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Analysis of language used in U.S. congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022, focusing on use of words taken to represent use of either evidence or intuition, found that intuition-signifying words became increasingly prominent since the 1970s, and this change was reflected in increasing political polarization.

Summary: sciencefocus.com/news/scientis

Original paper: nature.com/articles/s41562-025

Four graphs from the paper (Figure 1), showing temporal changes in a) the Evidence-Minus-Intuition (EMI) score, b) political polarization of both major parties, c) number of public laws passed, and d) uncertainty in the relationship between EMI and the number of public laws passed. In the first graph, EMI shows a gradual increase from 1940 to 1970, followed by a steep decline. Political polarization shows the same trends.
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@glynmoody The times we’re living in - everything, absolutely everything, is being politicized, even simple machines such as heat pumps! Refrigerators next?

I am convinced this polarization of everything trend started with and is driven by algorithms on social media and how we are leveraging them. It’s the greatest experiment in human history, and we are all lab rats l. It’s not going well for us.
#polarization #politicization

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization. “It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps. That’s largely a result of these platforms’ design, as the algorithms driving them direct users to like-minded peers. This […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/17/concordia-university-new-concordia-research-shows-social-networks-are-vulnerable-to-relatively-simple-ai-manipulation-and-polarization/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#ai#algorithmictimelines#echochambers
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Diverse Social Identities Can Protect Against Misinformation | #Psychology Today Canada psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mi “If a lack of #networkdiversity increases biases, can greater #ideologicaldiversity reduce them? There is evidence that suggests it can. Research shows that people with more ideologically diverse networks tend to have less polarized beliefs, and meaningful discussions across differences can reduce #polarization. (1/3)

Psychology TodayDiverse Social Identities Can Protect Against MisinformationWhy are some people more resistant to misinformation? Complexity in who we are makes us more open to facts—and to each other.
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Erik van Straten

“The silencing of pro-Palestinian or anti-genocide voices is the reason why this genocide is still going on after 10 months.”
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1 August 2024
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securityincontext.org/posts/he (source: [1])

It contains a HUGE misunderstanding:
"pro-Palestinian" and "anti-genocide" voices are two *VERY* different things.

Perhaps NOT from the PoV of Palestinians, but DEFINITELY from the viewpoint of most west-EU citizens, their media and their governments.

Sunday I joined a protest in Rotterdam that was announced as an emergy protest "do not let Gaza starve" (in Dutch: [2]).

However, *AGAIN* it was a *PRO-PALESTINE* protest (see the video I made in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat).

West-EU people, and possibly "their" think tanks, are made to believe that they have to choose between *either* Palestine *or* Israel to exist "from the river to the sea".

Enormously affecting western thinking, the Israeli propaganda machine does their utter best to continuously remind us of the Holocaust, and to make us believe that anyone who denies Israel from "defending themselves against terrorism" is a Holocaust-denier and/or an antisemite. Unfortunately, this *just works*.

On Dutch TV viewers are reminded of WWII *every day*. It simply is #Hasbara without viewers noticing it, and even the media fail to see their bias.

[Note: my grandfather, born in 1900, was a Jew. He was sent to nazi labour camps (instead of Auschwitz) because he was maried to a Dutch woman. His family was murdered by the nazi's. I do not hate non-Zionist Jews.]

Pro-Palestine demonstrations have been counter-productive from the start. If the most extremist arguments are not removed, like shouting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", I will remain one of the very few Dutch people who is willing to join such protests. And I'm getting tired, because it feels pointless.

IMO #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight - but her PoV is considered to be too extremistic, in particular when taking into account the immense failure of EU-countries to protect Jews during WWII. It is why hasbara works so well (in Germany in particular).

The cold blooded execution of the rescue workers made it to the news on Dutch TV, but the murder of approx. 17,000 Gazan children and the starvation of 2 million hardly gets any attention.

If polarization is not reduced RIGHT NOW, the media will turn away again. In particular because this year it's 80 years ago WWII ended in NL (victim remembrance day is on May 4), the tone of the debate needs to change. NOW.

If not, 2 million Gazans will die.

[1] Bilal Barakat (@bifouba) in kolektiva.social/@bifouba/1143

[2] acties.todon.nl/event/noodprot

@joenepraat : do you know how to get my message to the protest organizers?

@palestine

www.securityincontext.orgHegemony factories or independent thinkers? Western think tanks on Israel and Palestine after October 7
#Strategy#Gaza#GazaGenocide
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Leave X - Protect Democracy

"Changing the algorithm to make it benevolent rather than polarising is easy for those who control the platforms. Plenty of social media companies, — such as Pinterest, for example — allow people to engage and discuss ideas without promoting toxic content. While I feel regulation should be a last resort, in this case the industry has not self-regulated. (...)

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