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Mx Verda<p>I... am I a fan of Dark Academia? Should I really derive pleasure from Quentin's suffering? <br>I enjoy noticing his bullshit being pummelled out of him, eventually feeling paternal for someone making the same impulsive self-miseries. </p><p>Dark Academia is nerdy Icarus but rich and depressed?<br><a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-th</span><span class="invisible">e-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/</span></a></p><p>(Piranesi is still bad and should still feel bad.) I cannot overemphasise my indignant disregard &amp; disgust for Piranesi.<br>It felt like... idfk, "autism-face"?!</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BookTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookTok</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/lit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lit</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analytics</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagicians</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagicianKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagicianKing</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagiciansLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagiciansLand</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LevGrossman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LevGrossman</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>story</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ComingOfAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOfAge</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Bildungsroman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bildungsroman</span></a></p>
Mx Verda<p>Omfg <a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-th</span><span class="invisible">e-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BookTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookTok</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/lit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lit</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analytics</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagicians</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagicianKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagicianKing</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheMagiciansLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMagiciansLand</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LevGrossman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LevGrossman</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>story</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ComingOfAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOfAge</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Bildungsroman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bildungsroman</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a></p>
WYM Mod<p>CNN host Jake Tapper faces a significant drop in ratings, averaging just 525,000 viewers in May, a 25% decline from last year. His promotional efforts, including an apology to Lara Trump and a critical book on Biden, failed to attract audiences. Amidst political upheaval, Tapper's focus seems more on Biden's image than addressing Trump's communication issues. For more insights, visit the full article: <a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/bummer-jakes-ratings-tap-out-even-after" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crooksandliars.com/2025/05/bum</span><span class="invisible">mer-jakes-ratings-tap-out-even-after</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/JakeTapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JakeTapper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vtip.me/tags/ViewershipDecline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ViewershipDecline</span></a></p>
Meike Fienitz<p>Does anyone have experience with (AI) tools to assist with print or social media analyses? Any resources you could recommend?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sociology</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ResearchMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchMethods</span></a></p>
Grant Denkinson<p>The Conversation: How the tide turned on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> support charity <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Mermaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mermaids</span></a> January 25, 2024 by Aimee Bailey, Lecturer in English Language, De Montfort University and Jai Mackenzie<br>Senior Lecturer in Applied Writing and Humanities, Newman University <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-tide-turned-on-transgender-support-charity-mermaids-220613" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-the-ti</span><span class="invisible">de-turned-on-transgender-support-charity-mermaids-220613</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Jeff<p>We DESERVE better....</p><p>What appears in a newspaper is less a reflection of what is happening in the world than what a news organization chooses to tell about what is happening—an indicator of values.</p><p><a href="https://www.cjr.org/analysis/election-politics-front-pages.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cjr.org/analysis/election-poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-front-pages.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a><br><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/ElectionCoverageCritique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionCoverageCritique</span></a><br><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/JournalisticObjectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalisticObjectivity</span></a><br><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/EditorialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EditorialBias</span></a><br><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <br><a href="https://honeytree.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a></p>
