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Nichrome Data Over Internet: How Smart Packaging, IoT & Analytics Are Transforming Manufacturing

Packaging has never been more advanced. No more simple boxes and bottles. Smart packaging is where it's at today, and it's revolutionizing the packaging industry from inside out. At Nichrome, we are not just riding the wave of change—our path-breaking packaging automation solutions, backed by IoT, real-time data, and cloud-intelligent connectivity, are leading the charge.

Welcome to Nichrome Data Over Internet—or as we more commonly call it, N-DOIT. It's not a service, it's a packaging philosophy. A philosophy that puts data, analytics, and efficiency front and centre in every packaging machine that we design, install, and maintain.

From food packaging automation to agro automation, we're enabling Indian manufacturers to jumpstart their future. Through N-DOIT, we're enabling them to work smarter, faster, and more in control—all due to the powerful combination of cloud platforms, remote monitoring, and data-driven decision making.

Let us dive into how this change is shaping up.

What Is "Data Over Internet" in Packaging?

Just think how great it would be if your packaging machines talked. Better yet—what if they could listen, analyze, and predict? That is what Data Over Internet (DOI) makes a reality. At its essence, DOI is a real-time collection, transmission, and analysis of machine data across secure cloud platforms.

This isn't just fancy tech talk. It allows packagers to experience genuine real-time machine monitoring, instant insights, and greater visibility of their complete packaging automation system. From uptime, line downtime, energy usage, or product throughput, we enable you to view it all—anywhere, at any time.

This level of remote monitoring changes the game completely, especially for the packaging industry in India, where agility and efficiency are the need of the hour. With IoT solutions for the packaging industry in India, Nichrome offers unmatched transparency and control.

Smart Packaging Systems Enabled by IoT

This is where packaging and the future converge—Nichrome’s smart packaging solutions are transforming manufacturing through the capabilities of IoT (Internet of Things). Our integrated solutions surpass machines by introducing smart sensors and Internet of Things connected devices that track all performance aspects in real time.

Whether you have a pouch filling machine, sachet pack machine, or any food packing machine, our N-DOIT (Nichrome Data Over Internet Technology) patented technology makes your packaging process intelligent, cutting edge, and efficient.

Here is all that you can get with it:

Instant Deviation Alerts - Get notified the moment there's a sealing, filling accuracy, or temperature change.

Enhanced Machine Health Monitoring - Track the motor performance, pressure levels, and wear indicators to avoid breakdowns.

Environmental Controls - Monitor temperature and humidity levels required for sensitive products like pharmaceuticals or milk.

Data-Driven Decision Making – Analyze production data to maximize OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and minimize downtime.

Remote Accessibility – Remote access to machine data in real-time—greater visibility and control of operations.

From food packaging lines to sachet fillers, our IoT-enabled packaging technology transforms your production line into a lean, clean, and hyper-efficient one.

Welcome to a world where smart packaging doesn't merely respond—it anticipates, avoids, and acts.

Predictive Maintenance with Analytics

Why wait for a breakdown when you can anticipate it first? That is the benefit of predictive maintenance—and Nichrome leads the charge. Our automatic packaging machines feature intelligent diagnostics that utilize data analytics and machine learning to continuously watch and detect early warning signs of failure.

This is how our predictive maintenance is a game-changer for your packaging operations:

Scheduled maintenance, real-time machine monitoring, rather than repair in response

Enhanced OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) because of reduced unplanned downtime

Improved productivity and consistent performance between shifts

Remote diagnostics for faster decision-making and assistance

Integrated sensors and real-time performance monitoring analytics

This isn't tweaking a little—it's a complete redesign in how you manage your production floor. With Nichrome's smart packaging automation solutions, you enjoy control, productivity, and uptime your competition can only dream of.

Real-Time Machine Monitoring for Efficiency

Knowledge is power today, and real-time knowledge is a superpower. With our N-DOIT service, manufacturers have the authority to conduct real-time remote machine monitoring anywhere in the world.

From the factory floor to the aircraft, you can monitor machine dashboards, make adjustments, and monitor performance metrics on our cloud-connected packaging machines. Remote operation, real-time data, and actionable insights? That's what we call next-generation packaging technology.

This degree of remote monitoring facilitates quicker decision-making, energy conservation, and greater accountability between shifts and locations. Guesswork no more—straight performance.

Nichrome's Role in India's Smart Packaging Revolution

At Nichrome Packaging Solutions, we are thrilled to be spearheading India's packaging revolution. With a history of more than four decades, we are not just packaging machine manufacturers—we are innovation facilitators. Our packaging solutions are smart, scalable, affordable, and are designed to address the evolving requirements of Indian industries.

India-specific: Whether it is agro automation and pharma packaging or FMCG and dairy, all of our solutions are India-specific.

Smart yet Robust: Our packaging machines are engineered to be rugged for the floor, yet intelligent on the cloud, combining durability with data-driven efficiency.

For Every Stage of Business: Whether you are a start-up looking to grow or an established brand looking to go digital, we have flexible solutions that grow with you.

Smart Manufacturing Ready: With real-time monitoring, cloud analytics, and IoT, our solutions future-proof your packaging operations.

Nichrome is your trusted ally in leading India's smart packaging drive.

Benefits of Smart Automation for Manufacturers

Let's talk about results. Because while innovation is exciting, it's the results that matter. That's what our innovative packaging solutions offer:

Enhanced speed and accuracy on the packaging lines

Smart automation reduces human error and accelerates operations with precision. Pouch filling or blister packaging, operations are carried out faster, with precise accuracy, accelerating throughput and product quality.

Reduced packaging waste and improved utilization of packaging material

Advanced sensors and control systems provide precise fill weights, minimize spillage, and ensure precise sealing. Not only is material wastage saved, but production costs are also lowered, making your company more efficient and sustainable.

Seamless integration with other smart factory devices and systems

Nichrome's solutions seamlessly integrate with ERP systems, MES systems, and IoT-based monitoring systems. The result? A networked packaging ecosystem that converses in real-time and responds dynamically to production demands.

Whether you're equipping food, pharma, or agro packaging plants, our industrial packaging machines simplify operations, make them smarter, and more profitable. It's no surprise the advantages of automation in packaging have more people talking than ever.

Our packaging systems are cleverly engineered, from the smallest food packaging machine to the most advanced industrial packaging line.

The Future of Smart Manufacturing & IoT Data-Driven

The best part? This is just the beginning. We're not talking sci-fi anymore—smart manufacturing is here, it's growing, and it's transforming the packaging industry like never before. That's what the future looks like:

Machine Learning Takes the Lead - With AI-based systems, packaging lines will be intelligent. Expect machines to self-adjust for material changes, optimize sealing or filling settings, and even schedule preventive maintenance—all autonomously.

Tailored Packaging on Demand - Want to change package size, branding or shape on the fly? No problem. With consumer behaviour data at its core, dynamic packaging design is a breeze—tailored, creative, and competitive.

Sustainability- Our smart packaging solutions ensure efficient energy usage, lower material wastage and reduced carbon footprint. That’s eco-smart packaging with a purpose.

Real-Time, Cloud-Connected Control - Thanks to cloud platforms and remote monitoring, performance metrics are accessible anytime, anywhere—making decision-making smarter and faster.

From packaging automation systems to IoT solutions for the packaging industry in India, Nichrome is already building this future. The future isn’t coming—it’s here. Let’s package it smartly. Let’s package it together.

Conclusion

The packaging world has changed, and with Nichrome’s smart packaging systems, the shift isn’t just noticeable, it’s measurable.

With N-DOIT, we're offering Indian manufacturers a roadmap to future-ready operations. From real-time machine monitoring and predictive maintenance to remote monitoring and cloud-connected packaging machines, Nichrome’s solutions are designed to deliver performance with punch.

So if you’re looking to go beyond the ordinary, it’s time to partner with Nichrome, where packaging automation, IoT, and analytics come together to create intelligent, integrated, and inspiring packaging solutions.

