Pith Number

pith:76YHKZMB

pith:2026:76YHKZMBT5QUDRBBF2TRMJUBQ3

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The Environmental Costs of Surveillance Capitalism: A Case Study of Social Media Platforms

Christoph Becker, Nils Bonfils

arxiv:2605.26314 v1 · 2026-05-25 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{76YHKZMBT5QUDRBBF2TRMJUBQ3}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-27T01:05:11.565263Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffb07565819f6141c4212ea716268186dff2f7c5986bd26cbac671c6512afbb2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26314 · arxiv_version: 2605.26314v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26314 · pith_short_12: 76YHKZMBT5QU · pith_short_16: 76YHKZMBT5QUDRBB · pith_short_8: 76YHKZMB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/76YHKZMBT5QUDRBBF2TRMJUBQ3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ffb07565819f6141c4212ea716268186dff2f7c5986bd26cbac671c6512afbb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "324bb46e0a24d4db79c8f73a126f399779296cf98437371a3d50b0cbffaba250",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-25T20:12:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00201e8af35986974ad35715d01fc860d6ac873933933a3877c5b2ec6f43f46f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26314",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}