U.S. Politics in Real Time<p>Psaki says Trump mug shot will ‘backfire’ in 2024: ‘Images are more persuasive than anything’</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/4172981-psaki-says-trump-mug-shot-will-backfire/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog</span><span class="invisible">/media/4172981-psaki-says-trump-mug-shot-will-backfire/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PsakiTrumpMugShot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsakiTrumpMugShot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Backfire2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backfire2024</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ImagesArePersuasive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImagesArePersuasive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TrumpMugShot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpMugShot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/2024Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2024Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
News Sniffer<p>News Sniffer is now monitoring 2.2 million news articles and has detected 4.4 million changes!</p><p><a href="https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">newssniffer.co.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NewsSniffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsSniffer</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>More on "UNCLASSIFIED": there are 36,520 of those sites right now. (Despite knowing better I keep diving in and classifying more of them.)</p><p>It's not practical to list <em>all</em> of them. But we can randomly sample. And large-sample statistics start to apply at about n=30, so let's just grab 30 of those sites at random using <code>sort -R | head -30</code>:</p><pre><code> 1 sfg.io<br> 1 extroverteddeveloper.com<br> 2 letmego.com<br> 1 thestrad.com<br> 2 bombmagazine.org<br> 1 domlaut.com<br> 1 bootstrap.io<br> 1 jumpdriveair.com<br> 2 desmos.com<br> 1 leo32345.com<br> 1 echopen.org<br> 1 schd.ws<br> 1 web3us.com<br> 7 akkartik.name<br> 1 bcardarella.com<br> 1 cancerletter.com<br> 1 platinumgames.com<br> 1 industrytap.com<br> 2 worldoftea.org<br> 1 motion.ai<br> 1 vectorly.io<br> 2 enterprise.google.com<br> 1 lift-heavy.com<br> 1 davidpeter.me<br> 1 panoye.com<br> 3 thestrategybridge.org<br> 2 fontsquirrel.com<br> 1 kettunen.io<br> 1 moogfoundation.org<br> 2 elekslabs.com<br></code></pre><p>That's a few foundations, a few blogs, a corporate site (enterprise.google.com), and something about tea, all with a small number of posts (1--7).</p><p>I'm looking at some slightly larger samples (60--100) here on my own system, and can actually make some comparisons <em>across</em> samples (to see how much variance there is) which can give some more information on tuning what I would expect to find under the "UNCLASSIFIED" sites.</p><p>Which is one way of using <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/StatisticalMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StatisticalMethods</span></a> to make estimates where direct measurement or assessment is impractical.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/RandomSampling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomSampling</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>So ... I'm starting to get the reporting by site classification across years down and ... it is <em>interesting</em>.</p><p>Preliminary and buggy code yet. Also this is <em>highly</em> dependent on how I've actually classified sites.</p><p>I've got a few classifications I'd wanted to keep an eye on:</p><ul><li><p>Programming-specific sites. A lot of this is github and gitlab, basically, software projects with code. I'm distinguishing <em>software</em> (which is mostly about <em>use</em>) and <em>programming</em> which involves, or at least anticipates, actual development.</p></li><li><p>"Political commentary". I used this as a description for ... <em>highly political</em> sites (spot-checking to see what stories actually hit the front page, though I should be more robust in that). The list: reason.com, rt.com, bostonreview.net, alternet.org, cato.org, rootsofprogress.org, breitbart.com, dailykos.com, mises.org, dailycaller.com, jacobinmag.com, rawstory.com, tribunemag.co.uk, hoover.org, heritage.org, theroot.com, wsws.org, adamsmith.org, manhattan-institute.org, theblaze.com.</p></li></ul><p>And there's "academic / science" which is mostly university and academic press / journal sites.</p><p>Anywho....</p><p>... at least from initial takes, the trending on these does <em>not</em> suggest a trending toward sensationalistic topics and/or sites, but the opposite. <em>Much</em> more programming FP stories in recent years, <em>fewer</em> political commentary, and more academic/science items.