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It's an excellent day to finish a song.
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"Beautiful USA", operated from Romania Many patriotic US-themed Facebook content farm pages are run by people or organizations in countries other than the United States

More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/beautiful-...

screenshot of the "Beautiful USA" Facebook account, and screenshot of the Page Transparency section showing that the account is operated from Romania

Over on Facebook, a page named "Beautiful USA" has been spamming the platform with USA-themed posts featuring exaggerated patriotic imagery (often AI-generated). Although the page claims to be based in Los Angeles, Facebook’s Page Transparency feature indicates that it is operated from Romania.

"Beautiful USA", operated from Romania Many patriotic US-themed Facebook content farm pages are run by people or organizations in countries other than the United States

More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/beautiful-...

collage of right-wing political posts from the content farm pages

In a possible sign of the actual goal of the spam pages, several periodically post right wing politial content. This includes (among other things) posts praising Charlie and Erika Kirk, and a racist meme insinuating that multiple elected U.S. Representatives should be ineligible for public office.

collage of posts containing large numbers of hashtags from the content farm pages

Most of the USA-themed Facebook spam pages make prolific use of hashtags. In some cases, the spam pages have flooded hashtags with off-topic content; for example, the #CaliforniaRealEstate hashtag has been largely taken over by "Beautiful USA" posts unrelated to California.

collage of posts containing unrealistic AI-generated images full of US flags

Many of the spam pages' posts include AI-generated patriotic imagery, frequently involving absurd displays of the US flag, such as the locomotive belching red, white, and blue smoke seen in the leftmost post in this collage. Plagiarized photographs of major US cities and landmarks turn up as well.

collage of the profiles of 20 USA-themed Facebook content farm pages

table of 20 USA-themed Facebook content farm pages

"Beautiful USA" follows several other USA-themed content farm pages; recursively mapping follow relationships yields a set of 20 USA-themed spam pages run from a variety of countries, including Sri Lanka, Greece, Pakistan, and others. Only 4 of the 20 pages (20%) have a US-based administrator.

screenshot of the "Beautiful USA" Facebook account, and screenshot of the Page Transparency section showing that the account is operated from Romania

Over on Facebook, a page named "Beautiful USA" has been spamming the platform with USA-themed posts featuring exaggerated patriotic imagery (often AI-generated). Although the page claims to be based in Los Angeles, Facebook’s Page Transparency feature indicates that it is operated from Romania.

a gray sits regally on a corrugated cardboard surface; guitars are visible in the background

Keeping an eye on all the things on a #Caturday morning...

Here’s a thought: maybe we should *not* vote for candidates that embody toxic masculinity just because they put a D behind their name.

Maybe we do *not* need our own version of Trump.

Maybe the people who say we do are fucking stupid.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

Candace Owens spun conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death. Now she’s targeting his widow. The podcaster aired “Bride of Charlie” on YouTube and billed it as an investigation into Erika Kirk — but there is no evidence to support her fevered, fact-free claims.

I had to watch like 70 hours of Candace Owens for work. So the least you could do is read my dispatch from hell. www.ms.now/news/bride-o...

The demonization of Dearborn, Michigan Islamophobic attacks on Michigan's seventh-largest city are a long-running staple of online discourse

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bar chart showing the monthly volume of X posts containing "Dearborn" with at least 10 reposts

Dearborn, MI has often been subject to racist and Islamophobic scapegoating online, ranging from claims that the city is full of terrorist cells to complaints about a cop wearing a hijab.

As seen in this graph of X posts, this activity tends to occur in waves (often correlated to major events).

It is men who pervert religion.

It is men’s fault.

I’m just saying.

How advanced is Iran’s nuclear program? Here’s what we know. - WTOP News At the center of the recent US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran is Tehran’s intentions with its nuclear program. Here’s a breakdown on what’s known about Iran’s nuclear potential.

“How advanced is Iran’s nuclear program? Here’s what we know.”

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Inner Landscape Listen to Inner Landscape by Northern Conspiracy #np on #SoundCloud

A slow song for a Thursday morning...
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Inner Landscape Listen to Inner Landscape by Northern Conspiracy #np on #SoundCloud

A slow song for a Thursday morning...
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labeled screenshots of the real Tanya Shpachuk YouTube account, fake Facebook account, and real Tiktok account

In a scammy mix of impersonation and plagiarism, spammers on Facebook are impersonating a Ukraine-based luthier (Tanya Shpachuk) by lifting videos from her real YouTube and TikTok accounts. There are, however, multiple signs that the Facebook account in question is fake.

I’ve wanted to pet this feral cat since 2024. I have no idea why this happened today but Greyboy has turned a corner.

A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

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.

an orange and white cat and a gray cat cuddle atop a circular piece of corrugated cardboard

#Caturday is the perfect day for a pair of cats to relax atop a piece of cardboard (as of course is every other day).

As someone in the replies notes, this is NOT the Internet Archive, which is a whole nonprofit and whose facilities I have visited in person. (I forget that people do not know this stuff.)

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Tell your kids not to talk to strangers on the internet.

Tell them a million times.

Tell them why: because creepy men pretend to be kids to trick them.

It’s insane how many Zoomers over 18 say they were groomed online. It happens more than people think.

Nope - later in the thread I recommend using the other site (Wayback Machine/web.archive.org) instead of Archive(dot)today.
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