|
I feel like this explains a lot about how Twitter broke the world.
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 15:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 12:01 |
|
|
twitter is designed from the ground up to create echo chambers, who knew
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 17:43
|
|
|
Every recommendation algorithm by definition generates some version of an echo chamber. Hell, the fact that active threads get bumped up to the top on SA generates its own kind of bias about what people read.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 19:47
|
|
|
Young Freud posted:Look at the other topics, they're all labelled "-Misinfo" but all of "UkraineCrisisTopic" is literally dumped into the same bin. That's all very nice and good, but with one important problem: it's not very accurate! A couple of his tweets clearly contradict what's shown in the code snippets he's using as his sources, and looking into the repository for the actual context surrounding those code snippets suggests that his other tweets are inaccurate as well. Which shouldn't be shocking if you look past the authoritative-sounding tweets and look at the actual source! Aakash Gupta is a MBA who's spent his entire career in marketing and management. He likes to tout his days in code camp and his management positions in tech companies to portray himself as a technology expert, but he builds that image solely to drive people to his paid Substack where he claims to dispense expert marketing advice around whatever the current hot tech buzzword is. And for the most part, he's just collecting info from other dubious tweets that have been circulating around, and compiling them into a single thread - he just takes other people's screenshots and paraphrases their tweets. He cites his actual sources later in the thread, and half of them are cryptobros; all this info is actually coming from the likes of @NFT_GOD and @xerocooleth. Just because a tweet seems detailed doesn't mean it's a good source. He points to lots of variables with detailed names...but the repositories often don't contain any code that actually uses those variables, so their actual impact is completely unknowable. And even with just this much, there's places where he appears to misinterpret the code. For example: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976906982498310 He says here that external links get you marked as spam unless you have enough engagement. Which is a takeaway one might have if they only read the comments and none of the actual code. The actual code describes a much more complicated logic, with at least four different conditions that go into the decision of whether or not a link is marked as "SPAM_SCORE" or "NOT_SPAM_SCORE". And if you go into the repository and look at the complete class, you can see the value of "ENGAGEMENTS_NO_FILTER", which tells you that the amount of engagements needed to clear the reputation check is a whopping 1. Similarly, I can't find anything that backs up his assertion that Ukraine content is downranked. The screenshot he shows only demonstrates that Ukraine Crisis content is assigned a category in "SpaceSafetyLabelType", but he doesn't actually demonstrate that this reduces the content's reach. Digging through the repository, I'm actually fairly confident that it doesn't. Yes, a lot of the other SpaceSafetyLabelType items are clearly the kind of stuff you'd expect to be downranked or filtered...but I can dig through the files and find exactly where about half of them are downranked, which happens in other files. "DMCAWithheld" gets handled specially in Action.scala, for instance, while "DoNotAmplify" has half a dozen entries in various Rules files. The Ukraine stuff doesn't have such an entry. In fact, the only other place Ukraine is mentioned at all in the repository is in PublicInterestSafetyRules, where Ukraine-related misinformation is clearly singled out.  And the "MisinfoCrisis" policy reason listed here does get cited as a reason for downranking and policy violations elsewhere in the repository.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 22:56
|
|
|
Vegetable posted:Hell, the fact that active threads get bumped up to the top on SA generates its own kind of bias about what people read. this is why bookmark browsing is the superior way to use the forums 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 23:11
|
|
|
 https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1642625820727336961?s=20 My plugin can still tell the difference though. Wonder how long that will last.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2023 23:49
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:My plugin can still tell the difference though. Wonder how long that will last. That part of the plugin was already broken once and it was updated so they'll keep finding a way unless there's a significant rewrite (lol).
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 01:54
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/Win98Tech/status/1642944854991699968
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 19:28
|
|
|
I really hope no one can revert it back and we're just stuck with it
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 19:39
|
|
|
It actually looks like him trying to hide a lawsuit https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1642952407251296260
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 20:26
|
|
|
MonsterEnvy posted:It actually looks like him trying to hide a lawsuit But...how does this hide the lawsuit? I realize public opinion is not the court of law but how does making everyone think of Doge again, reminding them about Dogecoin, hide it!? How Is this man this stupid? HOW? I mean I understand on an intellectual level and yet I cannot accept it on an emotional level.
