Sentences with phrase «of sock puppetry»

Not really a climate thing per se, but the scandal of Johann Hari is interesting in seeing a combination of sock puppetry, plagiarism, and (starting to find) fabrication.

With little provocation, he listed the events and events organizations he had recently attended or was excited about — a local festival of sock puppetry, outdoor concerts, countless open studios.

Not exact matches

When she ended up embarrassing herself under her business name, she resorted to the predictable tactic of sock - puppetry, not understanding that she'd be called out.

What could possibly go wrong with a project that reeks of sock - puppetry?

I wonder though whether or not their effectiveness has diminished of late due to all the sock puppetry and buying review scandals by some of the leading indie authors.

Having seen the buying of false reviews and sock - puppetry play out its ugly pageant on Amazon's stage last year, some of us are less surprised than we might have been by the news that some nonfiction business - book authors have been buying their way onto bestseller lists.

And do you remember the shouts of foul play when Amazon took steps to deal with paid reviews and sock puppetry?

Authors including Lee Child, Mark Billingham, Joanne Harris, Charlie Higson and Tony Parsons have signed up to a group statement condemning sock puppetry, the practice of writing reviews pseudonymously to praise one's own work and criticise that of others.

Sophie Jung's new body of sculpture and performance work made in response to Äppärät creates an associative chain between — among other seemingly disparate phenomena — handheld origami fortune telling devices; hand - woven (and hence «unique») Ikea rugs produced in the developing world; hand gestures that indicate money, salt, resistance and digital navigation; sock puppetry, online and offline; «life hacks» involving fixing drowned iPhones with dry rice; «deskilling» in manual labour and in art; repetitive strain injuries; toxic «e-waste»; and Lady Macbeth's «out damned spot!»

I submit that because you were supportive of WUWT position your sock - puppetry did not result in your comments being removed.

Computer scientist and Bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo called the project «centralized sock - puppetry,» whereas BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp, among other researchers, pointed out that many of Bitcoin Cash nodes appear to be hosted on Alibaba servers in China.

The fork has long attracted criticism from some of Bitcoin's earliest proponents, with computer scientist Nick Szabo calling the network «centralized sock puppetry» last year.