This is not an Overreaction
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…and we’re not picking a CA’n for veep when there are battleground states you could get a point or two in with that seat.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
…and we’re not picking a CA’n for veep when there are battleground states you could get a point or two in with that seat.
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I did a bunch of testing about "reach" comparing bluesky to twitter, and the only "reach" that creators on twitter had was an inflated follower count - mostly dead accounts and bots. None of the creators I looked at were getting likes or replies or reposts from more than 0.5% of their followers.
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I did a bunch of testing about "reach" comparing bluesky to twitter, and the only "reach" that creators on twitter had was an inflated follower count - mostly dead accounts and bots. None of the creators I looked at were getting likes or replies or reposts from more than 0.5% of their followers.
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NPR left twitter in early 2023, and after 6 months they reported that their web traffic had dropped less than 1%.
Nobody should be staying on twitter for the "reach". The follower and view numbers are fake, it's just scraper bots scrolling past your post and pumping the view numbers.
Nobody should be staying on twitter for the "reach". The follower and view numbers are fake, it's just scraper bots scrolling past your post and pumping the view numbers.
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
NPR left twitter in early 2023, and after 6 months they reported that their web traffic had dropped less than 1%.
Nobody should be staying on twitter for the "reach". The follower and view numbers are fake, it's just scraper bots scrolling past your post and pumping the view numbers.
Nobody should be staying on twitter for the "reach". The follower and view numbers are fake, it's just scraper bots scrolling past your post and pumping the view numbers.
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And again, if you’re someone who thinks AI has gotten a bad rap, maybe consider the most prominent use cases so far which now include keeping Black and Queer scholarship off of college campuses.
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
And again, if you’re someone who thinks AI has gotten a bad rap, maybe consider the most prominent use cases so far which now include keeping Black and Queer scholarship off of college campuses.
It was a fun movie, but a (deliberately) terrible mystery.
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It was a fun movie, but a (deliberately) terrible mystery.
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The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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If you wrote a dystopian cyberpunk story about people getting mad because the "bet on anything" company wouldn't pay out when they bet "robots" would be the media's official "person of the year" because the answer was "the robots' corporate overlords" I'd tell you it was too on the nose. And yet!
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you wrote a dystopian cyberpunk story about people getting mad because the "bet on anything" company wouldn't pay out when they bet "robots" would be the media's official "person of the year" because the answer was "the robots' corporate overlords" I'd tell you it was too on the nose. And yet!