Jake McCormick

Pissing off old people in a tough election year is a bold move, I’ll give them that.

at the @mplsdfl.org event, sen doron clark describes his entry into DFL politics and said of the ICE surge, “the crap that we’ve been through has shown that we build neighborhoods and we build neighborliness in ways that i think we’ve been all dreaming about, and realize that we can do.”

Yup bsky.app/profile/djla...

Grew up in southern Wisconsin 30 minutes south of Madison and our hockey players were dicks that loved starting fights too.

This is Neal Katyal. He argued for Nestlé's right to profit from child slavery without consequence before the Supreme Court—and won! Thank you, Neal.
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Never thought one of these dudes would say it out loud. They view making people mad as challenging their opinions, rather than, you know, ACTUALLY challenging their opinions. They view readers as idiots.

*furiously pens a CLIC comment requesting a CBR that explicitly grants control of said elevator to CLIC*

March 22, 1933: Germany announces the opening of Dachau concentration camp in a former munitions factory, with the purpose of "rehabilitating political detainees." Its initial capacity was 5000 prisoners. The new US DHS prison warehouses are designed to hold 20 times as many.

I've lived in NE for over a decade and only go to south for special occasions - rarely to just hang or check out a new restaurant. Not always out of choice either.

Mayor Frey refused to support a unanimous call from the city council to ask Gov. Walz for an eviction moratorium to support our most vulnerable neighbors and now everyone's having to crowdfund rent.

Fuck this. In sports we call this Out Of Town Stupid. Under no circumstances does Jacob Frey deserve this.

this guy isn't even all that popular where he lives!

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. 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.

Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Having the chair of our largest CD call a meeting to remove a SEC director elected at convention while having no way to credential and ensure votes are tallied while fascism breaks down our door is the shot. Doing this is front of the Secretary of State is the chaser.

TIL what Zydeco music is.

It’s very rare, but it’s a special level of hell when it happens. Some of the sloggiest city council meetings I covered in Eau Claire took more time debating minutes and the agenda than approving or debating anything.

It bothers me that immensely that the chair of the most populous congressional district in our state behaves in this manner and treats it as his social club. It disenfranchises people new to the DFL who might not be part of the "club." And it just disregards procedure which is in place FOR A REASON.

Tonight, we had a meeting of the Central Committee for CD5. At the very beginning, before it was called to order, Scott Graham, the chair, made an comment about the processes for the meeting and I asked him what credentialing process he was using and he straight up admitted he doesn't have one.

I think it's very depressing that there is simply no social stigma against distracted driving. When people join a Zoom meeting from their cars everyone should be deriding that sort of behavior, and yet it's just accepted.

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hey @startribune.com @byjenna.bsky.social you should follow up with the one minute tours guy 1 year later on why he crowdfunded $65k for a new youtube series on minnesota and has now moved away from minnesota to australia. i’ve already seen people pissed because they donated and he left

POV you are about to lose at Guess Who

Speaking as a lifelong vet of buying beer in Wisconsin, this is bullshit. They barely ID 21 year olds.

In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office Amid the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes — as in Montreal municipal election campaign — aren’t fit for office.

“Studies consistently show that streets with bike lanes are safer for everyone than those without. The voices who complain the loudest about Montreal bike lanes tend to be those who don’t actually live — or vote — in the city.”

#polmtl

The fact that none of these guys used secret emails and were openly emailing about doing pedo shit and that Trump put his own universe of creeps in the spotlight every time he yelled Epstein Files says that none of these people ever thought they'd face consequences. At all. Ever.

The MAGA regime has failed in their fascist attempt today to criminally charge Astronaut Senator Mark Kelly, Senator Elissa Slotkin and 4 other Congressional Democrats with seditious conspiracy after a federal Grand Jury declined to indict them on frivolous charges. Hell yes.

That’s what’s up.

this post has a ton of quote tweets claiming american pop culture was actually never influential. bluesky moment.