Kenn WhiteSeriously, WTF College Board?
https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077
Pete VB
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L O L G O PTo be fair, "dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans" is a perfect distillation of the last two Republican candidates for president.
In all seriousness, this is (if true) the likely tipping point in the House. "Kevin McCarthy sent a dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans to look after your small business" is the kind of thing that starts dragging down people beyond Santos.
https://patch.com/new-york/oysterbay/disabled-veteran-george-santos-took-3k-dying-dogs-gofundme
Arvind NarayananAlgorithms aren't the enemy. Chronological feeds don't scale and the signal-to-noise ratio will plummet if this ever gets popular. The real problems with today's algorithmic feeds are non-transparency, lack of choice, and optimizing for engagement instead of healthy discourse.
Open-source is a perfect opportunity to fix all this. Have there been any efforts to create a Mastodon instance with a (community governed) ranking algorithm? Is that technically feasible? Or is the idea simply anathema?
It’ll get lost in all the disaster but the richest man alive reply guying “Actually, it’s *good* insulin is so expensive” may be one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen.
elon musk tried to correct bernie sanders on insulin prices but then got fact checked by his own website lol
Scott ShapiroHow it started….. How it’s going!
Mike Masnick ✅
Kevin CollierThe formula's simple: register an account for $8, impersonate someone famous, tweet something that'd be crazy if true, get a few RTs. The algorithm, seemingly untended by Twitter's skeleton crew, does the rest. Current Twitter could not be a less reliable source for information.
How do I retoot?