Favorites June 17th 2022: Control of Content and Dino Vomit
Tom Stafford@tomstafford
Reconsidering Tweets:Intervening during Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS… a native, inside twitter, intervention run as an RCT which enrolled 219,052 users. Picture shows intervention
7:21 AM · Jun 17, 2022
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Skimming the paper, it seems like seeing the prompt not only reduced offensive content in that tweet, but reduced the rate of offensive content going forward.
B. Dave Walters: I Say Words About Things@BDaveWalters
SCIENCE
9:36 AM · Jun 17, 2022
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This is from a real book, Dinosaurs Without Bones, about the study of trace fossils. "This includes urolites: trace fossils created by the erosion caused by the evacuation of liquid waste. Like urine. And vomit."
Emily Baker-White@ebakerwhite
In the past week, I listened to recordings of more than 80 internal TikTok meetings about Project Texas, the company’s effort to restrict access to US user data.
TLDR: TikTok has been having a really hard time shutting down Chinese access to this info.
buzzfeednews.com
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China
4:33 PM · Jun 17, 2022
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Not great, but as many have said before, the problem is that Chinese authorities have control over the content!
canada/denmark border patrol@Theophite
holy shit. in conjunction with the "long COVID shows no correlation with any major systemic dysfunction" paper, this is incredibly good news: the problem is the virus and we are getting much, much better at killing it.
Nick Harrold @breakfastnick
Harvard researchers find circulating spike protein in the blood of long haulers, but not controls, 12 months post diagnosis. Big paper.
https://t.co/LmrNnpSl3i
1:19 AM · Jun 18, 2022
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Also, Paxlovid appears to significantly help folks with long COVID, which makes sense given this new info.
Ryan Radia@RyanRadia
250 miles of gas as a percent of median usual weekly earnings (updated through June 2022)
datawrapper.de/_/Z9mmS/
2:37 AM · Jun 17, 2022
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So, yikes, but also, I'm surprised that this statistic was higher as recently as 2014.