@alexpez.bsky.social
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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If the government broke news on literally any other platform, more people would move onto those platforms, and that would change the ambient assumptions of what is and isn't worthwhile.
September 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If the government broke news on literally any other platform, more people would move onto those platforms, and that would change the ambient assumptions of what is and isn't worthwhile.
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It is happening again
This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks:
media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
August 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It is happening again
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Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry
August 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry
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For those who were not able to visit us in person.
For those who did visit us and want to re-live their experience.
And for those who might be thinking about running a similar event.
The content of our pop-up shop is now fully online.
🦠🧫🔬
For those who did visit us and want to re-live their experience.
And for those who might be thinking about running a similar event.
The content of our pop-up shop is now fully online.
🦠🧫🔬
Pop-Up Shop 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
www.superbugs.online
August 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For those who were not able to visit us in person.
For those who did visit us and want to re-live their experience.
And for those who might be thinking about running a similar event.
The content of our pop-up shop is now fully online.
🦠🧫🔬
For those who did visit us and want to re-live their experience.
And for those who might be thinking about running a similar event.
The content of our pop-up shop is now fully online.
🦠🧫🔬
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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looking up gary sobers’ numbers - 8,032 runs @ 57.78 in 160 innings; 235 wickets @ 34.03 in 159 innings - it occurs to me he conceded 7,999 runs which gives him a net of 33 runs, and maybe this should be the measure of allrounders?
stokes currently at about ~150, fwiw #thecricket
stokes currently at about ~150, fwiw #thecricket
July 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
looking up gary sobers’ numbers - 8,032 runs @ 57.78 in 160 innings; 235 wickets @ 34.03 in 159 innings - it occurs to me he conceded 7,999 runs which gives him a net of 33 runs, and maybe this should be the measure of allrounders?
stokes currently at about ~150, fwiw #thecricket
stokes currently at about ~150, fwiw #thecricket
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If you're not in Cyber – basically the position is there is now nothing companies should be exposing to the Internet they run themselves. Hell not even a VPN if you can afford a proper cloud-proxied one. Hacking is way too advanced and companies don't have competency, nothing is really safe.
July 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If you're not in Cyber – basically the position is there is now nothing companies should be exposing to the Internet they run themselves. Hell not even a VPN if you can afford a proper cloud-proxied one. Hacking is way too advanced and companies don't have competency, nothing is really safe.
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A trillion dollars of capex in five years. The viable products so far are: galaxy-brain autocompletes that poison the well of human knowledge; rote generators that fill up any available space like expanding foam; and machines that put tits on squirrels.
July 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A trillion dollars of capex in five years. The viable products so far are: galaxy-brain autocompletes that poison the well of human knowledge; rote generators that fill up any available space like expanding foam; and machines that put tits on squirrels.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Good @laraoreilly.bsky.social piece on LinkedIn's intentional decision to show you weeks-old posts
Reminder: Social platforms set the agenda of what we know/what we talk about & how we cultivate opinions
The best thing about Bluesky is no algorithmic feed
www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-new...
Reminder: Social platforms set the agenda of what we know/what we talk about & how we cultivate opinions
The best thing about Bluesky is no algorithmic feed
www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-new...
Why LinkedIn is showing you so many old posts
Keep seeing three-week-old posts in your LinkedIn feed? You're not alone.
www.businessinsider.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Good @laraoreilly.bsky.social piece on LinkedIn's intentional decision to show you weeks-old posts
Reminder: Social platforms set the agenda of what we know/what we talk about & how we cultivate opinions
The best thing about Bluesky is no algorithmic feed
www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-new...
Reminder: Social platforms set the agenda of what we know/what we talk about & how we cultivate opinions
The best thing about Bluesky is no algorithmic feed
www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-new...
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American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
July 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
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And this is why we are running a month-long pop-up shop in the heart of one of the UK's busiest shopping centres.
There's a lack of public knowledge of infections and vaccines, but plenty of misinformation and disinformation.
Diseases like measles are preventable. Vaccines save lives.
There's a lack of public knowledge of infections and vaccines, but plenty of misinformation and disinformation.
Diseases like measles are preventable. Vaccines save lives.
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And this is why we are running a month-long pop-up shop in the heart of one of the UK's busiest shopping centres.
There's a lack of public knowledge of infections and vaccines, but plenty of misinformation and disinformation.
Diseases like measles are preventable. Vaccines save lives.
There's a lack of public knowledge of infections and vaccines, but plenty of misinformation and disinformation.
Diseases like measles are preventable. Vaccines save lives.
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An Elections Bill is expected very soon.
This is a test for Starmer’s government: will it close the loopholes — or let dark money shape the next election too?
If you want more fearless, independent journalism that follows the money — support Democracy for Sale today:
democracyforsale.substack.com
This is a test for Starmer’s government: will it close the loopholes — or let dark money shape the next election too?
If you want more fearless, independent journalism that follows the money — support Democracy for Sale today:
democracyforsale.substack.com
Democracy for Sale | Peter Geoghegan | Substack
A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. Click to read Democracy for Sale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
democracyforsale.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
An Elections Bill is expected very soon.
This is a test for Starmer’s government: will it close the loopholes — or let dark money shape the next election too?
If you want more fearless, independent journalism that follows the money — support Democracy for Sale today:
democracyforsale.substack.com
This is a test for Starmer’s government: will it close the loopholes — or let dark money shape the next election too?
If you want more fearless, independent journalism that follows the money — support Democracy for Sale today:
democracyforsale.substack.com
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This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate
Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li
academic.oup.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...
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Why carmakers need to bring back buttons - great column by June Yoon how makers shifted to touchscreen dominated dashboards. It was cheaper and helped monetise software. But they are now realise it is not so safe - ie finding a hazard light screen icon in an emergency www.ft.com/content/b463...
Why carmakers need to bring back buttons
Asian companies lead a reversal from touchscreen-dominated dashboards
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Why carmakers need to bring back buttons - great column by June Yoon how makers shifted to touchscreen dominated dashboards. It was cheaper and helped monetise software. But they are now realise it is not so safe - ie finding a hazard light screen icon in an emergency www.ft.com/content/b463...
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Juries are less important for the powers they have, but for the powers they prevent others from having.
July 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Juries are less important for the powers they have, but for the powers they prevent others from having.
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“Jury-free trials proposed to save criminal justice system from collapse” is the judicial policy equivalent of destroying a village so as to save it.
July 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“Jury-free trials proposed to save criminal justice system from collapse” is the judicial policy equivalent of destroying a village so as to save it.
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the 🐐 @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to explain some of technical reasons for why grok went nazi as well as some of the less technical ones (prompting Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration). It's all quite awful and illuminating www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the 🐐 @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to explain some of technical reasons for why grok went nazi as well as some of the less technical ones (prompting Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration). It's all quite awful and illuminating www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
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Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.
July 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.
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This is very good. The outline of the New Dark Age emerges
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is very good. The outline of the New Dark Age emerges
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
The PR agency, the publishers and the disappearing lottery winners
Lottery winners whose stories promoted casino website cannot be found.
pressgazette.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...
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After exploring Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Internet Roadtrip is in New Brunswick, having an ongoing debate over whether to cross the border back into Maine or stay in Canada and explore Quebec and Ontario neal.fun/internet-roa...
June 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
After exploring Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Internet Roadtrip is in New Brunswick, having an ongoing debate over whether to cross the border back into Maine or stay in Canada and explore Quebec and Ontario neal.fun/internet-roa...