Jacob Silver

data, implementation, and automation @OversightBoard, views my own. prev: Memetica, @storyful. bylines @nytimes, something something @ heart

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

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

https://t.co/h39slCRRqh

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.

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@AdamOrecchio People think we’ll just do anything to help other teams for no reason

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@ACfor_3 our time will come and when it does, you will enjoy it all the more knowing your soul is pure

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.

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@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.

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@MeganBitchell ladies, if he doesn’t wield the force…

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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!

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@Romano_718 @HoopGrids @Netszn @notoriousbknets Exactly, the league is expanding by starting an additional franchise in Seattle. The Nets aren’t going anywhere.

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@Romano_718 @HoopGrids @Netszn @notoriousbknets bro needs to look up “expansion” in the dictionary

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@Mark_Sisson @Kantrowitz Maybe it’s a human journalist but they’re new and asking readers for help and you’re mocking them :(

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@march_mazness @esidery I mean “helping” is a pretty low bar for Brooklyn, we’re not talking about a deep playoff run

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@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 🤷‍♂️

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.

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@BKNetsTweets @APabon23 Dude he is likely making All NBA this year lmao

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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?

[Jacob Silver @DataJacob]

@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.