If that's not a clickbait title I don't know what is...
🌐 **Globally**:
Half a century ago, the Left appealed mostly to the poor and uneducated, and the Right to the rich and educated.
Nowadays, supporting leftist parties still correlates with lower income (and supporting the Right with higher income), although that link has weakened.
What's most interesting is that correlation along the “education” axis has _reversed_: today, it is mostly _educated_ people supporting the Left, and _uneducated_ people supporting the Right.
Anyone have an idea of how many Tbps this would be? 17.2M requests/sec sounds like a lot, but even on a normal day Cloudflare handles billions of requests before I'm even up for breakfast.
Can someone tell me what the difference is between 'subscribe' and 'follow' on #mastodon? The docs seem to only refer to cases where someone is on another platform that doesn't support 'following.'
I understand that if a locked account doesn't approve your follow request you can subscribe instead to see public toots, but is there any other reason to use one over the other?
Real smooth transition there Sean
Very interesting insight of an undercover cop regarding drug policy
Who Lost Afghanistan? https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-papers-kabul-taliban-craig-whitlock/
Where was this when I was a kid?
Side note: It's weird to think that we have been at war for so long that there are fully grown adults for whom this is just a historical fact, without context or obvious significant relevance to today's problems.
Friendly reminder that while we're bickering over whether #Trump or #Biden are at fault for #Afghanistan it was #GeorgeBush, #Cheney, and #Rumsfeld who decided to invade in the first place.
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more "likes" and "shares" (Bill Hathaway/YaleNews) - Bill Hathaway / YaleNews:
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expression... - http://www.techmeme.com/210814/p11#a210814p11
Anonymous hacker stole $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave it back
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/tech/poly-network-hack-update/index.html
Anywhere from 40,000 to 140,000 households and businesses still without power today depending whose estimate you read. Nearby cities to the East had power restored overnight, but our power company estimates tomorrow at 10pm. Crews still awaiting dispatch.
And just because I'm feeling petty... What's really amazing is that #FirstEnergy is still allowed to have a monopoly over the power grid here after the shit they pulled in Ohio, and despite their incompetence.
hibernating
#nobot / #noarchive