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The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia

The political effects of X's feed algorithm - PubMed
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects¹. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. W …

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Announcing Issue 25.1 Spring
Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire #acrel #amrel #aarsbl

Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire
The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University...

TIL: DIN 2137-01:2023-08 aka „Erweiterte Tastaturbelegung 1“ [de-E1].
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung)

E1 (Tastaturbelegung) – Wikipedia

PHEW! Terminé con cinco minutos restantes.
Here's my short essay from my test. It's about AI, and the impact of technology in general. Go easy on me. (Actual proper citations were not needed)
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La tecnología mšs importante en la sociedad actual es el inteligencia artificial, IA, o el acrónimo inglés, “AI”.
“AI” es una tecnología relativamente nueva. Él aparecí al comienzo del ano 2023 y cambió ršpidamente la manera que los personas en línea buscaban y creaban. Realmente, “AI” no esta inteligente, mejor dicho uno modelo de lenguaje grande, “LLM” en inglés. LLM significa que los ordenadores que les alimentan no usan razón, pero los intentos a predecir una respuesta de una pregunta o mensaje en función de los patrones de palabras y mensajes en les bancos de datos.(1)
La tecnología ha contribuido en gran medida al progreso del sociedad. La tecnología agrícola lo hizo posible para humanidad a crecer y cambiar de nómada a creer asentamientos y eventualmente ciudades mas grandes. La hecha posible a usar recursos del medio ambiente en nos sociedades. Pero la tecnología ha creado grandes problemas también como desigualdad o cambio climštico.
Yo creo que, en la mayoría de situaciones, la tecnología es una fuerza positiva en la sociedad. Las problemas son creado por los personas sin moralidad, a menudo para la acumulación de la riqueza, influencia, y autoridad. Si la población puede mantener la influencia democrštica para reglamentar la tecnología, como la AI, para el beneficio de la población y los individuos, entonces la tecnología puede contribuir a la progresión de la sociedad.
Finalmente, si los individuos son compasivos y respetuosos, la tecnología reflejarš esa también.
1: “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity” #español

from my link log —
Mac keyboard layout configuration with hidutil.
https://amitp.blogspot.com/2023/04/mac-keyboard-with-hidutil.html
saved 2023-04-13

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-isnt-killing-software-co…

Software job openings surge this year, defying AI fears
There are more than 67,000 open software engineering roles at tech companies, up about 30% so far this year, according to TrueUp data.

"Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile"
#Germany #HeatPumps #Energy

Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile
Research from Germany analyzed sentiment in online news coverage to explore how heat pumps are portrayed in German public discourse. It found that while public perception is generally positive, it is neither uniform nor stable, and dipped significantly during debates around Germany’s heating law in 2023.

Quote from “Kaine & Rubio Applaud Adoption of Their Amendment to the NDAA to Prevent Any U.S. President from Leaving NATO” 19 July 2023:
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/k…

Erster OLED-Monitor fällt unter 400 Euro
PC-Monitore mit farbstarken OLED-Bildschirmen kommen in der Mittelklasse an. Die Preise sind seit 2023 erheblich gesunken.
https://www.heise.de/news/Erster-OL…

PSA: Part of the ongoing #ThingUmbrella maintenance and migration to #Codeberg, I've written a script to batch delete 20600 tags from the Git repo[1], basically any release tags older than 2023-01-01. There're still ~4600 tags remaining, covering all releases since that date. This in…

umbrella
⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 214 TypeScript projects for general purpose, functional, data driven development

The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

Spectator made £6.6m loss in year Paul Marshall paid £100m for title
The 15-month sale process of The Spectator resulted in total costs to the weekly news magazine of £11.4m, new accounts show.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

'What Did We Do?': Black Truckers Say They Were Denied Service Before White Server Called Cops to Remove Them from South Dakota Denny’s Restaurant Allegedly Because of Their Race
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/09/05/dennys-is-under-fire-again-for-allegedly-refusing-to-serve-two-black-men/

Each year, about 400,000 international students are granted study visas to the UK. A significant proportion do so with the help of education agents: middlemen paid by universities to find foreign students. In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents - but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.

