Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
I already don't like Substack and massively prefer reading things on the writer's own website, and this kind of manipulation to keep people there just confirms my dislike
Absolutely fascinating deep-dive into the core data structures the folks at Zed Industries use for their #Zed#editor!
"Currently there are over 20 uses of the SumTree in Zed. [...] The list of files in a project is a SumTree. The information returned by git blame is stored in a SumTree. Messages in the chat channel: SumTree. Diagnostics: SumTree."
Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.
Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.
I tried to do a Tik Tok video about how the online safety act would censor content and it was ironically throttled for mentioning categories that would be censored. I think we ought to try and use different platforms to reach people about digital rights issues but those platforms don’t make it easy to do so. #censorship#digitalrights#algorithm
I had to keep telling my kid & their cousins who were visiting, that those Joe Biden falling down videos and Maga booster memes they keep watching are political
I mean sure, those Maga memes are hillarious. Funny as hell. But the #AI that runs the #algorithm can’t tell a prank from a political campaign
”Just some funny videos for the kids”. Yeah, right
And we don’t even live in the US! Yet the kids are talking in Maga rhetoric which I have to keep calling out
Separating 2000 points using simplex noise as the desired distance. 30 iterations. Slow. The points start in a rectangle 300 pixels away from the edge, then they are slowly pushed outwards. #CreativeCoding#naive#algorithm
algos steal and consolidate attention from most users to lavish it on the biggest accounts and advertisers, serving the interests of the platform owners.
The effect of ”hatebook’s” #algorithm is truly chilling when it picks up on something people love to hate.
Where normal people would leave something old to pass, Meta’s hate-monger conjurer keeps putting it in front of people when they’re most likely to post something off the rails, for example friday night when they’ve had a little wine.
It knows everyone’s weak point, and keep bringing that old thing up and up again, sometimes getting multiple posts form the same person even. #socialmedia