Eric Snyder

@BrianRoemmele @elonmusk I used to want that, but then I just started using the following tab a lot more. Now when I go to the general feed, all I really want to see is stuff from new (to me) accounts. Maybe I need a !=following tab?

Elon, thank you for the open source and being refreshingly open to critique. My fundamental suggestion is that no matter the tab someone is in, the high signal must be the signal of who you follow. Meaning this should be the primary percentage of the top line feed with all other content back filling. There is no higher signal than a follow. It is an overt action to request “more of this account” and by association “more like this account”. However the Shannon limit of noise (perhaps related noise) can grow so large as to eliminate the purpose of the follow signal to the follower and no one “wins” in this situation. I applaud the basis of lifting more long tail content but the balance going off too far will disenfranchise the long term poster of high value content. Unfortunately there is evidence of this. This is a balance of maintaining the best signal creators by being sure their content is being, at the very least, seen by all of their followers on the top line first or we risk the prospect of losing the best high value content that makes X quite unlike TikTok, Instagram or Reddit. I would be as crystal clear to the high value poster that they are the top of the value chain of X. I know this is an art more than a science and appreciate the experimentation. I have other ideas but I see this as the most vital.

Critique of the 𝕏 algorithm is welcome. There will be monthly updates of the latest algorithm to GitHub with release notes. As reminder, you can always choose no algorithm via the Following tab.

@MBtheMick @libsoftiktok Yeah, it is only punishing the honest ones. And by "honest" I mean the ones who are either too new or too incompetent to game the system.

@libsoftiktok Meaningless. Most of them make their money from books that nobody reads, speaking gigs and investment

BREAKING: The Senate has passed a resolution BARRING U.S. Senators from receiving a paycheck during future government shutdowns.

They probably need a Ross Perot. After he got 12% in his 1st run, he basically forced Republicans to come up with their "Contract with America", which Gingrich used to give them the House for the 1st time in 40 years. They basically ditched it 2 years later. Heck, even Clinton had to take some of Ross's arguments.

If you are a Millennial or later, you may be unaware of the near total domination Democrats had over American politics in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. Yes, the Dems and the GOP swapped Presidencies pretty routinely, but Congress tended to be overwhelmingly Democrat. When Newt Gingrich and his GOP team won a majority in the House in 1994, it was shocking and felt unbelievable. Now, in 2026, we are truly coming to understand that for decades Democrat electoral victories were built on: 1. Artificial, racist voting district constructs, ostensibly under the Voting Rights Act. 2. Complete control of votes and voting in most large cities. 3. Taxpayer dollars funneled to Leftist NGOs to promote Democrat policies. 4. A mass media with complete obedience to Democrats. 5. Illegal aliens, both for purposes of census district apportionments and illegal voting. 6. Highly questionable voting practices such as mail-in ballots, lack of voter ID, ballot dropboxes and ballot "harvesting." 7. "Errors" in census data that always pointed one-way. 8. The success of calling anyone who challenged their voting policies "racist." 9. Federal government employees "resisting" GOP policies while showing complete fealty to Democrat policies. Today, however, these electoral crutches are being kicked out one by one, and Democrats are becoming increasingly insane and violent as a result. Reality is being laid bare, and we are all coming to understand just how artificial Democrat power actually has been. In ten years they might be a powerless rump party, which suggests a third party supplanting the Democrats might soon be a reality. It's shocking, isn't it?

I doubt your followers would groove on it, but if you still carve out a little personal game time, try out Stationeers. It is an amazing space game that I once heard described as, "if you've ever taken apart an air conditioner and thought you could do better, then this game is for you".

@BretWeinstein I like all of the dashes.

And no, the “—“ does not imply that AI wrote this post. Many of the best writers I know use em dashes. AI does too, but it’s not the tell many think it is.

Just so it has been said: the timber industry has an incentive to spray this glyphosate: they’re turning OUR forests into their farms. And they don’t give 2 💩s about us, the loggers they employ—or the world. Bayer/Monsanto has 2 incentives: move product AND disguise glyphosate health harms by elevating the baseline. That’s murder we’ll never prove.

@thestanduppod Sadly, excel is the reason that I have maintained a windows machine. There really is no substitute for full-power spreadsheet work.

Divorcing Windows

@mikeroweworks I'll bet you could have an AI go through that pile for you, select a small sample of things you might want to look at (based on your feedback). Rinse and repeat.

