Iranian intelligence has a huge advantage since they can just check polymarket to see what the US will do next.
28.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 1225 🔁 221 💬 3 📌 4Iranian intelligence has a huge advantage since they can just check polymarket to see what the US will do next.
28.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 1225 🔁 221 💬 3 📌 4Just found out in Greek mythology Deucalion is part of a flood myth and I’m so mad it took me over a decade to make that connection. #chikara
28.02.2026 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No Kings includes Draft Kings
08.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 26114 🔁 6103 💬 185 📌 110EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPORTANT
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jellyneo post summarizing TNT's post on the neopets TTRPG. Geekify opened up some basic beta testing for the TTRPG on February 4th, posting a Google Document that represented a slice of the upcoming rule book and game materials. (The Google Doc has since been locked off, or we'd post the link.) As Neopians began reading through the document, some lines interpreted as homophobic were discovered and posted about online. (See below.) Other debate was around how battle-focused the game seemed to be, as opposed to Neopia's more pacifistic activities like spinning wheels and fishing. In addition, after a few days, one portion of the document was completely wiped and replaced with the text, This work has not been paid for by John Taylor of Geekify And finally, TNT posted the announcement today to acknowledge the concerns, emphasize that the beta document was not approved ahead of time by TNT, and to say that they've been working with Geekify to address the issues. What was the homophobia? Obviously, the homophobia is the worst part of this, so we wanted to post the text that raised these concerns. Below are the passages, highlighted by JN in bold text, that do not live up to the standards we'd expect from a Neopets product: Yurble: He's still intoxicated and may not fully understand what is going on. He will be belligerent with the party, especially if someone died. He'll let slip that his employer didn't seem to be a Roo Island kind of person, but he never met them properly. Zafara: He is obviously the rookie of the crew. He will blab about the probability of the magic in the bracelet, but he hasn't been able to work out what exactly makes it special yet. He will say that if the boss is as scary as the rest of the crew says he is, they probably wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bracelet that was so... feminine, regardless of what it can actually do.
the funniest thing to come out of the neopets ttrpg kerfuffle is still the implication that roo island is some kind of gay mecca, some sort of neopian san francisco
i kind of unironically love it tbh. it's so campy, especially with a fucking rainbow leading from neopia to roo island
@rascal.news have you seen the update from neopets about the bizzare beta? portal.neopets.com/news/feb20-g...
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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.
Why isn’t Lestat performing in NYC??
17.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
14.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 544 🔁 146 💬 2 📌 3neil's perfect timing jumping in while nobody's thinking about high profile sexual assault for days on end or anything
02.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 323 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 3Niceeeee just ordered it (and a few other zines from there)
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So there's an invite to the Broadway Premiere for Epstein in 2018 and Prince Andrew being given a tour of the sets a few months ago.
Rowling clearly cares deeply about protecting children.
“Jeffery epstein was the driving force behind modern transphobia” and “jk rowling invited epstein to a party in 2018 AFTER the child trafficking was known” is a one-two punch for sure
02.02.2026 00:58 — 👍 177 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 1Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.
01.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 7217 🔁 1297 💬 45 📌 24Babe, I got you babe.
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I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
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Ban us from the Olympics. For real. Fucking ban us. Put your foot down.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well
28.01.2026 02:10 — 👍 4967 🔁 979 💬 48 📌 31Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
28.01.2026 02:12 — 👍 6726 🔁 1427 💬 204 📌 542Please note this is only the deaths we have been told about - and does not include however many people have died in overseas gulags.
28.01.2026 02:36 — 👍 982 🔁 333 💬 1 📌 2Two episodes in and Wonder Man (the show) is great, but I cannot get over the fact that Simon basically lives in Joe’s apartment from season 2 of You. It’s perfect, because Simon has taken Joe’s spot as the most psychopathic tv lead I’ve ever seen.
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On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
newsguild.org/guild-member...
So excited to hear this!
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We actually glossed over this too quickly.
Someone made half a million dollars insider trading on a coup.
This is a fucking problem, folks.
bragging because they believe they can get away with it. "yes it is in fact an occupation, yes it is all about oil, and what can you do about it" comically upfront
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