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Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social |
There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @newscientist@mstdn.social (sign up for a free account to read).
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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William Preston
@williampreston.bsky.social
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Wow. I hadn't known this, though of course it makes tons of sense.
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Pyperkub
@pyperkub.bsky.social
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Your reporting hit with me. The all bot nature was the first thing I thought of as soon as I saw Ashley-Madison. Well done!
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Bobson Dugnutt
@brookass.bsky.social
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Publius Maximus (He/Him)
@publiusmaximus.bsky.social
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This was a great article. Thank you for writing it.
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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I happened to be working out of the Gawker offices when that story came about & I remember thinking even then as you were publishing things from it (and eventually we were, too) that people were/were going to miss what the real story was there, & it seems I was sadly right
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Jack Arsenic 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
@anniemouse.bsky.social
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FANTASTIC Read! And completely sad/hilarious/pathetic how men can be.
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tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
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I know — my ability to go into detail on this is EXTREMELY limited, but oh well — a real woman who was ingenuously on that site and her experience was VERY funny, especially around when your story broke
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DaffyPussy🫦
@montanathebitch.bsky.social
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do you support women cheating?
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Dessel
@dessel.bsky.social
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this was the most interesting part of the documentary for me, it is very suspiring to me it was never sued for fraud after the news broke
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Henry Cook
@hmc3rd.bsky.social
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Honestly did not realize this about the incident, fascinating to learn, thanks for revisiting the subject!
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@datafox.bsky.social
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I have yet to watch the documentary but I definitely thought they would talk about the bots.
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Rhinestone Browboy
@rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social
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Presumably that aspect got less traction as men (and possibly their wives) prefer the “man is cheater” narrative to “man turns out to be quite embarrassingly horny-stupid”? I mean, you’re a state senator caught up in this. Which mistake do you want to ‘fess up to?
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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Robots demonstrate mental vulnerability in humans; humans apparently have a bias towards seeing the world as made up of sentient entities.
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Marshall Ryan Maresca
@mrmaresca.com
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I honestly didn't understand why "Wait, there's almost no real women on here, just bots" wasn't the bigger story.
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Nick Manos
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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I thought it was so weird how little the recent documentary got into the whole bot story. Wonder if that was maybe a condition of some very candid interviews with some of the AM principals.
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Christie Aschwanden
@cragcrest.bsky.social
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I just read this in the print mag -- great column. I didn't realize they were all bots!
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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In "The Screwfly Solution," Alice Sheldon posited an alien species using pheromonal control to get men to murder most women and cause a population collapse in a generation or two. Isn't it comforting to know that techbros have found a more humane way to monetize male loneliness purely for profit?
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®PG
@realphilgold.bsky.social
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Gotta love how coders turned an unviable business into a profit machine
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Ange 🍞🌹🏳️🌈 🇳🇿
@seawall.bsky.social
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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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ashley madison was dead internet theory in my mind before i ever encountered the term like no way could any of that be real it sounds made up
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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i remember this being one of the more salient details, and this is a fantastic refresher.
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Peter Stinson
@change1strategy.bsky.social
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Insightful. Thanks for sharing. What do we do about it? How do we beat back the bots?
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Real American Hombre
@realamericanhombre.bsky.social
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So Ashley Madison was basically a big phone sex "call center" (a'la Girl 6), but online? 🤯 It just hit me how these centers were the precursors to today's Myanmar/Chinese gang pig butchering scams. Wow.
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