Alejandro Rodríguez

Madrid 🇪🇸 ↔️ 🇺🇸 San Diego, CA | 🎓 UCSD, UMass | 💼 Data Scientist - Incubation Lab at NielsenIQ. 🗨️ Opinions are my own

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

The Chargers and Clippers both being doomed to eternal irrelevancy after leaving San Diego is really poetic. Whole “Icarus flying too close to the sun” motif there.

[Alejandro Rodríguez @alexrodpas6]

To be perfectly fair to the Chargers, their game against the Raiders was not a home game

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The Chargers are the second team in NFL history to lose back-to-back games by double digits with both coming at home against teams that had a sub-.200 win pct the previous season.

The other was the 1926 Racine Tornadoes (Oct. 10-17), who played just one more game before folding.

[Alejandro Rodríguez @alexrodpas6]

The one with better stats in every major category. What kind of question is this???? 😂

[MLB @MLB]

It’s a one-run game in the ninth, who are you choosing to lock down the save: Aroldis Chapman or Mason Miller? 🤔

(MLB x @SageUSAmerica)

[𓃭 @inthevvaters]

being a bilingual sucks bc it doesn’t automatically mean i’m fluent in two languages i’m just terrible in both

[jameson (big deck energy) @jamesonhaslam]

It really looks like this

[Alejandro Rodríguez @alexrodpas6]

I'm sorry, does that actually say UCSD at number 5? 😂

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

This is a really good answer on immigration by @jamestalarico

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Leviticus 19:33-34: "When a foreigner resides among you, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”

[SanDiegoHumor @Sandiegohumor]

When you get a burrito outside of San Diego

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

this is an absolute disaster for meta.

and most people don’t know the tenth of it.

meta studied the solutions to child safety problems, calculated the growth impact, then shelved the fixes for years because metrics mattered more than protecting kids.

in 2019, safety researchers recommended making teen accounts private by default to stop adult strangers from messaging minors. the growth team ran the numbers and found it would cost 1.5 million monthly active teens per year.

policy, legal, communications, privacy, and safety teams all pushed for the change. one safety researcher asked: “isn’t safety the whole point of this team?”

meta waited five years. during that time, teens experienced billions of unwanted interactions with adults. billions. instagram had 38 times more inappropriate adult-teen interactions than facebook messenger.

the company had a 17-strike policy for accounts trafficking humans for sex. you could violate prostitution and solicitation policies 16 times before meta suspended your account. when the head of safety joined in 2020, she was shocked to find instagram had no way to report child sexual abuse content, even though users could easily report spam or intellectual property violations.

meta’s own employees saw what was happening. one wrote: “targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago. like we’re seriously saying ‘we have to hook them young’ here.”

another researcher studying problematic use said: “oh my gosh yall ig is a drug. we’re basically pushers.”

when meta ran a study showing that deactivating facebook and instagram reduced anxiety, depression, and loneliness, they killed the research and never published results. one employee worried internally: “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”

then in 2020, when congress asked if meta could determine whether increased platform use among teenage girls correlated with depression or anxiety, meta answered: “no.”

they had the data. they had the solutions. they had employees begging them to act. meta chose growth metrics instead, then lied to congress about what they knew.

they knew kids were being trafficked. they knew adults were messaging minors. they knew their products were addictive. they knew the fixes. they ran the math on protecting children and decided it cost too much engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

absolute disgrace.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.

The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8.

They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school.

🧵

[jacob @thesoggyblanket]

oh but when i had this saved on my phone they wouldn’t let me back into the country

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

One discovery on moving to the US is that however into Halloween you think Americans are, it's more than that.

[Alejandro Rodríguez @alexrodpas6]

"I'm tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners"

Do people not understand that citizenship is extremely hard to get and that you have to be committed to America, and America be committed to you, in order to get it? It's a two-way street

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

I fully support deporting Zohran Mamdani.

I’m tired of pretending citizenship is a right for foreigners.

He’s not assimilated into our culture. Not with his habits, not with his religion, and not with his ideology.

The federal government should be able to much easier strip citizenship for these reasons.

And I don’t care if a single person views this as “authoritarian.”

Plus, this is not to mention the arguments that Mamdani — who has aligned himself with Islamic terror — had violations with his citizenship forms and application process.

I want a nation. Not whatever this is.

The founding fathers are rolling in their graves because someone as problematic as this is able to get this close to controlling the nation’s top city.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This 50s nostalgia is so pathetic.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Literally

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

......aint she write the damn book?

[bella @bonkeywong]

Me at the bar when my friends r talking to someone I don’t know

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need! Human dignity must always come first!

[Sam Peak 🇺🇸💡 @SpeakSamuel]

If earning a masters degree in chemical engineering from MIT isn't enough for somebody to obtain an O visa, then the program is completely broken and an 85,000 cap on H-1Bs is no viable alternative.