Matthew Holland

Sustainability professional, X (twitter) amateur

[Herb Kirkstreit @THE_OSU]

you change the name and we burn it to the ground

[NWS Cleveland @NWSCLE]

Snowfall totals have increased a bit with the latest forecast, especially across western counties. Expected widespread snowfall totals of 6-12" with locally higher amounts along & east of I71. Heaviest snow is still expected on Sun. Continue to prepare for heavy snow. #ohwx #pawx

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: NFL Films has released new footage that shows Bills WR Brandin Cooks CLEARLY caught the ball.

The refs somehow ruled this an interception essentailly giving the Broncos the win over Buffalo.

One of the worst calls in NFL history...

[CircleDaWagons Buffalo BillsMafia @Circle_DaWagons]

#billsmafia taking so many hits this weekend….even Tom Brady agrees…

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I will watch this till the end of time saying Cooks had total control of the ball when he hit the ground

[ESPN @espn]

RT for a chance to win one of 30 exclusive Lee Corso collectibles in honor of Coach’s final College GameDay 🧡

[LASIK.com @LASIKdotcom]

Wow…

Better Vision. Better Calls.

Still literally offering all NFL refs free LASIK.

[ESPN Cleveland @ESPNCleveland]

THAT ONE IS FOR JIM 🧡🧡🧡

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Oh no. The Browns ticked off Fanta!!'

[Mackenzie Bart @mbartwx]

The NWS confirms a 5th tornado from the storms last week from Bay Village to Westlake

@fox8news #Ohwx #Cleveland

[NWS Cleveland @NWSCLE]

Based on new video & radar evidence our office has made adjustments to the tornado track across NE Lorain & NW Cuyahoga Counties. The result is an extension to the original tornado track and the addition of a new NW to SE tornado track in Bay Village. #ohwx

[Matthew Holland @MattH_771]

@writerdianalee @NWSCLE @mbartwx Ohio

[NWS Cleveland @NWSCLE]

[8:45 AM] NWS Cleveland will be sending out 2 survey teams to survey the extensive damage from yesterday's storms. We will share their results as they become available. #ohwx

[Gavin✝️🎄🦌❄️ @gavinweather]

Tornado on the ground in Bay Village, Ohio #ohwx

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

New farm bill passed by House Ag Committee prevents anyone from suing pesticide manufacturers for harm done by their products. Also prevents state & local governments from restricting pesticides. Who will protect us then? The USDA, which is in the pocket of industry?

When I am in office, I will veto any such legislation. Next step is to get corporate influence out of Washington DC. The system works for the big corporations and banks. I will make it work for you instead.

https://t.co/6SWX2M4b4m

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

We're honored!
Thank you @Ground_app from the whole @TheFP team!

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

The #GroundhogDay results are in!

Phil didn’t see his shadow, meaning we'll have... an early spring!

#sponsored by @bmsnews

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Who America is rooting for in the Super Bowl

[Kevin Fischer @kevinafischer]

😔Realization: X is no longer a place for real intellectual discussion

Why?

The changes lately to X's algorithm are destroying Twitter's ability to be a place of intellectual discussion

The change

Much lower reliance on following (I follow them so show me their post) and momentum driven dynamics (I liked this person recently so keep showing them) combined with greater reliance on machine learning to make determinations of which posts to surface

Why this matters

Twitter's lower reliance on machine learning in its algorithm than other social providers actually created a network that often promoted out-of-distribution ideas to a wide audience, making it an incredible cybernetic thinking platform

The problem

Today's ML feed algorithms creates much more unidimensional twitter feeds (both for consumption and creation) that never promote out-of-distribution information because it has a lower first-order likelihood of being liked.

Likes are generally a poor long term signal of the quality of ideas that networks surface because they result in one-dimensional minima.

Yes, I liked a few e/acc posts. No, I don't want my feed to be 100% e/acc.

I'm constantly missing posts from people I care about.

With the prior more hand-engineered algorithm, the mechanism for out of distribution exposure was someone you liked then said something soon after that you wouldn't normally be exposed to and had the opportunity to like something from a new distribution.

As a result, getting a new idea into the playing field or being exposed to new ideas no longer happens. I haven't received any quality new thoughts or ideas from my twitter feed in months and I think it's 100% based on these new algorithmic changes.

The fix

Revert! Go back to more hand-engineered algorithm for surfacing posts, especially including following and momentum dynamics.

Like and RT this post if you agree and let's get Elon's attention so we can have our place for intellectual discussion back.