Public: Democrats lose pride in being American
For Democrats, pride in America goes up when a Democrat is President, down under Republican admins, per Gallop. Independents not happy at all.
Social media: Who posts about politics?
A tiny minority of social media users (2-9%) are frequent posters about politics while over 9 in 10 mostly avoid politics.
Propaganda: Univ of Zurich researchers manipulated Reddit forums
Univ of Zurich researchers used bots to change people's mind on Reddit, using misinformation and lies - and did so without participants permission.
Social: 95% of BlueSky users have fewer than 100 followers
Bluesky is the social platform for those that favor censorship and oppose free speech. That's based on those who say they are leaving X and FB because not enough censorship…
Public health: “Quad-demic” Fear Porn
Seeing lots of posts on X pushing the “We are all going to die this winter” from Covid, RSV, flu or sometimes norovirus (hence, the “quad” demic claim). The Data…
AI: An AI summary of my Travel/Global Skills blog
An AI generated summary of my travel blog at coldstreams.com/travel
AI: I asked AI to summarize my X feed
I asked an AI to summarize my X posts and also 3 of my blogs. I'll share these summaries over the next few days.
Bluesky adds some users – reaches 2% of X’s total
Bluesky Social is a heavily moderated and censored competitor to X. Academics, journalists, and left-wing activists and celebreties are flocking to Bluesky.
Did you know that you can draw inappropriate images at home, and there is no one to stop you?
The media hates Elon Musk, and accuses X's Grok AI of drawing inappropriate political pictures. Did you know you can even do that with PhotoShop? Should be illegal!