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Spectre Journal has generously let me spout off about pronatalism spectrejournal.com/non-natalism/
1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work.
It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science.
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Responsive, attentive health care shouldn't be the exception for fat people. It should be the rule.
Having good experiences with HCPs feels like a glimpse into what a world with more thoughtful care for fat patients could look like. & it makes me want to triple down to bring that world about.
Here’s a better way of putting it: if you’d like to know why faculty are so upset about CU unilaterally signing a $2 million contract with Open AI here are a few reasons 👇
cool to hear that i, a civilian, was a valid military target while working at a national lab
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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.
There’s a boom in papers claiming:
1. Graphs only model “pairwise interactions”
2. Hypergraphs uniquely capture group interactions
3. Many systems are better modeled that way, and
4. They reveal new phenomena.
I’ve rarely seen claims this misleading repeated so often and so uncritically!
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"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
I briefly touched on Epstein’s connection to transhumanism/eugenics, but the latest drop had even more explicit connections to almost all of the dudes I talked about. Goertzel, Thiel, Yudkowksy, Musk. All of them talking about cryonics and immortality and superintelligence. Def worth exploring more
I'm looking for emergency reviewers for FAccT papers about ethics and LLMs. So many reviewers have ghosted, and I have one paper that currently has zero reviews, two days after the deadline :( Please reach out if you could write a review for me!
BULLYING WORKS!
a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one:
theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
yikes ok, unfollowing now. really enjoyed her exhibit at the louvre, had no idea she’s in the epstein files.
after setting ice list as my profile link i lost the ability to follow new accounts. can’t be sure that the relationship is causal but
Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report
At least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s take on this
Question for the brick wall: What concept would you consider an essential inclusion in a "Quantitative Reasoning for Computational Social Science" class where the only prerequisite is basic programming?
No math requirement but I'd hold their hands through some basic calculus and linear algebra.
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials (Sam Levin/The Guardian)
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When does it become appropriate to connect the president's decades-long push to expand the death penalty to the current project to abduct and imprison political dissidents? When do we take seriously the threat that he may attempt mass extermination?
One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith.
Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.
Average rents in Puerto Rico have skyrocketed 600 percent since 2017 as properties have been bought up by newcomers. It's unaffordable for locals to live on their territory.
a hank green tweet that says “There’s something to the Bo Burnham strategy of going silent for years and then arriving back with something absolutely genius. But I’m not a genius so instead you get me every god damn day” dated March 26 2021
well you basically predicted it last time
A street with protesters lining the sidewalk. My sign in the foreground reads "GESTAPO PA'L CARAJO"
boulder, 2025-01-10
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism
ICE opinion is shifting from lefties (a little) + reality (a lot). But it's happening much more slowly than it would on the right, because a, our partisan media is comparatively weak, and b, three-quarters of Dems are still prioritizing Seeming Moderate over stopping ICE from murdering moms.
These are your words of the week
kidnap
expansionism
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