My new favourite pair of incompatible views: - The EU referendum should be rerun, because Russia used bots on social media to meddle with the process, thus affecting the result. - Musk buying Twitter… (View Post)

Which means that forcing user authentication has two beneficial outcomes: it makes running bot factories harder, and it gives Twitter a lot of information on its users, allowing them to close that ad… (View Post)

Twitter agrees Elon Musk takeover deal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/25/twitter-elon-musk-buy-takeover-deal-tesla Predictions (mine): Trump to be reinstated Character limit to be i… (View Post)

First to say Get well soon, Mike? (View Post)

For all those arguing that IQ can't usefully be measured across countries, because IQ is overly focused on achievement within a given educational paradigm, and educational standards aren't consistent… (View Post)