@Dissidentbot: dissent will be automated! #bbuzz
summary
A 500‑line Ruby bot running on a Raspberry Pi hooks into the Twitter firehose, listens for tweets, and replies by picking sentences at random; a DM control plane lets the owner push new heckles, and rate‑control via jitter and sleep avoids automatic blocks. Adding a URL triggers Twitter’s spam filters, nightly Wi‑Fi reboots crash the Pi, and the hardest problem is scalable content: one script plus many low‑cost writers can produce endless provocative posts that are hard to distinguish from human dissent.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to distantBOTS
- 1:10How distantBOTS works
- 2:34Architecture and code
- 4:23Updating and testing the bot
- 5:52Live demonstration
- 7:04Operational challenges
- 8:52Ethical and societal impact
- 10:38Deploying your own bot
- 12:27Detecting and defending against bots
- 13:30Ethics of automated dissent
- 14:33Q&A session
