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Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season
[url]https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/x_marks_the_spot_for/[/url]
[quote]A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election.
That date may stick out in the memory as when Elon Musk, now the owner of X, formally endorsed Donald Trump in the recent US presidential election.[/quote]
Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
[url]https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-tw%F0%9D%95%8Ftt%F0%9D%95%8Fr-dr%F0%9D%95%8Fm%F0%9D%95%8F-%F0%9D%95%8Ft-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4.649272/page-1110#post-131939817[/url]
[quote]Now, that has changed, in a big way. Although academics mostly stuck with X in the year after the poll, Bluesky has rapidly emerged as the new online gathering place for researchers, Kucharski among them. They are drawn by its Twitter-like feel, welcoming features, and, increasingly, the critical mass of scientists in many fields who have already made the move. "The majority has spoken, and researchers are moving en masse" to Bluesky, says De-Shaine Murray, a neuroscientist at Yale University who has also migrated to Bluesky.
And yet the shift was slow. Researchers studying online migration emphasize how hard it is for entire communities to move. It usually takes both a push and a pull. In X's case, there is no shortage of push factors: […]
Yet other platforms appeared to exert little pull for many researchers. Many scientists tried and abandoned Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Threads.
Anastasia Sergeyevna Bizyaeva, an engineer at Cornell University, says the trend reminded her of the dynamics she studies, called behavioral cascades, where a system that has reached a certain threshold can suddenly shift. In a school of fish, for example, a few individuals might notice a predator and change their behavior, "and then suddenly, there's this really fast transition where the whole network reacts."[/quote]
DCEU Failure Should Be Studied.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18p9R5S5guM[/url]
[quote]Hello Guys, I have explained about "The Rise and Fall Of DCEU".[/quote]
Exploring the Failure of the DCEU
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_vJ1v_7mPA[/url]
[quote]In this video, we discuss the downfall of the DCEU. With the start of the DCU on the way it got me thinking about what the DCEU did over the years. Where did they go wrong? What lead us to where we are now? Why is the DC brand basically dead? Well were gonna find out why the DCEU failed.[/quote]
10 Reasons Why Kamala LOST!
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhX7NSUV1s[/url]
[url]http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2024/NOVEMBER.html[/url]
[b]245. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 11/18 **6**[/b]
[url]https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2024/11/blind-item-6_18.html[/url]
No one liked working with this foreign born A- list actress from at least one franchise. She always thinks she is better than anyone else. Now, that she has come out in support of the child mole*ter/pseudo incest lover, she will have even less support. [i]Rebecca Hall/”Iron Man 3”/Woody Allen (Rebecca Hall Says ‘I Don’t Regret Working With’ Woody Allen Despite Apologizing for It in 2018: Actors Shouldn’t Be ‘Judge and Jury on This’)[/i]
[url]https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/rebecca-hall-i-regret-apologising-for-working-with-woody-allen.5772126/[/url]
How Hollywood Wrecked the Harris Campaign
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXc8Y-W4cg[/url]
There may not have been a bigger loser on November 5th than Hollywood and the institution of celebrities in general. The tsunami of Kamala Harris endorsements from the likes of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and Bad Bunny proved ineffectual for the Democratic nominee and there's actually evidence that the endorsements hurt her campaign. This video reveals that evidence and also recommends a clip that Hollywood should put on loop.
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Frank Sinatra & JFK
1:40 - How Sinatra Helped
3:03 - Kamala's Endorsements
3:44 - Taylor Swift Helped Trump
4:23 - Bad Bunny & Puerto Rico
5:50 - Working Class Realignment
6:33 - Anti-Elitism Soars
7:49 - Ricky Gervais at Golden Globes
9:10 - Oprah in 2008
9:44 - Jimmy Kimmel's Tearful Monologue
How exactly, is all of this "dumb"!? Don't say that something is dumb and not bother to explain why you feel this way in the first place.
Why Red One Absolutely Bombed At The Box Office
[url]https://www.looper.com/1717810/red-one-why-chris-evans-the-rock-bombed-box-office/[/url]
[quote]BY CHRIS HODGES
NOV. 19, 2024 7:02 PM EST
Plenty of movies have taken the "what if Santa Claus was real?" angle, but none have handled it the way 2024's holiday-themed action-adventure romp "Red One" does. The film imagines a world where pretty much all mythological creatures actually exist, with that delicate balance between them and regular people overseen by an organization called the Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority (M.O.R.A.).
The movie's version of Santa (J.K. Simmons) — more prone to lifting weights than eating milk and cookies — is kidnapped after the North Pole's location is revealed by a hacker named Jack O'Malley (Chris Evans). Cue Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson), head of Santa's security force — who has just announced his retirement after getting sick of how long the naughty list has grown in recent years — springing into action to rescue his boss and save Christmas. "Red One" takes viewers on a wild ride that also involves an anthropomorphic polar bear, a monstrous snowman army, and other holiday-based figures of European folklore like Krampus and Grýla.
