You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.

We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.

It's great, I love it.

23.01.2025 00:11 — 👍 26379    🔁 1594    💬 422    📌 90

This turns out to have not been a particularly tricky prediction.

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Second round was better. Definitely a learning curve with mocktails. 🍸 🍹 🍸 🍹

19.01.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I asked the bartender for an Onyx Storm drink inspired by Xaddy Riorson and told him I wanted it named something with Wingleader in it…so he made the Wet Wingleader with Lychee martini mixer and a watermelon mint club soda.

#mocktail #fourthwing #ironflame #onyxstorm

19.01.2025 06:28 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

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