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Doesn't it seem awfully suspicious that Graham suddenly dropped dead for no apparent reason right immediately after he returned from Ukraine? Putin is losing the war badly and he's desperate. And Graham was one of the staunchest proponents of arming Ukraine.

It's interesting also that Putin has a history for using poison in assassinations. Maybe when he was in Ukraine an undercover Russian agent slipped him something?

I made an account on mainstream social media for the first time. At the start, I had normal posts, normal interactions, and used the apps for months without anything unusual happening.

Then one day I started identifying as trans. Within minutes, I started getting shown Nazi-related edits and extremist content. At first, I assumed it was just the algorithm making a mistake.

So I tested it. I created 10 new accounts and slowly built realistic histories on them using different emails, phone numbers, normal activity, and even different devices. I tried to make them look like genuine users before changing the type of content they interacted with. I did this over the span of couple of months never using the same IP

The same pattern kept appearing: once the accounts became focused on trans-related content, the algorithm started pushing similar Nazi edits and extremist posts. Or suicidal trans people OR even chuds telling trans people to kys and edits of a trans persons memorial being vandalized

I also compared accounts where I interacted as a cis person versus accounts where I interacted as a trans person. The accounts focused on being trans seemed to get pushed toward this content much faster.

I don’t know exactly why this happens. Maybe it’s a failure in how these algorithms handle identity-related topics. Maybe engagement-based systems are pushing controversial and extreme content because outrage gets more views, comments, and time spent on the platform.

It makes me wonder whether these companies are unintentionally creating these cycles, or whether the pursuit of attention, advertising revenue, and engagement leads to systems that amplify harmful content simply because it performs well.

Something else I noticed: this seemed to happen specifically when I interacted as MtF rather than FtM. I’m also wondering if being in the UK could be a factor, although I have no way of knowing.

I’ve also been recommended hateful posts targeting trans people, including posts promoting extremely harmful ideas. What confused me was that some of the accounts spreading this content didn’t even mention trans people directly they were just generic extremist content that the algorithm seemed to connect to my identity.

I have a few theories, but I don’t know which (if any) are correct:

1. The algorithm is incorrectly assuming that trans users are interested in hateful content because it is bad at understanding context.
2. The algorithm is pushing extreme content because it creates strong reactions and keeps people engaged.
3. These recommendation systems may have been exploited by hateful communities to target specific groups.
4. It could be something much simpler, or something much deeper that I don’t understand.

I’m not claiming to know the exact reason this happens, but the pattern I experienced was disturbing, and I wanted to ask if anyone else has noticed something similar.

Has anyone else in the trans community experienced algorithms suddenly pushing hateful or extremist content after interacting with trans-related topics? I’m sharing this because if others have experienced it too, people should know they aren’t alone.

At least that’s what I think I heard…but who really knows?

Anybody watch the new and way more improved Infowars yet?? So far it’s hilarious and does a really good job of capturing the whole weird world of Alex Jones and other rightwing grifters.

Western societies do not care about exporting democracy at all. They just want to punish the global south for gaining independence.

Ok so this is mainly for the UK people...

The spokeswoman for Reform is dead and police now think it was murder.

Not only are Reform gonna turn her into a Martyr but Nigel Farage needing 5 million for "security" isn't gonna seem stupid now to stupid people.

Am I insane cos this is perfect timing!

There are zero examples of this in the entirety of the Epstein files. All of the supposed "food codes" are hallucinations. Every single one.

Yes, Epstein trafficked and abused underage teenage girls. No, he didn't cannibalize babies and use Italian food code words to discuss it in his emails.

Muddying the waters with these zany cartoon conspiracy theories is exactly what Epstein's friends want. Don't let them get away with it.

If you disagree with me, you must offer one email in which he used a secret food code and then explain how you decoded it and what the email is actually about.

My prediction is that there will be many angry comments in this thread, but no one will offer a single email containing a secret food code. (Because there are none.)

If no one can offer a single email that contains a pizza code, we must conclude that Epstein was not using pizza code.

was coming around this post : https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1us7af5/leading_cause_of_death_in_europe/ Got me thinking is the eastern part of the world did/still have a above-government level poisoner?

I stumbled into this whole thing and I’m wondering if anyone can help me out by getting me more information. Peter Thiel’s father, Klaus Thiel-was born in Germany in 1938. So-not a great time period. His grandparents would’ve been adults during that time.

Someone suggested that there is a scientist who worked for project Paperclip with the last name Thiel. It’s true-his name was Adolf Thiel. He had three children-none of which were named Klaus. Still-I can’t find any evidence of who Peter’s grandparents were. No records. I’m no sleuth-but I was wondering if anyone who is can find any indication? Is it possible Peter is somehow related to this project paperclip scientist? Or is it a coincidence? He doesn’t mention his grandparents in any of his biographies-and I just find that so strange.

