very much rel
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by sayhar 5y ago
This is a great example of the kind of stuff we want to be talking about and looking at. Design changes that apply across the board. You could imagine us swapping notes, and doing some research as a group, to see if this is indeed an idea t
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by sayhar 5y ago
We started this back in January, and have been getting our ducks in a row since then. It turns out starting a nonprofit is hard, and takes a long time.
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by sayhar 5y ago
We spent a good amount of space on the website laying out different types of work that are covered in the term "integrity". I also do very strongly think there is a moral/ethical dimension to the work. That's one reason
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by sayhar 5y ago
One thing we focus on is not really looking at content at all, but instead, behavior. Mostly -- spam. One way to see what we're doing is glorified spamfighting. Except the spam sometimes isn't fake ray-bans, but is instead doctore
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by sayhar 5y ago
Jeff and I have been working on this nonstop since January-February. Formal incorporation happened way way after the work started. This has been my full time (unpaid, volunteer, only) job since February, and I have burned down much of my
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by sayhar 5y ago
Hey this is a really good question. And I agree with you 100%! We have only explored a tiny corner of the design space. Since you asked for links, I think you'd like this talk I gave at Berkman a little while ago: https://cy
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by sayhar 5y ago
I think this should answer your question: https://integrityinstitute.org/founders-letter But also, our values: https://integrityinstitute.org/our-values Also, succinctly -- this is a real, grassroots thing.
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by sayhar 5y ago
This is a great question! I'm still trying to find a top-down definition instead of a "I know it when I see it" one. To me it's probably something like this: we can think about an information ecosystem or social platform
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by sayhar 5y ago
> The problem instead seems to be a systemic one. i.e. What kinds of posts does the platform incentivise and promote as a whole? These are the big questions we want to be tackling.
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by sayhar 5y ago
Thank you! I helped set up the Brazil Election War Room -- the first election war room inside of FB. It was intense! There is a special place in my heart for your country <3
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by sayhar 5y ago
Thank you! (1) - I'm not sure. I don't think I'm an expert here. But if you've got 15 years of anti-spam experience, we'd love to have you join us as a member :-) (2) - Thank you. Fixed!
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by sayhar 5y ago
Oh hi! That’s me! (And a bunch of other folks). Happy to answer any questions. I also really like this founders note that we wrote. It’s in our own words, etc: https://integrityinstitute.org/founders-letter We are recruitin
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by sayhar 5y ago
hahaha same
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by sayhar 5y ago
So I went into a big rabbithole of writing up a long email to my family warning them about specific plates and so on. Then I paused -- was any of this real? I looked up on Snopes -- they didn't seem to be too convinced that she's
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by sayhar 5y ago
SAME. It's awful.
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by sayhar 5y ago
I have one of their stickers. It was nice! IIRC it was doing fine, but they ran of out funding and their next round of financing fell through unexpectedly.
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by sayhar 5y ago
Matt Stoller pretty convincingly lays out why this is a monopoly issue here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/what-broken-mcdonalds-ice...

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