Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

AlexZGreat

@alexzgreat.bsky.social

Why did I have to get Hand Foot and Mouth Disease right before Halloween…

November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

Gillian Brockell

@gbrockell.bsky.social

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 22d

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM

AlexZGreat

@alexzgreat.bsky.social

Gotta love jamming AI in to everything to ever exist

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 27d

Brace for another wave of x refuges

& What's happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts
and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

How this hits reality: This marks the first time a major social platform has handed full control of content discovery to an Al model.
Engagement farms, trend-hacking accounts, and traditional growth tactics may soon lose their edge. The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering. This shift could reshape influencer strategies, ad targeting, and even political communication in a matter of weeks.
• Key takeaway: X did not just change its algorithm; it replaced it with an Al reader.
Your reach will soon depend on how fluently you can speak Grok.

October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

briony

@brionykay.yogscast.com

If we can raise £100 for every day in October, I'll be cutting off my hair and donating it to the Little Princess Trust!!

All money raised will go towards saving Nibbles Rabbit Rescue and helping the bunnies in their care find their forever homes 🩷🐰

tiltify.com/@brionykay/l...

October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM

AlexZGreat

@alexzgreat.bsky.social

I’m starting to realize that we are reliving Anne Frank’s words. “Children are coming home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 9

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

October 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

JB_AU

@jbau.bsky.social

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

Toilets With Threatening Auras

@scarytoilet.bsky.social

September 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM

AlexZGreat

@alexzgreat.bsky.social

I cant believe they added robot yaoi to hollow knight silksong

September 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

1 like = 1 like
share if you agree

September 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

onion person

@junlper.beer

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

Merriam-Webster

@merriam-webster.com

Does Not Rhyme
-through
-cough
-though
-rough
-bough

Does Rhyme
-pony
-bologna

August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM

Reposted by AlexZGreat

tobyfox

@tobyfox.undertale.com

I'm looking through what I think is the oldest text document about DELTARUNE that I can find. This is one of the first facts about Susie. Even though this has never happened in the game, everyone just intuitively understands this as true. I won.