We give Elon crap, but not enough

How Twitter/X completely devolved into a pipeline of ragebait slop.

X is a white supremacist cesspool that funnels gross, extremist ragebait propaganda down users’ throats, regardless of whom they’ve chosen to follow.

In case you haven’t been porking it up in the X mud, let me show you what the algorithm there thinks is “For You.”

How is this all being treated like it’s normal? The extreme views spewed there make Newsmax anchors seem like Elizabeth Warren.

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Here’s Nate Silver on Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026: “I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.”

No surprise. Everyone inserted into my timeline at X is like this guy…

…Weird cartoon avatar, fierce animal username like “ToughPanda253”, random bible passage, tribalist propaganda, and 💪🇺🇸 emojis. Collect ‘em all and you’ve got XINGO!

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So it feels obvious that researchers found ”X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative.”

Posts that were conservative in nature were roughly 20% more likely to appear in an algorithmic feed, while those that were liberal were only 3.1% more likely. The contrast was even more pronounced when it came to the algorithm’s treatment of news. Traditional news appeared roughly 58% fewer times in users’ algorithmic feeds, while posts by political activists appeared 27.4% more often and those by entertainment accounts 21.5% more often.

And let’s not sleep on the race war the X algorithm keeps encouraging. These kinds of “inquiries” pop up constantly:

Killer content for people who want to relitigate what happened to Emmett Till, I guess.

What I keep thinking about tech oligarchs: They think we’re soooooo goddamn dumb.

And that they can just distract us 24/7 with slop. Basically, Idiocracy is their blueprint. Their notion is we’ll just swallow up lies, propaganda, and filth while they frack our brain stems and loot everything around us.

My big fear is they may be right.