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Bluesky significantly improves how it displays threads — Note #2
Discover the features of version 1.86, a major update of the platform
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The difference between moderation and censorship – Note #1
Some claim to be “censored” by social media platforms. They are not.
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In the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X
Matt Navarra on Threads, citing a Business Insider article, reports that in the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X, formerly Twitter. In April 2024, Threads has 28 million daily active users, X has 22 million. Threads has 100 million monthly active users, X has 140 million.
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2024 has already broken multiple temperature records
Carbon Brief has published a comprehensive article containing multiple visualizations of global temperature data. The visualizations show that 2024 has already broken multiple temperature records. As shown in Figure 1, the first four months of 2024 have seen the largest temperature anomaly since the 1940s. The temperature anomaly is the
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Joe Biden's campaign is raising a lot more money than Donald Trump's campaign
Figure 1 is an interesting plot shared on Bluesky by Jacob T. Levy. It shows the cumulative total of funds raised by the campaigns of Donald Trump (in red) and Joe Biden (in blue), in 2020 (dotted line) and 2024 (solid line), between 600 days before Election Day and Election
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Threads likely to show ads as soon as the second half of 2024
As a reminder, Threads is Meta's Instagram-backed Twitter competitor. According to Digiday, Meta has been promoting Threads' upcoming advertising features to a selection of executives working in the advertising industry. The advertising features would arrive in the second half of 2024, a bit more than a year
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post.news is shutting down
Noam Bardin, CEO of the social network post.news: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We
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Air Canada had to refund a customer after its customer service AI hallucinated
In February 2024, a Canadian court forced Air Canada to partially refund the airline ticket purchased by one of its customers. The customer had asked the customer support AI bot under which conditions Air Canada reimburses emergency-purchased airline tickets when a loved one dies. The bot responded by hallucinating a
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Daniel Kahneman has passed away
I just learned on Bluesky that the American-Israeli psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman has passed away at the age of 90. During his long scientific career, Daniel Kahneman helped to show that psychological mechanisms, including cognitive biases, have a substantial influence on human decisions. Trained as a psychologist, his work
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X's lawsuit against a group fighting online hate has been dismissed
In July 2023, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group fighting against online hate, published a series of reports claiming that X, formerly Twitter, does very little moderation of various hate speeches. In response, Elon Musk announced that X was going to sue the CCDH, alleging that the
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Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the January 6th is becoming increasingly radical
According to data compiled by the Washington Post, Donald Trump is using increasingly radical language in his speeches to describe the rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After calling them “political prisoners”, which they are not, Donald Trump now calls the rioters “hostages”, which they are not
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Have you ever seen the Taj Mahal from space?
CNES, the French space agency, shared on Bluesky a spectacular picture of the Taj Mahal taken by one of the two Pleiades satellites. Le Taj Mahal en Inde, observé par un satellite Pléiades à près de 700 km d'altitude ! Ce mausolée de marbre blanc est considéré comme un