John Miklos

“Doesn’t include the costs side” is a thru line through a lot of a lot in this current era.

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.

Whoa, Indiana. What's its chance of passing?

Why not us

this is cool

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this is really, really cool

The Change-Up (2011) was a miserable viewing experience. I haaated it, and one of the only other people in the theatre was a guy a few rows back who was braying, hollering, hooting with laughter all throughout

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AI is your Facebook MAGA aunt. Whatever she sees online is absolutely the truth and she's gonna tell everyone else about it. This is really really bad news man

Big news, everyone! I'm bringing back the thorn, or as I like to call it: þͤ þorn.

þͤ use cases are myriad. save on characters. make your writing distinct from anyþing AI would produce (unless it's speaking Icelandic). probably oþer þings I haven't þought of.

þank þͧ for þy attention to þis matter.

That's a pretty neat feature. Good catch

I couldn't forward the article but I think the headline says it all.

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prefab exterior straw wall panels

energisprong

trams

trains

subways

choo choo, baby

all electric mass timber passivhaus social housing

e-bikes

affordable elevators

drainwater heat recovery

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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

✨ are you from here? ✨
... Yes

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.@AstroKatie: "We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes."

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Tricky...
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

Just a reminder that ChatGPT cannot betray anyone because it doesn’t have feelings or motives or thoughts

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Happy valentine's day ❤️

It has long been this way in cases where a driver obliterates folks walking, biking, or just living their lives too close to the street. The US Justice system has a huuuuuge blindspot where driving is concerned.

MAGA Influencer: We need more quaint small towns like the one in this picture I found when I Googled “quaint small town.”

*Picture is of a town in Vermont that Bernie Sanders wins by 58 points. Lesbian couples own every store.*

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

I am thinking this is my game. Yes.

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What a cool game! Thanks! 👏

Hæppy Valentimes

Looks like a Ford Model A, imo