Let’s reimagine what packaging can do. Let’s N-DOIT.

FAQs

Q1: What makes Nichrome's N-DOIT different from other packaging systems? A1: N-DOIT isn’t just about machines—it’s about real-time data, predictive analytics, and smart connectivity that empowers manufacturers to optimise efficiency and reduce downtime.

Q2: Can these smart systems be customised for specific industries like food or agrochemicals? A2: Absolutely. Our solutions are scalable and industry-specific, with smart sensors tailored for food-grade compliance, agrochemical precision, and everything in between.

Q3: How do smart machines improve packaging efficiency? A3: With real-time monitoring, predictive alerts, and automatic adjustments, smart machines significantly enhance speed, accuracy, and consistency, reducing waste and boosting quality.

Q4: What support does Nichrome offer for Indian packaging markets? A4: We provide cost-effective, scalable automation with IoT support, training, and maintenance services tailored for India’s dynamic industries.

Q5: Is cloud connectivity secure and reliable for my factory setup? A5: Our cloud platform is highly secure, ensuring encrypted data transfers, consistent uptime, and seamless integration with your existing infrastructure.

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year ago

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Humans are not perfectly vigilant

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

These "hallucinations" are a stubbornly persistent feature of large language models, because these models only give the illusion of understanding; in reality, they are just sophisticated forms of autocomplete, drawing on huge databases to make shrewd (but reliably fallible) guesses about which word comes next:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Guessing the next word without understanding the meaning of the resulting sentence makes unsupervised LLMs unsuitable for high-stakes tasks. The whole AI bubble is based on convincing investors that one or more of the following is true:

There are low-stakes, high-value tasks that will recoup the massive costs of AI training and operation;

There are high-stakes, high-value tasks that can be made cheaper by adding an AI to a human operator;

Adding more training data to an AI will make it stop hallucinating, so that it can take over high-stakes, high-value tasks without a "human in the loop."

These are dubious propositions. There's a universe of low-stakes, low-value tasks – political disinformation, spam, fraud, academic cheating, nonconsensual porn, dialog for video-game NPCs – but none of them seem likely to generate enough revenue for AI companies to justify the billions spent on models, nor the trillions in valuation attributed to AI companies:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

The proposition that increasing training data will decrease hallucinations is hotly contested among AI practitioners. I confess that I don't know enough about AI to evaluate opposing sides' claims, but even if you stipulate that adding lots of human-generated training data will make the software a better guesser, there's a serious problem. All those low-value, low-stakes applications are flooding the internet with botshit. After all, the one thing AI is unarguably very good at is producing bullshit at scale. As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshittibottification

This means that adding another order of magnitude more training data to AI won't just add massive computational expense – the data will be many orders of magnitude more expensive to acquire, even without factoring in the additional liability arising from new legal theories about scraping:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

That leaves us with "humans in the loop" – the idea that an AI's business model is selling software to businesses that will pair it with human operators who will closely scrutinize the code's guesses. There's a version of this that sounds plausible – the one in which the human operator is in charge, and the AI acts as an eternally vigilant "sanity check" on the human's activities.

For example, my car has a system that notices when I activate my blinker while there's another car in my blind-spot. I'm pretty consistent about checking my blind spot, but I'm also a fallible human and there've been a couple times where the alert saved me from making a potentially dangerous maneuver. As disciplined as I am, I'm also sometimes forgetful about turning off lights, or waking up in time for work, or remembering someone's phone number (or birthday). I like having an automated system that does the robotically perfect trick of never forgetting something important.

There's a name for this in automation circles: a "centaur." I'm the human head, and I've fused with a powerful robot body that supports me, doing things that humans are innately bad at.

That's the good kind of automation, and we all benefit from it. But it only takes a small twist to turn this good automation into a nightmare. I'm speaking here of the reverse-centaur: automation in which the computer is in charge, bossing a human around so it can get its job done. Think of Amazon warehouse workers, who wear haptic bracelets and are continuously observed by AI cameras as autonomous shelves shuttle in front of them and demand that they pick and pack items at a pace that destroys their bodies and drives them mad:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

Automation centaurs are great: they relieve humans of drudgework and let them focus on the creative and satisfying parts of their jobs. That's how AI-assisted coding is pitched: rather than looking up tricky syntax and other tedious programming tasks, an AI "co-pilot" is billed as freeing up its human "pilot" to focus on the creative puzzle-solving that makes coding so satisfying.

But an hallucinating AI is a terrible co-pilot. It's just good enough to get the job done much of the time, but it also sneakily inserts booby-traps that are statistically guaranteed to look as plausible as the good code (that's what a next-word-guessing program does: guesses the statistically most likely word).

This turns AI-"assisted" coders into reverse centaurs. The AI can churn out code at superhuman speed, and you, the human in the loop, must maintain perfect vigilance and attention as you review that code, spotting the cleverly disguised hooks for malicious code that the AI can't be prevented from inserting into its code. As "Lena" writes, "code review [is] difficult relative to writing new code":

https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1773779967521780169

Why is that? "Passively reading someone else's code just doesn't engage my brain in the same way. It's harder to do properly":

https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1773780355708764665

There's a name for this phenomenon: "automation blindness." Humans are just not equipped for eternal vigilance. We get good at spotting patterns that occur frequently – so good that we miss the anomalies. That's why TSA agents are so good at spotting harmless shampoo bottles on X-rays, even as they miss nearly every gun and bomb that a red team smuggles through their checkpoints:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop

"Lena"'s thread points out that this is as true for AI-assisted driving as it is for AI-assisted coding: "self-driving cars replace the experience of driving with the experience of being a driving instructor":

https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1773841546753831283

In other words, they turn you into a reverse-centaur. Whereas my blind-spot double-checking robot allows me to make maneuvers at human speed and points out the things I've missed, a "supervised" self-driving car makes maneuvers at a computer's frantic pace, and demands that its human supervisor tirelessly and perfectly assesses each of those maneuvers. No wonder Cruise's murderous "self-driving" taxis replaced each low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged technical robot supervisors:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

AI radiology programs are said to be able to spot cancerous masses that human radiologists miss. A centaur-based AI-assisted radiology program would keep the same number of radiologists in the field, but they would get less done: every time they assessed an X-ray, the AI would give them a second opinion. If the human and the AI disagreed, the human would go back and re-assess the X-ray. We'd get better radiology, at a higher price (the price of the AI software, plus the additional hours the radiologist would work).

But back to making the AI bubble pay off: for AI to pay off, the human in the loop has to reduce the costs of the business buying an AI. No one who invests in an AI company believes that their returns will come from business customers to agree to increase their costs. The AI can't do your job, but the AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI anyway – that pitch is the most successful form of AI disinformation in the world.

An AI that "hallucinates" bad advice to fliers can't replace human customer service reps, but airlines are firing reps and replacing them with chatbots:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

An AI that "hallucinates" bad legal advice to New Yorkers can't replace city services, but Mayor Adams still tells New Yorkers to get their legal advice from his chatbots:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-is-lying-about-city-laws-and-regulations/

The only reason bosses want to buy robots is to fire humans and lower their costs. That's why "AI art" is such a pisser. There are plenty of harmless ways to automate art production with software – everything from a "healing brush" in Photoshop to deepfake tools that let a video-editor alter the eye-lines of all the extras in a scene to shift the focus. A graphic novelist who models a room in The Sims and then moves the camera around to get traceable geometry for different angles is a centaur – they are genuinely offloading some finicky drudgework onto a robot that is perfectly attentive and vigilant.

But the pitch from "AI art" companies is "fire your graphic artists and replace them with botshit." They're pitching a world where the robots get to do all the creative stuff (badly) and humans have to work at robotic pace, with robotic vigilance, in order to catch the mistakes that the robots make at superhuman speed.

