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I need new glasses and I enjoy 30 Rock.
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Yesterday I posted a paper about the danger of social media algos pushing more and more people into extreme right-wing views. It now only takes a week to change someone’s view by the same amount that used to take 3 years.

I fully expect calls for violence against vaccine proponents to explode.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Now White’s launching a bid for Congress, saying he will challenge Democrats who he thinks aren’t doing enough to keep their seats — starting with his own congressman.

I’ve been talking with White about his long-shot bid, and his desire for a “tea party” moment on the left.

Read the story here:
Jonathan White fought the first Trump administration’s efforts to separate migrant families.

Now, White says he has a new mission — challenging Democrats that he believes aren’t doing enough to fight the Trump administration.
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The US is so catastrophically bad at actually punishing its monsters that it fully gave up on Reconstruction in under a decade.

Miller and all those other dipshits can look back at generations and generations of history indicating they'll be totally fine for the next half century.
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM