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Reddit says publishers using its Pro Tools have seen post views grow by 46%, comments by 48%, and profile views nearly double since the tool's September launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/reddit-s…

Reddit says publisher post views up 46% after Pro Tools rollout
Reddit said publisher post views have increased by nearly half in the six months since launching its Pro Tools for Publishers.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3774 nodes and 7498 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Oh.
No.
There goes a decent career… everything Rowling touches goes rotten.
You’re wrong John, “job security” over transphobia is a brutal look.
#terf #mansplaining #harrypotter

The execrable creature running to be the MP for Gorton and Denton.
Extreme views of a Gorton and Denton candidate
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politic

Extreme views of a Gorton and Denton candidate
Is Reform candidate Matt Goodwin a good fit for Gorton and Denton, an area with a diverse population?

Another really cool feature I designed for NATS - a distributed CRDT based counter.
Distributed meaning infrastructure at a factory floor can have local counts that flows up to regional and global levels via stream replication and eventually end up at a global count. Seperate clusters all contributing to the total with regional/location views.
You can choose to have auditable counts etc

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3790 nodes and 7531 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

If you have not been the the #newjersey falls they are worth the trip. Wild this is in nj.
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2026/02/

"Revist the 1987 interview when Donald Trump explains his views on US foreign policy"
39 years later, his views are even dumber and more uninformed.
#sarcasm #archives #CNN

For any #Wikipedia editors out there who also know something about Internet routing ... earlier this week I significantly updated the "RouteViews" article after discovering to my immense surprise that it was a very short and small article that didn't say much:

For #footpathfriday I'm sharing this one again. It's really one of our most liked trails.
Even though it doesn't gain a lot of elevation, the path along the shore of the lake is all I like:
narrow, pretty nature like, absolutely great views, bends along the shores so that you don't see too far, and mountains all around ... what else would you need 🙂

"The pope said the Catholic Church should prioritise questions of inequality and justice over those of sexual ethics."
Pope Leo’s ‘significant’ remarks on sex signal shift for Catholic Church | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-views-sex-catholic-church-b2965683.html

Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/some-musk-v-altman-jurors-dont-like-elon-musk/

Some Musk v. Altman Jurors Don't Like Elon Musk
Musk’s lawsuit challenges OpenAI’s evolution under Sam Altman. But during jury selection, several potential jurors voiced negative views of Musk himself.

Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/politicians-left-wing-professors-students-poll/

Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way
The poll, which included responses from nearly 4,000 college students, found that about two-thirds of all students said that their professors encouraged students to share their views “even if it makes others uncomfortable.”

An eight-minute exchange at the end of #Casey #Means’ two-hour confirmationhearing captured the potential and the predicament the MAHA movement has created for itself.
Means -- an entrepreneurial wellness influencer with a medical degree from Stanford -- appeared on Wednesday at the Senate health committee -- to be conf…

Surgeon general nominee and senator face off over vaccines and ‘shared decision-making’
Casey Means wanted to talk about chronic disease. But Bill Cassidy wanted to hear about her views on vaccines.

all my views are those of other people

The cold and wet can get annoying at times but the views here never get old #pnw

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3701 nodes and 7329 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Smoke caused by seasonal fires shrouds northern Thailand #Thailand

Smoke caused by seasonal fires shrouds northern Thailand
Chiang Mai, Thailand's second-largest city, lies within a network of narrow valleys in the country's northern highlands. Though the historic city is known for panoramic views of the surrounding mountains, clear skies have become less common. In recent decades, smoke has increasingly darkened the skies during the dry season, particularly in March and April.

Possibly the most 2026 headline of all time. Who needs Warren Ellis when the world does this to us?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx26pzpr71ko

Life with TSW: 'Our skin is falling off and no-one can tell us why '
Posts with #TSW have had over a billion views on TikTok, sparking research into this mystery skin condition.

As I did a quick search on SCAR, and some of it's members - I can't help but feel that the driving force is that they feel they do not receive
"The deference due
To a man of pedigree"
Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors
https://…

As I did a quick search on SCAR, and some of it's members - I can't help but feel that the driving force is that they feel they do not receive
"The deference due
To a man of pedigree"
Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors
https://…

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cu…

"I have anemoia about using Xenix inside a micro camper that was driving through the backrooms"
(900k views, 300k 👍, 126k hype points, 45000 comments)

New Raiders QB Kirk Cousins views Las Vegas as 'great opportunity to finish strong' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-raiders-qb-kirk-cousins-views-las-vegas-as-great-opportunity-to-finish-strong

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

#coastStarlight views

Americans' Tax Views Remain Negative (Lydia Saad/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/707951/americans-tax-views-remain-negative.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p108#a260410p108

from my link log —
All the views: the longest lines of sight on Earth.
https://alltheviews.world/
saved 2026-02-09 https://dotat.at/:/FF0LO.html

The Streisand Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Streisand_effect_examples#United_States
(According to an unverified source, the interview now has over 40 million views.)