Hier mein Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonalds Buch Hopeland (2023) (climate fiction meets hopepunk meets near future SF meets magischen Realismus).
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/versuch-einer-rezension-zu-ian-mcdonald-hopeland-2…

Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonald, Hopeland (2023)
< 124 Kapitel, und - in der Taschenbuchausgabe - rund 650 Seiten. Ein Wälzer, vornehmer ausgedrückt: opus magnum, und ja, nicht nur, was den Umfang betrifft. Ian McDonald hat mit dem 2023 erschienenen Hopeland ein beeindruckendes Buch geschrieben. Um es zu lesen, brauchte ich allerdings mehrere Anl

Ein Klassiker, den man oft bei WordPress-Blogs sieht: Das Datum in der URL🫣
domain.de/2023/10/mein-artikel
​Das wirkt im Moment logisch, ist aber langfristig Gift. ☠️
Wenn man den Artikel 2026 aktualisieren will, steht da immer noch "2023" in der URL.
Das signalisiert dem Nutzer in den Suchergebnissen sofort: "Alter Kaffee."
​URL ändern heißt Weiterleitung bauen (nervig).
Deshalb: URLs immer zeitlos halten (/mein-artikel). Dann bleibt der…

Texans pick up 2027 fifth-year options for C.J. Stroud, Will Anderson, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-cj-stroud-will-anderson-contracts/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

I noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…

Lagardère Travel Retail builds on its strategic partnership with Costa Coffee to become the brand’s master franchise partner in Poland - Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe
Lagardère Travel Retail and British coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, a Coca-Cola owned company, announce that their long-term partnership has further developed with the transfer of control of the brand’s 142 stores in Poland and Latvia to Lagardère Travel Retail, as master franchisee. This confirms Lagardère Travel Retail’s strategic ambition to become a global leader in Foodservice and to cover travelers’ needs holistically. The transfer of control of Costa Coffee’s network of stores…

China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭

Why China Is Winning the Green Methanol Race
Methanol made from sustainable feedstocks is a key technology for climate-neutral shipping, aviation, and fossil-free chemicals. Chinese companies are already building industrial production facilities and surrounding infrastructure, while the rest of the world is falling behind.

#monsterdon alert!
Full List of 10 US Nuclear Scientists Who Have Mysteriously Vanished or Died Since 2023 as White House Launches Probe
#IBTimes UK so like it's gotta be true …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-investigates-scientist-deaths-disappearances-1792020

Over 30yrs, immigrants produced a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion, including $6.3 trillion from non‑citizens.
They reduced U.S. budget deficits by about 1/3rd over that period.
- Cato Institute, Libertarian think tank
✅ Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 | Cato Institute

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/mam…

The article is from a few years ago, but the problem still persists. The Robert Roberson case in Texas is a perfect example. "Everybody knows" that shaken baby syndrome kills kids. But the reality is that the science isn't settled. But it's painfully difficult to break the throttlehold that some things have on the court system.

We Need To Get Junk Science Out of Courtrooms
Forensic pseudoscience introduced into the courtroom has been used to convict and render death on people based on the thinnest of evidence.

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows
2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global average surface temperature for 2025 was estimated to be 1.44° Celsius (2.59° Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years […]

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Wie haben die verheerenden #Waldbrände in den borealen Wäldern 2023 unsere Umwelt beeinflusst? 🔥🌲
Die Feuer in #Kanada setzten rekordverdächtige Mengen an #Kohlenstoff frei und beeinträ…

Verheerende Waldbrände in den Borealen Wäldern im Jahr 2023
Erfahre, wie die borealen Wälder in Kanada und Russland 2023 unter den Waldbränden gelitten haben.

So, endlich durch mit Ian McDonalds Opus Magnum "Hopeland" (2023) - eine Vision der gar nicht so fernen Zukunft (und einer möglichen nahen Vergangenheit), ein Buch, das mich zu gleichen Teilen erschreckt-überrascht und begeistert hat; in dem die Südsee, Island, Grönland (!), Irland und vielleicht auch Fairy vorkommen ...

from my link log —
Why does libvirt support only 14 hot-plugged PCIe devices on x86-64?
https://dottedmag.net/blog/libvirt-14-pcie-devices/
saved 2023-08-06

Fifth-year option tracker for first-round picks from 2023 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/fifth-year-option-tracker-for-first-round-picks-from-2023-nfl-draft

Cisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…