I know #SpaceKaren has more chance of getting to Mars than I have of winning the lottery but I'd like to be able to afford Lurpak before I peg out for good. #Aims #Butter

This is a problem that is found throughout academia, and especially in #AncientStudies. Which means that a 'progressive' conference like #AIMS should really be aware of the methods that have been developed to combat this specific problem.

That being said, I wouldn't be putting #AIMS on blast without giving the organizers a chance to fix this in a reasonable way. I was *personally invited* to come to business meeting of the conference, and I did so in the hopes of helping them address it. 3/?

Okay #antiquidons #histodons, it's time to remind you all why I won't be at #AIMS any time in the foreseeable future, and why I'm still looking for co-organizers for a convention on new frontiers in ancient studies.

Two years ago, I was personally invited to participate in an AIMS panel on using gaming in the classroom. I had a lovely time. I liked a lot of the other sessions, too. The problem arose when I went to the Black Classicisms panel, which I was very excited to see. 1/?

India's Chandrayaan-3 lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation.
#India #Chandrayaan-3 #Moon #Aims #Land
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indias-chandrayaan-3-mission-lifts-off-aims-to-reach-moon-in-40-days-4206754

India's Chandrayaan-3 lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation.
#India #Chandrayaan-3 #Moon #Aims #Land
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indias-chandrayaan-3-mission-lifts-off-aims-to-reach-moon-in-40-days-4206754

India's Chandrayaan-3 lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the hopes of an entire nation.
#India #Chandrayaan-3 #Moon #Aims #Land
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indias-chandrayaan-3-mission-lifts-off-aims-to-reach-moon-in-40-days-4206754

#AIMS #WorldRunningDay https://aims-worldrunning.org/articles/2036-what-is-global-running-day.html

globalrunningday.org... #globalrunningday #running #RACE 💙😉☕😀⚓🌊🌐🌊⚓
#AIMS #WorldRunningDay https://aims-worldrunning.org/articles

After the #AIMS #teamjorge scandal, it became more evident to me why using a social network like Mastodon is the most humane, politically and ethically correct action I can take as a citizen of this world.

Thank you very much for your relevance #Mastodon

Thank you #volunteers across the world that make this happen.

“The Guardian and its reporting partners tracked #Aims-linked #bot activity across the internet. It was behind fake social media campaigns, mostly involving commercial disputes, in about 20 countries including the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Senegal, India and the United Arab Emirates.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/storykillers-recherche-wie-die-undercover-reporter-sich-bei-team-jorge-einschlichen-a-e32774d0-665c-4b04-8b6f-b1fe6920d0d7?sara_ecid=soci_upd_KsBF0AFjflf0DZCxpPYDCQgO1dEMph

30000 Fake Accounts für Desinformationskampagnen #aims #jorge

Just business, interest parties can buy the outcome of elections #FakeAccounts #Twitter #Facebook #AIMS
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/aims-software-avatars-team-jorge-disinformation-fake-profiles

"‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles - [Guardian] Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, #Facebook, #Gmail, #Instagram, #Amazon and #Airbnb

"At first glance, the Twitter user “Canaelan” looks ordinary enough. He has tweeted on everything from basketball to Taylor Swift, Tottenham Hotspur football club to the price of a KitKat. The profile shows a friendly-looking blond man with a stubbly beard and glasses who, it indicates, lives in Sheffield. The background: a winking owl.

Canaelan is, in fact, a non-human bot linked to a vast army of fake social media profiles controlled by a software designed to spread “propaganda”.

Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims, which controls more than 30,000 fake social media profiles, can be used to spread disinformation at scale and at speed. It is sold by “Team Jorge”, a unit of disinformation operatives based in Israel.

Tal Hanan, who runs the covert group using the pseudonym “Jorge”, told undercover reporters that they sold access to their software to unnamed intelligence agencies, political parties and corporate clients. One appears to have been sold to a client who wanted to discredit the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a statutory watchdog.