Reverse centaurism is brutal. That's not news: Charlie Chaplin documented the problems of reverse centaurs nearly 100 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)

As ever, the problem with a gadget isn't what it does: it's who it does it for and who it does it to. There are plenty of benefits from being a centaur – lots of ways that automation can help workers. But the only path to AI profitability lies in reverse centaurs, automation that turns the human in the loop into the crumple-zone for a robot:

https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/260

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#monkey-in-the-middle

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sergioska81-blog · 2 years ago

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Alcohol Consumption and employment rate.

First Assignment

I've chosen the Gapminder data set. I think it would be interesting to see different aspects referred to the development of each country and the differences between them. I decided that I'm particularly interested in the relationship that could exist between alcohol consumption and employment rate over the countries and maybe other relationships like the suicide rate.

A good starting point to determine if there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and the employment rate per country is to identify the associated variables. I need to determine what it is about alcohol consumption that I am interested in. In this case, the first variables to consider are the employment rate and the alcohol consumption rate. Another variable to consider could be the income per person because I think it relates to both variables, in the fact that the average income per person is related to the employment rate cause if there is a low employment rate, the average income per person is reduced possibly that produce an increase in the alcohol consumption rate, or maybe a high alcohol consumption rate produces a low employment rate and is reflected in the average income. I added to my codebook variables that reflect this data.

A second topic that is related to the first one is trying to find a correlation between alcohol consumption and the income per person and try to see if there exists some relation between them. I think it would be interesting to see if a high consumption of alcohol is related to a low income or vice versa. To make all this, I do a series of questions to explain what result I'm trying to obtain from the data for solving these questions, these questions were

Is a high alcohol consumption rate associated with a low employment rate?

Is alcohol consumption related to the average income per person?

High alcohol consumption is associated with low income?

Also, search on the internet to find research that has been done previously on this topic. And I found that this has been extensively studied, I selected a list of different articles referring to this topic, to use them to try to create a hypothesis. After looking at the different articles I figured out that is real that there exists a relationship between the level of alcohol consumption in a country and low employment rates, so I hypothesize that a high level of alcohol consumption is related to a low employment rate.

In summary, I've decided to work with the Gapminder dataset and try to find if there exists a correlation between the level of alcohol consumption and the employment rate. For do this I selected the variables alcconsumption, employrate, and incomeperperson. And I hypothesize that a high level of alcohol consumption is related to a low employment rate.

References

Forcier, M. W. (1988). Unemployment and Alcohol Abuse: A Review. Journal of Occupational Medicine, 30(3), 246–251. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45007884

Rodriguez E, Lasch KE, Chandra P, et al Family violence, employment status, welfare benefits, and alcohol drinking in the United States: what is the relation? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2001;55:172-178.

Rodriguez E, Lasch KE, Chandra P, Lee J. The relation of family violence, employment status, welfare benefits, and alcohol drinking in the United States. West J Med. 2001 May;174(5):317-23. doi 10.1136/ewjm.174.5.317. PMID: 11342506; PMCID: PMC1071386.

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partnerco · 2 days ago

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One of the Hottest Health Trends Right Now? Magnical-D®

Written by Brett West, Sr. Director of Research & Development

Magnesium is trending big time and has been doing so for the past 18 months, with over one billion views on TikTok1. Vogue magazine recently described this as the internet’s hottest-selling supplement and the most sought-after natural supplement2.

People are snatching up magnesium supplements left and right primarily to help with anxiety, depression and sleep.

Better Together: Magnesium + Vitamin D

The current trend began when a TikToker posted that taking magnesium and vitamin D together caused his anxiety symptoms to disappear3.

While this may be the beginning of the current viral sensation, the effects of magnesium and vitamin D on mental health have been known to science for a very long time. Even the very conservative European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given the green light to a magnesium-related health claim for “normal psychological function”4.

The US National Institutes of Health has pointed out the association between low vitamin D levels and winter-time depression, or seasonal affective disorder5.

Low levels of sunlight are not the only problem here. It’s widely reported that a large percentage of the general population doesn’t get enough magnesium from their diet6.

This may explain one of the reasons for the increased rates of anxiety and depression we see today.

The Power of Magnical-D®

Enter Magnical-D. This product combines magnesium and vitamin D and isn’t just for older women worried about their bones. It’s also for stressed-out young adults, anyone who feels a little down or those who could use some quality sleep.

One serving of Magnical-D provides 400 mg of magnesium and 2000 IU of vitamin D. That’s more than enough to be effective7,8.

The current magnesium plus vitamin D trend is not just a fad. A mountain of scientific data supports it. Many people will benefit from increasing their magnesium and vitamin D intake — Magnical-D can help!

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Sources: 1. https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/jan/09/magnesium-tiktok-trend-anxiety-does-it-work 2. https://www.vogue.com/article/magnesium-facts#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20report%20on,most%20sought%2Dafter%20natural%20supplement 3. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/tiktok-users-claim-vitamin-d-magnesium-can-treat-anxiety-what-to-know 4. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1807 5.https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/seasonal-affective-disorder#:~:text=Low%20levels%20of%20vitamin%20D,that%20the%20supplements%20were%20beneficial 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05390 7. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1333261/full 8. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2022.2096560

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dtuannn · 1 year ago

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Week 10: Digital Citizenship and Conflict: Social Media Governance

This week we explore the complex terrain of social media administration and the ubiquitous problem of online harassment as we examine digital citizenship and conflict within digital groups. The talk begins by putting the topic in the larger context of activism, regulation, digital citizenship, and community dynamics. This helps to show how complex the conflicts that occur in digital spaces are. It is undeniable that most communities have had a significant impact on people's lives since the invention of social media. Conflicts on social media, however, are inevitable and occasionally result in fatal events. Conflicts frequently arise from arguments between members of the same community, and the majority of these disputes center on individual rights.

The laws and rules governing the use of social media in communities and society as a whole are known as social media governance. It entails creating guidelines and procedures that control how individuals and institutions behave on social media. Three notable instances of conduct norms across several platforms are the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union, YouTube's Content Moderation, and Facebook Community Standards. Other governance models that are used in smaller groups include Redditquette, Subreddit-Specific Rules on numerous Subreddits, and Server-Specific Rules on numerous Discord servers.

The emergence of cyberbullying is mainly attributed to the rapid increase and pervasive presence of ‘information and communication technologies’ (ICT) that permeate the lives of children and youth. Prensky (2001) calls this generation ‘digital natives’ and their parents and educators ‘digital immigrants’ due to the gap in under-standing between the age groups. Hatred speech and bullying has cause losts and suicidal cases, which still happen in nowadays society. One of the common and new case is Pranshu, a 16-year-old aspiring makeup artist living in India. Pranshu was outspoken about their queer identity on social media, especially Instagram, where they displayed their makeup artistry and accumulated 14,000 followers. Pranshu unfortunately endured constant cyberbullying. The article cites a particular incident in which Pranshu shared a photo of herself wearing a saree and received over 4,000 responses. Numerous remarks were homophobic in character, emphasizing the discrimination Pranshu encountered on the internet.

Reference

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon,9(5), 1–6, doi:10.1108/10748120110424816.

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1–6, doi: 10.1108/10748120110424816.

Billson, C. (2023) Queer Teen dies by suicide after relentless online attacks, PinkNews. Available at: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/24/pranshu-social-media-bulying-suicide-india/ (Accessed: 30 March 2024).

Federal Laws & Online Harassment (2024) Online Harassment Field Manual. Available at: https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/federal-laws-online-harassment/. (Accessed: 30 March 2024).

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data-management-course · 2 years ago

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Developing a research question

In my Data Analyst training I will work with data sets. For the first task I choose to work with the data set from "Gapminder". Comparing indicators from all over the world in interesting to me to broaden my perspective.

In the dataset I will focus on the residential electricity consumption, since I am looking into this at my home currently during a setup of a photovoltaic system. I will investigate how the electricity consumption correlates to the internet user rate. My hypothesis would be that increaed internet user rate correlates positively with electricity consumption.

