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Comment More important is what it does. (Score 5, Informative) 43

X algorithm changed in July [2024] to boost right-wing accounts, study finds

but there is more to it

Research reveals systematic changes to X's algorithm under Elon Musk. After his Trump endorsement on July 13, 2024, Musk's own post views increased 138% and retweets jumped 238%. PLOS One found hate speech is 50% higher than pre-acquisition, spanning racism, homophobia, and transphobia. In January 2025, Musk's Islamophobic posts accumulated 1.19 billion views in 30 days. Academic audits show the algorithm amplifies emotionally hostile, antidemocratic content, and that right-leaning accounts had higher baseline visibility before Musk even endorsed Trump. Cambridge research confirms rude, disrespectful, and false content sees greater amplification. The platform isn't just allowing extremism. It's designed to promote it.

Shitty twitter needs to be flushed.

Comment Re:matrix (Score 1) 56

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Neo: Are... are you high right now?
Morpheus: Uhh... a little bit-but the question still appli-
Neo: Go home, Rick, it's late.
Morpheus: Don't call me by my slave name!
Neo: Goodnight, Rick.

Comment No good outcomes for Chrome here. (Score 5, Insightful) 32

Let's just game out how divesting would go.
1. Chrome is bought by another megacorp (e.g. Microsoft) and is then equally used to screw over users.
2. Chrome is bought by a medium-sized company that fails to recognize the level investment it requires and they make bad choices or sell it to someone else.
3. Chrome is bought by a small company that MUST make money from Chrome and adds a bunch of shitty stuff to it and Chrome starts dying.

The best outcome you are going to get is Chrome dying a slow death and most people fleeing to other chromium forks which likely mean Microsoft absorbing most users. Given what they have written about why to divest, it seems they are hoping for a nonexistent possibility where greed is not the driving factor.

Comment Re:Wait what? (Score 1) 125

Yes, time matters, you can't blame an event for a result when the result came before the event.

That's not time, that is sequence.

16-ish years ago congress changed a different law, one granting this power to the fcc.

Doesn't matter. If they didn't repeal the earlier law then the law remains a limitation.

If you don't remember, their authority to make such decisions was given by congress in the fight over net neutrality.

Congress can give the FCC 100% authority over everything and when congress then passes a law, despite their authority, the FCC must follow that law.

You need to learn the basics about how the legal system works.

Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 2) 81

and the resulting operating method might be straightforward, or a subtle trick at the edge of some math on the energy level required for some chemical reaction.

Except it is not. Multicellular life had to evolve increasingly robust cell walls partially due to the fact that bacteriophages are most prolific things on the planet.

You need to need to dig a little deeper into precisely why bacteriophages are limited to bacterium. What you are arguing is similar to the argument that being capable of picking mechanical locks means you can pick a cryptographic lock. Despite being conceptually similar, the approach needs to be overhauled. In this case, it would mean designing something that would never be considered a bacteriophage because it would be entirely different in both form and function.

Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 3, Insightful) 81

its a pretty small jump to create something that gets rid of those pesky meatbags that are competing for compute and energy resources.

If only! The problem is that bacteriophages work on bacterium and not multicellular things because bacterium have trivial cell walls. You call it a small jump but that's like saying it's a small jump between making a rocket and starting a colony on another planet. To the layman, this is true but anyone who actually knows about the challenges in involved in interplanetary exploration will understand that such a claim is far from the truth.

Comment Wait what? (Score 5, Interesting) 125

When congress passes a law, it can only be changed by congress. It can interpreted as unconstitutional or it can be unenforced but it remains the law. Nothing about "it was made 20 years ago" changes the fact that congress set a limit.

This should be an open an shut court case to prevent any merger violating that limit and a total slam dunk at that. However, we live in strange days.

Comment Re:Sandbox, NOT an operating system. (Score 1) 19

Wikipedia for "Operating system"

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.[1]

Seeing as how it doesn't even resemble an OS, it's not a nitpick, it is pointing out a misnomer. Everything beyond that point is not my concern.

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