The Morning After: Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

"Threads users have complained about its recommendation algorithm since the dawn of time 2023. Users even started writing posts addressed to the algorithm, specifying the topics they wanted to see more of. Now, that's part of the system: Users can write a post that begins with "dear algo" to adjust their preferences, officially. For example, you could write: "Dear algo, show me more posts about sous vide recipes." You can also ask to see fewer posts about topics you don't want to see, like "Dear algo, stop showing me posts about air fryers." You can even retweet other users' "dear algo" posts to have those topics reflected in your feed. "Dear algo" posts will work for Threads users in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, with more countries coming "soon.""

"With a bigger focus on the Moon, Elon Musk is making some wild new plans. According to audio heard by The New York Times, Musk said xAI needed to build an AI satellite factory on the Moon with a gigantic catapult to launch the satellites into space. Sometimes you just want to be the Bond villain. "You have to go to the Moon " to build the required AI capabilities, Musk told employees. "It's difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it's going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen." Such a catapult would certainly need to be powerful - though the Moon has only one-sixth Earth's gravity, the minimum escape velocity required for orbit is still around 3,800 mph, or five times the speed of sound. That's currently possible with electromagnetic railguns, but the satellites would have to withstand that force."

Threads now allows users to write posts beginning with "dear algo" to directly adjust recommendation preferences, request more of certain topics, or request fewer of others. Users can retweet other users' "dear algo" posts to incorporate those topic preferences into their own feeds. The feature initially rolls out in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, with additional countries planned. Separately, Elon Musk proposed building an AI satellite factory on the Moon and launching satellites with a massive catapult or electromagnetic railgun, noting the Moon's lower gravity still requires very high escape velocities.

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