I woke up this morning to a very strange and unpleasant mention on Twitter:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/twitter.com\/usamasheriff\/status\/30143794527608832<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s always possible the Israeli Right is, well, right, and that like all lefties I’m an unwitting copywriter for Hamas… But it’s unlikely, so I dilligently applied Occam’s Razor and concluded it must be a typo (okay, I mean I took a guess), and followed the link to see what it’s all about. It turned out to be an auto-generated newspaper-esque page of content — powered by\u00a0paper.li<\/a> —\u00a0collected from tweets with the #Hamas hashtag, conveniently called “The #hamas Daily” — which is this case sounds like an official Hamas publication.<\/p>\n

Since one of my posts yesterday<\/a> was about topics related to Hamas and since I apply an excessive amount of tags, which Feedburner<\/a> selectively-but-automatically turns into hashtags when tweeting my posts (see tweet below), I ended up being an unwitting copywriter for Hamas, who incidentally would like to kill almost everyone I love.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/twitter.com\/msappir\/status\/29931993890291713<\/p>\n

I never used to believe it when they said machines will rise up to destroy us… But now I’m starting to see it… A conspiracy of half-intelligent automatons, interacting on the wild Internet, producing their own newspapers and slanderous tweets… They<\/em> are the real enemy!!<\/p>\n

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