20 March 2013. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Peekaboo! British Scientists are Watching You!

Peekaboo! British Scientists are Watching You!

Sergei Yolkin

2013

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P-U! The RIA translator screwed up again! Британские ученые наблюдают за тобой isn’t Facebook “Likes” Reveal a Lot, Study Finds. The latter is a new title, it isn’t a translation of what Yolkin was trying to convey. Yolkin’s tongue-in-cheek raffishness is completely lost… and one CAN convey it in English. It’s one of Yolkin’s earthy and leering worldly-wise observations… the translator completely trashed it. I hope that they’re GONE… and soon…

BMD

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British IT wonks have developed an algorithm that allows one to determine the sex, age, and other information about Facebook users who utilise the “like” function with uncanny accurately. That inspired this cartoon from Sergei Yolkin. What you like on Facebook says a lot about you and can even give away your secrets, according to a Cambridge University study published online. In the study, researchers revealed how they were able to guess accurately the gender, personality type, IQ, political views, and the sexual orientation of individuals based on what these 58,000 users of the popular social network decided to “like” on Facebook.

12 March 2013

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20130312/926908820.html

http://en.ria.ru/cartoons/20130313/179981488/Facebook-Likes-Reveal-a-Lot-Study-Finds.html

26 February 2013. How the Cabinet Keeps Me From Steppin’ in Cowpats (and Worse)

THIS is Monomakhos. Tells you much about those who post there, no? Any questions?

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I got an unsolicited message from one Guy Westover on Google+; as I didn’t know of him in any way, I ran his name past my Cabinet:

Have you ever heard of a Guy Westover? He claims to be from Florida and a “cradle Orthodox Christian“. He’s trying to contact me via Goodgle+ to “talk about my blog“. I don’t like it. It smells like pro-Bobby to me. Have you heard of this jabronie? If not, I’ll delete it permanently (I don’t need trouble). My instinct is not to reply… he doesn’t smell on the “up and square”.

One of the Cabinet said:

Name means nothing to me. I checked the White Pages, found nine, but none in Florida.

However, I struck gold with another Cabinet member:

He’s one of the Morons on Monomahkos… If I were you I’d delete him.

To the first Cabinet member I wrote:

Thanks. Another one of the Cabinet did know him… a Monomoron puke. That’s why I treasure you guys. I DON’T know everything. Keep on keepin’ on, dear…

Of course, I got good advice, and I followed it (I got enough grey hair and “scars” to smell the “rightness” of something). This teaches all of us a good and salutary lesson. By ourselves, we’re NOTHING. However, if we stick together, if we pool our knowledge and resources, we’ll do fine. That’s why there’s NO “me n’ Jayzuss”, as the Evangelical notion has it. That’s why we shouldn’t have anything to do with them, even in the context of the so-called “Pro-Life Movement“… their heresy is that corrosive and WRONG (that’s why James Paffhausen’s signature on the so-called Manhattan Declaration was a betrayal of Christ and His Church). We all need each other constantly, and that’s reality. You can’t argue with that…

BMD

1 July 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. What Social Networks Conceal

What Social Networks Conceal

Sergei Yolkin

2012

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Polls taken by VTsIOM between February and April of this year show that almost half of those polled (47 percent) admitted that they told lies on social networks. The survey involved 1,600 people in 138 localities of 46 oblasts and republics in Russia. The margin of error is 3.4 percent.

28 June 2012

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20120628/687087921.html

12 April 2012. Sergei Yolkin’s World. Now, You’re in a Social Network: Facebook Addiction

Now, You’re in a Social Network: Facebook Addiction

Sergei Yolkin

2012

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The authors of an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pointed up that the spread of social networking site Facebook isn’t subject to the traditional “biological” understanding of contagion, for the probability of joining the network isn’t determined by the number already “infected” in the environment and its heterogeneity.

3 April 2012

Sergei Yolkin

RIA-Novosti

http://ria.ru/caricature/20120403/616419312.html?byauthor=1