Fr Ted creator/writer Graham Linehan Arrested over posts on Transgender issues

No one can support every single woman's opinion especially when they have opposing ones. Just putting a QED after a weak point doesnt make it any stronger.

For Petes Sake seemed happy enough with that standard earlier in the thread...

@For Petes Sake If you support women, you don't support Israel...

@Quantum Erasure nor Palestine. Nor the US, nor Iran, nor Eritrea nor Ethiopia ....

@For Petes Sake Glad you agree that Graham Linehan doesn't support women, then.

are we done here?

Incorrect.

I am calling out someone who claims to care for women for their support of a nation responsible for relentlessly killing thousands of women.

You telling me I'm wrong doesn't make it so. Graham Linehan does not give one single flying f*ck about women. He only cares about hating trans people. That is it.

The fact you are dying on this hill is quite frankly bizarre.

I was initially replying to someone who said I want trans women to invade women's spaces, including in sport.

It was a gross misrepresentation, a complete lie and with zero foundation for the statement made.

So yes, anyone who tries to tell me what I believe in - can shove their opinions up their hole.

You are over simplifying what I said. But essentially you have it correct. Algorithms will see posts you interacted with and say to themselves "People who liked PostX seem to have their attention grabbed by PostY so I am going to show this user PostY in their feed".

It's a very simple algorithm and modern algorithms are MUCH more complex than that. But essentially this core idea is still central to them. It's simple, it's powerful and it's insidious.

For example one of the test accounts I tried with I simply looked up and "liked" a few posts about Jui jitsu. Very nice ones too about a black man in the US getting black kids out of crime using Jui jitsu training. I was then recommended posts about kids doing juijitsu. I "liked" them and I was then shown kids doing it in the streets. Those "Bully gets owned" type things. So I liked them too. Very quickly I started to get videos of people being attacked in the street for content, to the level not far off murder porn. It descended really quite quickly.

So if someone says they "liked" a few posts from Rowling on the Transgender issue and then started getting posts about extreme things some insane people do in the Transgender sphere - I would not be quick to doubt them. It fits quite strongly with how I know the algorithms work.

Agreed to a point. But I also know that if people have their attention drawn to a twitter post - and many of us do because of how twitter posts are embedded in blogs and websites and forums - and then engage no further as you recommend….. then the result is the algorithm is fueled by the people who DO continue to engage.

Which is why a small number of people can have a disproportionately large influence on what the algorithm recommends. If 90% of people are sane, moderate, centrist and nuanced and do not follow the rabbit holes then the 10% of nut jobs will fuel the vast majority of the algorithms choices.

SO in a way the best thing we could do might be to run away from twitter but actually if the normal people flooded back and were selective in their interactions it would "cure" twitter too. So in the end the best thing for Twitter is all us sane people run away en masse - or go back en masse. Either would likely work.

Likely if you do find yourself using any social media and you want to have a positive influence on it then as soon as you "like" any posts ensure you go one or two "good" posts further. The algorithm will then start to think "People who like PostA like PostB too" and start to recommend PostB to people.

 Some of his behaviour is a bit off though and I expect he will crash and burn spectacularly at some point.

He’s torched his career and his marriage, and has had mental health issues which he himself attributes to his gender ideology battles.

Is he not long past the crash and burn point?