"Mike - You said on your podcast that you have "tens of thousands of unanswered emails." It’s not that I don’t believe you, but…really? Tens of thousands? How can you function knowing your inbox is that flooded? Aren’t you tortured by what might be in there? A job offer? A note from an old girlfriend? A letter from the IRS? The anxiety would kill me...Candice Ramon" Hi Candace, I've told you a million times I never exaggerate. Ha! See attached. PS. Personally, I find it harder to ignore an email once I’ve read it. That’s when it needs to filed, or replied to, or deleted. Easier to just let them pile up. There was a time when a few dozen unread emails kept me up at night, for all the reasons you mention, but then, when it became a few hundred unread emails, I started to realize I could never catch up. My email address isn’t hard to find, and being a public figure invites a lot of unsolicited queries. Also, my time is now a zero-sum game, so every moment spent reading an unsolicited email is a moment spent not doing something more important. (Like answering your question.) Several years ago, when I tried to explain this to Mary, my business partner, her left eye began to twitch. Mary had glanced down at my phone and noticed 1,100 unread emails. “Eleven hundred unread emails!! Are you kidding me??” “Yeah, it’s a lot,” I said. “More than I can handle.” Mary is a legendary multitasker. I’ve seen her read an email and send a text at the same time - often while drafting a contract and running a Zoom call during a lunch meeting. This is a talent I admire, and benefit from a great deal, but do not envy. “How can you possibly have eleven hundred unread emails?” she said, eyes bulging. “On your business account! What’s your Follow Up File look like?” “My Follow Up File? What’s a Follow Up file?” “What do you mean? How do you not know what a Follow Up file is?? It’s the most important file there is!!!” “Well,” I said, “if I don’t read my emails, there’s really nothing to follow up on, is there?” It was at this point Mary’s right eye began to twitch, so I quickly changed the subject, and got one of those privacy screens for my phone. From a business perspective, I understand her exasperation with me. There were probably some legitimate opportunities buried in those eleven hundred unread emails, along with some other interesting...offers. Today, with 39,218 unread emails, I suspect there’s even more. And by the end of this year, when I expect to cross the 50,000-threshold, (hey, it’s important to have goals!) I guess they’ll be more still. But again – in a zero-sum game, every new opportunity means that Mary has to walk something else behind the barn a shoot it. So, what’s the point? As for old girlfriends and the IRS, I suspect either will find me, if it’s really important. The bigger question, obviously, is what will happen to the rest of Mary's face if she sees this?

@charlesmurray If I had to guess, from left to right: Thai, Nip, Chinese, Korean, Philopena.

Maybe because dog breeds look wildly different, whereas different populations of East Asians and SE Asians do not. And if you think that's coming from a round-eye who hasn't spent a lot of time around Asians, you're wrong.

@ChrisMartzWX Pretty sure the oil scarcity scare started about a week after Drake made his first well in Titusville PA, and has been regularly pushed ever since.

People said that we would run out of oil in the 1970s. That didn’t happen. We are going to be burning oil for a long, long time. Nobody really knows how much oil there is left. Not everything runs on bAtTeRiEs.

@brussbowman @unusual_whales Best reply.

@unusual_whales Most economic errors have an element of the fixed pie fallacy .... note the terms "gobbled up...wealth share" denoting boomers have seized a share of fixed wealth at the expense of others rather than having created that value in the first place. Standard Marxist language

"Baby boomers have now ‘gobbled up’ nearly one-third of America’s wealth share, and they’re leaving Gen Z and millennials behind," per FORTUNE

@realDonaldTrump BREAKING NEWS: Busted! For the 12,335th day in a row, a politician says whatever they think will make them look good.

Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!

@historyinmemes How does that work? Were there two cameras filming in synch, or would they have played a recording of the previous dialog right before shooting the Loki reaction shot, or is the story make believe? Or something else?

Chris Hemsworth improvised the “snake story” entirely on the spot, and you can actually see Loki break character and crack a smile in response.

@AustinJustice This seems like good news, but until an area's crime reporting methodology is audited I have a problem trusting any numbers.

"Blue cities are radical hellscapes that can't fix crime." Counterpoint: Baltimore. Baltimore had 334 murders in 2022. Last year it had 133, the lowest since 1977. The turning point was that voters defenestrated a Soros-backed prosecutor Marilyn Mosby who averaged 333 homicides a year across eight years and declined to use mandatory minimum sentences. (She was later convicted of mortgage fraud, so there's that too.) Her replacement, Ivan Bates, ran on the Democratic ticket with a simple message: repeat violent offenders belong in prison. Maryland law already allowed five years with no parole for convicted felons caught carrying a gun, but Mosby never used it. Bates used it a lot. In just two years, his office sent more than 2K repeat violent offenders to prison, double his predecessor's TOTAL. The city paired that with a precision intervention program that identified the small number of people driving most of the violence, which led to 631 arrests (94% haven't reoffended). Police also seized 2,480 firearms last year alone, including hundreds of ghost guns, while maintaining a 64% homicide clearance rate. When shooters know they'll get caught and actually prosecuted, behavior changes. Sandtown-Winchester, once the most violent neighborhoods in the city, just went a year without a killing! Carjackings (-51%) and robberies (-24%) are also down. Baltimore didn't change demographics, or its culture, its rules, or much of anything else in those years. It simply voted in a new Democratic prosecutor, who decided the city needed to finally put violent criminals in prison.

