New from me, @daveyalba and @ellawinthrop: Donald Trump was banned from social media on Jan 8. Since then, though lower in frequency, his statements have sometimes achieved pre-ban levels of virality. Our analysis shows in fine detail how that’s possible
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@AmitBohra@eLonePB “no one even knows there is a team called Nets” actual basketball fans know this basic information. If you ask a random person in Knicks gear over the last week if they know about the Nets, good chance they don’t. Because they don’t watch basketball.
@icydesantis@BadAssYelloBird Bingo, they were desperate for him because of fit and the Nova connection, and everyone knew it which gave us unique leverage with them. Would do it again even now.
@tuseroni@collard_greens@NancyRomm “you’d wonder why” yes, you’re describing the act of analyzing poetry and literature. If you don’t trust a particular poet to be making those choices deliberately or well enough that’s fine. Just seems like you came to this with a very limited conception of what a poem is.
@tuseroni@collard_greens@NancyRomm “it makes me look for a rhyme it doesn’t produce” yeah again that’s a you thing. Many people read the poem with no such expectation so it’s not irritating at all to them. Many great poets (Whitman, Hughes, Plath) wrote non-rhyming poems with line breaks.
@tuseroni@collard_greens@NancyRomm I think you’d have a better time if you recognized that “irritation” is a reflection of your own nervous system and not an inherent quality of the poem, which clearly many other people enjoy a lot and don’t find irritating in the slightest
@tuseroni@collard_greens@NancyRomm Line breaks in non-rhyming poetry are usually used for flow. They tap into the mind’s inclination to jump to the next word. Sometimes that word is expected and sometimes surprising. Doesn’t mean you have to dig it, but that discomfort can be an enjoyable feature if ya let it!
@Romano_718@HoopGrids@Netszn@notoriousbknets Sure, point is there’s actual reporting suggesting the league is likely to expand to Seattle. Nothing points to the Nets moving there or anywhere.
@Bsmith3y@JeriTsaiNets “if you live in NYC you should be proud of great things happening in NYC.” Brooklyn is in NYC. It’s not in New Jersey. If you weren’t rooting for the Nets when they were good don’t expect Nets fans to be happy for the Knicks 🤷♂️
@Bsmith3y@JeriTsaiNets It’s your choice to “think of” them as a NJ team, they were already in Brooklyn for about a decade when they were making a playoff run.
@pyrameadhead FB’s view inflation has been well reported and litigated. It makes sense that they would juice it across the board. You’re suggesting that Apple is selectively juicing a much simpler metric in the app store for ChatGPT (a competitive product to them). How and why?
@upsidedown_bat @xtineengels This screenshot is about how helmet requirements discourage bike riding in aggregate, not at all about whether wearing a helmet makes an individual rider safer. It obviously does.