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Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19300

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media. We use 6,081,134 Facebook posts published between January 1, 2020, and April 1, 2024, by 97 media organizations in six countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain) and develop two multilingual classifiers for labeling posts as (non-)political and (non-)negative. We show that: (1) negative news posts constitut…

from my link log —
The one-more-re-nightmare regex engine for Common Lisp.
https://applied-langua.ge/posts/omrn-compiler.html
saved 2025-06-24

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

Power failure in offshore gas field cuts Norwegian gas flows to EU and UK by 1/3.
Given the season it mainly affects the rate at which EU gas storages can be refilled.
https://ww…

🚨🇳🇴Norwegian gas supplies to the🇪🇺EU are down as the largest gas… | Francesco Sassi | 22 comments
🚨🇳🇴Norwegian gas supplies to the🇪🇺EU are down as the largest gas field in the country's offshore suffers an widespread power failure ⚡️Maintenance is underway in many Norwegian assets, but this unplanned outage could last for days, complicating Monday's market opening and the refilling of gas storages Yesterday, the Norwegian offshore pipeline operator alerted markets that something was wrong at the Troll gas field, the largest operating gas production field in Europe and w…

As pesticide leaches into residents’ wells
EPA said grant to provide clean water was a ‘wasteful DEI program’
White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.

Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. | Adrian Cockcroft
Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. I took some time away from it but last week I continued cleaning up the code. The app was working for me but Claude had built over 200 tests, unit tests and UI automation tests and I spent a day focused on getting them all to work, which found a few issues in the app code. Claude isn’t as good at writing Swift as Python (which tends to work first time) but when the compile failures and test error logs are passed back to it, it d…

The Tiny Angry Witch continues to be a delight.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/132347561

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.