@CynicalPublius I think that in their minds the appearance of probity = probity.

The recent revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center add to the decade of Big Lies we have all been fed, and which we later uncovered the truth about because Donald Trump is President. The challenge is to stay outraged amidst a deluge of Big Lies while not becoming victims of paranoia. Clear-headedness wins. My article below explains.

@infolibnews I made no such qualification.

@infolibnews BREAKING NEWS: governments can't be trusted. This type of thing is as old as the sun. Before, it was paid actors and film crews, contextually manipulated media reports, planted stories, etc., etc... Believing what the state and the media companies say is for the ignorant.

There's an Israeli influence operation called "Generative AI for Good" that creates AI "victims" of Iran to agitate for regime change. They just held a conference last week in NYC. Here's a short clip of one of the deepfake propaganda videos they released a few weeks ago.

@BillyStrings Yeouch! May you heal swiftly!

Well, can’t say y’all didn’t warn me about screwing around on my skateboard!! Saturday night I walked off stage right before the encore I was all zazzed up from a really fun show. I grabbed my board and tried to do a trick I’ve done a million times (back 180) and landed awkwardly and broke my leg. I heard it snap over the screaming crowd!! Sounded like a damn 2x4. It’s been an interesting couple days to say the least complete with the most extreme pain and crazy ketamine trips and operations stuff but the staff here at UVA rules. They screwed me all back together. They are absolute angels on Earth. I had every intention of carrying on with the tour and Dave Grohling it. He even texted me and offered me the throne! I really don’t want to let anybody down, but after some long talks with these doctors, my friends, band and colleagues, my wife etc.. I should probably let this thing heal. I don’t believe that I could give you guys the show you deserve coming right out of this surgery and these first few days are really important as far as keeping this thing elevated and letting it heal. Plus I’m all messed up on pain killers and stuff. It’s a dumb ass mistake and it’s all my fault .. I feel like such an idiot. But what are ya gonna do , ya know? At least I didn’t hit my head or break my wrist or something. The remaining Spring shows in Charleston and Fishers are being rescheduled to later this year: CHARLESTON, WV April 22 → August 4, 2026 FISHERS, IN April 24 → August 6, 2026 April 25 → August 7, 2026 April 26 → August 8, 2026 Your tickets will still be good for the new dates. Again, I’m really sorry and I promise I will make it up to you. See you this summer.

@NASA @NASAArtemis Its good to see Japan and India on there. Now you just need China, Russia, and the EU.

Welcome to the @NASAArtemis Accords, Latvia! 🇱🇻 Latvia is the 62nd country to sign the Artemis Accords—an international commitment aimed at enhancing the safety, transparency, and coordination of exploration on the Moon, Mars, and beyond: go.nasa.gov/4vHoZuU

@MattWalshBlog I don't have a right to a steak dinner, but I have one now and again. What exactly is your point? Are you suggesting that one must have a right to something to enjoy it? It seems to me that one must look at outcomes and consequences, and make judgement upon that.

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.

@davepl1968 That car has better lines than I would have imagined. Nice score!

I just bought a 12,000-mile original-mile 1970 Lincoln Mark III. It comes from the estate of this man: J. Tuttle. Mr. Tuttle was a network engineer for Bell Telephone for 42 years. He never missed a day - literally - in those years. Not once. Perfect attendance, they say. He retired as Chief of Network Maintenance for Bell. He oversaw ~3 to 5 central offices in San Antonio. He was the manager responsible for the cutover of USA from the old switchgear to the new SS7 switchgear. He custom-ordered his Lincoln in the fall of '69, and because he was an engineer, I still have his planning paperwork. Then he washed, waxed, and maintained the car for decades, where it saw the occasional Sunday drive and family road trip. He passed away a couple of years ago now, and the car went into a collection of very low milage cars, which is where I had a private detective locate it. And now I will pick up where Mr. Tuttle left off. I hope I do him proud.