To find academic works on that topic I searched using the terms "internet users electricity consumption".

The paper "Internet Usage, Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Panel of Developing-8 Countries"(1) indicates that the electricity demand will rise with the expansion of Internet usage. Also "The overlooked environmental footprint of increasing Internet use."(2) sees a link between internet usage and energy consumption.

I follow these studies with my hypothesis that the variable "Internetuserate" is positively correlated with the variable "relectricperperson (residential electricity consumption, per person)"

(1) Rahimi, M. & Rad, A. A. (2017). Internet Usage, Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Panel of Developing-8 Countries . International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy , 7 (3) , 152-156 . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijeeep/issue/31922/351235

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recentlyded · 1 year ago

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Hello! As someone who is apart of a trauma formed system and who has a liking to research papers and misinformation, I shall breakdown the articles and studies posted here.

First of all, I want to note that just because you grab articles from .gov sites or online libraries does not mean they are 100% reputable, people can inject their own biases into everything even subtly and you really need to throughly read each and every word when you're citing information like this. In addition you should ALSO be (even quickly) scanning where that articles gets THEIR citations from, and if said citations are credible.

(more under the cut)

The first article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S246874992300042X

So, this entire article is about the link between transgender identities and plurality, no where in this article does it argue for or against trauma based plurality. The wording in this article is vauge and not at all indicative of a favouring between non trauma and trauma based plurality. It simply states that those who have a higher likelihood of dissocation have a common link between being transgender, as well as bringing up how a diagnoses of dissoation in any form may hinder recieveing trans care. You must know that DIDOSDD is not the only form of dissocative disorder, which this article also states.

Further down the articles does go into non trauma based plurality, and this did fascinate me, so I decided to check the source they are citing. Please note the language used here "debated" "controversial" this is not language used when citing something is factual, this language is used when citing something that MAY support your statement but also needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Additionally, I can tell you did not read the citations linked in this source because the most prominent one seems to dismiss the idea of endo systems inside its literature by drawing a link between PTSD and DID.

I did throughly enjoy this article though so thank you for bringing it to my attention, this is a very interesting and fascinating read and I do suggest another in depth view over if you have the time!

Second article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468408/

My first thought upon reading the Abstract for this article is that this is about how everyone has a different sense of self, even singlets. In fact, alot of therapy for systems comes from a background of treating singlets, isnt that fascinating! Parts work has been around for a while, and it's not just helpful to systems, although systems do benefit a great deal more from it in a more literal parts sense. But I digress.

I think we should focus specifically on the aims and goals of this article as well as its credibility as a source. It states they drew from a pool of people on the internet. The internet, as we know is a wide and diverse place with many different people who have many different opinions. Immediately this study is based on one's own self perspective on what a system is, instead of the scientific reasoning behind systems, that's not dismissing it as a credible source, but it's not a source that supports your theory at all.

In continuation of this line of thinking, you should read this article again, because while it is a very interesting topic, it has little if anything to do with endogenic systems. The goal of this article was to interview and compile data from other systems on the internet. And that is a great, a noble cause, but ones opinion on the matter of plurality is not scientific evidence, which you have been asked to provide.

Third article:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpp.2910

The point of THIS article is to go over existing research data surrounding plurality and reinterpret it into modern (for lack of a better word) understanding.

Again, I'm urging you to throughly read through the sources you present. This is an extremely neutral article, it can be used to argue either side of your point, and it is not an appropriate source to use for the terms you have been provided. In several parts this article rather talks about the history of misdiagnosis of plurality, and states that many researched topics on plurality were skewed either by prejudice or lack of understanding at the time. Yes, it does state there is a broader range of plurality but if that is because they are referencing the misdiagnosis of DIDOSDD or if they are specifically calling out the endogenic experience is entirely up to your interpretation of the article.

I'm going to end this by posing several questions out of genuine curiosity.

1. Do you experience dissocation? Switching? Loss of time? Do you experience the negative side affects of sharing a life and body with other alters?

2. Is the experience itself traumatizing?

3. What is the general endogenic system community take on how a non trauma formed system exists?

Forgive me for my ignorance but I am assuming if you are not a trauma formed system, you are choosing this.

4. If so, why?

5. And if it is not a conscious decision, what in your opinion causes plurality aside from trauma?

6. As someone who is apart of a system formed by trauma, what benefits are there for you to be a system without trauma.

7. Why would you want to have a disorder that (as even stated inside your own sources) is debilitating and horrific to deal with.

8. Or, because you are not trauma based plurality is being a system for you, just having friends inside your head? I'm genuinely curious on the inner workings of endo systems.

Lovely talking to you (or rather at you HAHHA), and I did very much enjoy reading over your sources. While they may not support your point, they are still very much worthwhile read for anyone in the system community! Much appreciated for bringing those to my attention. And I'll finish by saying I'm not particularly opposed to endo systems but I am very much not inclined to prescribe to the idea that such a monumental difference in brain structure can be caused by anything other than trauma. If you have more sources to provide, I would be thrilled to read them over!

-Alastor

Just saw an anti endo post that slipped in saying how they will never believe endos exist

Even though science says they do

Even though they say they do

I really cannot stand people who continue to be hateful and bitter when everything is telling them they're wrong.

By the way, all systems are real.

Just that some of them need to cleanse that hatred they're carrying around.

Live life, and do your best everyone.

#traumagenic system #endogenic system #system discourse

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whateverthebeeswant · 4 years ago

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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library.

If you haven't been following Sci-Hub news recently, then you might not know that academic journals are coming down hard on Sci-Hub. These journals exploit academics through the triple-pay system; they are parasites sucking on the scientific community. The collective knowledge of humanity ought to be shared by all. Archivists on r/DataHoarder are working to save Sci-Hub before academic journals get it expunged from the internet.

This is a collective revolution against the privatization of science. If you can, please participate and/or reblog this post. Fuck Elsevier and fuck the commoditization of knowledge.

(All text below copied from this Reddit post by u/shrine on r/DataHoarder-- I didn't screenshot for accessibility reasons)

Rescue Mission Link

Quick start to rescuing Sci-Hub: Download 1 random torrent (100GB) from the scimag index of torrents with less than 3 seeders

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Contribute to open source Sci-Hub projects: freereadorg/awesome-libgen

Join r/scihub to stay up to date

A Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science

Elsevier and the USDOJ have declared war against Sci-Hub and open science. The era of Sci-Hub and Alexandra standing alone in this fight must end. We have to take a stand with her.

On May 7th, Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan revealed that the FBI has been wiretapping her accounts for over 2 years. This news comes after Twitter silenced the official Sci_Hub twitter account because Indian academics were organizing on it against Elsevier.

Sci-Hub itself is currently frozen and has not downloaded any new articles since December 2020. This rescue mission is focused on seeding the article collection in order to prepare for a potential Sci-Hub shutdown.

Alexandra Elbakyan of Sci-Hub, bookwarrior of Library Genesis, Aaron Swartz, and countless unnamed others have fought to free science from the grips of for-profit publishers. Today, they do it working in hiding, alone, without acknowledgment, in fear of imprisonment, and even now wiretapped by the FBI. They sacrifice everything for one vision: Open Science.

Why do they do it? They do it so that humble scholars on the other side of the planet can practice medicine, create science, fight for democracy, teach, and learn. People like Alexandra Elbakyan would give up their personal freedom for that one goal: to free knowledge. For that, Elsevier Corp (RELX, market cap: 50 billion) wants to silence her, wants to see her in prison, and wants to shut Sci-Hub down.

It's time we sent Elsevier and the USDOJ a clearer message about the fate of Sci-Hub and open science: we are the library, we do not get silenced, we do not shut down our computers, and we are many.

Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub

If you have been following the story, then you know that this is not our first rescue mission

We protected the Library Genesis book collection

We unlocked over 5,000 COVID-19 research articles

We successfully petitioned publishers to unlock their COVID-19 paywalls

bookwarrior, the founder of Library Genesis, took his library onto the de-centralized and un-censorable IPFS web

Next? Make Sci-Hub un-censorable too.