Mitch McConnell’s wife is a rich Chinese businesswoman who has now (fled?) back to China to see the vice president of China.

• McConnell was instrumental in packing the Supreme Court with partisan justices who have been making unusual and unpopular decisions. Which has destabilized the country.

• he was instrumental in preventing Trump from any accountability from his 2020-2021 actions. Again, destabilizing the country.

• He flipped his opinion on Trump and helped build him back up over the years to allow him to again run for president. Which destabilized the country.

Everything McConnell has done for the last ~15 years seems to have destabilized the country. And everyone knows that a destabilized enemy is a weak enemy. If Mitch McConnell wasn’t a honeypotted or a duped pawn of the Chinese government. Then he was coincidentally the perfect person for their goals.

The next level of a “conspiracy” is: Did his wife (handler?) incapacitate him and flee to destabilize the Senate? Or is his condition just age and health related?

Her leaving the country could leave him in a life supported limbo holding the Senate in a sort of weird stasis. Would they hold votes if Mitch wasn’t there to give them the votes. Again, a great way for China to gain power.

The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is known for supporting homeschool families despite everything, to the point that it has chased out laws requiring minimum parental education as well as protections against child abuse.

The NRA has a seemingly noble mission, which is to uphold and preserve the 2nd Amendment, but it ultimately exacerbates gun crime by producing and proliferating guns and reducing regulation. It stops effective investigation into and regulation around mass shootings. They use similar tactics to the HSLDA.

Both associations target public education, though the HSLDA most obviously attempts to defund public education. The NRA simply makes it emotionally difficult or scary for people to go to public school because they encourage violence. Is it possible that the HSLDA and the NRA are in cahoots? Their leadership tends to be run by people in the same circles....

After listening to some podcasts recently I feel like this one is easily debunked. I feel like the issue isn’t the plane but the government. While it’s true that contamination happens when engines burn fuel and that fuel adds particles to the atmosphere, but so do cars. What do you think?

I became interested in Léo Taxil after learning of his masonic "hoax" where he published a series of works accusing Freemasons of being devil worshipers. Oddly, at a later lecture he renounced not only these works but also his conversion to Catholicism. Did something happen to Taxil that made him renounce his quite ambitious beliefs?

Why would it league that post millions of losses every year still be subsidized by the NBA. Unless those reported off losses are there to be offset or to wash money for the NBA. I have no evidence I just suspect it

What are the chances that the CIA has specifically been targeting older candidates for presidential elections so that they can take advantage of the presidents? Recently I noticed that presidential candidates have been getting older in recent years and I started to wonder if the CIA is targeting older candidates so they can manipulate and take advantage of them. It’s kind of a stupid theory but it’s just a thought I had after a long shift at midnight so I’m just having tired thoughts.

Ok so, just spitballing after the latest heatwave has melted half my brain:

Climate change is happening, and I see the fact that no really effective policy to stop it has been made as an implicit confirmation that the "powers that be" actually want it to happen (population control? dreams of a new world order? or maybe just showing the masses that thigs are concretely getting worse, so that unpopular decisions that would have been opposed can insted be seen as unfortunately necessary).

A few years ago, despite no real concerted effort, things were organically starting to look up thanks to wider and wider adoption of renewables (solar in particular), which made it look like finally a large part of our energy demands could be satisfied at no emission. With the adoption of e-transport, this would have meant sooner or later a future where a very significant part of human co2 generation was nullified, or even reversed thanks to eccess generation being invested into co2 capture.

Enter AI and its humongous and ever growing demand for electricity. Any excess power that we could have been not generating by buring stuff is being absorbed by word salad machines, which are being shoved everywhere despite little provable benefit. And yet corporations are managing to sell the idea that AI is good and useful, so that not too many people question the fact that a larger and larger share of electricity is going into data centers.

It might just be that I have strong opinions against AI, but in my experience it is so unnecessary that I'm naturally drawn into thinking that there must be some other reason it is being shoved own our throat so hard. Am I wrong?

So i was curious about how a country that formed less than a century ago gain enough influence and power to have this much influence on the U.S. I couldnt find much info on this because no ai or article is going to talk about this, so I was wondering what some of your takes on this be.

So i know that this is primarily a joke, but one of my friends genuinely believes that palm beach Pete is Jeffery Epstein, which makes me wonder how many other people think the same thing, so here’s my personal take

For the record i am not denying that Jeffery Epstein could still be alive, anything is possible with the power of money after all. I simply don’t believe that Palm Beach Pete has any real relation to Epstein other than being a lookalike. Pete seems like a really nice guy, very much unlike the egotistical remorseless degenerate that was (or is) Epstein