</p><p>Presuming this holds up as I code further.</p><p>This is one of the fun things about data analysis: stuff jumps out at you, sometimes confirming hunches, but often radically violating preconceptions.</p><p>I want to look more closely at what happens in the lead-up and follow-on to the 2016 US elections cycle in particular....</p><p>Hrm. What <em>does</em> spike is cryptocurrency-specific sites in 2014. Though that falls off again. (I suspect as that discussion enters more mainstream sources.)</p><p>And "general info" and "general interest" sites seem to rise in recent years.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>OK, current stats are 63.5% of posts classified, with 29.8% of <em>sites</em> classified, a/k/a the old 65/30 rule. The mean posts per unclassified site is 1.765, so my returns for further classification will be ... small.</p><p>Full breakdown:</p><pre><code> 4 20<br> 14 19<br> 13 18<br> 23 17<br> 32 16<br> 37 15<br> 48 14<br> 55 13<br> 96 12<br> 120 11<br> 122 10<br> 168 9<br> 247 8<br> 315 7<br> 396 6<br> 622 5<br>1052 4<br>2016 3<br>5103 2<br>26494 1<br></code></pre><p>A ... large number of sites w/ &lt;= 20 posts are actually classified, mostly by regexp rules &amp; patterns. Oh, hey, I can dump that breakdown as well:</p><pre><code> 35 20<br> 27 19<br> 47 18<br> 31 17<br> 33 16<br> 41 15<br> 51 14<br> 45 13<br> 42 12<br> 29 11<br> 46 10<br> 46 9<br> 47 8<br> 91 7<br> 138 6<br> 178 5<br> 269 4<br> 524 3<br>1624 2<br>11472 1<br></code></pre><p>I could pick just under 4% more posts by classifying <em>another</em> 564 sites but ... that sounds a bit too much like work at the moment. Compromises and trade-offs.</p><p>Now to try to turn this into an analysis over time.</p><p>I've been working with a summary of activity by site, so running analysis has been pretty quick (52k records and gawk running over that).</p><p>To do full date analysis requires reading nearly 180k records, and ... hopefully not having to loop through 52k sites for each of those. Gawk's runtimes start to asplode when running tens of millions of loop iterations, especially if regexes are involved.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/gawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gawk</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>awk</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>I'm continuing to play with this, and have classified a whole mess more sites (reminder to self: update that count) (response to self: 13,150 sites classified).</p><p>So that's about 25% of all <em>sites</em> that are classified. Looking by story count ... it's about 55% of all FP stories. (Power laws are your friend here...)</p><p>Looking at my current breakdowns (and again, this is all <strong>VERY ROUGH</strong>):</p><pre><code> 1 15770 8.82% blog<br> 2 15034 8.40% general news<br> 3 13899 7.77% software<br> 4 12889 7.21% tech news<br> 5 7960 4.45% academic / science<br> 6 7294 4.08% n/a<br> 7 6025 3.37% corporate comm.<br> 8 4859 2.72% business news<br> 9 2120 1.19% social media<br> 10 2031 1.14% general interest<br> 11 1557 0.87% general magazine<br> 12 1397 0.78% general information<br> 13 1239 0.69% technology<br> 14 1099 0.61% videos<br> 15 975 0.55% government<br> 16 607 0.34% ???<br> 17 559 0.31% tech discussion<br> 18 505 0.28% tech law<br> 19 497 0.28% misc documents<br> 20 420 0.23% science news<br> 21 316 0.18% mailing list<br> 22 251 0.14% tech publications<br> 23 171 0.10% tech blog<br> 24 149 0.08% literature<br> 25 136 0.08% business education<br> 26 133 0.07% cryptocurrency<br> 27 126 0.07% law<br> 28 118 0.07% webcomic<br> 29 109 0.06% entertainment news<br> 30 103 0.06% health news<br> 31 103 0.06% video<br> 32 96 0.05% general discussion<br> 33 80 0.04% misc<br> 34 71 0.04% technology / security<br> 35 49 0.03% translation<br> 36 47 0.03% images<br> 37 46 0.03% podcast<br> 38 42 0.02% journalism<br> 39 30 0.02% propaganda<br> 40 29 0.02% healthcare / medicine<br> 41 18 0.01% medicine<br> 42 7 0.00% legal news<br><br>Classified: 98966<br>Unclassified: 79916<br>Total: 178882<br>Ratio: 0.553<br></code></pre><p>My classifications are <em>rough</em> and I may revisit these. "blog" covers a lot of sins, though most are tech blogs (which makes "technology blog" redundant).</p><p>What I'd really like to do is to look at how trends vary over the years. Perhaps also by day of week / month of year. Finally answer that age-old question of whether HN is turning into Reddit....</p><p>As noted above, this is based on <em>classifying the site</em> rather than <em>interpreting the title</em> or <em>reading the source article</em>, so it's all a bit wobbly.</p><p>(This post formats better on toot.cat or on sites that render Markdown.)</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>gagejustins's HN analysis has inspired me to take a crack at typifying Hacker News front page stories by <em>type</em>.</p><p>Whilst he'd manually assessed each front-page story, I'm classifying by <em>site</em>, so that an <em>NY Times</em> article on, say, quantum computing would still be described as "general news".</p><p>I've classified 10,200 of 52,642 domains, the first 300 or so manually, much of the rest using regexes and imputation (e.g., ".edu", ".gov", and sites on Blogspot, Substack, Medium, etc.).</p><p>Results by story count:</p><pre><code> 1 13782 general news<br> 2 13398 software<br> 3 10473 tech news<br> 4 8677 blog<br> 5 7651 academic / science<br> 6 7294 n/a<br> 7 4750 ???