Have you ever lied to a stranger about what you do for a living? I haven't yet, but um I find myself considering it quite a lot. I'm a journalist and whenever a cab driver asks me, "So, what do you do. " Sometimes I just want to say I'm a tax accountant and enjoy 20 minutes of silence. Unfortunately, I'm an honest person. From the many conversations that have ensued with cab drivers about my profession, I have brought for you today a compilation of my favorite quotes, a highlight reel, if you will. One said ...

RT X Freeze (@XFreeze)Japanese people love 𝕏. It is their priority platform, far surpassing Facebook and YouTube in daily usageJapan has ~75 million 𝕏 users - 60% of the entire population. Despite having only one-third of America’s population, they generate nearly the same daily posting volume as the US𝕏 outperforms Facebook there and is the default real-time platform for earthquakes, typhoons, and breaking newsNow, Grok auto-translation is surfacing Japanese posts directly in English in For You feeds - qui ...

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[music] Six years ago when I was in high school, I gave a talk on a stage much like this one. I was asked to say what I thought Gen Z superpower was. And my answer was politics.specifically our determination to politicize every aspect of our lives, including our relationships and to confront anyone we knew was wrong. A few years later in college, I did a study abroad program in England. I was three weeks into the semester busy making friends.And then on October 7th, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel. One of my ne ...

Could AI chatbots undo the harms of social media. The past 15 years have been characterized by waves of populism, polarization, and eroding trust in experts. Many factors are at play, but one is the dramatic change in our information environment brought about by social media.Every media revolution transforms who shares information and what form it takes. Some technologies are fundamentally democratizing and polarizing, widening the pool of publishers and views beyond a narrow elite and amplifying radical an ...

RT John Solomon (@jsolomonReports)Federal pressure on social media to censor disfavored narratives is now prohibited under a 10-year court-approved agreement among the Trump administration, Louisiana, Missouri and individual social media users. https://t.co/TDVZGj6JAb ...

How is it that in the age of social media and screen time, something old and vaguely royal still appeals? Three factors explain the scheme’s success https://t.co/sZNHF3V9W9 ...

Since everyone is complaining about the X algorithm, I would like to remind you that all other social media platforms practice HEAVY censorship, allow extortion, and use AI against creators.I think X is just trying to figure out spam/ai bot management and it's challenging. ...

Why are English-speaking countries so glum? Many researchers blame social media. The reality may be less straightforward https://t.co/IeSH4mX8uw ...

Raise your hand if you have a child. Now, keep your hand raised if your child is in their teenage years. If you have a teenage daughter or a teenage daughter, or if you finished raising a teenage daughter, please keep your hand up. Take a look around. That's a lot of people, which means some of you know what it is like to have a teenage daughter. and the reputation we carry. We're lazy, we're dramatic, we're moody, and we're so mean. I mean, we're so spoiled and unmotivated. And it's these different stereot ...