Amazon MGM Studios and Johnson himself — who is one of the movie's producers — bet big on "Red One" to bring in a massive box office haul and recoup its reported $250 million production budget plus marketing costs. But after an opening weekend that fell well short of expectations — only $32 million in the U.S. and $51 million internationally — it looks like the movie is going be added to the list of the biggest box office bombs of 2024. So what happened?[/quote]
#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/tech/xodus-bluesky-hits-20m-users-140841536.html[/url]
Bluesky is currently adding nearly 1 million users per day.
Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reportedly visited with Donald Trump because they feared retribution
[url]https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/media/morning-joe-trump-mar-a-lago-meeting-fears/index.html[/url]
"In private conversations, Scarborough argued that having face time with a world leader is a no-brainer," reports CNN's Brian Stelter. "Some of his MSNBC colleagues agreed, but there was more to the Mar-a-Lago meeting. According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Scarborough and Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration. Knowing that Trump has threatened retribution against his perceived political opponents, and that Trump has promoted lies about Scarborough and Brzezinski in the past, the MSNBC hosts decided to reach out to the president-elect, the sources told CNN. The two sources generally agreed with Scarborough and Brzezinski’s impression of the situation at hand – namely, that the incoming Trump administration could use its wide-ranging powers to punish people deemed enemies."
Here are some examples:
[url]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it[/url]
[url]https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/data-shows-x-suspending-far-fewer-users-hate-speech/728136/[/url]
[url]https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/german-soccer-club-werder-bremen-stops-posting-citing-115999087[/url]
[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/x-formerly-twitter-hate-speech-running-rampant-ccdh.html[/url]
[url]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462960/posts-accounts-hate-speech-hosted-x-twitter/[/url]
[url]https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hate-speech-watchdog-to-quit-x-citing-updated-terms-of-service-7021689[/url]
[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/musk-election-misinformation-x-officials-twitter-voting-rcna176938[/url]
[url]https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-twitter-misinformation-timeline-1235076786/[/url]
[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/elon-musk-x-posts.html[/url]
RFK Jr. says he isn't an anti-vaxxer. He's wrong - STAT News
[url]https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/rfk-jr-anti-vaxxer-vaccine-skeptic/[/url]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a long record of promoting anti-vaccine views
[url]https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-vaccines-trump-rfkjr-7f8dcb25de76a5a70710d22bbc63f6fa[/url]
RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Anti-Vaccine But His Actions Tell a Much Different Story
[url]https://www.dcimmunized.org/rfk-jr-says-hes-not-anti-vaccine/[/url]
Elon Musk's social media site is literally invested with bots, gross misinformation, and unmoderated hate speech and yet those who dare to complain about it and point it out are the ones who are displaying childish behavior!? We're talking about a man who told advertisers who tried to boycott him to "go fuck themselves" after he was caught making antisemitic and conspiratorial posts on his platform.
What the hell does Kamala Harris have to do with this? She lost the election while Trump is bringing in a vocal anti-vaxxer in his wrong right in RFK Jr. into his new cabinet. Spare me the "Whataboutism" BS!
And what, Twitter or whatever the hell it's called now isn't within itself, a far-right wing echo chamber under Elon Musk, especially post-Election Day 2024? And you can't be serious that on Elon's site now, you can't also get banned for wrong-think immediately. I mean Stephen King claims that he got in trouble with Elon Musk for joking about him being the real First Lady for Donald Trump.
A study found that X’s algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk
[url]https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change[/url]
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1gtluzq/a_study_found_that_xs_algorithm_now_loves_two/[/url]
SUPERMAN RETURNS: why did it fail?
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPy6OWMOsUU[/url]
[quote]In our second episode, we revisit Superman Returns, analyze its strengths and many flaws, and compare it to other portrayals of Superman. Who got it right? Who got it oh so wrong?
00:00:00 — Intro
00:12:06 — SUPERMAN RETURNS et al
00:41:31 — Could THE BATMAN be expanded into a new DC Universe?[/quote]
Celebrities who have left X for BlueSky, from Stephen King to Lizzo
[url]https://www.datalounge.com/thread/34994847-celebrities-who-have-left-x-for-bluesky-from-stephen-king-to-lizzo[/url]
Bluesky, the microblogging platform backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been attracting attention as more high-profile users leave X.
The platform gained more than 700,000 new users in the week following president-elect Donald Trump’s election victory in the US.
Here’s a look at some of the other famous faces now active on Bluesky.
[url]https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/pop-culture/2024/11/16/celebrities-x-twitter-bluesky/[/url]
Trump and Musk already having first spat.
[url]https://www.datalounge.com/thread/34995758-trump-and-musk-already-having-first-spat.-[/url]
[quote]Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, raising eyebrows
In a Saturday post on X, the social network he owns and runs, Musk praised a foreign leader’s decision to cut tariffs - the same import taxes that Trump wants to raise to the highest level in a century. Several hours later, Musk posted that Howard Lutnick, Trump’s co-transition chair, would be a better choice than hedge fund executive Scott Bessent for treasury secretary.
[url]https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/16/musk-appears-to-pressure-trump-on-cabinet-and-tariffs-raising-eyebrows/76368956007/[/url][/quote]