Don't feel bad about API, it was about 7 years before I realised it was deprecated not depreciated... Felt like a real dunce having said the wrong thing out loud for years.
I agree that it doesn't appear to be genuine, though I think the point that a whitelist ought to have more accounts I disagree on. I think there's a world where Elon Musk has created his own favoured list that he manually updates himself. There was a reported story that I believe is true after watching a Johnny Harris that he spoke to first hand sources and confirmed. The story is that Elon gathered around 80 engineers and tasked them with giving himself a 1000x amplifier within the twitter feed algorithm. He has since then retweeted and replied in a way that I view as being a biased amplification of conservative accounts. He is also donating 45 million a month to a superPAC with the intention of promoting conservative politics (there was a recent deceptive statement that the reports on 45 million a month donation was false, it was false in that he is not donating directly to Trump but it is true that he is still donating to a superPAC).
Given the above facts both relevant to the specific story and wider context, I think that a video titled "Is Twitter Promoting Conservative Accounts?" is disappointing as it only addresses a portion of a larger narrative, and it only serves to disprove. I think the title is a bit misleading here, as an uninformed viewer may take away that twitter is therefore unlikely to be promoting conservative accounts. I would love to see a deeper dive on the other topics from you, especially as I have seen both the personal twitter account amplification and 45 million a month donation stories challenged!
Deprecated vs depreciated is a common one, yeah. I even had one person claim that depreciated was the correct pronunciation of the word. Boy did I get evil dagger eyes when I asked them to look it up.
Before Elon Musk took over Twitter, it was controlled by the left, and if you were conservative, you would get censored or banned, experienced this personally. Now with Elon, it’s more balanced, which really pisses off the left.
Just one small point about the format not being "proper JSON" - it looks similar ton object dump from something like Python or JavaScript.
Even if the actual whitelisting, if exists, would be reading from a database it's not impossible that configuration tools will have it in such a format as part of the database maintenance or debug tooling.
Looks like python poop out to me, used to use similar for writing basic python for ArcGIS/remote sensing science applications. The script would poop out that in “R spacial”. So Russians geolocating certain people then using the poop as a double edge sword? Just real political poop, IDK.
On the twitter being more right now, I see that. Elon probably trying (in his mind justly) to level the playing field as almost all the social media to this point could be argued as left leaning. Media bias could be what I call PC going from kuboki theater for politicians and educators, ie regurgitate with a smile (mid 90’s to early 2000’s) to dogma (post 2008) or move from bs to an ideological theory now. Can’t be ideological law as they have to improvise sometimes like on Jewish/Gaza hate. You’d have to remember the 90’s to see PC theater evolution from lip service to political scripture. All I’m saying is that right wing voices have been filtrated to a small degree, Elon and Tuckers and Vance’s see their duplicity as ok because they were ideologically filtrated themselves for holding non pc views. Unfortunately we’re at war now so the stakes are too high to have outside hands in the pot. Arguably a lot of the pc stuff were the fruit of 80’s masaroivka. It’s too bad we stopped chasing the real bad guys in 1991. They briefly opened up enough that you could view their plans back then. It is my belief that PC thought was at least in part a Soviet long term prescription on the west.
The Russians play both sides always remember that. Being
Good analysis. Yes, I agree that the post looks like it is designed to create an emotional impact and any real white list would have a lot of other people in there.
Totally off topic, but any chance you will dress up like Lisa McManus from America's Test Kitchen for Halloween this year?
The reality of X/Twitter these days is that the Left has lost control of it and they are pissed about it. They had control of it last election cycle and used it very effectively to suppress discussions and opinions that they didn't like. Before Elon took over there were so many traps for conservative views built into the algorithms that it didn't even require much actual effort to do that. Elon fired many of the coding team that was creating these traps and the remaining team has been slowly digging the traps, some of them deeply buried, out of the code.
The perception the Left is trying to create that X/Twitter is amplifying conservative accounts, is mostly false. In reality they are objecting to the way progressives and Liberals are quickly shouted down and fact-checked by conservative accounts that are no longer being suppressed. X/Twitter has shown itself to be a much more conservative space than Liberals want it to be, and has proven to be very effective at amplifying news and information that never sees the light of day on other platforms.
Efforts like this to produce "evidence" that X/Twitter is favoring conservatives somehow hope to silence or discredit the conservative voices that now are being heard.
Well, I can say, like Erik S above, I get a lot of right wing and alt right clickbait served up to me daily on X which didn’t used to be the case. It used to be that I got suggested content based on content I had already viewed. While that would be considered an echo chamber, sending me links to right wing political Clickbait content has actually convinced me just to leave X alone for the most part. That’s probably better for my mental health anyway. I know opinions differ, but I think Elon Musk ruined Twitter. That being said, I was never on there for the political content anyway.
Don't feel bad about API, it was about 7 years before I realised it was deprecated not depreciated... Felt like a real dunce having said the wrong thing out loud for years.