<br> 8 4600 business news<br> 9 3546 corporate comm.<br> 10 1504 general magazine<br> 11 1291 general information<br> 12 1162 general interest<br> 13 1132 technology<br> 14 1099 videos<br> 15 1073 social media<br> 16 975 government<br> 17 568 corporate comm<br> 18 559 tech discussion<br> 19 505 tech law<br> 20 251 tech publications<br> 21 171 tech blog<br> 22 170 science news<br> 23 136 business education<br> 24 104 corporate comm. <br> 25 103 video<br> 26 99 corporate commm.<br> 27 96 general discussion<br> 28 80 misc<br> 29 71 technology / security<br> 30 61 law <br> 31 59 webcomic<br> 32 49 translation<br> 33 48 health news<br> 34 47 images<br> 35 46 podcast<br> 36 32 law<br> 37 7 legal news<br><br> Unclassified: 93213<br><br>"n/a" indicates no site, e.g., an Ask, Tell, or Show HN post.<br><br>'???' indicates I couldn't (quickly) assess a domain. Examples: 37signals.com, readwriteweb.com, thenextweb.com, archive.org, anandtech.com, avc.com, docs.google.com, righto.com, slideshare.net, infoq.com, hackaday.com, gamasutra.com, marco.org, smashingmagazine.com, highscalability.com, catonmat.net, centernetworks.com, jvns.ca, scribd.com, about.gitlab.com, cloud.google.com, alleyinsider.com, msn.com, firstround.com, axios.com, openculture.com, onstartups.com, ejohn.org, dadgum.com, shkspr.mobi, mixergy.com, geek.com, gmane.org, foundread.com.<br><br>"cproorate commm." is an obvious typo. This is very rough code &amp; classification.<br><br>#HackerNewsAnalytics #MediaAnalysis #HackerNews<br></code></pre>
U.S. Politics in Real Time<p>The False Equivalence Between The ‘Far Right’ And The ‘Hard Left’</p><p><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-false-equivalence-between-the-far-right-and-the-hard-left" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the</span><span class="invisible">-false-equivalence-between-the-far-right-and-the-hard-left</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TalkingPointsMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TalkingPointsMemo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseEquivalence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HardLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HardLeft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoliticalExtremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalExtremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>The Hacker News front page has noted that 282 people have died.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>HN also has a convention of noting the publication year of articles &gt; ~6 months old.</p><p>So here's a breakdown, by decade, of the appearance of non-current articles on the HN front-page from 2007--2023:</p><pre><code> 655 2020<br>4806 2010<br>1302 2000<br> 509 1990<br> 203 1980<br> 89 1970<br> 48 1960<br> 27 1950<br> 30 1940<br> 27 1930<br> 16 1920<br> 15 1910<br> 10 1900<br> 6 1890<br> 10 1880<br> 3 1870<br> 10 1860<br> 2 1850<br> 1 1840<br> 3 1830<br> 1 1800<br> 1 1790<br> 1 1780<br> 1 1760<br> 1 1750<br> 1 1720<br> 2 1680<br> 1 1670<br> 1 1550<br> 1 1320<br> 1 0510<br> 1 0040<br> 1 -0190<br></code></pre><p>Yes, that last entry is in the 190s BCE, 195 BCE specifically: "The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)", appearing on 2019-12-17: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21810145" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2</span><span class="invisible">1810145</span></a></p><p>It's based on a re-publication of the original work in <em>Lapham's Quarterly</em>, but <strong>IS</strong> a legit use of the date indicator. (My initial impulse was to say it wasn't, but on checking, I've changed my mind.)</p><p><a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">laphamsquarterly.org/time/hack</span><span class="invisible">ed-days</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNewsAnalytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNewsAnalytics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p>Searching for "New York" followed by one or more capitalised words ... and massaging the resulting data a bit, results in the following list of New York institutions and/or aspects which receive mention at HN:</p><pre><code> 96 New York Times<br> 51 New York City<br> 25 New York<br> 5 New York State<br> 4 New York Public Library<br> 3 New York City Subway<br> 2 New York Harbor<br> 2 New York Subway<br> 2 New York Times Magazine<br> 1 New York Attorney General<br> 1 New York Charity<br> 1 New York City Campus<br> 1 New York Fed<br> 1 New York Libraries<br> 1 New York Magazine<br> 1 New York Police<br> 1 New York Post<br> 1 New York Region<br> 1 New York Senate<br></code></pre><p>Note that the 3rd entry, "New York" is itself ambiguous, and can refer to the city, state, or metro region, amongst others.</p><p>A handy reminder that language is itself ambiguous and provides a <em>useful</em> but not <em>precise</em> mechanism for transferring meaning or understanding (or sometimes ambiguity and confusion) between entities.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HN</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ShellScripting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellScripting</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GlobalCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalCities</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><strong>HN Front Page / Global Cities Mentions</strong></p><p>One question I've had about HN is how well or poorly it represents non-US (or even non-Silicon Valley) viewpoints and issues.