Chaos, networks, reality. Itinerant scholar. Views my own.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined June 2009
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Kyle retweeted
Thread 1/ This is a thread on pro-Russian propaganda & #disinformation. I analysed the hashtags "i stand with Putin" & "i stand with Russia'. I analysed around 20,000 Twitter interactions involving 9600 unique accounts
Bots ✔️
Engagement Farming ✔️
#UkraineRussianWar
#Ukraine
Kyle retweeted
Will any political party report @HermanMashaba for violating the IEC Code of Conduct?This is incitement. We know very well that SA has a history of xenophobic violence & such remarks have in the past sparked violence. His endorsement thereof could mobilise this supporters.
As @Action4SA we commit, given a mandate to govern Municipalities we are contesting to pass By-law to:
1. You have to have SA ID to operate any business
2. Must be registered with SARS
3. Must employ South Africans
4. Will have specialized unit within Metro Police to execute
Kyle retweeted
This has been going on for months now with the attacks becoming more frequent. Migrants are specifically targeted in these attacks but still we read stories referring to it as "protests". Shying away from calling it what it is (xenophobia) means we won't address the problem.
Kyle retweeted
I blame lockdown but for some reason decided to cook Babylonian meal from the recipe tablet on the right; at 1750 BCE are the oldest recipes existing. Seemed to go down OK "Best Mesopotamian meal I have eaten".
A thread 1/6
Kyle retweeted
An amazing Starling murmuration at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve last week 😍 yorkshirewildlifetrust_ IG
#murmuration #starlings #wildlife
Kyle retweeted
Say hello to our first desktop release of 2020! 🥳 Vivaldi 2.11 has an improved Pop-out video, updated Themes that match your OS theme better, and a pretty unique accessibility feature.
→ vi.tc/31OpIgg
#YourBrowserMatters
Kyle retweeted
On January 13th, 2020, shortly before midnight Pacific time, our good friend @DrunkAlexJones debuted the hashtag #FishingForRobots in order to, well, fish for robots. #ThursdayThoughts #ManyFishBite
cc: @ZellaQuixote
Kyle retweeted
Tonight’s nightmare: I found a button on the website one of David Blei’s postdocs 🤷🏼♂️ that read “delete” and - as I wanted delete a tweet - I pressed it.
It permanently deleted my whole Twitter profile setting it back to an empty one. I spent the rest of my dream punching a wall – at Cambridge, England
Kyle retweeted
This is an awesome initiative. We will be hosting a partner site @StellenboschUni in South Africa! Please share this with anyone on the African continent you think might be interested in computational social science (broadly interpreted) #SICSS #SICSS2020
1/n Want to learn what happens when social science meets data science? @msalganik and I are pleased to announce that our *free* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science will run in *TWENTY-ONE* locations this year! bit.ly/2MZpSvm
Kyle retweeted
Happy 150th Birthday! This March I was asked by Nature to help design the journal cover for the 150 anniversary. It has a true honor and a fabulous journey, with several wondrous products, all released this week, go.nature.com/36JY5qL
Kyle retweeted
BREAKING: Alan Turing will be the face of the new £50 note
pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/15/al…
Kyle retweeted
Who said AI will take our jobs? I just asked BERT to generate *new scientific disciplines* by filling the blanks for: "I did my phd in MASK MASK for the last four years." favorites so far:
Space Linguistics
Quantum Arts
Food Archaeology
Educational Magic
Applied Theology
🤖❤️👩🎓
Kyle retweeted
Moyane blocked the treasury’s bid to blacklist Bosasa, records show mg.co.za/article/2019-01-25-…