Interesting Links for 17-05-2015

• The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever
  (tags: bias brain psychology logic )
• Wisconsin Republicans ban poor people from buying shellfish, potatoes, and ketchup.
  (tags: republicans food OhForFucksSake )
• Half hour of physical activity 6 days a week linked to 40 percent lower risk of early death
  (tags: exercise death )
• Most children are happy no matter what, but materialism catches up eventually
  (tags: society children happiness money )
• The Ozone Hole Could Become History
  (tags: environment thefuture )
• Oculus Rift requirements announced. I see a new computer in my future...
  (tags: virtualreality technology computers )
• Let’s call ‘trolling’ what it really is
  (tags: abuse misogyny internet society )
• Tim Farron: How liberal is the man tipped to succeed Nick Clegg as leader of the Lib Dems?
  (tags: libdem )
• Tim Farron on what he believes
  (tags: libdem )
• The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful
  (tags: journalism USA spying cia media )

Learning to spot Twitter spam

Every few weeks I get added by an account which, at closer inspiection, turns out to be a spam bot.

This is a prime example. It's a mixture of quotes which make the "person" sound fun-loving, with a sense of humour, links to a mixture of celebrity gossip and sexiness, and the odd link to helpful things which are basically adverts. And, frankly the celebrity gossip/sexy photos are also on horribly spammy sites which are designed to sell you things too.

I assume that there's a massive library of amusing-ish quotes which are shared between all of these bots. And that most of them are run by the same people. Or possibly franchised out to idiots who think that it will make them money.

In any case, hopefully Twitter will eventually work out a way of spotting them en masse and purge them. But I'm not holding my breath.

Early footage emerges of the next Fast & Furious movie

"[SUBARU] SUBARU "WRX STI vs StickBomb"" (Watch on YouTube)

Making-of:

"[SUBARU] Making of SUBARU "WRX STI vs StickBomb"" (Watch on YouTube)