Benet Fusté

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[Benet Fusté @bfuste]

"We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media (...) These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour"

[Philine Widmer @phinifa]

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in @Nature and answers "Yes".

https://t.co/2h4NgHZSmb

[Benet Fusté @bfuste]

@jonsindreu @JorgeGalindo (i em sorprèn molt que això que dius no sigui molt més present en aquest debat)

[Benet Fusté @bfuste]

@jonsindreu @JorgeGalindo A Catalunya hi ha sòl urbanitzat per fer-hi 250m o 300m habitatges. Les llicències poden trigar (en alguns municipis més que mesos) però no hi ha cap incertesa sobre el seu atorgament. No s'hi construeix perquè no hi ha demanda solvent al preu que faria rendible construir-hi

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

voter turnout in israel at highest by midday since 1977

normally a good thing. for netanyahu, high arab turnout is an ‘emergency’

(…and an excuse to claim election was stolen, of course)

[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

[Jesús Rodríguez @albertmartnez]

Quan els serveis d'informació policial es converteixen en serveis de desinformació alguna cosa se'ns escapa. Mossos porten tot el dia alertant a comerços de Sants d'un suposat atac de vàndals que es produiria a les 17h. Esperant assegut...

[Manuel Hidalgo @Manuj_Hidalgo]

No, no sirve y lo sabe.
Da igual la tonelada de evidencia que hay. Estamos a la izquierda de la curva.
Si no hay recorte de gasto bajar los impuestos elevará el déficit y la deuda. Y quien me venga a decir luego que hay 60 mil cuquis donde ajustar que no espere respuesta.

[Jordi Salvia 🍉 @jordisalvia]

Entre el 18 i el 19 d'octubre es van crear 20 perfils de TikTok per reclutar joves i portar-los a grups de WhatsApp/Telegram (~700 a Madrid i Barcelona) per incitar a vandalitzar les ciutats. Algú està manipulant la desesperança dels joves.

[Amatxo Alpha @KikeGasteiz]

Detienen a un manifestante por crear disturbios y lo sueltan cuando les dice que es policía.
Provocando la violencia.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.

Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.

Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.

"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.

Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEW:

Elon Musk is over $400 million in federal, disclosed giving in the 2025-2026 cycle.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

This is not exactly my idea. This is better. The Iranians have designed their compellence plan as a deterrence plan:

IF YOU KEEP UP CAT AND MOUSE, we're gonna hit your bases.

But the underlying diagnosis is the same. They have lost the Battle of Hormuz. And therefore they must find another channel of cost-imposition.

From what I can tell the escalation is designed correctly. Now they have escaped their strategic incoherence. This can work.

The ball's in the US court. And I am not long enough.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran announces it will now attack US bases in the region if any more commercial vessels continue to transit the US-backed southern Omani corridor of the Strait of Hormuz.

"This is a serious warning," the statement adds.

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

A colleague asked me today if Israel ever came close to a military coup. Looks like we might heading into a variety of one just now.

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

The inability to get soldiers out of isolated frontline positions for months on end has produced scenes like this - I can’t imagine the psychological damage to these guys

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Some U.S. sources said they had the impression that Israel was hoping the Iranians would fire at the aircraft, providing a justification for launching strikes against Iran

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

china closing the gap w/ american ai models

the future increasingly looks like a world where china leads in ai models, the united states leads in semiconductors. messy…

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

NEW | EV Adoption is booming around the world

The Hormuz crisis once again revealed the risks of an energy system reliant on fossil fuels and countries are taking notice.

Growing EV fleets have saved oil importers more than $20 billion since the start of the war.

[Jon Sindreu @jonsindreu]

Una evidència, de la mateixa manera que un inversor institucional encara es pot permetre un rati de vacancies més baix (és estrany que sigui més del 8-10%), de manera que la seva entrada augmenta l'oferta al mercat del lloguer. Però és clar, el nostre nivell de debat és infantil.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This has got to be the most moronic story of the month. It's genuinely so stupid it frankly boggles the mind.

It was broken by Norwegian daily "Dagens Næringsliv" (DN) under the title "Chinese-owned rental cars filmed secret exercise: Saved video of soldiers and codes" (https://t.co/R28sm12SzE).

BUT when you look into the story what actually happened is that, for an exercise, the Norwegian army was short on cars so it rented some from Hertz.

Those rental cars had dashcams - as cars do - that the soldiers mistakenly kept on. At one point, some soldiers found out about that: they were clicking through the car menus out of boredom and stumbled on the footage, including clips of themselves typing gate codes in front of the camera. They deleted the footage. There is zero evidence the footage left the car.

THAT'S IT, that's the whole story.

China hysteria being what it is in Europe these days, this somehow got transformed into a "China spying" story because Hertz Norway is owned by Volvo, itself owned by Geely (a Chinese company), and 2 of the cars were from a Chinese brand, Deepal.

The narrative apparently being that Geely, through Volvo, through Hertz, deliberately left standard dashcams on in rental cars in the hope that the Norwegian military would one day rent them and forget to turn the dashcams off 🤦

And now, as is always the case, it's being spread globally by accounts like Clash Report 👇, which even found a way to make the story dumber: their version has the cars as "Chinese-owned Volvos", when they weren’t Volvos at all.

Such is the contemporary media ecosystem: one outlet invents the hysteria, the next one strips away the last remaining nuance and we all end up dumber for it.