And to connect all the other accounts to those "source" accounts
Bernie runs a script that auto-follows any account with a bird glyph in it
That's why the networks looks like hub and spoke. If he changed the visualization parameters it would look different
No, you have to be totally ignorant of how network visualization works to find these plots compelling at all
He set the link force to 0 so the connections between accounts has 0 affect on how close they are shown
Cluster strength is 82 so all the grouping comes from clusters
The clusters themselves just represent people with the same falcon glyph in their name, nothing about how the accounts interact to form networks. Anyone can put a glyph in their name for any reason
"Source accounts" means that he asked the software to start with those accounts
@iyionel@Charmainder21@maoistlandlord_ Yes, this case will be taught in future textbooks
Consider how your statements and participation here will be reflected in the historical record
@iyionel@Charmainder21@maoistlandlord_ This after he spent 18 months trying and failing to use AI to determine my identity by scraping podcasts and internet posts, but constantly believing ever more absurd lies the AI made up to satisfy his prompts
You are not helping him by defending him and reinforcing his beliefs
@iyionel@Charmainder21@maoistlandlord_ I hope @iyionel can see that this is one of the most clearcut cases of AI induced psychosis
He vibe coded an analysis of twitter accounts and misunderstanding how network viz works got a picture that looks really scary but is meaningless
@fleshsimulator You can make the "normal social network" look similar to this one if you actually clustered it based on the social interactions on the site and not by whatever arbitrary labels you have the accounts
Run e.g. a louvain modulatory maximization clustering algorithm on the network
@fleshsimulator Orange seems to be the core falcon cult
Now looking at this. If you turn up link force and you turn down Cluster (glyph) I bet the network looks very different and not as schizo/conspiratorial. Probably more like the control photo you posted
@fleshsimulator Just saw this
So source accounts is your a-logs? Sounds like you're asking the software to display a network with that cluster in the middle?
Purple, the biggest one, is "other hieroglyph," so it's actually a bunch of different things grouped together arbitrarily