T. Kenny Fountain

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

Conspiracy theories have become a dominant political discourse in this country. What was two decades ago periphery is not central to millions of people.

Russia Moves Closer to Banning Telegram App, Saying It Foments Terrorism

👀 "Russia is laying the groundwork for terrorism-related charges against Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of the app Telegram, in the latest indication that the Kremlin plans to ban the go-to means of communication for millions of Russians." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

Is there actually an English Department in the USA that has succeeded in meaningfully integrating literary studies, creative writing, and writing & rhetoric? Have any of them moved beyond the three-separated-units-in-one-department system? Is it even possible to wish for more?

Tax payers paying for the FBI Director to attend the Olympics. But we cant have affordable healthcare.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

If billionaires don't comprehend that human beings have more worth and value than an AI model, we are screwed. And I'm hear to tell you we are screwed! This is another example of the dehumanization of what billionaires see as the expendable masses.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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.

This is an odd brag! It's like, let me demonstrate how much I don't understand the concerns of progressives.

Large language model can fuel extremists attitudes

LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.
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I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.

I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Trump might deal our democracy its death blow, but Citizens United kicked it over and pinned it to the ground.

Fantastic detailed thread identifying key element of Bad Bunny's halftime show.

The Barbaric History of Sugar in America (Published 2019) How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day.

As long as we’re talking about sugar and its history:

Good Morning, Happy Benito "Bad Bunny" Martínez Ocasio Day! 💖
"There is no better dance than the one that comes from the heart." -Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA

“It can be the latest chapter, and be different too… the scope of this dwarfs what we had after 9/11. The 🇺🇸 President is building a white supremacist army. I don’t know what else to call it.”

@timmiller.bsky.social & Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump’s state-sponsored racism - on @thebulwark.com

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Trump is suggesting the Clintons shouldn't testify, recognizing he could face the same subpoena as a former president.. and with his ties to Epstein, perjury charges are pretty much a guarantee..

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

Igor Bobic @igorbobic Tillis warns that sending ICE to the polls in November, as Steve Bannon suggested, could have “a chilling effect” on voting: “I think there's an estimated 60 million Hispanics legally present in this country. We have seen some apprehensions of legally present people…I think it can have a chilling effect on even US citizens going to the polls because they don't want to be detained and have to prove citizenship.”

he's so close to figuring it out!

Congress Receives Redacted Version of Whistleblower Complaint Against Gabbard Significant portions of the document had been blacked out for executive privilege.

There is no justification whatsoever for redacting a complaint before transmitting it to the Gang of Eight. The redaction should be taken as evidence of bad faith and failure to comply with the law, and should be challenged. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Email appears to confirm photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Virginia Giuffre is real The message, believed to be from Ghislaine Maxwell, was released as part of the latest tranche of the Epstein files

Email appears to confirm photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Virginia Giuffre is real www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oh my go, don't be surprised if this administration does that: gets Madura to confess to wild lies of interfering in the 2020 election, so they can seize control of all subsequent elections!

People! Post the EFTA# when you post images of documents from the Epstein files. We live in a disinformation ecosystem. Posting the EFTA # makes it easier to verify the authenticity of what we see online. It gets us all in the habit of looking for these numbers. Consider it like citing your sources!

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
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I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik The president and his supporters joining forces to decide what audiences read and see seems straight from a fascism playbook, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Fantastic short article on America's new propaganda ecosystem.
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