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Lizzy Peet

@lizzypeet.bsky.social

Researcher and writer for The Economist, Londoner based in New York 🗽

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FIFA painted over a beloved Wyland mural of whales, one of just 100 in the world, to advertise for the World Cup. Apparently without talking to anyone before doing so. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Outcry as World Cup art replaces beloved Dallas whale mural

As Dallas pulls out the stops for the World Cup this summer, one makeover is causing an uproar: the sudden disappearance of a beloved, giant mural downtown of swimming whales.

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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal

As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are some countries where alleging immigrants are a drain on public finances is plausible, but the US? The public benefits are nowhere near generous enough.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 6mo ago

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Lizzy Peet@lizzypeet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another ruthlessly ambitious (and unlikeable) defector. A thought: if they can't push above 30%, it's a hung parliament in 2029 with probable coalition locking out Reform. Next shot is 2034. Farage is now 70, and has kept the party, full of jostling egos, from imploding for eight long years...

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 6mo ago

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK. Another failed Tory joins Farage. Vote for Reform UK, get the worst of the Tories.

Lizzy Peet@lizzypeet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Despite becoming a yawn-inducing attack line it is still *extraordinary* that in the early 2000s Britain's Labour government decided to sell off half the country's gold reserves when the price was where it was. 395 tonnes, which then netted $6.3bn (adjusted), would today fetch $52bn 😳

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Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 10mo ago

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again. New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link): bit.ly/4h51JjF

Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

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