“During the day after the 2012 presidential election we took note of a spike in hate speech on Twitter referring to President Obama’s re-election, as chronicled by Jezebel (thanks to Chris Van Dyke for bringing this our attention). It is a useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad. Information space is not divorced from everyday life and racism extends into the geoweb and helps shapes its contours; and in turn, data from the geoweb can be used to reflect the geographies of racist practice back onto the places from which they emerged.
Using DOLLY we collected all the geocoded tweets from the last week (beginning November 1) with racist terms that also reference the election in order to understand how these everyday acts of explicit racism are spatially distributed… So, are these tweets relatively evenly distributed? Or do some states have higher specializations in racist tweets? …” (floatingsheep)
Daily Archives: 11 Nov 12
How the Romney Campaign Suppressed Its Own Vote
Exclusive account from conservative site Breitbart News about the massive failure of ORCA, the program on which the Romney campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort depended. The informant does the math and figures that it may have lost the election in some of the swing states. As Richard Metzger comments on Dangerous Minds,
“The reichwing is still trying to wrap their heads around, not just why Romney lost, but why he failed even to match John McCain’s tallies in 2008. I tell ’em: HEY, IT WAS GOD’S WILL.”
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Japan and blood types
- Diagram of ABO blood antigen system
“…Here, a person’s blood type is popularly believed to determine temperament and personality. “What’s your blood type?” is often a key question in everything from matchmaking to job applications.
According to popular belief in Japan, type As are sensitive perfectionists and good team players, but over-anxious. Type Os are curious and generous but stubborn. ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable, and type Bs are cheerful but eccentric, individualistic and selfish.
Four books describing the different blood groups characteristics became a huge publishing sensation, selling more than five million copies…” (BBC News via Boing Boing)
