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New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Jeremy B. Merrill

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"metrics for my real friends, real tricks for my meh friends" I did a fun NLP experiment, you'll all enjoy it. Learn more here --> Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/jeremy… Mastodon: journa.host/@jeremybmerril… Blog: jeremybmerrill.com/documents/cham…

The XKCD alt-text effect: yesterday's comic's alt text was about an obscure bodily organ called the "thymus". Visits to the Wikipedia page for "thymus" average 1,000 (literally, unrounded, 1,000!!) ... but totaled almost 5,000 yesterday. XKCD alt-text effect == 4,000 visits

Happy to see WildChat featured in The Washington Post by Jeremy B. Merrill Rachel Lerman! Read the article here: wapo.st/3A6e4me A huge shoutout to the team Wenting Zhao Sean Ren | Sahara AI 🔆 Jack Hessel Claire Cardie Yejin Choi Explore 1M indexed conversations: wildchat.yuntiandeng.com

NEW: Elon Musk's declining use of X for his businesses. He now devotes roughly the same share of his feed to politics that he did to Tesla in Nov. 2021, when the company's valuation peaked. As he was pursuing Twitter, Musk reassured his followers "Tesla is on my mind 24/7."

Almost 5 percent of Elon Musk's tweets consist of only the “tears of joy” or “rolling on the floor laughing” emoji. wapo.st/3WK2Ew8

Hardly anybody's talking about Joe Biden anymore. Until he dropped out, conservatives consistently talked about Joe Biden online more often than liberals did -- about 13% of messages from conservatives mentioned him, compared to 8% from liberals. Now it's down more than 50%.

My algorithm to solve NYT Connections puzzles is good... but not good enough. Of all 63M possible solutions for one puzzle, ranked by how "coherent" it is, the algorithm's guess (red line) looks perfect. But on a log scale? You can see 154 are better. jeremybmerrill.com/blog/2024/08/t…

New: China is increasingly targeting down-ballot elections in America, often amplifying antisemitic conspiracies. The operation focused on Rep. Barry Moore, a China hawk running to keep his seat, a Post analysis found. w/ Jeremy B. Merrill & Aaron Schaffer washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

NEW: political content shown on TikTok can depend on your gender—women received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, while men (including liberal ones) were more likely to be shown videos about Trump w/ Jeremy B. Merrill Cristiano Lima-Strong washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

WaPo review of 8k federal webpages since 1/20 found 662 examples of deletions and adds: “Diversity” is out. “Climate resilience” subs for “climate change.” DHS no longer offers “inclusive” workplace. ⁦Jeremy B. Merrill⁩ ⁦Azi™️⁩ ⁦Eric Lau⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Federal websites have already changed dramatically under Trump. Check out this The Washington Post analysis to see what's different. By Jeremy B. Merrill Azi™️ Eric Lau w/ editing by Meghan Hoyer and Sarah Frostenson washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

28 of the 220 invitees to Trump's crypto dinner last night were "ghost wallets" -- totally anonymous, with no transactions on the blockchain besides interactions with large CEXes. Who is #6, "Woo"? Only Binance + $Trump team know. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…