Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social
- Dark Web Ethnography
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/weaving-dark-web
- Social Engineering Book
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering
He/Him/His.
Trans rights are human rights!
I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My books:
Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple)
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT)
My latest book is Social Engineering (MIT, 2022). This book takes up hacker social engineering practice to conceptualize manipulative communication happening online.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
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I realize I might violate people's preferences regarding follow requests. Many people suggest having some interaction first before accepting follow requests.
I very much prefer to listen to others, so when I make a follow request, it's in the spirit of "I want to hear more from you."
Those two things might be exclusive, but if anyone is curious about why I'm seeking to follow them, it's because I find them intriguing and I want to learn more from them.
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“.01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin! That’s 100x the wealth concentration of the regular economy.”
Next time someone tells you cryptocurrencies and blockchain are about decentralisation, laugh in their faces. Loudly. While pointing at them.
https://nitter.net/MorePerfectUS/status/1527661935054962688
#cryptocurrency #blockchain #decentralisation #web3 #rightLibertarian #bullshit
You ever have one of those days where the USB cord just plugs right in, and you don't have to flip it?
I'm having one of those days.
Robert W. Gehl
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Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today. Send the paper off today.
Robert W. Gehl
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#feditips
boost yourself and often
I boost myself bc after being here for 5ish yrs, I've said everything that can be said about the behavior of certain ppl :cough white: and there's no need to repeat myself bc frankly
i dont have the time, machetes and money to do it over n over for a group of ppl who mostly pay me and others dust
traveling triumph
got home 8 hours sooner than I expected due to some kindness on the part of an airline in switching my flights.
New publication! A summing up of the latest book with some additional observations about social cyber security. https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2022/05/17/masspersonal-social-engineering-and-the-emergence-of-individualized-information-warfare/
grading gripes, snark about death
bring out your dead by powerpoint
They drag this out pretty admirably. #eurovision
Someone's already made this joke but: at least Australia didn't vote to leave Europe, yeah? #eurovision
The popular vision of Greece is ruins so it makes sense to have a stage full of ruined chairs #eurovision
If it matters, this American thinks the Lithuanian jam is the best. #eurovision
Eurovision
Am I watching a bunch of Norwegians saying they want to fuck my grandma? The hell?
Watching #eurovision in Europe and... y'all take this seriously, eh?
Robert W. Gehl
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All that to say,
If you want to get to know some cool kids on Scholar, welcome, pull up a seat, the coffee machine is in the kitchenette over there
But if you want to maximize user engagement with your brand, I'll kinda be actively putting up roadblocks to that kind of behaviour here and you'll eventually get frustrated and leave
When I was small, I did not understand why Samuel L. Jackson's character in Jurassic Park asked everyone to hold onto their butts.
Now, I know. Oh. Now, I know.
I do not lag jets. I run too far ahead of them
I see people calling the other sites "corporate social media" and I'm getting choked up
it's all happening, robert
oh thank whatever for backups
Robert W. Gehl
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Hello Mastodon art people! I’m Julia, an illustrator and naturalist from Germany. I’ve quit all social media a few years ago because addictive algorithms, ads, infinite scrolling and tracking surveillance were killing my creativity.
Mastodon is likely the last social media experiment I’ll try. Here are some birds for you, because although I’ve left Twitter, I love drawing birds.
#introduction
#MastoArt #art #illustration #birds #watercolor #TraditionalArt
- Dark Web Ethnography
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/weaving-dark-web
- Social Engineering Book
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering
He/Him/His.
Trans rights are human rights!
I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My books:
Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple)
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT)
My latest book is Social Engineering (MIT, 2022). This book takes up hacker social engineering practice to conceptualize manipulative communication happening online.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
