Social Warming by Charles Arthur

Looking at the way social networks affect our societies, and in particular how they generate "social warming". It's why everyone seems so angry all the time.

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Social Warming by Charles Arthur
17 Apr 21:14 • Charles Arthur

The Internet Archive is not "in peril". Stop doing its PR, and start doing some journalism

There's a simple solution to the Wayback Machine's complaints, which it could implement itself. Why doesn't anyone ask it?

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
10 Oct 07:45 • Charles Arthur

Oh no: chatbots suffer from social warming too

The inevitable crossover of LLMs and perverse incentives on social networks (and elsewhere)

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
26 Sep 07:45 • Charles Arthur

Why PhDs survive where journalists don't

The mysteries of virality and consequences

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
29 Aug 07:45 • Charles Arthur

Here comes the science bit, Mr Djokovic

Does germanium and charcoal in your knee sleeve help healing?

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
25 Jul 2025 • Charles Arthur

Retraining Pandora's Chinese Box

You don't need to open it for the bad effects to come out

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
18 Jul 2025 • Charles Arthur

King Canute announces fabulous new policies to stop tide of AI slop

We know where this is going, don't we

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
20 Jun 2025 • Charles Arthur

What if social warming, but fuelled by money?

The trouble (another one) with sports betting

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
23 May 2025 • Charles Arthur

The AIs are coming for the films. Which humans should worry?

It might not be Marvel-lous

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
16 May 2025 • Charles Arthur

The instruments of the uninformed world

Sycophantic, monomaniac, cooking with gasoline: might they be wrong?

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
18 Apr 2025 • Charles Arthur

How and why hackers target small groups on social media

Lower your trust settings to beat the bots

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
04 Apr 2025 • Charles Arthur

Why isn't Trump on X? What do you mean, he is?

When everyone's got a hammer, you can't be heard for the banging

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
28 Mar 2025 • Charles Arthur

Careful with that axed generator, Farage

Why politicians and social media are a toxic mix

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
14 Mar 2025 • Charles Arthur

And if the chatbot told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

LLM NBG RLY

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
07 Mar 2025 • Charles Arthur

Filter bubbles and blocklists

If you don't like one, why would you like the other?

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
07 Feb 2025 • Charles Arthur

How the crowds lost their wisdom

Where did it go wrong? Non-experts are here to explain!

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
24 Jan 2025 • Charles Arthur

Do AIs dream of electric sheep embryos?

An Executive Order in the US shows that we shouldn't trust some AI answers. But which ones?

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
17 Jan 2025 • Charles Arthur

Suddenly, everybody loves Community Notes. Fact-checkers always did.

The truth about the changes everyone's so exercised about

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
13 Dec 2024 • Charles Arthur

Hello, is this the nice peaceful charming tribe?

The trouble with humans isn't changed by going onto a different social network. Unfortunately.

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
06 Dec 2024 • Charles Arthur

A world of haters

Plus Google can generate a world for you.. from a text prompt

Social Warming by Charles Arthur
29 Nov 2024 • Charles Arthur

Australia to under-16s: drop the smartphone

Plus that LinkedIn post? It's probably AI.