On Polarization and the Machine That Eats Everyone
Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era | Polar
Polar is the Merchant of Record for developers building AI-era software: payments, subscriptions, and usage-based billing, with global tax handled for you.
BridgEU: new project to study how recommendation systems can reduce polarization | SynoSys
A new collaborative project with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Eurosky, and SPRIND explores whether social media recommendation algorithms can strengthen public discourse instead of reinforcing divisions.
Algorithms may be making political polarization worse than we think
Marc Torrens and Carlos Carrasco-Farré analyze how algorithms influence opinions and heighten our emotional responses.
The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
Is the current form of the scientific paper still optimal in 2025? How do we preserve, and efficiently leverage, the uncut gems of the scientific process?
Taelin on Twitter / X
QuickSort has been synthesized!I've finally added varlen uints to NeoGen, and, for the first time ever, it has invented, on its own, an O(n*log(n)) sorting algorithm!NeoGen isn't an AI. There is no model, no pre-training, no previous knowledge of sorting. In fact, the system… https://t.co/rX2kjpO6aI pic.twitter.com/RajXVrI3OB— Taelin (@VictorTaelin) April 11, 2025
Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The thing is, any feed or search result is "algorithmic." "Just show me the things posted by people I follow in reverse-chronological order" is an algorithm. "Just show me products that have this SKU" is an algorithm. "Alphabetical sort" is an algorithm. "Random sort" is an algorithm.
The Algorithmic Management of Polarization and Violence on Social Media
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The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
What if we didn't collapse all the knowledge from the scientific process into one paper?
Excellent @tgspodcast.bsky.social episode, finding myself pausing every minute to take notes. "What sorts of systems are going to make it through the bottlenecks of the 21st c?“ TLDR collective robustness beats individual optimization Once (if?) funders get this, atproto will see investments
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
open.spotify.comI told y'all I'd finish writing this today. Enjoy "The Sorting Problem". #offprint cc @aka.dad impulsive-static.offprint.app/a/3mix2fjcd2623-the-sorting-p…
Impulsive Static | Bryan (they/them) @ atmosphereconf | Offprint
impulsive-static.offprint.appi dislike this beyond being factually incorrect, it is also missing the core problem with Big Tech Algorithms: it is a matter about who controls attention, not the algorithm itself /1
The Verge
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-s…
Social media (unsorted)
Will probably be sorted into separate collections
Adults in Great Britain now spending more time on mobiles than watching TV
The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Cognitive Autonomy
Who Makes Money From Social Media?
People Across the Globe Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation
