Convinced that it’s a real issue now that so many people have essentially broken their brains by downloading gore and atrocity footage directly into them for months at a time (not just Gaza) and they have all convinced themselves that it’s the people who didn’t do this who are the truly broken ones
Antivaxxers put everyone at risk
A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”
Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today
Fossils of Alberta
“This moment offers us a realistic opportunity to shape the post-2030 agenda with a viable alternative that will reconcile planetary boundaries with social justice and the fight against poverty and inequalities. That’s the challenge and the opportunity.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump has ended nuclear non-proliferation.
Yes, that's correct
Arizona’s voucher system has so little oversight that parents are using the taxpayer funding for personal/intimate products.
Many people’s HSA wouldn’t even cover this.
Reminder: parents have to keep their kids out of public school to be eligible to spend this
We are all familiar with those videos and images of people in Finland happily cycling to school in the middle of a Nordic winter, huge smiles on their faces. Or, the bustling bikeways of Copenhagen. Riding a bicycle makes people happy. More cycling, more happiness.
momentummag.com/the-top-coun...
♥️ Nautilus ♥️
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies
Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
The singling out of a state for political punishment, by selectively denying it access to federal funds, violates every principle of the Union.
This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
idea: pandas attempting almost* every winter olympic sport
*maybe let's not give them guns
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
This country is doomed.
The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.
BREAKING:
The federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously appointed longtime litigator James W. Hundley to serve as interim U.S. attorney on Friday — and the Trump Justice Department almost immediately fired him.
I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.
A brown and gray Cooper’s hawk is walking right to left on the top of a blue metal tube fence. This adult is showing the field mark dark gray cap on its head. A blurry green hill is behind.
Gary is on a two a day schedule now, morning and late afternoon. Pretty quiet in the yard now.
#birds #raptor Cooper’s hawk
Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.
What an opening paragraph.
“Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government-masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles,
So rude of Apparat to release an album while I am asleep.
Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?
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.
In the dark we have heart 🤍🌎
The FBI is investigating #ExtinctionRebellion
A former member of #XRNYC was visited by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force outside of New York City. This is not an isolated situation.
The administration has escalated to a new focus:
the climate movement.
1/2
ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains
This is voter suppression.
Full stop.
Do not pass Go.
Do not collect $200.
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.