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 20:50
|
|
|
if he makes its number go up then how can there be crimes?
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 20:58
|
|
|
He appears to be mocking the lawsuit, not hiding it. The doge joke perfectly aligns with what he says in the lawsuit: “There is nothing unlawful about tweeting words of support for, or funny pictures about, a legitimate cryptocurrency that continues to hold a market cap of nearly $10 billion.”
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 20:58
|
|
|
Alkydere posted:But...how does this hide the lawsuit? I realize public opinion is not the court of law but how does making everyone think of Doge again, reminding them about Dogecoin, hide it!? when you search for "elon" and "doge" instead of getting a news article on how he's a scammer, you get a news article on a stupid website thing and don't find out about the scammer thing
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 21:30
|
|
|
So uh, he's trying to ensure that his lawyers can't argue for jury nullification? How does "hiding" it from public view actually benefit him?
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 21:33
|
|
|
Professor Beetus posted:So uh, he's trying to ensure that his lawyers can't argue for jury nullification? How does "hiding" it from public view actually benefit him? he cares more about his public image than he does about the chances of winning this lawsuit specifically, because the vast majority of his wealth is due to convincing rubes to buy tesla stock at hilarious multiples to its actual value
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 21:36
|
|
|
evilweasel posted:he cares more about his public image than he does about the chances of winning this lawsuit specifically, because the vast majority of his wealth is due to convincing rubes to buy tesla stock at hilarious multiples to its actual value This is why his Twitter fuckup is so hilarious
|
|
#
?
Apr 3, 2023 21:47
|
|
|
So I guess this is the general social media thread, maybe I can get some help: I have a dumb meme page on facebook and for the past few weeks, whenever I someone posts a reply, if I click my notification to either like the reply or respond myself, it's been opening meta business manager. Which is ugly, has too much poo poo I'm interested in/ will never use, and doesn't even have a dark mode. I just want to toss a like to the person who posted "lol" to a meme about loving faeries. Up until today, my work around was to use my phone for responses, but now facebook wants me to download the business suite app instead of just taking me to the post on my goddamn page. All the work arounds I've googled are for pages that have active business profiles and do not work for my issue.
|
|
#
?
Apr 4, 2023 09:48
|
|
|
Twitter appears to be systematically blocking functions linking to or promoting substack pages.
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 20:24
|
|
|
Substack debuted a new feature, Substack Notes, last night resulting in Musk calling up his engineers in the middle of the night to prevent any tweets that has a Substack url from being liked or retweeted, limiting their wider engagement. https://twitter.com/_FleerUltra/status/1644370566038822912?t=g4fhSdjBvKq6YkjE7f-9hA&s=19 The thing is that Substack is popular with journalists, especially the chud-adjacent grifter types, because they can set up subscriptions with their readers, so there's a lot of complaints from journos and other op-writers about this. Queue Matt Taibbi, whose face turned out to be quite tasty to Elon the Leopard...https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1644400117036851208?t=aVvuxOqWRTQ4_nSYN83gkA&s=19
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 20:27
|
|
|
Yeah I’m sure GG and Taibbi in particular are pissed
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 21:55
|
|
|
Straight up ghosted and tossed away, incredible leopards won’t eat my face moment. https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1644442463766212608
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:07
|
|
|
I don't think Taibbi is a Greenwald-level overrated prick and I thought most of the mistakes harped on in the MSNBC segment were petty bullshit but still LOL serves him right for playing toady to Musk for the scoop.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:15
|
|
|
Vegetable posted:Every recommendation algorithm by definition generates some version of an echo chamber. Hell, the fact that active threads get bumped up to the top on SA generates its own kind of bias about what people read. I wonder if sa could productively change that by making threads only sort to the top when they hit a new page instead of every post. Actually that may make it worse now that I'm thinking abt it but im not a computer guy
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:36
|
|
|
Republicans posted:I don't think Taibbi is a Greenwald-level overrated prick and I thought most of the mistakes harped on in the MSNBC segment were petty bullshit but still LOL serves him right for playing toady to Musk for the scoop. Agreed. Pretty rude to subject Taibbi to serious scrutiny of what he wrote like he’s some kind of journalist.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 22:41
|
|
|
I'm not sure what he expected, did he think that Elon was going to continue being his buddy?