</p><p>Pulling from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network list, the top 50 global cities names appearing in HN front-page titles:</p><pre><code> 1 191 San Francisco<br> 2 164 London<br> 3 117 Boston<br> 4 86 Seattle<br> 5 60 Tokyo<br> 6 58 Paris<br> 7 56 Chicago<br> 8 56 Hong Kong<br> 9 55 New York City<br> 10 50 Berlin<br> 11 50 Phoenix<br> 12 45 Rome<br> 13 40 Detroit<br> 14 36 Singapore<br> 15 31 Vancouver<br> 16 30 Los Angeles<br> 17 27 Austin<br> 18 23 Beijing<br> 19 20 Dubai<br> 20 19 Shenzhen<br> 21 19 Toronto<br> 22 17 Amsterdam<br> 23 16 Copenhagen<br> 24 16 Houston<br> 25 16 Moscow<br> 26 15 Atlanta<br> 27 14 Barcelona<br> 28 14 Denver<br> 29 13 Baltimore<br> 30 13 San Jose<br> 31 13 Stockholm<br> 32 12 San Diego<br> 33 12 Sydney<br> 34 11 Cairo<br> 35 10 Munich<br> 36 10 Wuhan<br> 37 9 Helsinki<br> 38 9 Miami<br> 39 9 Mumbai<br> 40 9 Philadelphia<br> 41 9 Shanghai<br> 42 9 Vienna<br> 43 8 Montreal<br> 44 7 Beirut<br> 45 7 Dublin<br> 46 7 Istanbul<br> 47 6 Bangalore<br> 48 6 Dallas<br> 49 6 Kansas City<br> 50 6 Minneapolis<br></code></pre><p>(Best viewed in original on toot.cat.)</p><p>Note that some idiosyncrasies affect this, e.g., "New York City" appears rarely, whilst "New York" may refer to the city, state, any of several newspapers, universities, etc. "New York" appears 315 times in titles (mostly as "New York Times").</p><p>I've independently verified that, for example, "Ho Chi Minh City" doesn't appear, though "Ho Chi Minh" alone does:</p><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15374051" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1</span><span class="invisible">5374051</span></a>, on the 2017-9-30 front page: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-09-30" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/front?day</span><span class="invisible">=2017-09-30</span></a></p><p>So apply salt liberally.</p><p><strong>Edits:</strong> tyops &amp; speling.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HN</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ShellScripting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellScripting</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GlobalCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalCities</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a></p>
Meike Fienitz<p>Social scientists of mastodon: Do you have any experience with media analyses? Can you recommend any tools? How do you deal with paywalls?</p><p>I want to search local papers of a specific region in Germany within a time frame of a few years (~2015-2022) for articles that use certain words/terms/names. But most articles are behind paywalls, and there must be efficient ways to automate the search?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sociology</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/socialscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>socialscience</span></a></span> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/mediaanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediaanalysis</span></a></p>
Jose Luis Orihuela<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastodonTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonTips</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hashtags</span></a> to follow if you are interested in:</p><p>Admins: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoAdmins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediverseAdmins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseAdmins</span></a><br>Audio: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Podcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcasting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AudioDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AudioDrama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radio</span></a><br>Education: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EduTooters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EduTooters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a> <br>Journalism: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaAnalysis</span></a><br>Marketing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalMarketing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Branding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Branding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEM</span></a><br>Medicine: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TipsForNewDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TipsForNewDocs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a><br>Museums: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collections</span></a><br>Television: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Broadcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Broadcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TVTitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TVTitles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BroadcastTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BroadcastTV</span></a><br>Videogames: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoJuegos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoJuegos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>edutooters</span></a></span></p>
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