Meg

SCREAMING

now that the tariffs are gone i don't see a reason to stop charging $100k per knife. People found a way to pay it so they must have the money to do so, and I'm not incentivized to do otherwise. I am every business.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

@shoegaze.dad @shoegazememes.bsky.social

Do you think he's seen Heated Rivalry

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Just remember, don't set yourself on fire to keep anyone warm ❤️

Horror story on my LinkedIn feed about a guy who was eliminated from USAID and his info was given to DOGE, then somebody cashed out a 7K IRA. Guy doesn't want to go public, but in case anyone wanted confirmation that shady shit is happening with all that personal data ...

The end of this made me scream "Noo!" such that @thatguywasfly.bsky.social rushed in to check on me (ironically, he sent me this). Sorry, love!

Also, I don't claim to know all these questions! But that last one, woof.

Fucking eclipse season while the sun is in my sun sign, I can't sleep for shit & I'm going to run out of Xanax & have to throw myself on the mercy of my shrink & tell him I took more than normal because I had COVID (also true & will go over better than "Eclipse season; you know how it is, Doctor!").

Wow, go @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social !

Read. This. Thread.

"I'll block him eventually, but right now it's just fun watching him melt down." - @thatguywasfly.bsky.social

He went on to quote Kendrick Lamar: "I cut my granny off if she won't see it how I see it." 😆

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can't afford steak. But at least now I know that they are defunding diversity programs at companies and schools that I have never heard of.

Illinois Republican senator pushes to outlaw abortion, loses leadership spots Republican leaders called the proposal "extreme" and said it is a no go.

Lol even his fellow Republicans thought his fetal personhood shit was out of pocket.

From the bottom of my heart: go fuck yourself, dude. If you hate abortion so much I hope you're on a crusade of teaching & providing free birth control to people, along with UBI, free childcare, etc.

chase from paw patrol is wearing a blue uniform and hat Alt: chase from paw patrol is wearing a blue uniform and hat & dancing

ACAB includes Chase!

everyone has a way to resist from right where they already are!

NEVER getting over it being called Man in the Crease

Man In The Crease hosts watching game 6 of the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals:

In the last 30 years usa elite has given us: dotcom bubble, great recession, housing crisis, crypto, nfts, covid, trade wars, tariffs, austerity, doge, ai evangelism
And: afghanistan, iraq, haiti, libya, syria, iran, venezuela, honduras, palestinian genocide, greenland
Plus: they're all pedos

Pump it up. Pump it, pump it, pump it

Whoopi Goldberg said "I don't want anybody in my house." 👏

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

a purple background with the words until we meet again on the bottom Alt: Skeletor running away with the words until we meet again on the bottom

It's raining in Chicago in February because our world is addicted to fossil fuels.