Rescue Target

A handful of Library Genesis seeders are currently seeding the Sci-Hub torrents. There are 850 scihub torrents, each containing 100,000 scientific articles, to a total of 85 million scientific articles: 77TB. This is the complete Sci-Hub database. We need to protect this.

Rescue Team

Wave 1: We need 85 datahoarders to store and seed 1TB of articles each, 10 torrents in total. Download 10 random torrents from the scimag index of < 3 seeders, then load the torrents onto your client and seed for as long as you can. The articles are coded by DOI and in zip files.

Wave 2: Reach out to 10 good friends to ask them to grab just 1 random torrent (100GB). That's 850 seeders. We are now the library.

Final Wave: Development for an open source Sci-Hub. freereadorg/awesome-libgen is a collection of open source achievements based on the Sci-Hub and Library Genesis databases. Open source de-centralization of Sci-Hub is the ultimate goal here, and this begins with the data, but it is going to take years of developer sweat to carry these libraries into the future.

Heartfelt thanks to the r/datahoarder and r/seedboxes communities, seedbox.io and NFOrce for your support for previous missions and your love for science.

Update 5/17/2021: The rescue mission covered in Gizmodo

#academia #signal boost #sci hub #anarchism

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Jangan-Jangan Selama Ini Kita Oversharing

“Beginian doang di post? Begituan doang di post? Ya emang kenapa, akun-akun aku, aku nge post apa yang aku sukai, bukan yang kamu sukai. Stop lah ngurusin hidup orang lain, mau ngepost apapun itu terserah aku asal gak ngerugiin dan menyakiti orang lain ya sah sah saja”, - Screen shot akun twitter [at]indrawhan

Kayaknya ini relate banget kasus yang lagi hits ya, yang kasus posting terus ke-uwu-an setelah nikah (namanya juga lagi bahagia) yang awalnya banyak yang respect tapi kesini-kesini banyak yang julid. Kita bahas tentang ini deh, tentang oversharing. Next yaw

Liat postingan pertama dinda nikah sama rey banyak yang saya congrats tapi semakin banyak postingan ke uwu-anya. Top komennya julid, bilang norak, sama nanya “ileran gak semalem”. Ko bisa apa ini kedengkian orang yang gak suka liat kebahagiaan dinda & rey atau dia yang terlalu oversharing (karena saking bahagianya). Make your choice! - Survey sederhana saya di IG buat ngeliat berapa persentase yang milih “paling julid aja” sama “oversharing”

Besoknya saya langsung cek dan nemuin data yang cukup menarik dari hasil survey singkatnya. Tapi anyway, ini gak pake metode penelitian apapun gitu yah haha. Cuman buat survey iseng, jadi belum tentu valid. Tapi kita bahas aja hasilnya yaw

IRI BILANG BOSS!!!

Kalimat diatas cocok banget ngewakilin tim yang ini haha. Dari semua responden, yang milih "paling julid aja" itu ada sekitar 38% dimana isinya di dominasi sama jomblo cewek yang belum nikah sekitar 94%. Tapi ada juga cowok yang udah nikah nge-vote ini. Buat mereka, apa yang dilakuin sama pasangan kemarin itu normal, engga kaya kalian hey yang iri!!! HHHH

NORAK NORAK!

"Kami gak iri, tapi posting terus-terusan itu norak!", kalimat ini ngewakilin banget tim ini kayaknya haha. Ada sekitar 63% yang milih "oversharing" (gils banyak juga yah haha). Sekitar 93% yang ngisi ini cewek yang bilang oversharing, tapi ada juga cowok yang bilang kalau itu udah oversharing. Terus selain itu, ada juga 67% cewek yang udah nikah bilang kalau itu oversharing (kirain yang udah nikah bakal pada diem karena pernah ada di state itu haha)

THE PROS

Sebenernya bener apa yang dibilang di opening, there's nothing wrong with that. Yang punya akun mereka, kenapa anda yang gak suka hey! haha terus kemarin saya dikirimin artikel yang isinya ceramah dari Ustadz Arifin Ilham tentang "Update status di medsos, mereka yang riya atau kita yang dengki". Langsung saya kaget haha. Katanya kita gak perlu dengki karena kita gak tau niat si yang update status . . .

THE CONS

But, ada juga reply yang menarik. Gini isinya "Menurut saya, Terkadang ada hal yang hanya cukup dirasakan, bukan disebarkan. Harus bisa membedakan mana yang harus disimpan dan mana yang bisa di share. Ranah pribadi vs ranah publik". Ini logis juga sih alasannya. Ada juga yang lain, "Sebenernya daripada micu orang buat jadi ga suka mending di keep aja soalnya dia entar jatuhnya over sharing. Terlalu berlebihan Juga malah gak bagus"

SPOILER ALERT: POST INI BAKALAN PANJANG

Setelah dapet reply reply ini, saya jadi bingung. Saya harus jadi tim yang iri bilang boss atau tim norak norak haha. Soalnya pandangan dua-duanya make sense.Nah biar gak bingung, sebenernya apa sih itu oversharing, kenapa kita overshare, sama tanda-tanda nya sampe tipe-tipe nya (ada loh). Here we go

"Sharing is caring. Oversharing can be careless", - Sue Scheff

Pas kita kenal sama dunia online, sejauh mana kita nerapin batasan? Kalau kamu pengguna banyak medsos, kaya: IG, FB (ada yang masih main ini kah haha), twitter, Tiktok, sampe Bigolive (hey! haha), mungkin jawabannya engga ada. Search aja nama lengkap kamu udah langsung muncul di internet sampe foto-foto zaman kamu masih belum kenal skin care pun mungkin ada di internet. Tapi yang kadang orang gak sadar itu, secara gak sengaja pas kita share apapun, kita menaruh informasi disana, dan yang lebih seremnya ia hidup online selamanya (langsung cek foto-foto browser haha). Sebenernya bisa sih di hapus, tapi bagusnya kita bijak nempatin semuanya secara online. Iya ga?

APAAN SI OVERSHARING?

Emang oversharing itu apa? suatu kondisi dimana kita share apapun yang ada di hidup kita, dimana kita udah gak bisa rasional lagi ngebedain mana yang privacy mana yang engga, kaya apapun di share, screen shot ke-uwu-an di share, makan pagi-siang-sore di share, sampe persiapan malam pertama aja di share (untung gak ada yang reply minta link!) haha. Yang awalnya keliatan menarik, tapi karena terlalu oversharing akhirnya jadi cringe kaya tulisan saya misalnya hiks

Mereka yang oversharing bukan gak tau gimana cara nge keep privacy, tapi mereka emang milih buat gak nge keep privacy. Istilahnya itu "the online disinhibition effect". Kalau kata Mba Jennifer Golbeck Ph. D. (Professor at The University of Maryland), ada enam alasan kenapa orang ngelakuin oversharing ini. Here we go

ANONYMITY

kadang ada orang yang pake akun yang gak sesuai sama nama asli, kaya saya gitu yang diganti jadi slythereeen haha. Ini disini kayaknya nama penanya unik-unik ya. Karena pake username yang gak sesuai nama asli, mereka mulai memisahkan persona online sama offline-nya

INVISIBILITY

karena online which means ga ketemu face to face sama orang lain, orang bakal ngerasa lebih secure. Walaupun identitas aslinya dikenal, it can be easier to say things from behind a keyboard when the other person aren't lookin at the poster. Kaya kalau di facebook itu suka ada yang nge share artikel apa gitu, terus di bilang "yang, baca ini nih menarik". Itu di share di publik hey! kenapa engga kamu kirim link nya ke WA suaminya langsung (Oh mungkin WA nya lagi di blok suami haha. Duh julid kan)

