"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
Terrifying, genocidal threats. How long can allies continue to treat the US as anything but criminal?
This is a great read. I wish the article was more explicit in what prompts they used since they acknowledged it gave different results. Beyond showing the methods, it would be helpful for media literacy.
Extremely relevant to the “Is Bluesky Dying” debate.
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
don't really know if the millenials attempting to rise to meet the moment will actually get to take control before the boomer irreversibly blow up the entire planet, but i'm grateful for all of us who appear to actually grasp what's at stake and are acting accordingly
In essence, and this is really important to understand, Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief.
This means that Iran is all the less incentivized to end the war, unless the agreement provides Iran with formal sanctions relief.
I appreciated this reflection. I keep trying to just journal my thoughts and exchanges with friends this week, but attempts are constantly interrupted by responsibilities that feel trite in this moment.