Still one of the best views of the town. #northumberland #berwickupontweed

Ballot Box Scotland Survation poll.
With this poll commissioned by BBS, it also includes some interesting data on voters' views on constitutional issues such as cross-party working and boundary changes.
https://ballotbox.scot/survation-april-2026/

BBS Exclusive Poll Analysis: Survation 14th – 21st of April 2026
This BBS-commissioned poll is surprisingly poor for the SNP, but still has a small Pro-Independence majority. Nonetheless, John Swinney will be hoping this is an outlier.

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116285187367675480
I wish more CEOs were held accountable for their views. The adage "it's just their opinion" doesn't matter when people using that product are affected by the CEO's political choices.

Was zu beweisen war:
🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
Künstler:innen machen einen Song gegen die Halbierungsinitiative und stellen ihn auf YouTube.
Dort ist er jetzt plötzlich verschwunden.
Hier kann man ihn noch hören (Facebook):
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1442587000789058

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Meeting views today.
#SanFrancisco #505MontgomeryStreet

In Agent Running in the Field, Le Carré gave himself a variety of characters through which he could vent his anger at Brexit, Trump, oligarchs, the state of the world & its intelligence services: Ed, Florence, Prue.
The main character, as ever, remains more circumspect but has clear sympathy for the other characters' views #Bookstodon #LeCarré #AmReading

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3670 nodes and 7251 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

I didn't follow this creator that closely but wild to see them go from consistently posting for years to saying goodbye.
289K subs. about 20k views per views.
Always happy to people get out but wild that they say they were unhappy but stuck for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP3PjPnw0OE

"In guidance to immigration officers, the administration describes participating in pro-Palestinian protests and criticizing Israel as “overwhelmingly negative” factors."
Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/politics/trump-green-cards-scrutiny.html

Trump threatens to "put a big tariff on the UK" if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/24/trump-dr…

Trump threatens Starmer with ‘big tariff’ over tech tax
President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta

Picked this up. Seems like it'll be useful to have wah/vol/exp in one pedal. And one can tweak the wah sound so should be able to make it work easily.
#guitar #GearSquad

The short-term economic expectations of consumers plunged 14%,
though long-term expectations saw less sharp declines.
“These patterns suggest that, at this time, consumers may not expect recent negative developments to persist far into the future,”
Joanne Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said in a statement.
“These views are subject to change, however, if the Iran conflict becomes protracted or if higher energy prices pass through to overall inflation.”…

Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/02/18/hacking-on-indiekit-to-customize

Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog
Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog 18 February 2026 Big changes I have made to my indiekit fork and some views of the plugin developed Lately, I have been investing a significant part of my free...

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3630 nodes and 7200 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized "clipping" for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/202…

The ‘Creator Of Clipping’ Who Powers Crypto Gambling’s Viral Machine
Anthony Fujiwara's clipping army delivers billions of views for a fraction of ad costs. It helped build Stake's empire, and now it's going mainstream.

»Medien auf X: Im permanenten #Shitstorm
Sie wollen Qualitätsjournalismus hochhalten und einen Gegenpol auf der Plattform X bieten. Doch #Tagesschau, #ZDFheute,

Medien auf X: Im permanenten Shitstorm
Sie wollen Qualitätsjournalismus hochhalten und einen Gegenpol auf der Plattform X bieten. Doch Tagesschau, ZDFheute, Spiegel und Zeit erreichen weder viele Views noch positive Interaktionen mit dem Publikum. Was ihnen vor allem entgegenschlägt, ist Hass. Warum bleiben sie trotzdem da? Eine Analyse.

aus der reihe "bemerkenswerte wissenschaftliche artikel" heute:
"‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’: a survey of views on human research ethics reviews"
https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-20…

#fediblock fedi.yesmap.net (#pediverse instance that allows for pro CSAM views)

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4407 nodes and 8932 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Negative views of Israel, Netanyahu continue to rise among Americans - especially young people (Laura Silver/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israel-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p110#a260407p110

The Franseshco Cast
Francesco Perre is a rising force in Australia's electronic music scene, seeing him achieve millions of streams across music platforms, and countless views on social media...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-fr

Social media algorithms prioritize right-wing content and influence the political views and behavior of real users. This is the finding of the recent study “The political effects of X’s feed algorithm”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

"I hate to say I'm honored"
Donald Trump said Saturday that
he views his repeated brushes with violence as a sign of his historic significance
The latest instance of a gunman in his vicinity — after the two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign — led the president to contemplate why such things keep happening to him.
Trump says he sees shootings as a reflection of his impact

Trump says he sees shootings as a reflection of his impact
“I hate to say I’m honored,” the president says of his repeated brushes with violence, including two assassination attempts during his 2024 campaign.

