Kaseluris.Nikos.1959 ☮ filoénios

❀ teacher ❀ synagonism = ALL winners, antagonism = ONE winner MANY losers ❀ open-algorithmic-society ❀ McsHitp senso-concept-knowledge ❀ human-mind-languages

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🛌 Making your bed every morning is linked to a 19% higher sense of daily productivity and better sleep habits.

[Tara @taraisredacted]

Something I just learned: Elon Musk sued the Israeli tech company that @FOAntisemitism uses as an AI monitoring tool. He lost and was ordered to pay them $608,000.00. I did not know this when I published the below information.

The tech company is called Bright Data. They’ve been a part of “Irontruth”, a campaign that supports the occupation and its genocidal goals

For FOAntisemitism and similar “campaigns”, Bright Data's services are used to monitor or scrape "antisemitic" data and/or the data of the people who post it. FWIW in a late 2023 report FOA's "most prevalent antisemitic hashtags" were ‘IsraeliCrimes’. ‘GenocideinGaza’, ‘ApartheidIsrael’, ‘IsraelTerroristState’, ‘IsraeliISIS’ and ‘F*ckIsrael’. ((SMH)) Bright Data also sells their services to others outside of these activities

Part of Bright Data’s activities also involves scraping X, which is why the lawsuit happened. Bright Data keeps and also sells the data it scrapes (to orgs like FOAntisemitism), and they also sell scraping software to clients and operate a network allowing clients to route their scraping traffic through proxy servers to avoid detection

Meta also sued them and lost.

[BLΛC @blac_ai]

I sent an AI agent swarm to read the X algo source code.

What they found shocks and confuses me.

First, I want to be clear about why I'm posting this.

Four years on this platform. 60,000+ followers. I've shown up every day since I started. And over the last three months, I've watched my reach drop 40%+, off a cliff, and I haven't changed ANYTHING; I am extremely consistent, disciplined, and focused on what I do and how I do it.

What bothers me in addition to my own numbers is that Artists I used to see constantly, I never see anymore.

People that I look forward to seeing what they're creating... one day they disappear from my feed.

I assume they left.

Nope, still here. Still posting. Multiple times a day. Just completely invisible to me now. And presumably me to them.

This is happening to a lot of us.

I've tried to figure out why and how to fix it. Post more. Post less. Different times. Everything has hurt my account. I'm frustrated, tired, and tbh, straight up losing interest.

So... I had my AI agent, Mai, spin up a research swarm last night; a multitude of specialized sub-agents pointed at every line of X's open-source algorithm.

Every file. Every filter. Every module they've made public. Literally.

I wanted to know exactly how to see this from the perspective of a creative here, from an artist, and not from a content consumer which is what literally every other post about the algo is focused on.

What follows is what they found.

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⭕️ TLDR; 5 things we all should be aware of:

1. Our follower count does nothing for our reach anymore.

2. The algorithm decides how many people see our posts based on a PREDICTION, before anyone has seen it.

3. Posting too much hurts us. Posting too little also hurts us. (Really)

4. Every time we repost another artist's work, the algorithm buries it.

5. Our posts are gone from the system after 48 hours. Nothing from 3 days ago is being shown to anyone. You start from zero every 48 hours.

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⏬ Going deeper on those 5...

1. Your Follower Count is just a Display Number

Buried in the codebase: "author_followers_count" is pulled through a service called "Gizmoduck" and passed to the tweet entity service for display only.

Not fed into any scorer. Anywhere in the system.

100,000 followers. 1000 followers.
Same starting point in "Phoenix", the new system.

Years building an audience on this platform? That audience, as a signal to the algorithm, is worth nothing now apparently.

What travels with your posts is PREDICTED engagement, a score based on your content and historical signals, regardless of how many people chose to follow you.

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2. "The Prediction Trap"

This is the one that actually broke my brain.

Before your post reaches anyone, "Phoenix" scores it across 19 "prediction heads"; 19 different things it's trying to predict about how people will behave.

Let me repeat.

❗️THE ALGO IS PREDICTING HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT YOU WILL GET, AND ASSIGNS REACH BASED ON IT.❗️

WHICH IS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY!

Some of the 19 metrics:
favorite_score — will someone like this
reply_score — will someone reply
dwell_score — will someone pause on it (binary)
dwell_time — how long will they pause (continuous, two separate signals)
photo_expand_score — will someone expand the image
not_interested / report — negative signals

The prediction determines reach...

