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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

"It's not that any of the other streaming services are good, but Spotify is almost certainly the worst. Do not trust it. Do not let it turn your enjoyment of music into stats and algorithmic playlists."
(Original title: Spotify Haters Club)
https://knru.polin.ski/spotify-haters-

Spotify Haters Club
You know something that is absolutely worth considering? Planning an exit from the culture-destroying, weapons-investing, ICE-advertisement platform known as Spotify, a place where music is seen only as a tool to destroy people's imaginations and flatten art into a homogenised, AI-friendly, beige churn of endless content to immiserate us all.

Another installment of the AI Hater's Guide to Code with LLMs https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/15/an-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms-the-how-to/
This time, how to actually use the tools competently. Some theory and how they actually work, and some practical instruction.

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

X wants its haters back
Product chief Nikita Bier's message to journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.”

biggest red flag if someone has zero haters... consider the kinda people out there, you mean to tell me that you have beliefs and live your life in ways that they don't take an issue with? huh, what exactly is it that you're doing?

My opinion:
1.) Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy) is good for the fediverse.
2.) Threads (https://www.threads.com) is good for the fediverse.
3.) If you disagree with #1 or #2, the good thing is that you can block either on a user-level. You don't need to hammer folks like @… for also being @….
4.) If someone is hurting your experience, you can block or report them. You can also create keyword filters to block haters. This is supposed to be enjoyable.

The Hater's Guide to the 2026 Super Bowl between the Patriots and Seahawks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7025345/2026/02/06/haters-guide-2026-super-bowl-patriots-seahawks/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Poe:
🎵 Hello
#Poe
https://techsupreme.bandcamp.com/track/09-bonus-tef-poe-hello-haters-instrumental

Tony Romo responds to the haters who think CBS should move him off No. 1 NFL team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/tony-romo-responds-haters-think-cbs-should-move-1-nfl-team/e144ef1bd…

For all the haters: I still love Apple Music auto mixing

LOLOLOL @… https://www.threads.com/@alexheath/post/DSJTYWCD8cA

Alex Heath (@alexheath) on Threads
I talked to X's head of product about why the platform wants journalists to come back and what he's doing to try and make it happen https://sources.news/p/x-wants-its-haters-back

Steve Shives is a gift of rational thought in an increasing depressing & often toxic fandom.
I hated Star Trek Section 31. It doesn't mean it's "not Star Trek".
▶️ To Haters of New Star Trek
https://youtube.com/shorts/O8QIfxNkp54?si=9unevELSzVMrT…

Just found a YouTube video from 3 years ago about why the last season of Stranger Things will not be good. Lots of recent comments about how the OG video was right.
But I really liked the ending. Very weird. The haters seems to be a minority now?
#strangerthings

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-spotify-brett-michael-dadig-indictment-harassment-stalking/

Stephen Miller has amassed unprecedented power for a deputy White House chief of staff.
He exerts extraordinary influence over an unusually large swath of the government,
from immigration to criminal justice to even the military’s operations on American soil
❌Much of what defines public life in the Trump era
—masked kidnappings on U.S. streets,
standoffs between ICE goons and protesters,
military patrols in U.S. cities
—has been authored by Miller.

Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year
He was counting on a nation of haters. He was wrong.

The US Northeast dream in 2000: We'd love to have trains as good as Germany.
25 years later, with small improvements from Amtrak and massive deprovements from DB: Mission accomplished.
In related news, teething pains and haters aside, I like the Acela NextGen.

TIL that #btrfs will happily run into a "no space left on device" wall with no possibility to write metadata anymore (which is needed for balancing and thus getting out of this situation) 🤦
(btrfs haters and #zfs enthusiasts incoming in 3... 2... 1...)
UPDATE: Solution is to `btrfs devic…

Responding to hate-speech on hate platforms is futile. Even posting such responses on platforms such as X, however tempting it may be, is lending support to them and amounts to collaboration with the haters.
https://www.

Government says it is ‘fully committed to free speech’ after campaigners’ US visa ban – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’

Sam Darnold's story serves as a reminder that destiny is often deferred https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47839325/super-bowl-lx-champion-sam-darnold-seattle-seahawks-quarterback-story-deferred-destiny…

'Relaxed' Shedeur Sanders after first NFL win: 'A lot of people want to see me fail ... it ain't gonna happen'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…