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:29
|
|
|
Republicans posted:I don't think Taibbi is a Greenwald-level overrated prick and I thought most of the mistakes harped on in the MSNBC segment were petty bullshit but still LOL serves him right for playing toady to Musk for the scoop. He probably exceeds Greenwald, at the moment I can't think of any instance of Greenwald koolaid-manning through journalistic ethical lines to doxx a narcissistic billionaire's perceived enemies.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2023 23:59
|
|
|
Name Change posted:He probably exceeds Greenwald, at the moment I can't think of any instance of Greenwald koolaid-manning through journalistic ethical lines to doxx a narcissistic billionaire's perceived enemies. greenwald doxxed an nsa leaker, to the federal government itself
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 00:01
|
|
|
Greenwald basically lied about his bosses and coworkers at The Intercept so that he could quit while claiming he was 'pushed out' and go start his Substack
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 00:03
|
|
|
I can at least wrap my head around a guy someone viewing everyone else as disposable toys, and I can understand desperately wanting to be liked, even by weird schlubs. But the way those impulses combine in Elon is baffling, because apparently the only person on the planet he regards as a real human being, and not an NPC created by the Matrix for him to do with as he pleases, is Catturd2 
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 00:08
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:So I guess this is the general social media thread, maybe I can get some help: I run my relative’s business FB and get the same issues. There does not seem to be a work around and it’s just the shittifying of Social Media, it appears.
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 03:23
|
|
|
Republicans posted:I don't think Taibbi is a Greenwald-level overrated prick and I thought most of the mistakes harped on in the MSNBC segment were petty bullshit but still LOL serves him right for playing toady to Musk for the scoop. I can't stand GG but at least he didn't write a memoir in which he bragged about sexually harassing his employees https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-taibbi/u-s-journalist-faces-sexual-harassment-furor-over-memoir-idUSKBN1CX0QC
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 04:02
|
|
|
Musk claims that Taibbi is employed by substack and also Substack tried to dl Twitters database. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779?s=20 Searches for Substack now returns "newsletter". It also returns results for substack so it appear to mostly muddle searches on Twitter. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1644520442793787392?s=20 Good stuff 
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 18:15
|
|
|
Did he ever appoint someone else to run the company like he said he would?
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 19:19
|
|
|
I AM GRANDO posted:Did he ever appoint someone else to run the company like he said he would?
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2023 19:26
|
|
|
I AM GRANDO posted:Did he ever appoint someone else to run the company like he said he would? He only said that because he was being sued for not paying enough attention to Tesla.
|
|
#
?
Apr 9, 2023 01:57
|
|
|
Also the poll was rigged because people who don't pay him were allowed to vote.
|
|
#
?
Apr 9, 2023 02:09
|
|
|
duz posted:He only said that because he was being sued for not paying enough attention to Tesla. What, by his competitors? Who wants him paying attention to anything?
|
|
#
?
Apr 9, 2023 02:37
|
|
|
https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-painted-over-w-051530156.html Is this real? I mean, I really can't tell anymore. Did Elon musk really make a boob joke at his company headquarters. Does anyone think this man is serious anymore?
|
|
#
?
Apr 10, 2023 18:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 12:01 |
|
|
Grater posted:https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-painted-over-w-051530156.html Yes, it's real. As to your other questions, please refer to the fact that Elon musk recently renamed himself hairy balls.
|
|
#
?
Apr 10, 2023 18:56
|
|
