Could social media make us less polarized instead of more?
We tested 5 algorithms on 3 platforms with 10,000 people for 6 months during the 2024 election, and found that the answer is yes.
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Either ICE has started cruelly arresting beloved community members, or ICE is merely enforcing existing laws to remove murderers and rapists.
Both of these are only half-right. Whatever side you’re on, you probably have something to learn.
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We've switched from mostly arresting criminals to mostly not. Obama was deporting just as many. But interior enforcement has exploded - BCB #181
Goodbye Vancouver! And the elevator at Gage Suites at UBC. I think the elevator track at the #ATmosphere conference is where I made the most interesting connections.
Jonathan Warden
Ronen Tamari
Jonathan Warden
@bnewbold.net , @pfrazee.com, @alex.bsky.team check out this proposal for oEmbed support in other ATProto lexicons! It builds on lexicon publishers for web embeddings. Thoughts? Should I post this somewhere? #atproto
Ranga Krishnan
Come see my talk about bluenotes.social -- Community Notes for atproto -- at the Atmosphere conference in Vancouver next week!
atmosphereconf.org/event/1AzdYWM
We are about to find if we are intelligent enough to create a computer program that is intelligent enough to create a computer program that’s more intelligent than we are.
There is some interesting discussion in the replies to this post. I think @masnick.com com makes some good points here, but I don't agree that algorithms that just show you want you want to see are simple "conduits of speech". These innocuous-seeming algorithms have tremendous social consequences.
Nick Gerakines
Adam Spiers
Thanks for the suggestions! Here's the link to the post on the forum: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/lexicon-em...
