Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
The only hills I will die on are that hard mode is bollocks and that it's not about vowels.
Knowing there is a human choosing the words who is reactive to word-vibes gives you an intuitive way of choosing between options when more rational methods haven't got you down to one possibility.
Umma plumma
Remembering Clyde Stubblefield on his birthday
In my mid teens if someone had said to me “when you are middle aged, the leader of the opposition is a black woman and the leader of the party polling in third is Jewish”, I really would have had a much more optimistic idea of how the future was panning out.
I think that's going to be the major theme of S3.
Not in the last decade, but I remember Suggs off of Madness doing one.
"Words are so easy to say. Floccinaucinihilipilification."
I don't think I'll ever get the hang of knowing which royals people on the news are on about when they say 'the Duke and Duchess of Whatever'. Can we not have their actual names, at least in parentheses?
Hitler North-uh!
RIP Louis Tussauds.
1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis.
You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me.
An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life.
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Putting Tesco above Morrisons is lunacy.
This is great news: an immediate ban on political donations in cryptocurrency & a £100k cap on donations from UK citizens abroad.
Yes, there's more that needs doing, & the door is left open to crypto in future. But we should celebrate (& applaud) the wins when they come.
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8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com
I don't think "don't conflate Judaism with Israel/zionism" is a good response to antisemites justifying antisemitic hate crimes
I went to Roskilde festival in 2007 and there was a tent with some Swedes who kept playing Ace of Base's two songs over and over. Then some Norwegians organised a huge 'March Against Ace of Base' with placards and everything.
Ooft
Ha ha, amazing
There isn’t an “answer” to the trolley problem, it’s meant to make you appreciate moral complexity, not be solved.
And the sandwich should be a pie.
Good night Edwyn
The show that nearly killed me on a number of occasions, but especially with this:
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
CAN YOU HANDLE IT SHARON REDD
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"Remain calm, Rodney, while I lean on this closed bar."
I want the one I can't have, I won't share you, I started something I couldn't finish. A tragic story of overconsumption in three parts.
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
