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Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by vacri »

judah wrote: post #67
wlievens wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In reality, the man is following his convictions to avoid touching women other than his wife. I don't get how that works. Just because you sit next to someone doesn't mean tou have to fondle them, right?

Have you sat in an airplane recently? They're practically cattle cars. You will be coming into contact with the person next to you.

Defining 'fondling' as 'contact with a person' is pretty extreme. It'll be interesting to see what you think of businesspeople shaking hands, police handcuffing suspects, parents hugging their children, or politicians kissing babies...

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by seanccox »

fenollp wrote: post #17
jldugger wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your argument exactly? That they should have used narrower terms until they found an article that was already written?

They use a syntax-aware search (thus refining for ME, MY, …). I thought (hoped) that journalists among all people would be the best at semantic search. Here the guy is just saying "whoa great dude and next I'll use regexps oh my god woaw". We have word2vec, doc2vec, many cores, … why aren't journalists using the tools they should be using?

None of the journalists I have met or worked with in six years in publishing and investigative due diligence know about the tools you are proposing. I recognize regex, because of a problem I needed to solve (that later became two problems), but I would love to learn more about the others. If you would consider writing that up, I would happily edit it for you.

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by chris_wot »

tmostak wrote: post #106

This is really interesting. A great tool to search geocoded tweets is the MapD Tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap (full disclosure, my company). For example, here ( http://bit.ly/1KIPSqh ) are tweets containing “seat” and “me”.

Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets

And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists, outraged eavesdroppers, rape loving, NLP wielding pick-up artists, swot-abusers, and vapid, brain-dead, useless celebrities - how does Twitter even exist?

It's truly amazing how a medium with only a 140 character limit can a. make money, b. communicate anything really worthwhile, or c. be read by anyone with any serious intent! Several years ago the criticisms were that everyone tweeted about mundane crap and it went down frequently [1], now it's being abandoned because it's no better than swimming in a sewage system [2].

1. http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4

2. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twi...

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by kaitai »

judah wrote: post #68
vessenes wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's absolutely not. It's a case of someone engaging in deep sexism under the cover of their religion, and it should trouble anyone with a daughter or sister or wife. Whether that sexism is 'hatred' like you are holding out as a possibility, a patronizing/patriarchal "women should be protected", or a repressive "I don't want to sully a woman with my sexual thoughts about her", they are all deeply problematic beli…

The man should be the one to move, that's true. But it has nothing to do with patriarchal society or repression of women, nor any other Tumblr-esque negative view of people of faith. I personally don't wish to touch other women than my wife. It's a personal conviction to be respected.

I'd be happy to sit next to you, then, if you kept your arm off the armrest :)

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by kaitai »

chc wrote: post #47
kazinator wrote: post #45

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It's okay for you to adhere to your faith. If you ask me to move my seat, you're asking me to adhere to your faith. I say let him stand; the airline should deal with it. Finding an acceptable seat for him is their problem. I don't have a booking issue with my seat. If the airline wants me to move, they should either pay me two hundred bucks, or move me to business class, or first. They have no qualms about charging f…

He's not really asking you to adhere to his faith. He's personally trying to adhere to his faith and he's asking you for a favor that will help him. Similarly, when somebody asks you the time, they are not attempting to turn you into a watch, they're just looking for some help from a fellow human being. I'm not saying someone is necessarily wrong to consider the request unreasonable, but I think it's unfair to accuse…

We are used to some measure of equality these days, and are surprised when the burden of "doing someone a favor" falls so explicitly on random women.

As we go through life we end up finding the lines at which each of us will stop. "Will you babysit my three children for five hours for free with no notice?" "Will you move so I don't have to touch your tempting elbow by accident?" "Will you let me blow through this deadline at work so I can.... get an emergency consult about my new leukemia diagnosis? go to Disneyland? take a mental health week? hang out with my new girlfriend?" I'm sure you'd say yes to some of these requests and no to others.

As so many office folks have said, "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." We all have the right to decline performing such "favors" for others.

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Post by girvo »

chris_wot wrote: post #113
tmostak wrote: post #106

This is really interesting. A great tool to search geocoded tweets is the MapD Tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap (full disclosure, my company). For example, here ( http://bit.ly/1KIPSqh ) are tweets containing “seat” and “me”.

Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists,…

Do you really think those (abhorrent) kinds of people make up the bulk of Twitter's voice? Because my feed certainly isn't.

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by chris_wot »

girvo wrote: post #116
chris_wot wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists,…

Do you really think those (abhorrent) kinds of people make up the bulk of Twitter's voice? Because my feed certainly isn't.

Yup. Your feed might not be full of spam, but how are you going with searching for specific tweets? And I'm assuming you aren't a female who tweets about feminism or calls out mysogynists and who consequently gets threatened with rape or murder; you're not a woman or defending women who build or critically review games; you aren't being doxxed by gamer gaters; you aren't trying to debate a controversial issue so you aren't getting flamed or trolled; you've never quietly joked about a dongle at a tech conference and not realised you were a little bit too loud and subsequently lost your job when someone tweets your photo instead of confronting you directly or taking it to conference organisers; and lastly, you aren't a teenager being influenced by celebrities encouraging you to buy into a vapid and stupid lifestyle instead of contributing to society in some meaningful way.

You live in a nice world if that's the case. Twitter is great for you, but pretty awful for everyone else. Which is great, but let's leave Twitter to this niche market and let everyone else find some other medium that isn't so corrosive for them. People of course don't leave this medium, and it beats me why.

Re: “Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches

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Post by [deleted] »

gravypod wrote: post #14

Personally, I don't understand why the people in the first article, that this one is about, were upset that someone of another religion wanted to adhere to their faith. It seems fairly reasonable that, on air planes non-the-less, that you will encounter many cultures that seem strange to you. Why would that aggravate you?

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