DELAYED COMMUNICATION

Online conversation kan gak bener-bener terjadi real time ya, kaya kamu yang selalu fast respond sedangkan doi baru bales 5 jam setelahnya. Terus kamu dendam "aku akan bales chat ini 50 detik lebih lama dari waktu chat masuk" mau bales dendam tapi kamu tipe yang gak tegaan haha. Positive thinking aja, berarti hubungan kalian dewasa. Lebih mending itu kebanding ceklis biru selamanya mah. Nah gagara ada delay ini, orang bisa share something personal soalnya setelah post, kita bisa tinggalin. We can take some time before responding

FILLING IN THE OTHER PERSON

isyarat gak ada di online chat, kita gak denger ekspresi orang sama body languagenya. Sebaliknya, kita baca post tersebut denga suara kita. Ini kaya chat-an sama yang gak pake emot apalagi haha hehe. Kita jadi suka berprasangka sendiri. Ini lagi marah atau lagi bercanda atau apa. Ini udah dibahas di IG saya (bukan promo IG ya ini haha), gak perlu di follow. mampir aja buat higlight yang judulnya “emoji”

IT'S NOT REAL

internet itu kaya tempat yang terpisah sama kehidupan nyata, banyak karakternya (tapi bukan orang-orang asli). kalau kita ngerasa kita gak lagi interaksi di suatu tempat yang real dimana ada implikasi dari share-an kita, it can lead us to drop inhibitions about what we share

LACK OF AUTHORITY

Kalau kita ngomong sama otoritas secara offline, kita mungkin bakal bijak dan milih mau apa yang di omongin, sama mana yang gak perlu. kaya kalau ketemu boss di kerja misalkan, kita bakal lebih banyak nge keep private lives (eh ternyata boss nya follow IG kamu dan suka liatin story kalau kamu suka nge ghibahin bos haha. Dipecat Jalur Undangan ini namanya). kalau online? tidak ada. yang ngasih batasan diri kamu sendiri. If a person does not see the authority in others, they may lose inhibitions about what they share

Itu tadi alesan kenapa orang oversharing di social media. Terus nanya, saya tipe yang oversharing ga ya selama ini? Nah college times ngasih tau kita ada 10 tipe oversharers di social media. Here we go

1. The Sympathy Seeker

Biasanya ini jadi korban para fakboi, kamu lagi berantem sama doi, atau kamu lagi sakit hati gegara diputusin. Terus karena lagi gak rasional, kamu posting rasa sakit hati itu. Weeh ini mah mangsa para krokodile, siap-siap aja di DM "ukhti, sepertinya sedang sakit hati. Ada apa kah?" atau "sini sini cerita, ada masalah apa. emang dia mah gitu orangnya". Pokoknya rule-nya, sesakit hati apapun, jangan pernah post itu di medsos. It doesn't solve your problem at all yaw!

2. The Selfie Queen

Ini yang sebanyak mungkin posting foto-foto selfie nya. Awalnya mungkin kita seneng liatnya, apalagi glowing. Tapi lama kelamaan, ko ini orang kenapa upload terus gitu haha, semua challenge ada fotonya pokoknya challenge until tomorrow, foto deket kulkas, foto belakang background koran, sampe foto yang khas banget itu foto OOTD di kamar mandi. Saya masih gak paham sih ini kenapa banyak cewek suka gitu haha no offense. Too many of these and it can come across like you're a bit self-absorbed and you'll just push people away.

3. The Serial Tagger

Ini bukan serial killer ya, tapi serial tagger. Maksudnya? kamu suka banget nge tag temen kamu di post karena ngerasa relevan sama mereka? masih mending yang di tag nya itu foto yang dia juga lagi bagus, ini yang komuk. biasanya auto hide from profile atau remove me from post haha. Kalau kamu udah keseringan tag mereka, you're kind of oversharers. Jadi mending jangan tag sampe mereka minta "Tag dong"

4. The Profile Changer

Ini yang ganti-ganti mulu foto profilnya (ini saya beud di FB haha). Hampir tiap waktu ganti-ganti terus. ada yang bagus dikit, ganti, bagus dikit ganti. Langsung otw ke FB buat hapus-hapusin foto profil kayaknya nih

5. The Dear Diary

kamu tipe yang suka posting apa apa yang menarik? keliatan biasanya di facebook kalau zaman dulu, tapi kalau sekarang mah story IG gitu yah. yang IG nya itu titik-titik panjang gitu (kaya story saya biasanya HHH). Pengennya story aja apapun itu, story makanan, story jalan, sampe story orang lagi pacaran gitu jail haha. Kalau ada yang menarik, mending ditulisin di tumblr misalnya

6. The Constagramar

Kamu tipe yang terus posting foto yang di filter di IG? kamu terus nge feed followers kamu dengan foto-foto item putih kaya foto starbucks latte hitam putih. Sebenernya itu bagus apalagi kalau tema IG kamu. tapi next time, mending nikmati minumannya aja langsung tanpa harus posting itu

7. The Rent-A-Cause

Ini tipe yang ada apa apa ikut komentar, terus ngasih tanggepan apalagi isu isu terkini (terus mikir semakin kontroversial semakin rame) kaya isu ini misalnya haha. Please stop, kita tau kalau tipe ini pengen di denger tapi percaya deh pas lagi share pendapatnya itu gak ngebuat tipe ini lebih menarik sama sekali. Yang ada makin kzl gitu ya, apalagi kalau dah urusan politik duh sering beud terus ngehujat sini situ. Ada baiknya gak harus selalu ikut berkomentar (apalagi online), a little mystery can go a long way

8. The Snapchatter

Saya skip bahasan ini deh, soalnya saya gak pake snapchat jadi gak paham hiks

9. The Family Poster

Ini opini pribadi penulisnya sebenernya, bisa setuju atau engga. Kamu tipe yang suka upload terus keluarga kamu? anak, pasangan kamu, atau saudara kamu? nah ini tipe yang terus upload-upload an terus foto mereka. Sebenernya bagus sih kalau akhirnya kaya bu Retno Hening atau Baby Moonela misalkan. Tapi kadang emang sih yang sedih kalau udah upload yang kehamilan misalnya, terus upload progress di IG, at the same time mungkin followers nya ada yang lagi berjuang buat hamil kan, pasti sedih ngeliat itu

10. Mr Popular

Temen FB atau followers kamu ribuan? kemungkinan kamu gak kenal sama mereka tapi kamu suka dengan mereka soalnya ngebuat kamu diakui sebagai orang popular. Don't get me wrong, medsos bisa jadi bagus kalau dipake bijaksana, tapi bakal jadi ngeganggu kalau disalahgunakan buat nyari perhatian. Kadang saya suka liat komentar bocil-bocil mesum di post IG orang, mereka suka komen "tocil" atau apalah yang sexual harrasment. Saya kadang nanya, gak insecure apa ya liat komentar kaya begitu. Dah lah

Disclaimer: Eh btw, saya gak tau ya apa tipe-tipe ini dianggap oversharers kalau di kita atau engga. Soalnya saya dapet artikelnya dari barat yang jelas-jelas beda culturenya. Malah pengalaman selama ngegembel di luar, hampir setiap backpackers bule yang saya temui gak pada pake IG biasanya (katanya biar lebih enjoying real life)

Maaf tulisan kali ini panjang banget, semoga setelah ini kita bisa lebih evaluasi diri lagi, lebih bijak lagi di medsos. Pilihan Iri Bilang Boss atau Norak Norak saya kembalikan ke temen-temen. Tapi ada satu hal yang perlu di noted, usahain kita gak ninggalin komentar jahat apapun. kalau kamu baca-baca komentar yang ada di post Dinda, ada komentar: jangan kebanyakan di post entar kalau cerai bakal sakit banget. Ini parah sih komentar jahat banget

Inget kata Mark Manson di buku The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, kita cuman punya dua tangan. Kita gak bisa menutup mulut orang-orang. yang kita bisa itu menutup telinga kita. Nah kalau kata saya mah, kita gak bisa menghentikan tangan orang-orang buat gak komen, yang bisa kita lakuin menggunakan kedua tangan itu lebih bijak dalam share apapun di media sosial. Dah ah gitu aja, tetep rasional and thanks for having a beautiful mind

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allisonsamaan · 5 years ago

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Week 3: Using Social Theory for Understanding Social Media (9/9)

1. What impact does surveillance technology have on the lives of individuals of marginalized groups?

The internet is constantly keeping track of everything we do, and watching our every move at all times. This is especially true for individuals of a marginalized group, or a social group that is oppressed and subject to discrimination. Those that are a part of a marginalized group are watched much more closely and are evaluated much more thoroughly when being considered for just about anything in life, including public benefits and loans. This constant surveillance combined with the country’s “hatred of the poor” (Eubanks, 2018) makes for the perfect opportunity for those with power to portray people from lower income homes as lazy or undeserving of aid. People in these marginalized groups are shown in a very negative light, through the manipulation of the data that is acquired through surveillance technology. This puts a strain on the lives of those that are part of these groups, and makes it even more difficult for them to defend and prove themselves everyday.