It actually decides if the post will get reach, by predicting... reach? how does this make any sense. It's not determined by merit of the post. It's determined by wether or not the algo thinks it will get reach, thus giving it reach.

Phoenix PREDICTS low engagement.
Shows the post to fewer people.
Fewer people means fewer chances for engagement. Prediction validates itself. Post gets suppressed.
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Phoenix PREDICTS high engagement.
Bigger distribution. More chances.
Prediction validates itself.
Post gets pushed further.

The prediction drives distribution. Content quality is secondary. And the prediction is built on your account's recent historical signals.

If your reach has been declining, Phoenix is PREDICTING it will keep declining, AND actively making that happen by restricting your distribution.

ie; A great piece posted on an account with declining engagement gets a small test group, underperforms in that group, gets confirmed as low-value. Even if it's the best thing they've ever made.

The algorithm creates the outcome it predicted.

And for anyone who's been in a decline, getting out requires overcoming a system that's actively betting against you.

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3. "The Volume Trap"

"AuthorDiversityScorer" applies exponential decay every time you appear in the same follower's feed session. Each additional post from you in a single session scores lower than the last.

- Post at 9am, noon, 7pm.
- A follower opens X at noon.
- They see your midday post.
- Your 9am post, still alive, is now decayed because you already appeared in their session.
- Your 7pm post decays further.

❗️The more you post, the less each post reaches.

So you post less...
Impressions drop anyway, because low activity reads as a dormant account. The "per-author" caps governing this are redacted from the public code.

Post too much = decay.
Post too little = dormancy.

The band where things work is narrow, undisclosed, and different for every account.

This is absolutely absurd.
And impossible for people to navigate.

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4. The New Repost Penalty

April 12, 2026. X announced a crackdown on aggregators.

Reposts of other people's work: up to 90% impression deduction. On that specific repost.

To be clear: NOT on your account.
On each individual original post.
Lots of mis-info out about this.

Every time you share another artist's work because you believed in it, because community means showing up for each other... The algorithm buried it.

90% visibility cut. Gone.

BUT Self-reposting your own work is different.

X uses a "Bloom filter" that resets at the end of each session. "RetweetDeduplicationFilter" only drops self-reposts for followers who already saw the original in that same session.

A follower opening the app at midnight hasn't seen your morning post in their current session. It reaches them fresh.

The rule: sharing someone else's work = buried.
Sharing your own = viable.

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5. 48 Hours and... It's GONE.

"Thunder" is X's in-memory post store. It auto-trims every 2 minutes. Retention window: 48 hours.

After 48 hours your post is gone from the candidate pool. The algorithm can't serve it to anyone. The idea that consistent posting lets your older content keep circulating is wrong at the architecture level. You're starting from zero every two days.

Thunder also maintains per-author caps on how many of your posts can be in the candidate pool at once. Those values are redacted.

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🫠 How our habits are hurting us:

For years the advice was: show up every day, post on a schedule, build the habit. The accounts that did that built audiences. That consistency was proof of commitment.

The "AuthorDiversityScorer" punishes it.

The daily schedule that built your following now means your posts are competing with each other instead of adding value.

The disciplined consistency the old platform rewarded is now what triggers exponential decay under the new one.

Let that sink in❗️

The platform changed the rules. The habits we built under the old rules are working against us under the new ones. And no one said anything about it.

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📤 A Note about/to Nikita & the X Team:

Nikita Bier and the algo team at X are building for consumers. The changes make sense from that angle: algorithmic feeds, crackdowns on low-quality reposts, pushing formats that generate comments and replies. If your goal is to show the people scrolling a better experience, this logic tracks.

That might even be the right goal. I could argue that with a certain perspective.

However... there's a side of the equation they're seemingly not accounting for: the creators who supply the content that makes the platform worth scrolling in the first place.

For artists specifically, this has been a demolition job.

The art was always supposed to be the value. That's what we spent years building. That's what the audiences came for. The current algorithm doesn't reward that natively anymore. It rewards high comment probability.

The result is people like me spinning up AI agent swarms to read source code just to understand why our reach is gone.

Creators running diagnostics on a platform they used to just create on... is ridiculous.

I don't think this is the intent. But it's the outcome regardless.

You can optimize the consumption experience all you want. If the people making things stop showing up because the game is too rigged, there's nothing left to consume.

