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@bed__wards

PNW. Architect

United States Beigetreten Nisan 2022
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@LizzieMarbach No, 75,000 persians are killed by Jews in the Book of Esther. As he said, it has been controversial and interpretations morally fraught
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Lizzie Marbach
Lizzie Marbach@LizzieMarbach·
Wow. So Tucker is just now blatantly lying about scripture and what it is says. He claims here that the book of Esther is about Persian genocide, rather than what it actually is about—which is how God protects the Israelites from genocide against THEM.
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Brian@bed__wards·
I don’t really want to get spammed with links to offsite paywalled articles, but I don’t think they should deemphasize the rate they are shown to followers simply because of external links. X is correct that engagement in comments is higher quality when there is a specific short form argument or summary in the post
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Philippe Lemoine
This is so annoying. X is being criticized for deliberately throttling links, but instead of addressing that criticism (because he can't), Bier tries to reverse the accusation by criticizing the NYT for not being creative enough in promoting its content, unlike I guess the dozens of accounts that are raking up massive engagement by posting one-sentence summaries of NYT articles without a link.
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Shadowcoder3@Shadowcoder203·
@bed__wards @phl43 It was a deliberate effort to de-rank traditional news outlets and boost rage bait slop accounts
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Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine@phl43·
This was such a dishonest post. Bier was pretending that, if tweets containing a link tended to get lower reach, it was because of some UI problem, but to the extent that this problem was real it had always existed and tweets with links only started getting less reach after the algorithm was modified to penalize them, which we know because Musk literally said they did that! People keep avoiding links to this day because they believe, I think correctly, that this is still the case. The truth is that Bier knows perfectly well that it's why posts with links are being deprioritized, and he also knows that everyone hates that, but he can't say it because Musk made the decision to deboost links and he doesn't want to antagonize him, which is why he has to beat around the bush and post nonsense about how that was because of the UI.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538

That isn't really what the tweet you're self-quoting says. It says it's hard to establish the quality signal associated with a link and so each tweet should "stand alone", and also the platform design makes it hard to engage with such tweets. Maybe fix that?

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@AlanMCole He’s saying due to the paywall users are not organically engaging. I’m sure if one audited NYT followers a lot would be low use/engagement accounts
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
Dumb. The value of the link is in backing up the claim. The claim can often be backed up from a NYT/WSJ/Bloomberg headline alone. But it’s also a signal you’re willing to let the many power users who do have subscriptions investigate the story further. Dumb dumb dumb.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier

@NateSilver538 It’s paywalled. If only 0.1% of users can derive value from the content, it will organically rank lower.

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HowlingMutant@Howlingmutant0·
Sometimes I’ll say something in the group chat and it’ll get a bunch of laugh reacts so I’ll post it on the timeline and it totally bombs and I feel resentful towards the people who set me up
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Brian@bed__wards·
@NateSilver538 @nikitabier It got 1/3 the views despite 1/14 the retweets. Is X supposed to force people like comment and retweet a paywalled article?
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
A (super cute!!) pet photo from Catturd™ gets literally 50x the engagement of a link to incredibly important original reporting from the NYT on Iran. According to your own on-site numbers @nikitabier. Do you consider this to be a desirable outcome?
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MAZE@mazemoore·
There's a ton of obvious mistakes that people have pointed out but if you want to see how off this is, just go to Obama's account and compare his numbers to this graph. 11 million engagements? When was that, today? Just look at his last few posts. No AOC, Elizabeth Warren, or Bernie Sanders but Rep AP Luna? Is that a joke? No Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, any of the Democrats that post all day long? No Jon Favreau or any left leaning podcasts? Where's Greenwald? What is this graph even supposed to be? Is it just political accounts because if so, that's wrong. If it's not just political, it's missing a lot of non-political accounts. Not sure how someone who calls himself a data scientist can put out shoddy work like this.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

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Brian@bed__wards·
@NateSilver538 This doesn’t pass the sniff test, nevermind there are blatant category errors for accounts. The most generic liberal engagement posts will garner ~200k likes - the botted likes on the left are crazy
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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@DrewVento Isn’t your pinned post complaining about ppl contacting your work so you are being more secret as to not be doxxed
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Drew@DrewVento·
"oh no, theyre going to dox me. " how about you just dont be an asshole on here, to the point where your employer would fire you for what you post? its not difficult at all.
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@MalcangiSarah Jesus was not a rabbinical Jew he was a follower of the religion of Abraham. The only group that follows that religion today are called Christians
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Sarah Malcangi@MalcangiSarah·
As a Protestant I gladly stand with the Jews. My Savior, Jesus Christ, is a Jew.
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@saturnine_grace I think you’re supposed to come to understand your parents through maturation and especially when you raise kids of your own
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Jorge of the Wired
Jorge of the Wired@saturnine_grace·
Why does it seem like parenting is an endeavor where you're much more likely to fail than succeed? I feel like most people i know resent their parents on some level, which is counter-intuitive because it seems like we should be instinctually good at it?
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まーこ@AngelicaBr76053·
さっき夫とセッセした やっぱり立たなくて挿れもせず終了 誰か救って
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Brian@bed__wards·
@AzPetrich Either way he said sodomites will burn in hell
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@TomWob38 Don’t need translate on this one
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Tom@TomWob38·
Oh nee, de cuckstoel brengt de Hitlergroet
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