Operand researches cyber sociology.

• Read of our origin.

Each of the themes indexed here is hypervisible and subject to our research. This is a simple and basic index; far more remains to be explored. Please send any leads that need to be included.

Dynamics:

• [land use]
  • [data centers]
  • [geolocation]
  • [border clashes]
  • [occupations]
• [spying on neighbors] ("surveillance" sounds far too clinical)
• [leadership]
  • Zuckerberg
  • Nadela
  • Bezos
  • Dario
  • Altman

Mechanisms:

• [anonym]
• [pseudonym]
• [human verification]
  • captchas
  • government-issued id
  • face id
  • age inference
• [accessibility]

Program:

• [deploy]
• Terms of Service; Didn't Read

Sources:

• Media Queue

• Code Sources

  • Elixir
  • Command Line
  • Chrome Extensions
  • Replica

• Deploy Schemes

• Legal Sources

• Real Sources

• Published Sources

• Board Sources

• Corporate Sources

• Real space

  • People
  • Conferences

• Responses

  • 404 interviews Sherry Turkle

Companies:

Arranged in order of social consequence.

Big Business

• Microsoft; GitHub, LinkedIn, Teams, Azure
• Meta; Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Facebook
• Google; YouTube, GMail, Photos, ....
• Amazon; AWS, GovCloud, Amazon Marketplace, Washington Post
• Chips; NVidia, AMD, TSMC, ASML
• ByteDance; TikTok
• Alibaba; AliExpress, AliPay
• ML; Huggingface, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek
• Telephone; SMS & MMS protocols, AT&T, T-Mobile, Cricket, Cape, Ericsson
• IP; Verizon, Comcast, local WISPs

Social Order

• MediaWiki; Wikipedia, WikiApiary
• Chats; Signal, Discord, Slack, Telegram
• Web Builders; Wordpress, SquareSpace, Webflow, Wix, Canva, Figma
• Legal Technologists; Code for America, Legis1, TechCongress, Sunwater
• Public Records; DDoSecrets, FoiaProject
• Podcasts; Cool Zone Media, iHeart, NPR, ....
• Essays; Substack, Medium

Niche

• Fetlife (transparency)
• Mindgeek; Pornhub
• (Reams of predatious pornographic producers)

Languages

• Programming Languages
• Human Languages
• Conferences
• Open Source; Linux, Cloud-Native Computing Foundation

Pro gram:

Deployment