On 18 October 2020, the ICO ruled that the government should reveal which companies were awarded multimillion-pound contracts to supply PPE after being entered into a “VIP” lane for politically connected companies. “This is politically motivated, it’s clear!” Canaelan lamented on Twitter two days later."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/aims-software-avatars-team-jorge-disinformation-fake-profiles

#Disinformation #DisinformationIndustry #FakeNews #FakeProfiles #UK #UKPolitics #AIMS #TeamJorge #TalHanan

"“Team Jorge”: In the heart of a global #disinformation machine - In Part 2 of the “Story Killers” project, which continues the work of assassinated Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh on disinformation, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined."

"In 2022, Jorge had a catalog of more than 30,000 automated profiles of virtual people with real accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, and Bitcoin. Jorge used these fake accounts to post a flurry of comments on social networks, stir up controversy and even purchase sex toys on Amazon. Jorge recounted how one pretty, blond-haired avatar named Shannon Aiken used an Amazon account to order sex toys to the house of a political rival of one of his clients, leaving the rival candidate’s wife to believe he had been unfaithful. “After that, the story was leaked, and he couldn’t go home. The campaign turned around,” Jorge said."
...
"The AIMS tool doesn’t just offer avatar creation. The latest version, shown to the undercover journalists, can also create and disseminate automated content. Using keywords, the tool can create posts, articles, comments or tweets in any language with a “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” tone. After entering the words “Chad,” “president,” “brother,” and “Déby,” for instance, Jorge commanded the tool to produce 10 negative tweets about the Chadian government. Twelve seconds later, they appeared. “Enough is enough, we need to put an end to incompetence and nepotism of president of Chad brother Déby,” one read. “The Chad people have suffered enough under the rule of President Brother Déby,” read another. “One operator can hold 300 profiles, so in two hours, all the country will speak the messages or the narrative [we] want,”one of Jorge’s associates said."

#AIMS #Disinformation #DisinformationIndustry #FakeNews #StoryKillers #India #Chad #Israel #Lankesh #GauriLankesh

"One of Team Jorge’s key services is a sophisticated software package, Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims. It controls a vast army of thousands of fake social media profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, Instagram and YouTube. Some avatars even have Amazon accounts with credit cards, bitcoin wallets and Airbnb accounts"
#Jorge #AIMS #Disinformation #Israel

Less hate, more clarity: Check out Pixstory, a new social-media app out of India
The platform aims to minimise polarisation, disincentivise hate, and rate users so that everyone has at least a sense of whom they’re engaging with. Can it work? Take a look.
https://mstdncanada.com/index.php/2023/01/20/less-hate-more-clarity-check-out-pixstory-a-new-social-media-app-out-of-india/
#goodinfo #mastodon #aims #disincentivise #everyone #hate #minimise #platform #polarisation #rate #that #users

So, lovely people, what are your #aims for 2023? What would you like to #achieve, to #learn, what would you like to take part in starting in 2023? How would you like to #grow and #develop?

What #skills, what #interests, what things will achieve your aims or light your heart? And how will you turn those #aspirations into reality?

They can be #tech things, #coding, #work, #art things, #culture, #health, #career, #projects, anything.

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts! 😁❤️🎄x

Very cool !

Development of frozen storage (-196 C) of #coral larvae from the #GreatBarrierReef using a cryomesh to allow potential future #rewilding of #CoralReefs

New research and technology by the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (#AIMS) and international partners.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral-world-first-trial-2022-12-19/

#MarineBiology #Ecology #ClimateChange

RT @burginam
I am recruiting a postdoc/data manager for a large, fun, collaborative group (#AIMS) working on how intermittent stream flow impacts water quality. We have lots of data! I'm at #AGU22 through Friday and would love to chat with interested folks. Due 1/6/23
https://employment.ku.edu/postdoctoral-researcherdata-manager/23922br

I'm presenting at the #Antiquity in #MediaStudies conference next month - come and find me on the 3rd of Dec for the 'Talking About and Through Violence' panel. I'm presenting 'The Tropification of Hollywood Heroes Thrown Into the Arena' - you'd be surprised how many famous characters have fought as #gladiators! Registration for #AIMS is free and the #conference is all online: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/registration/ @antiquidons