I agree that it doesn't appear to be genuine, though I think the point that a whitelist ought to have more accounts I disagree on. I think there's a world where Elon Musk has created his own favoured list that he manually updates himself. There was a reported story that I believe is true after watching a Johnny Harris that he spoke to first hand sources and confirmed. The story is that Elon gathered around 80 engineers and tasked them with giving himself a 1000x amplifier within the twitter feed algorithm. He has since then retweeted and replied in a way that I view as being a biased amplification of conservative accounts. He is also donating 45 million a month to a superPAC with the intention of promoting conservative politics (there was a recent deceptive statement that the reports on 45 million a month donation was false, it was false in that he is not donating directly to Trump but it is true that he is still donating to a superPAC).
Given the above facts both relevant to the specific story and wider context, I think that a video titled "Is Twitter Promoting Conservative Accounts?" is disappointing as it only addresses a portion of a larger narrative, and it only serves to disprove. I think the title is a bit misleading here, as an uninformed viewer may take away that twitter is therefore unlikely to be promoting conservative accounts. I would love to see a deeper dive on the other topics from you, especially as I have seen both the personal twitter account amplification and 45 million a month donation stories challenged!
A potential alternative title might be along the lines of "does twitter give conservatives an n-word pass?"
Deprecated vs depreciated is a common one, yeah. I even had one person claim that depreciated was the correct pronunciation of the word. Boy did I get evil dagger eyes when I asked them to look it up.
Before Elon Musk took over Twitter, it was controlled by the left, and if you were conservative, you would get censored or banned, experienced this personally. Now with Elon, it’s more balanced, which really pisses off the left.
I agree with your analysis.
Just one small point about the format not being "proper JSON" - it looks similar ton object dump from something like Python or JavaScript.
Even if the actual whitelisting, if exists, would be reading from a database it's not impossible that configuration tools will have it in such a format as part of the database maintenance or debug tooling.
Looks like python poop out to me, used to use similar for writing basic python for ArcGIS/remote sensing science applications. The script would poop out that in “R spacial”. So Russians geolocating certain people then using the poop as a double edge sword? Just real political poop, IDK.
On the twitter being more right now, I see that. Elon probably trying (in his mind justly) to level the playing field as almost all the social media to this point could be argued as left leaning. Media bias could be what I call PC going from kuboki theater for politicians and educators, ie regurgitate with a smile (mid 90’s to early 2000’s) to dogma (post 2008) or move from bs to an ideological theory now. Can’t be ideological law as they have to improvise sometimes like on Jewish/Gaza hate. You’d have to remember the 90’s to see PC theater evolution from lip service to political scripture. All I’m saying is that right wing voices have been filtrated to a small degree, Elon and Tuckers and Vance’s see their duplicity as ok because they were ideologically filtrated themselves for holding non pc views. Unfortunately we’re at war now so the stakes are too high to have outside hands in the pot. Arguably a lot of the pc stuff were the fruit of 80’s masaroivka. It’s too bad we stopped chasing the real bad guys in 1991. They briefly opened up enough that you could view their plans back then. It is my belief that PC thought was at least in part a Soviet long term prescription on the west.
The Russians play both sides always remember that. Being
Of course it is and hence why when it was acquired by elite muskie, so many of us abandoned the platform and frankly, I really don’t miss it…..
Thanks McBeth your the only news I watch anymore. Cheers!
Good analysis. Yes, I agree that the post looks like it is designed to create an emotional impact and any real white list would have a lot of other people in there.
Totally off topic, but any chance you will dress up like Lisa McManus from America's Test Kitchen for Halloween this year?
The reality of X/Twitter these days is that the Left has lost control of it and they are pissed about it. They had control of it last election cycle and used it very effectively to suppress discussions and opinions that they didn't like. Before Elon took over there were so many traps for conservative views built into the algorithms that it didn't even require much actual effort to do that. Elon fired many of the coding team that was creating these traps and the remaining team has been slowly digging the traps, some of them deeply buried, out of the code.
The perception the Left is trying to create that X/Twitter is amplifying conservative accounts, is mostly false. In reality they are objecting to the way progressives and Liberals are quickly shouted down and fact-checked by conservative accounts that are no longer being suppressed. X/Twitter has shown itself to be a much more conservative space than Liberals want it to be, and has proven to be very effective at amplifying news and information that never sees the light of day on other platforms.
Efforts like this to produce "evidence" that X/Twitter is favoring conservatives somehow hope to silence or discredit the conservative voices that now are being heard.
Well, I can say, like Erik S above, I get a lot of right wing and alt right clickbait served up to me daily on X which didn’t used to be the case. It used to be that I got suggested content based on content I had already viewed. While that would be considered an echo chamber, sending me links to right wing political Clickbait content has actually convinced me just to leave X alone for the most part. That’s probably better for my mental health anyway. I know opinions differ, but I think Elon Musk ruined Twitter. That being said, I was never on there for the political content anyway.
This. I’m done supporting Musk and his bullshit right wing horsefuckery
Sure seems like it….. I get inundated with right wing horse shit all day and I NEVER clicked on any of that bullshit.