Views from the train during commute.
Winter has come back for a couple of days.
#commuting #Winter

B2B media brand DatacenterDynamics says revenue rose 175% to £11M per year since 2020 amid the AI boom, and it hit 22.5M views in 2025, up from 2024's 17.3M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/the-tec…

The technology news website hiring not firing with £11m turnover
Tech site Data Center Dynamics (DCD) has seen its traffic and turnover increase year on year following an AI boom and Covid.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Trust in the CDC and Views of Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes (KFF)
https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/trust-in-cdc-and-views-of-federal-childhood-vaccine-schedule-changes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p44#a260206p44

How true crime influencers on YouTube are compromising the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah, including by "investigating" tips (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing

“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,”
retired Army colonel Joe Buccino said in an interview.
“It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”

In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
Service members and families who lost loved ones say the Trump team’s memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue - 48 hills
Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way

YouTube and the NFL's second annual Creator Flag Football game drew 14M live views around the world, up from 6M in 2025, as the NFL seeks to export the sport (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/super-bo…

Super Bowl LX's Creator Flag Football Game Scores 14 Million Views on YouTube | Exclusive
YouTube and the NFL's second annual Super Bowl Creator Flag Football game delivered over 14 million live views

John Lithgow Almost Quit 'Harry Potter' Over JK Rowling's Anti-Trans Views
https://deadline.com/2026/03/john-lithgow-considered-quitting-harry-potter-jk-rowling-1236761097/

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4951 nodes and 10416 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/jace-yarbrough-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p58#a260220p58

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 5539 nodes and 11720 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

For #monochromeMonday and #mountainmonday I chose this one!
I took this photo on a snow shoe tour a while ago. That day, I didn't even want to go that far, but it went all well and the views were just beautiful and the whole surrounding was just pure silence.
on:

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3087 nodes and 5663 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Fox News Poll: Views are divided on US action against Iran (Dana Blanton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-views-divided-us-action-against-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p133#a260303p133

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3258 nodes and 6185 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

InsideSD, a site run by city government, dominates Google's AI-powered search results about San Diego, making government views the only ones most will see (Claire Trageser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026

Google AI search boosts city of San Diego's news narrative
Search results often highlight the city's own posts, leaving out outside reporting and criticism.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 5722 nodes and 12080 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

A look at The Sun's video strategy, which includes a shift to longform news and sponsored lifestyle content; it has 6.4M YouTube subscribers on its main channel (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Sun grows video audience to 1bn+ monthly views with 25 new shows
The Sun's Jon Lloyd on a year of aggressive expansion into video.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

In its report, the Yale panel extolled the aims of higher education,
🔥but was unsparing in suggesting how schools, including Yale, had harmed public views of it.
⭐️For example, Yale and many other schools now rely on a model that regularly dilutes high tuition prices with generous aid packages.
💥Although many students pay nowhere near sticker prices, the committee wrote that the approach had exacted “a disastrous impact on public trust.”
“By its nature, the system is …

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/int…

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online
The technology has been used to create misleading fakes before. But never at this scale.

Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/youtube-tv-trump-rules-digital-gap-colber…

Colbert's YouTube post exposes digital gap in TV rules
Colbert exposed how FCC rules built for broadcast don't apply to today's digital platforms.

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/technol

Man Who Attacked OpenAI C.E.O.’s Home Had List of Other A.I. Executives
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman’s home had written at length about the threat of A.I.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4854 nodes and 10098 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

The Europeans have very little intention of getting dragged into a war,
which they didn't participate in deciding,
which they weren't consulted on,
and for which they don't see that deploying warships to the Strait of Hormuz would actually make any difference.
The truth of the matter is that Iran is exploiting its asymmetric advantages.
And so deploying further ships on the straits would make no difference.
What would make a difference is for t…

Middle East experts discuss Trump's pressure on NATO to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Iran is still blocking the Strait of Hormuz and President Trump is now demanding that NATO allies act to help reopen it. For two views on this and the war, Amna Nawaz spoke with retired Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan and Nathalie Tocci. Donegan is the former commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet and is now at the Middle East Institute. Tocci is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4936 nodes and 10400 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

In an effort to crack down on nations it views as promoting terrorism,
the Trump administration has been carrying out a campaign of seizing tankers carrying oil,
-- a move the president has repeatedly characterized as a financial boon for Americans.
But there’s a problem.
The seizures have put the U.S. government in a financial bind.
The ships are highly expensive to maintain.
And the Trump administration cannot legally sell their oil without a judge’s p…

Trump’s Move to Seize Oil Tankers Costs the U.S. Tens of Millions of Dollars
Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.

A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/elon-musk-tiktok.html

Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok
A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

Q&A with Boston Globe journalist Emily Sweeney, whose news videos attract millions of views and likes due to her Boston accent, raising The Globe's profile (Kasia Pilat/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/style/emily-sweeney-boston-glo…

Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?
Emily Sweeney, a veteran journalist at the newspaper, is a social media sensation, bringing joy to all with her “hahd” Boston accent.

The UK CMA says Apple and Google committed to making app store changes to ensure fairness to developers and consumers, and asks market players for their views (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

BBC Science Focus editor Daniel Bennett says Apple News helped the title nearly double its editorial staff from six to 11 and reach 3M monthly page views (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magaz…

Apple News revenue helped BBC Science Focus double size of team
BBC Science Focus has made “embarrassing amounts” of money and almost doubled its team since finding success on Apple News.

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

Survey: 80% of Americans say being informed about the news is essential to voting, but only 8% say people in the US have a responsibility to pay for news (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/02/11/americans-complica…

Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News
Most say being informed is essential for voting. Yet views differ on the importance of following news – and many say they're worn out by it.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted