Thought experiment- what if what just happened in Tehran happened in DC?
11.03.2026 17:54
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Thought experiment- what if what just happened in Tehran happened in DC?
But I ain’t gonna spend any time on it because in the meantime every 3 months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
I just saw someone say the internet ruined their brain for reading and I just want to say that barring any significant medical conditions, that “ruin” is likely reversible.
Reading is a skill. You can cultivate it through practice. It does mean you may have to log off for a bit though.
UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax.
Companies run up debts, declare bankruptcy, debts shed, new company formed with same management/owners ... rinsed and repeated.
HMRC loses £836m a year. Creditors, including SMEs, lose millions.
Including all fuel types, guess who outsold Tesla in the UK in Feb.
Answer:
Volkswagen
Ford
BMW
Mercedes
Audi
Vauxhall
Kia
Skoda
Peugeot
Hyundai
Toyota
MG
Mini
Renault
Volvo
Nissan
Land Rover
Incredibly normal to be banging on the door of the Quakers repeatedly but allowing literal organisations such as Britain first to stalk homes of refugees and domestic violence survivors every weekend.
Totally normal is this government. Not worried at all.
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond
The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him
Oh my god
Lmao
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My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.
It might seem crazy to imagine changing the hours of the working day twice a year, but is that more crazy than changing EVERY HOUR FOR EVERYONE instead?
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Today is 5yrs since Sarah Everard was kidnapped & murdered by a police officer, prompting promises of reform.
But policewomen across the UK who reported colleagues for abuse in the years since now tell me reforms have been used against them.
Read the investigation:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Read the thread first. You have become the meme.
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
I love it. Thank you!
A dog drawing a cartoon of a cat, please!
Man holding a honk if you hate Elon sign stood next to a protest frog.
Save the date for some #TeslaTakedown protesting.
Saturday 14th March 11 AM.
We've not decided which dealership yet, but probably one in and around London.
Bring your best protest signs, frog outfits, whistles, and maybe also your karaoke song suggestion, to see how many honks we can collect!
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.
This is super interesting.
The last one I can read fluently is 1600.
I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Okay, found this color-matching game and I'm kind of obsessed. My best score is 43.67/50, because there is an inverse relationship between "how good is my brain at something" and "how likely is this to help me manage my life"
This thread is great, but this piece sticks out. When trying to prevent another “never again” moment, we have to push back early, on the small things, when it’s not yet cool, still cringe even. If we wait until the tanks are already rolling, the detention facilities full, then it’s too late.
I've lost count of the number of times I've had to pull out this chart from the FT.
It's not really true to say young men are moving right in the developed world overall, let along within the UK.
Just like the mythical Reform surge with teenagers, it's a meme that just will not die.
Yelp holds smaller business owners hostage over malicious reviews. Not impressed you're hyping them.
Elon seems rather obsessed with the UK.
He's now backing a new shower of sh*t (white nationalist extremist party).
Therapy Elon! Therapy!!!!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Excellent summary of how terrible Tesla's sales are in Europe over the last few years.
It warms the heart to read how Tesla is Toast in Europe.
#TeslaTakedown
cleantechnica.com/2026/02/15/t...
I thought the country was full? Make your mind up, racists!
