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A glance at political contributions of Twitter employees at 99.7% to one party gives you a very strong prior in what the political leaning of random Twitter employees to be.

Sure. The Oversight Board. Facebook did exactly this years ago. oversightboard.com/decisions

FB shut down facial recognition last year. I'm waiting to see other companies follow suit. Apple? https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-reco...

Wonder what bubble you're in, I've been seeing a Facebook attack article easily 3-4 times a month for the last three years. I want to see Bytedance's CEO in front of Congress. Wher…

The more basic explanation is that she has been served ads for puzzles like that for a while, based on previous history and maybe retargeting from the company and you guys only not…

As if the history of the dollars used is relevant. Chase money far enough and 90% of US bills have some trace of cocaine. Should we avoid any and all donations because it's drug mo…

It's actually really interesting that you mentioned physics and math - I used to typeset my lecture notes in LaTeX and I found it more effective to do it for exactly the same reaso…

And the pendulum has swung so far back I can recall reading "diversity" advocates trying to remove them in the last few years for being insufficiently equitable.

Yes, and E2EE was rolled out in 2016 to Messenger, and then was planned to be the default until regulators and NCMEC started screaming about CSAM, and rightly so. It's lose lose. h…

This is what happens when you encourage high achievement and select for it. It's not a model that's going to work everywhere. It certainly helps that he develops an accelerated pro…

Corrections get a tiny single digit fraction of the views of the original. There is no button to make sure everyone who saw the original sees the correction, assuming one is made. …

While I like the annotations, I have to say they make it difficult to make out the original equation. It parses and highlights variables and gets in the way of seeing a cohesive wh…

Even if change is led by groups (and I suspect it's not so clear cut), groups need leaders or you have mobs. I'm getting tired of articles that look to tear something down without …

Plastic Love doesn't quite serve your point, it's just they released the MV after literally decades, and nostalgia is handy for engagement. Granted I do see that YT has the same is…

I hazard a guess it's the PR campaign. YouTube Kids does not look like it's anywhere near successful as it should be yet they didn't get article after article yelling at them like …

But people don't like new material. The top comment mentions people hiding posts from pages they don't follow - alternatively, that's called showing brand new content you haven't s…