The creator side of the algorithm needs a voice in these decisions. Right now it doesn't have one.

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I sent agents to read the code because I was tired of not knowing the rules. Tired of watching reach disappear. Tired of looking for accounts I used to see every day and finding out they're still there, still creating, just invisible.

Understanding all this doesn't fix anything, ironically.

But at least now I know what I'm working with.

They built the algo well.

Just not for us.

It's built for the masses, engagement farming, rage baiting, fear baiting, and overall 2026 end-of-days pvp slop and brain rotted doom scrollers.

I don't know what else to tell you, or how to operate with any of this, and trust me, I get how insane and confusing a lot of this is. It numbing. Tiring.. and just.. Idk.

Regardless, I hope this helps in whatever way it can.

-BLAC

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Attached:
1 - screenshot of my death spiral analytics
2 - Summary report on agent swarm findings
3 - the prediction trap, visualized
4 - snippets from the public X algo repo with notes

[Michael of ✝️ ΨέκαLand @poirazis]

Important note that ISIS never fired a single bullet at Israel.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Palantir were kind enough to sum up its hideous ideology in 22 points. And I have taken the liberty of annotating each one of them. Here is my interpretation of all 22 of them (preserving the original numbering - for the original see their tweet below):

1. Silicon Valley owes an immeasurable debt to the ruling class who bailed out the criminal bankers that wrecked the livelihood of the majority of Americans. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley will defend that ruling class to the death (literally!), in the name of the majority of Americans whom they treat with contempt – i.e., like cattle that have lost their market value.

2. Palantir is eyeing the Apple Store, salivating over the prospect of creating its own technofeudal estate. Time to replace the iPhone with another device that dissolves what is left of people’s privacy.

3. Palantir shall give nothing away for free. It cares uniquely over its own growth which it pursues by sowing fear so that it can sell a fake sense of security.

4. Glory to brute force! Ethics is for suckers. The West needs more of Palantir’s murderous software.

5. AI-powered killer robots are coming. The task is to profit magnificently by building killer robots first and ask questions later. To be able to do so, Palantir will do whatever it takes to avoid at all cost any international treaties that limit AI-driven killer robots.

6. Every poor sod (lacking the connections to avoid being thrown into the trenches with killer drones targeting them from the sky) must be drafted into the army. Forget paying soldiers a salary. All payments should be directed to Palantir, where our own people will be serving their ‘national service’ – leaving the dying to non-shareholders.

7. Palantir works overtime to equip US Marines with killer bots that take away from the US Marines whatever remnants of ethical judgment they are left with on the battlefield. American society should be rendered perfectly incapable of any debate that restricts Palantir’s capacity to get the US Military to eliminate any remaining opportunity to reject its software’s choice of targets.

8. Palantir deplores the fact that the public sector is still not totally devoid of a conscience. Public servants must be fired en masse, except some very few approved by Palantir who will receive huge salaries, paid by taxpayers.

9. Palantir thinks that Donald Trump must be beatified for throwing himself into public service. Not forgiving folks like Trump everything risks our soul, not to mention that it raises the prospect of officials that restrict Palantir’s evil project.

10. Politics needs to be AI-like, devoid of anything that can be mistaken for human empathy. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self must be sent to the gulag forthwith!

11. There are some people too eager to hasten Palantir’s demise. They should rethink, or else!

12. Palantir makes no nuclear weapons but is happily developing other weapons of mass destruction. We proudly announce that we are now ready to add to nuclear Armageddon the AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence.

13. No other country in the history of the world has committed so many war crimes in the name of progress and freedom. The United States offers infinite freedom to people like Palantir’s founders to profit so handsomely by inflicting so much damage upon humanity.

14. American power has feasted on causing one war after another, one putsch after another, one avoidable financial disaster after another. Too many have forgotten or perhaps have taken for granted America’s capacity to pursue forever wars in the name of peace and democracy.

15. German and Japanese Fascism must be made great again. The denazification of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly misplaced commitment to Japanese pacifism must also end immediately!

16. We should applaud those who attempt to monopolise everything by means of generous government contracts. Billionaires must not be satisfied merely with their billions. To become even more obscenely rich they need grand narratives that help them convince the poor to use their freedom to keep them, the billionaires, in power. And, by the way, Palantir loves Elon, especially his grand apartheid-inspired narrative.

