there is significantly less Early Vote! chatter on bluesky than was the case on twitter, which is one major point in bluesky's favour

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Checked the other place, first post that popped up was this one declaring victory in the Texas senate race based on, and this is not a joke, forty minutes of early voting figures by party registration in two counties

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As an aside (this whole thread is an aside) this is a reason people look back fondly on early Twitter as it had an incredible level of the "noise that turns out to be signal" - actually interesting information you didn't think you wanted to know. (Now of course the secret third thing is racism)

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My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

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It's another reason bundling was so important - when you've read all the articles about the bands you like in the NME you might end up reading about Ornette Coleman or Michelle Shocked or Wim Wenders because your 65p bought that stuff too

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