2. Do digital security guards have a positive effect on society?

Digital security guards definitely have their benefits, but also come with just as many disadvantages. They are put in place in order to avoid things such as credit card fraud, insurance fraud and many other forms of fraud that are very prevalent in society. Some digital security guards may also help ensure that people are not taking advantage of resources that do not apply to them, in attempt to corruptly cheat the system. However, it is very alarming that we are constantly being monitored without our knowledge. Nobody should have access to that much information about our lives, as some aspects could become public record if they fall into the wrong hands. It is impossible to escape this constant surveillance, and quite frankly a little scary.

3. How does the internet affect a person’s sense of identity?

The internet can be a very open and good place for one to explore their identity, and possibly help find who they really are. Considering the fact that the internet is such a vast place, it allows people to be exposed to customs and attitudes outside of what they are accustomed to. Through the use of “identity tourism” and disembodiment, people may express themselves in any way that they choose to. On the other hand, this may also be detrimental to the person’s sense of identity as they could start to become overwhelmed by all of the different possibilities that they are exposed to and start to question who they really are, as opposed to this online persona that they may have created. In the end, the affects depend on the unique individual and their personal relationship with themselves.

4. What role does the internet play in feminism?

According to Daniels (2009), “Many women in and out of global feminist political organizations view Internet technology as a crucial medium for movement toward gender equality (Cherny and Weise 1996; Harcourt 1999, 2000, 2004; Purweal 2004; Merithew 2004; Jacobs 2004).” The internet has been an amazing place for women all over the world to voice their concerns and personal experiences especially regarding gender inequality and oppression. It helps create a sense of community, which allows people to feel as though others can relate to what they are going through, and they are not alone. There are endless possibilities of ideas that may be shared and created through the internet, as people can also share their solutions and thoughts on how to put an end to issues around the world. Although some argue that the internet is a place for oppressive hierarchies to be reproduced, it appears to me to be a positive “safe space” for females all over the world that have access to it.

Daniels, Jessie. (2009). Rethinking Cyberfeminism: Race, Gender, and Embodiment. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 37, 101-124.doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0158

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Week 3 Blog Post (due 9/9/2020)

1. Are algorithms facilitating life or causing more trouble?

In "Automating Inequality," by Eubanks, we see that an algorithm made a life-altering decision when her partner was in dire need of healthcare coverage. While this decision wasn't a massive deal to them, we see that this a common occurrence, and others might not be as lucky as they were. Algorithms have taken over many aspects of decision making and now control "which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, who is short-listed for employment, and who is investigated for fraud," but with these automated systems come mistakes. The mistakes have to be fixed by humans and, most of the time, requires a long and tedious process. Most of the time, the people who are targeted are minority groups who don't have the time or sufficient knowledge to fight these battles. While algorithms facilitate the companies/organizations' job, it significantly troubles lower-income people when a mistake is made.

2. Is how you use the internet connected to your personal experiences? If so, can cyberfeminism ever be the same for everyone?

I don't think cyberfeminism could ever be the same for everyone because we all have different standings in life. An upper-class white woman won't face the same struggles as an upper-class woman of color will so their needs in cyberfeminism would be different. While feminism aims to be intersectional, I think that it becomes harder to acknowledge in a space where everyone has a different relationship with digital technologies. Although race and gender aren't taken into account in the "digital divide," I think they are still important when talking about any kind of feminism. They are things that affect our perspectives on life, therefore, changing what we put out on the internet and what communities we seek.

3. Where does our responsibility lie? Is it the people being surveillance, the governments, or the public's responsibility to be more aware of the effects data has on the lower class?

The responsibility should be on everyone to help the lower class/marginalized people get away from the effects of data collection. Eubanks states, "Americas poor and working-class people have long been subject to invasive surveillance, midnight raids, and punitive public policy that increase the stigma and hardship of poverty." If data collection is being used to harm further a group of people who are already struggling, how do we know that data won't be used to harm others? I think everyone should care and take responsibility because this is technology that can be readily used to everyone's disadvantage.

4. Is the internet being used to escape your identity or to solidify it?

While reading "Rethinking Cyberfeminism," by Jessie Daniels, we come across people who u se the internet for embodiment and those who use it as a way of disembodiment. People who use it for disembodiment claim that the "the absence of physical body… [has] a liberating effect on repressed social identity," in contrast, people who use it for embodiment use it to become more of themselves. I think the internet is being used in both ways to escape your identity and to solidify it. They are oppositions of each other, but from the readings, we can see that they are both being used to empower the individual.

Daniels, Jessie. (2009). Rethinking cyberfeminism: race, gender, and embodiment. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 37, 101-124.doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0158

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Week 3 Discussion 09/09/2020

Question #1: In the article Automating Inequality, do you think having technology systems input customer information to be more effective or is it causing us more issues?

Based on the article it seems like the automated eligibility system had a few glitches which was causing the Red Flag. When you’re thinking about these types of issues you need to look at it from the customers perspective, in which I would disagree that having automated eligibility systems be more effective. When having a technological system so many different errors can occur which often create bigger issues in the future. Some data can be deleted and in this case, their health insurance wasn’t going through multiple times. Society today is moving into automated systems that are only causing extra trouble for individuals. Eubanks mentions, “ Today we have ceded much of that decision -making power to sophisticated machines. Automated eligibility systems, ranking algorithms, and predictive risk models control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources…” The idea that a piece of technology is able to have control over so many things will not be beneficial to the people.

Question #2: Do you think cyberfeminism is effective?

Jessie Daniels mentions, “use of technology is emblematic of an array of new expression of feminist practices called “cyberfeminism.” Among cyberfeminists (Orgad 2005; Plant 1997; Podlas 2000), some have suggested that Internet technologies can be an effective medium for resisting repressive gender regimes and enacting equality, while others have called into question such claims (Gajjala 2003). The idea of having a form of technology space where individuals are able to express themselves and relate to one another about the experiences they have faced, is indeed effective. Not only is this creating a safe space for people, but it is bringing communities together and helping them understand one another. Jessie also mentions, “I argue that the lived experience and actual Internet practices of girls and self-identified women reveals ways that they use the Internet to transform their material, corporeal lives in a number of complex ways that both resist and reinforce hierarchies of gender and race.”

Question #3: Eubank talked about the failures technology has sometimes and the issues it can bring people. With that being said, do you think it’s safe to trust technology systems with your personal information?

As mentioned before, technology can cause some glitches and errors which can cause some of your personal information to delete or even change a little. Society has made it a normal norm to trust technology systems with our personal information without even thinking about the failures the systems can have in the future. Aside from the technical issues some systems can have, we also have to think about how easy it is for hackers to steal information. In the reading Red Flag, we learned that every time her health insurance was canceled, her information was deleted and or not processed. However, how will we know if our information was truly deleted? How will we know that if our information was truly not processed? In an ideal world, we can assume with peace that our information is being kept private, but so many people and companies have access to our information that we can not trust technology with our personal information.