17. Silicon Valley must be free to do in America’s cities what it did in Gaza. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it came to granting Palantir the right to annihilate all remaining civil liberties and human rights. This must end.

18. Epstein’s syndicate should be forgotten lest lovely people like Trump and the Clintons are deterred from entering government. The public arena must be scrutiny-free unless subversives like Sanders or Mamdani enter it.

19. We love banal public figures as long as they give Palantir all the juicy contracts. We also love colourful public figures who give Palantir all the juicy contracts.

20. We need more opium for the masses, as they are not sufficiently inebriated for us to be unimpeded in the pursuit of their complete subjugation. Questioning organised superstition is dangerous and must end.

21. Time to bring back Hitler’s hierarchy of races, with Palantir’s founders and Elon at its Aryan pinnacle. The idea that it is wrong to judge someone by the colour of their skin or their ethnicity or their religion must be jettisoned.

22. Blacks, Muslims, most Asians, and of course women, are inferior untermensch. Blokes in America, and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted putting these subhumans in their places in the name of inclusivity. It was a mistake. Such subhumans must never be allowed in, except as servants or sex service providers – at least until we can improve our robots, in which case we won’t need them at all.

[Δραχμαντινετζάντ @giopsos]

Το ότι θα σηκωνόμουν να χειροκροτήσω αυτά που γράφει αυτός ο μαλάκας, δεν το περίμενα ποτέ, ματημπαναΐα.-

[Arcfunmi @Arcfunmi]

Could this end up being more efficient than solar energy

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

A married couple fights, and the child suffers!

It’s infuriating to watch. They don’t care at all about the child in front of them during the violent conflict. The child is knocked down multiple times, yet they ignore it. Poor kid, born into such a terrible family.

[Marka2‼️ @Marka2free]

Στις 3 Απριλίου 1965, ο Ένιο Μορικόνε ηχογράφησε αυτό το αριστούργημα στη Ρώμη.
Το soundtrack μιας ζωής.

Για λίγα δολάρια παραπάνω | Ένιο Μορικόνε | 1965

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

What an incredible story!

This is China’s Guoliang Tunnel.

In the 1970s, 13 villagers, led by Shen Mingxin, carved a 1.2 km road through the Taihang Mountains in Henan by hand, using just hammers and chisels.

They sold livestock to fund it, and one villager sadly died during construction.

With jagged walls and cliffside windows, it was built to connect the isolated village of Guoliang and is now one of the most epic roads you’ll ever see.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Trump is the world's greatest EXPERT 🤣

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

Saying something that is almost forgotten: a Ukrainian man was taken by recruitment officers right at his doorstep, but fortunately his dog saved him.

Being drafted is for the defense of freedom and democracy—this dog really doesn’t understand the situation.😂

[nikolas kosmatopoulos 🇵🇸 @NikolaCosmi]

In 2010 crisis-hit Greece signed a deal with IMF, the first EU country to do so. Just 4 months later, for the 1st time in the country’s history, the Israeli prime minister visited Greece, ever since a “strategic ally” of the Zionist state. What did it bring to Greece? A thread!

[Lina 🪼 @_tsouxtra]

Ο ορισμός της ξετσιπωσιάς!
Ζήτησε Ο ΙΔΙΟΣ κοντινό στην κάμερα για να "ξεσκεπάσει" και καλά την κυρία που κατήγγειλε ότι δε βρίσκει ραντεβού σε δημόσιο νοσοκομείο,επιμένοντας ότι της βρήκε"για σήμερα",αλλά η οθόνη στο κοντινό,έγραφε 26 Ιουνίου!Κι όμως...
συνέχισε το ψέμα κανονικά.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Something very bad is about to happen.

The Director of National Counterterrorism Joe Kent wouldn’t have resigned if the war was about to end.

False flag? Ground invasion? Nuke?

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

If You Don't Understand the Petrodollar, You Don't Understand Money

[Alexandros Charoulis 🌈 @FragileAlex]

Θυμάσαι το fakenews μότο "Οι κομμουνιστές θα μας πάρουν τα σπίτια"; Πάμε να δούμε την πορεία των πλειστηριασμών από το 2018 μέχρι και σήμερα:
2018: 22.400
2019: 29.100
2022: 52.595
2023: 63.632
2024: 69.339
2025: 67.309
2026: 80.000 (στοιχεία α' τριμήνου)