hey man, I hope you keep going. I hope you find some kind of thing to latch onto if you need that, to hang onto. I hope you stick around to find it. Do what you've got to do, but please, stick around in this world. do not let anyone else win. you're worth it. I promise you are, bro.
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.
Kazumasa Nagai, the pioneering graphic designer whose work helped define postwar visual culture in Japan, has passed away.
One of my favorite feelings in life is to be completely lost when trying to learn something new and then suddenly you feel it all lock into place when you realise you understand more than you don't. All those connections being made in the background. Feels amazing.
A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.
Back at it again in the mines
City nights #oilpainting #art
#photo #photograph #photography
Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...
Hello. AP Thomson’s newest game Titanium Court is wonderful and just a really relaxing, polished, dreamlike little thing with the funniest writing and excellent narrative design. Please do get the demo
i live to tell you why i think your favorite fighting game is ass but i would die to make sure you kept playing it
The Dark Knight Returns turned 40 yesterday.
#batman #dccomics #thedarkknightreturns #digitalart
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Not like Disgaea.*
I hate how I can't describe this game to friends.
No, it's not like Fire Emblem. No, it's not like FFT. No, it's not an ogre-like. No, it's like Disgaea. No, not like Phantasy Star.
It's Shining Force. And it's practically perfect.
I think one thing I've noticed about why social media makes me particularly miserable more recently is that I can't parse the emotion or intention behind posts anymore. Nothing seems sincere and people use the same words in both positive and negative ways. It's just such an incomprehensible mess!
valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
This is blackout poetry to me
Happy Valentine’s Day!! ❤️
Valentine’s Day is actually my favorite holiday! Love in all its forms is one of the most powerful forces in our world and I’m grateful for a day to celebrate that and share love with people close to me!
Hope you and yours have a wonderful day full of love and gratitude ❤️
#streetphotography #architecture #portlandoregon #blackandwhite #photography
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
Morning.
getting into Ridge Racer has helped me to understand the core appeal of arcade-style racers and why it's sad when the market is underserved
they're for people who like the sense of speed, enjoy improving at challenges of execution over time, and - crucially - do not actually give a shit about cars
“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?
Morning.
english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you
coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you
film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
As I mature more in age, I am realizing more and more that the characters in TMNT (comics, cartoons, games, etc) demonstrate healthy, non-toxic, non-overly-masculine, human-driven models of productive relationships.
Everyone's journey is valid. Either support them or get out of their way.
Two characters of happiness
This list could be hundreds of characters long but these were the first two I found on my phone.
Across all TMNT iterations, April and Casey are rad for being a good support network for the boys and Splinter as well as being capable in their own right.
Silhouette of Ryu about to hadouken you
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II: THE NEW CHALLENGERS
CAPCOM 1994
SNES
people used to try and separate "interactive multimedia art" from "videogames" in an attempt to divide what the game industry valued from what a lot of artists wanted to be associated with. but that divide was imaginary. it's a smart thing to call everything "videogames" and force that confrontation
