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The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores

Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.

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@mmasnick The consistency of Taibbi from Giant Vampire Squid to today, is in it's divisiveness, right? And for those taking notes, who wants this? Putin
Who was there after the fall of the wall putting himself in positions to be kompromised (and writing about it, ie underage women, etc...)?
So if any Muskovites want a conspiracy to follow, there's a good starting place!

To be fair, "dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans" is a perfect distillation of the last two Republican candidates for president.

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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

Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe

Two New Jersey veterans say George Santos promised to raise funds for a lifesaving surgery for a service dog — then disappeared.

Patch

Algorithms 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.

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elon musk tried to correct bernie sanders on insulin prices but then got fact checked by his own website lol

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How it started….. How it’s going!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dtwyman/status/1591133921336389632

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“How it started….. How it’s going!”

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A story in three quick acts.
The 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?