So I watched this. Then I watched the next one from the same channel.... auto play into a 3rd. With a 45 minute ad... a man telling men what toxic things women “really want”. Dropped a couple buzz words like “simp”... wtf YouTube?
So I watched this. Then I watched the next one from the same channel.... auto play into a 3rd. With a 45 minute ad... a man telling men what toxic things women “really want”. Dropped a couple buzz words like “simp”... wtf YouTube?
Bro, never EVER ride the algorithm.
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So I watched this. Then I watched the next one from the same channel.... auto play into a 3rd. With a 45 minute ad... a man telling men what toxic things women “really want”. Dropped a couple buzz words like “simp”... wtf YouTube?
As PepsiFree noted, this is a huge problem with YouTube's algorithm. It doesn't choose what to show you based on what it thinks you'd enjoy. It chooses the next video based on "engagement", and videos expressing extremist political views (especially extremist right-wing views) tend to drive much higher engagement metrics than other types of videos.
A few years ago, I went looking for a review for a video game I was thinking about buying. After loading the video I was looking for, I took a glance at the recommended videos section on the right. The first two recommendations were other videos about the same game, which makes sense. The third was a video about a different game within the same genre. The fourth video was "Watch Ben Shapiro DESTROY a College Feminist with FACTS and LOGIC". After that it went completely off the cliff into right-wing crazytown.
If you're older than ~25 or so, you probably use YouTube by either clicking a direct link someone sent to you (or posted on this forum) or by manually browsing directly to the YouTube homepage and typing a query into the search bar. That's not how young people use YouTube. They have a selection of channels and content creators they follow and then let the autoplay next video feature determine what they see next. Since the algorithm invariably leads to someone expressing extremist views within the first few recommendations, I see this becoming a vector by which easily impressionable kids and teenagers are radicalized.
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"Job Numbers" - most of the job gains were temporarily laid off workers returning to work. Permanent unemployment numbers are increasing.
Not surprising. I work in consulting and the vast majority of our clients have freezed new spending for the time being. Inflight projects have mostly continued as it would cost more to stop and restart, but clients are hesitant right now to spend on new initiatives unless the budgets were already approved prior to covid.
Jennifer Horn, part of The Lincoln Project group and former Republican Chair of NH is interviewed here, talking about their group. The segment starts at 06:58.
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Trump with a win today after a series of losses in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court today denied access to the Democrats to have the Mueller probe documents released to the House (never been released before). The Supreme Court didn't deny the request completely but ruled that they won't make their final decision on releasing the documents until likely 2021.
BTW, the phrase "America First" was historically used by the America First Committee, a fascist and anti-Semitic political group formed in 1940 to oppose US involvement in fighting the Nazis in Europe.
So to go along with all this. Trump thinks he's sliding in the polls because he isn't being racist enough.
With Donald Trump’s approval sinking to Jimmy Carter levels and coronavirus cases spiking across the country, Trump is reluctantly waking up to the grim reality that, if the current situation holds, his reelection is gone. Republicans that have spoken with Trump in recent days describe him as depressed and “down in the dumps.” “People around him think his heart’s not in it,” a Republican close to the White House said. Torn between the imperative to win suburban voters and his instincts to play to his base, Trump has complained to people that he’s in a political box with no obvious way out. According to the Republican, Trump called Tucker Carlson late last week and said, “what do I do? What do I do?”
The elections commissioner for Jones County in Mississippi got caught making a public Facebook post when she thought she was sending a private message:
"I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi," the commissioner wrote. "The blacks are having lots (of) events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too."