Question #4: What are some of the positive impacts technology has brought us?

Just like everything else, technology has its ups and downs. However, I believe technology has brought more positive impacts on societies. Due to technology being so easy accessible, we have been able to form different methods of communications. We are able to communicate through social media, text, and email. Technology has also been helpful with connecting people together. For example, in the reading Rethinking Cyberfeminism, they talked about how cyber space and cyberfeminism has made it easier for people to connect through the same experiences and give each other support. Technology has also made it possible for people to have a safe space within technology. In some aspects, people are also able to locate each other through technology. Although this act can become an invasion of privacy, social media has made it possible for these features to be accessible to others. Technology has improved so much and it continues to improve.

Daniels, Jessie. (2009). Rethinking cyberfeminism: race, gender, and embodiment. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 37, 101-124.doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0158

Eubanks, Virginia. (2018). Automating Inequality Introduction

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Week 3 Blog Post- Due 09/09

How do Daniels and Eubanks’ articles relate to one another with the idea of technology?

-Daniels article goes about the range on how the internet is used with cyberfeminism, from using the internet as a tool to reaffirm one another in positive ways and to “escaping embodiment” (Daniels, pg111) as said by Nouraie Simone. On the other hand, Eubanks depicts the way red flagging has made her experience targeted and uses examples that government technology keeps a tab on individuals as “invasive electronic scrutiny” (Eubanks, pg23). These two go hand in hand because it emphasizes examples of technological ways in which people are involved with race, gender and effects of automated decision making.

Referring to Daniels article, in what ways can the internet be a positive platform for bodily transformation?

-As an example, Daniels used the “Tranny” Hormone Listservs to depict the way the internet can be a site for bodily transformation. The article provides research from Bryson and talks about Anita’s experience on how she uses the “internet to navigate the biomedical sex/gender establishment (Butler 2004; Epstein 2003)”. The internet can be used as a tool for knowledge and advice from direct people to help you in specific areas you need. Specifically, Anita’s case was to “actively engage with digital technologies to permanently transform their bodies offline (Daniels, pg115).” It’s about having access to reliable information and use the internet as a positive tool.

How is technology constantly analyzing and watching us as described in the article by Eubanks?

-As mentioned in the Red Flags article, surveillance on street corners, our cellphones and gps are major forms of technology that control us. Algorithms in social media interactions track our information and embed us all around while collecting data about us. “They are so deeply woven into the fabric of social life that, most of the time, we don’t even notice we are being watched and analyzed (Eubanks, pg16)”, this goes to show us that we are so trapped in the new normal that we forget how advanced surveillance has gotten when it comes to our everyday social life.

Referring to the article Red Flags and how she was flagged. What are some of the ways that automated eligibility systems impact low income communities of color?

-These systems automatically discourage low income communities from claiming public resources that they need in order to survive. The fact that these systems gather most of their personal information there is no room for privacy. The systems tag these people as “risky investments” and just end up victimizing them over issues out of their control. To emphasize the point on how destructive these systems are to low income communities Eubanks says, “Automated decision-making shatters the social safety net, criminalizes the poor, intensifies discrimination, and compromises our deepest national values (Eubanks, pg27)”.

Daniels, Jessie. (2009). Rethinking cyberfeminism: race, gender, and embodiment. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 37, 101-124.doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0158

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WGST Discussion: 9/9

1. How is technology negatively affecting marginalized family groups?

Technology has been incredibly beneficial to us in many ways. It’s made a lot of systems quicker and more efficient for us to access and use, but there is also a negative downfall to technology. In the book, Automating inequality by Virginia Eubanks, she states that “in 2014, Maine Republican governor Paul LePage attacked families in his state receiving meager cash benefits from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). These benefits are loaded onto electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards that leave a digital record of when and where cash is withdrawn. LePage’s administration mined data collected by federal and state agencies to compile a list of 3,650 transactions in which TANF recipients withdrew cash from ATMS in smoke shops, liquor stores and out-of-state locations” (Eubanks, 2018). Furthermore, after they data mined this information, LePage released a bill that required TANF families to report all cash receipts for 12 months to facilitate state audits of their spending. To me, this is incredibly violating and heartbreaking. LePage created this bill even though he had no idea what the money was being spent on in these smoke shops and liquor stores but still enforced a bill to control these families and what they spend their own money on. I find it incredibly violating and it shows how technology can get out of hand because we are constantly being watched and targeted. LePage doing this affects marginalized family groups a lot because they have to be cautious of how and where they spend their money in fear that it will be taken away from them.

2. How does not having any knowledge about healthcare fraud mostly affect marginalized groups?

Eubanks walks us through the steps of healthcare fraud in her book and explains to us that she was quick to find out that her insurance provider thought she was committing healthcare fraud because of her partner’s medical bills. But something that Eubanks points out and which is very true is that she was able to quickly know that her providers thought she was committing healthcare fraud but a lot of people aren’t aware about this and can suffer greatly. Eubanks states that “some families don’t have the material resources and community support we enjoyed. Many don’t know that they are being targeted or don’t have the energy or expertise to push back when they are. People of color, migrants, unpopular religious groups, sexual minorities, the poor and other oppressed and exploited populations bear a much higher burden of monitoring and tracking than advantaged groups. Marginalized groups face higher levels of data collection when they access public benefits, walk through highly policed neighborhoods , enter the healthcare system or cross national borders” (Eubanks, 2018). If a family has a lack of access to this information, especially those who are marginalized, they can suffer from health care fraud due to a lack of information and resources. If they ever have any health complications and go to the hospital and have high medical bills afterwards, and unknowingly commit healthcare fraud because of the algorithm’s fault, they won’t even know what they have done and can suffer in a lot of debt.

3. How are certain websites helpful that are created for specific races on Cyberspace?

In the article, Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s) by Jessie Daniels, it explains and goes over many aspects of cyberfeminism and cyberspace. One aspect that I thoroughly enjoyed was that Daniels explains how online communities on cyberspace are incredibly positive and uplifting for certain groups. In the article it is stated that, “Michelle Wright notes the cyberfeminist practice of online communities designed specifically by and for Black women, such as SistahSpace (http://www.Sistahspace.com). Wright exhorts other women of color to engage with the Internet beyond Web surfing and checking email. The kinds of cyberfeminist practices suggested by Gajjala, Everett, and Wright are more overtly political than other cyberfeminist practices and are part of what Sandoval (2000) refers to as an oppositional technology of power. Many women in and out of global feminist political organizations view Internet technology as a crucial medium for movement toward gender equality” (Daniels, 2009). I believe that it is incredibly beneficial and helpful for Black women and WOC to create positive and uplifting communities designed and created by them to help empower and uplift one another, especially if they don’t have that many positive communities or support systems in real life.

4. Why is the digital divide a negative impact on women of color?

According to the article, Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s), it is stated that “In the United States, the empirical research indicates that most of the apparent “digital divide” in computer ownership and Internet access, has been the effect of class (or socioeconomic status) more than of gender and race (Norris 2001). In the United States, the rate of Internet access has converged for men and women who are white. Discourse of “the digital divide” that configures “women” or “Blacks and Hispanics” or “the poor” living in the global South as information “have-nots” is a disabling rhetoric that fails to recognize the agency and technological contributions of African Americans, Asians, Chicanos, Latinos and working-class whites” (Daniels, 2009). This information shows that women of color over white women are affected negatively because of the digital divide and they have lower socioeconomic status from men already but women of color are divided even further. Women of color are affected more when they have lower socioeconomic statuses compared to white women because they are unable to access higher technology and it leaves them with a lack of access to information they can learn online.

Eubanks, Virginia. 2018. Automating Inequality: Introduction

Daniels, Jessie. 2009. Rethinking cyberfeminism(s): race, gender, and embodiment. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 37, 101-124. doi: 10.1353/wsq.0.0158

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