Trolling
8 entries
- 2011-present Jun 2026 Ken M: The Internet's Most Beloved Troll (2011-present) A Comedy Central copywriter named Kenneth McCarthy spent years posting deliberately absurd comments on Yahoo News as 'Ken M' — proving that the best way to defuse toxic comment sections is not moderation but absurdity.
- Jun 2026 The Hoaxers Who Accidentally Made Art Ern Malley. Sokal. Grievance Studies. Three hoaxes designed to prove that something was fake. In each case, the hoaxers accidentally produced something real. What does it mean when the troll can't help being good?
- Jun 2026 The Word Trolling Does Not Mean What You Think The media got the etymology wrong. The word comes from fishing, not from monsters under bridges. The consequences of this category error are worse than you'd expect.
- Jun 2026 Trolling as Military Doctrine Operation Mincemeat. The Ghost Army. Operation Bodyguard. Governments have formal trolling programs with budgets, personnel, and operational security. Deception isn't a deviation from military doctrine. It IS doctrine.
- Jun 2026 Trolling Is Not Bullying Death threats are not trolling. Doxxing is not trolling. The distinction is not a matter of degree -- it is a difference in kind, and the media's refusal to learn it has made both problems harder to address.
- Jun 2026 The Turing Test Is a Trolling Test In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that does not measure thinking. It measures deception. The Turing test is a formalized trolling problem, and recent AI research has proven it.
- Jun 2026 Fermat's Last Troll In 1637, a French lawyer scribbled a note in the margin of a math book claiming a proof too large for the margin. It took 358 years and 129 pages of twentieth-century mathematics to resolve.
- Jun 2026 Socrates Was Executed for Trolling In 399 BC, Athens put a seventy-year-old man on trial for corrupting the youth and not believing in the right gods. The charges were a Terms of Service violation and a content moderation decision. The penalty was death.
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