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from "echo chambers" to "echo platforms"
We have gone from "echo chambers" to "echo platforms"
Users migrate between platforms in search of environments better suited to their preferences
A new paper analyzes 117 million posts related to the 2020 US Presidential elections from nine social media platforms—Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute, Gab, Parler, Scored, and Voat.
The findings reveal significant differences among platforms in the reliability of circulated news, and the ideological diversity of their users, highlighting a clear divide between mainstream and alt-tech platforms. The latter occupy a peripheral role, feature a higher prevalence of unreliable content, and exhibit greater ideological uniformity.
Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf262/8232781?login=false
Users migrate between platforms in search of environments better suited to their preferences
A new paper analyzes 117 million posts related to the 2020 US Presidential elections from nine social media platforms—Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, BitChute, Gab, Parler, Scored, and Voat.
The findings reveal significant differences among platforms in the reliability of circulated news, and the ideological diversity of their users, highlighting a clear divide between mainstream and alt-tech platforms. The latter occupy a peripheral role, feature a higher prevalence of unreliable content, and exhibit greater ideological uniformity.
Read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf262/8232781?login=false
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mini tech talk: asynchronous programming/ concurrency is hard
It's hard because side-effects are hard to predict & communicate, especially when working in teams. "Why is there a mutex lock here?" needs to be documented well and, as we all know, documentation rarely stays up to date. But, we need concurrency to get many tasks done at the same time without waiting for each task in serial.
What if, for many tasks, we could get the benefits of concurrency without having to deal with all of those pesky side-effects? That's the promise of asynchronous programming. This episode dives into the whys, hows, and history of async programming!
https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/184-asynchronous-programming
What if, for many tasks, we could get the benefits of concurrency without having to deal with all of those pesky side-effects? That's the promise of asynchronous programming. This episode dives into the whys, hows, and history of async programming!
https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/184-asynchronous-programming
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Bryce and Justice are super fast!
fun stats, from week 4 of college football
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Blue eyes = one common ancestor?
Research suggests that all blue-eyed individuals can trace their ancestry back to a single person who lived about 6,000-10,000 years ago. A genetic mutation likely caused this shared trait, making blue eyes a rare genetic connection across the globe.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500/full
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Some incredible photos - Oceanographic Wildlife Photographer(s) of the Year
check out the full gallery: https://oceanographicmagazine.com/winners-gallery/?winners_year=2025&winners_category=wildlife
express, not stress