Brian
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@bed__wards @phl43 It was a deliberate effort to de-rank traditional news outlets and boost rage bait slop accounts
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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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I'd like to see a @Polymarket as to whether Tucker Carlson has converted (or will convert) to Islam.
Tucker Carlson Network@TCNetwork
The real victory is Jesus Christ’s victory over death itself.
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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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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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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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@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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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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@mazemoore Its also just a retread of media matters shoddy propaganda
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Brian@bed__wards
@Babygravy9 @LePapillonBlu2 Remember when they tried to push this idea that X was so rw, meanwhile the most inane liberal boomer slop will get 100-200k likes. Which is it? (Its bot likes)
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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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@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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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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@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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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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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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The Seduction Onion™ remains undefeated.
Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos
if you can’t do this to your wife or girlfriend, I’m sorry, but it’s already over
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Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.
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なぜ日本人が俗説で白人を狩猟民族とラベリングするかというと彼らが肉をたくさん食うからなんだけど、なぜ彼らが肉をたくさん食うかというと彼らの祖先が草原の遊牧・牧畜民だからなんだよね。
現代欧州人の祖先は大別して西部狩猟民、初期アナトリア農耕民、ヤムナヤ牧畜民の３つからなるんだけど、このうち最も言語的・精神的・遺伝的影響が強いのが実は最後のヤムナヤ牧畜民なんだよね。ヤムナヤは印欧語族の祖族と目されていて、人類史的には比較的最近の約五千年前にヨーロッパに侵入し欧州の遺伝子分布を塗り替えたとされている。印欧語族がみな同じ動物でもオスかメスか、仔か成体か、去勢されているか否かの区別にそれぞれ別の単語を当てるのは彼らの祖先に家畜が非常に身近な存在だったから。日本語で米という植物に生えてる状態、収穫された状態、脱穀された状態、調理された状態でそれぞれ別の語を当てるのとは対照的だ。
さてそのヤムナヤだが実は北欧で最も遺伝子比率が高く50%以上にものぼる。北欧の親戚であるゲルマン系とアングロサクソン、またロシアの一部でも高い。つまり現代の我々が思う一番典型的な白人はこのヤムナヤの比率が高いわけだね。そしてこの人たち周辺とその子孫は現代でも文化的に最も肉を食う人々のひとつなわけだ。つまり日本人が欧米人を見て肉を食うとか社交的だとか積極的だとか好戦的だとか拡張的だとかをもって狩猟民族と呼ぶとき、実はそれは彼らの中の遊牧民・牧畜民的性質を見て言ってるわけだ。
エボサイ（EvoPsy）@selfcomestomine
巷でよく聞く狩猟民族、農耕民族、みたいな区分って謎だよな。人類は元を辿れば200万年前のホモ・エレクトス時代から「肉を食う猿」に進化して狩猟やってるわけで、農耕の開始がやっと1万2000年前の新石器革命から。現代文明は全て四大文明＝農耕文明の流れを汲んでいるから、それでいうと弥生・古墳時代に中国文明をスーパーミームとして受け継いだ日本人は確かに「農耕民族」だけど、それならオリエントと古代ローマからスーパーミームを受け継いだ欧米圏も「農耕民族」じゃん。英独に先住していたゲルマン人を「狩猟民族」と呼んでいるのなら、日本も縄文人はみんな「狩猟民族」だよな。───で、なんだろうとホモサピエンスという種である限りはアフリカのサバンナで暮らしていた狩猟採集民族としてのDNAによって身体と心を構成されているんだよな。
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@tardwife4life @dvorstone Zoomers will say, ‘oral and Wednesday sex are gross that’s what millennials do’
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@dvorstone I thought you were joking about this kissing thing, but you're right. That guy is posting this as proof of his claim.
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I'll help the idiots:
1. The definition of "sodomy" that includes specific acts isn't Biblical but scholastic, emerging in medieval period.
2. This definition is basically "any non-procreative sexual act."
3. Everything the Bible has to say about sex strongly rejects this definition, as does the teachings of the major churches (they're incoherent) who accept the broad definition.
They acknowledge that sex is for more than procreation but then reject any non-procreative sex as "sodomy." This makes no sense, obviously.
4. The idea that oral sex (which includes kissing, by the way) is prohibited as "sodomy" is just a byproduct of medieval natural law philosophers, and not God.
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