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Ah, I could be wrong but the British Museum is where we keep the things we ought to give back. The British Library is mainly books, researchers and rubbish coffee. It is British though, so I bet there's at least a stolen artifact or two.

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.

Yep, you'reright about MCAS but I lack the willpower to get a diagnosis. It's hard enough with the amount of Drs and hospitals and specialists I've currently got. It's like I climbed a mountain to get this much treatment & found a higher place to climb to and thinking about it makes me tired.

Ah, then it was an incredibly effective pain killer until I became allergic to it.

It gave me head to toe hives, but this isn't helpful as I'm not MECFS (I'm fibromyalgia/ hEDS/ POTS)

‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’

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Weirdly sometimes they have American actors do voices that sound like a bad impression of an American. I think last five years the accents have improved- less actor who is RP being regional accents.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.

It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Is there a bigger downgrade than the daily doorstep milk delivery in recycled glass bottles from a local dairy on an electric vehicle to having to buy milk in plastic bottles from multi million pound supermarkets.

Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation TalkTV regularly spouts misinformation about the climate crisis, claiming that “CO2 is not a threat to the planet” and that the science behind it “doesn’t add up to a row of beans”. The rightwing news...

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In 1970 the Government owned Energy, it owned Water, it owned Rail, it owned Mail, it owned Steel, it owned Shipbuilding, it owned Oil and Gas.

There was a 100% tax on these industries profits.

Now many of them pay 0% tax.

That is where all the money has gone.

I often wonder if those criticising the current Prime Minister remember any of the previous five.

Americans only rave about their Irish ancestry so they can cosplay at being an oppressed minority. The are significantly more with English heritage you never hear about.

Also they took care contracts from in house at councils to private profit making companies that charge them more than it would have cost in house, but also pay carers less than 20 years ago. (I'm disabled & need carers). So only way to fill the jobs is to sponsor people from abroad to come here

There's an app called Fix My Street. You can send photos and exact locations of each pothole.

There's a previous article on the trial in which he's quoted as saying he thought he was being targeted & arrested by "the Facebook police" for something he said online. He's a definitely a "you can't say anything these days" guy.

Trump Ramblespeech remix…

This was definitely something I was familiar with in the 80s. Possibly I tried to describe it to my Dad and he bought Hooked on Classics instead.

I think I had a lot of childhood nightmares about Ulysees 31. (And Davros and the old hag in Terrahawks).

Did an AI write this? Because it does not sound humanly possible

Why do fessers not know about fungal nail infections? Show your claws to a pharmacist and they sell you the cure.

If we're going to ban social media and mobile phones for kids, then we need to ban Facebook and the Daily Mail for boomers. For the exact same fucking reasons.

Ooo they are 40% off and a variety of things have the design, as well as the classic tea towel. onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/searchresult...

Oxfam have reissued one of this series on their website - Belinda Lyon's fox design.

A black cat is wearing a Christmas red scarf

A black curls up asleep in his Christmas scarf.

A Happy Childless Cat Lady to you this Christmas!

Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls.

Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year.

We're all just getting started.

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When supermarkets give you the option to round up your shopping "for charity" they are using your donation as a tax write-off. Just donate directly instead.

They showed the fairy land map at the British Library fantasy exhibition a few years ago. It was fascinating.

He has apologised on a podcast. I think it was Reply All, but it could also be an Internet history podcast so generally dull that I unfollowed it. The coder of pop up ads also apologised.