13-Aug, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.
links, etc
just cranked through the latest issue of CACM. some stuff to point back at.
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this was a disturbing read. brazil was wracked by lots of misinfomration campaigns being actively run over WhatsApp. journalists had no ability to keep up with the firehose of misinformation, and it was impossible to know how viral the content was in terms of its distribution.
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Free and Open Source Software and Other Market Failures | Communications of the ACM
a little bit grumpy, but a reasonably solid take on the freedom afforded by open source software.