www.alan-ng.net
Irish trad musician
higher-ed IT director
author of @www.irishtune.info
climate crisis is priority #1
and suddenly relevant in 2025 is my PhD in the cultural history of communist East Germany. The Trump administration looks very familiar.
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Found the lyrics to compensate for my musical hearing habits: genius.com/Roberta-flac... and yes indeed, a timely song.
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I'm not joking about the algorithm. Since 2018, my typical posts went from 10% to 0.1% engagement, and here are the next few posts FB recommends to me 😳
It seems quite clear the algorithm is actively promoting climate denial, perhaps because that gets the clicks + shares.
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I would suggest actively boycotting the companies who are the biggest advertisers on X. Elon has a big debt held by several big banks that he is paying 11% on. If he loses advertisers the banks will get the jitters. Rich people need credit to get richer. Stop buying from these and write to their CEO
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And compare to "Unlawful apportionments put agency officials between a rock and a hard place personally and professionally, and Russ Vought believes that this should be exploited fully and completely to take unilateral action without regard to Congress, the Constitution, and our rule of law system."
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And compare to www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
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And compare to www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...
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Compare that history with, for example: apnews.com/article/trum...
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Please include links to evidence when at all possible for new info. That makes your posts much more re-postable.
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For example like this: "will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more"