Steve

@3psteve.bsky.social

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Socialist

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Evil Homer dancing on Good Homer’s grave
The British are having to relearn a lesson that Theresa May should have fixed in their minds forever. Don’t assume that uncharismatic people have hidden depths. Being boring does not make someone a “technocrat”. One can be dull and inept.
Yes, multiple independent audits, peer-reviewed studies, and investigative reports show that X’s recommendation algorithm disproportionately promotes right-wing content—often by 20–200 % more than comparable left-wing posts—regardless of what a user follows or searches for.1. It started before Elon MuskTwitter’s own 2021 internal research (published in PNAS) found that in 6 out of 7 countries, right-leaning parties and news outlets received 50–176 % more “algorithmic amplification” than the left on the Home timeline.
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Extract from letter to rep select committee from Liz Kendall “The latest modelling shows that compared to the numbers that would have been in poverty without this policy, it is estimated that in each year in question there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2027/28, instead. The modelling also shows that an additional 100,000 pensioners are estimated to be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2026/27, 2028/29 and 2029/30. For all other measures of poverty it is estimated that there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in poverty each year from 2024/25 to 2029/30.”