Favorites August 11 2021
You play enough baseball, it'll generate a few good 5 second clips. Looks like he's dancing.
Debunking the myth that vaccination promotes mutations. Being fully vaccinated actually suppresses them
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Just in case you hear anyone try to argue about this.
The stupid urban myth that YouTube is a force for right-wing radicalization has needed to die for a long long time. Hopefully this paper will kill it.
Chris Bail @chris_bail
I recall reading that they took action to curb this problem a long time ago.
China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.
The New York Times @nytimes
Not a good look.
Maybe you are feeling bad for friends in Florida and their horrible Governor, but California friends we could be in that same sinking ship in just a few weeks. Vote.
The upcoming recall has me very worried.
“The first home my wife and I purchased was a townhome in a newly built fourplex in Albany on a 6,000 sq ft lot that used to have a single-family home on it… the only way my family & I could afford a home in a neighborhood within walking distance to schools, parks and shopping.”
Mercury News @mercnews
Single family zoning has to go.
This is an *incredible* stat
Middle and high school will be so safe thanks to these kids
Matt Haney @MattHaneySF
Woo hoo!
If five years ago Democrats passed child allowance, universal pre-K, paid leave, *or* action on climate change in a standalone bill, it would've been a big deal.
That Democrats may do all of these and more in one bill is astonishing in a way the discourse hasn't truly reflected.
This is about the third big biden bill, there's a *ton* of stuff in it.
So the GOP is going to go with a pro-virus electoral strategy?
Good luck with that.
Melanie Zanona @MZanona
I mean, they sorta ran a pro-virus strategy in the 2020 election too...
Dedicating more person-hours of investigation to a given murder seems to substantially increase the odds of it being solved.
Bit of a follow-up on the 'solve all murders' discussion. Same thing goes for non-fatal shootings btw.
"I recall reading that they took action to curb this problem a long time ago."
I'd have to read the paper, but anecdotally...I can't agree that recommendations don't lead to lots of politically charged content I didn't want. It may not radicalize on its own, nor did it radicalize me (obviously...right? it's obvious?), but it's pretty insidious.
A couple obvious wedge issues led to this. Any form of firearm content, such as cleaning videos or even historical interest videos like Forgotten Weapons (whose host thankfully keeps political issue escalation to an absolute minimum) has led to recommendations for "hey brother"-esque content (men with big beards, dark sunglasses, and backwards caps ranting to their phones in their trucks), which I've dutifully removed from my feed. These aren't videos related to firearms themselves, although those videos often do contain snide asides about gun laws and Democratic states on an annoyingly-frequent basis.
In a more subtle fashion, when watching channels like Big Think (which have a variety of subjects across the political spectrum, especially before 2016), I get recommendations for IDW-types like Jordan Peterson or Sam Harris, as well as that argumentative idiot whose name escapes me. Peterson is particularly insidious. When I was trying to figure out his deal, a lot of his content was the most pedestrian version of his ideas, like clean your room, have self-confidence, build a good life for yourself. It failed to reflect his more conservative positions, such as his focus on Christian morality, traditional gender roles, and his constant gaslighting around his hate for anyone non-cis-gendered.
Again, while I'm willing to believe recommendations may not necessarily radicalize, at least by anecdata, I'm not willing to believe that it doesn't expose people to this content if they touch related topics.