The Daily Populous

Sunday April 2nd, 2023 evening edition

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After Twitter made the code for its algorithm open source at noon Pacific Time on March 31, users began to pick through it, and discovered that tweets judged to be about Ukraine were down-ranked – meaning users were less likely to see them in their feed.

Read also: Musk’s SpaceX asks Pentagon to finance the work of Starlink in Ukraine.

Anecdotally, Twitter users who post frequently on Ukraine topics had noticed less engagement with their accounts since Musk took over the platform in October last year.

Read also: Elon Musk’s tweets on Russian invasion of Ukraine spark social media scandal.

Musk had not commented on the down-ranking of posts about Ukraine by the Twitter algorithm as of the time of publication.

Read also: After backlash on Twitter, Musk says he "still supports Ukraine", but fears escalation.

Read the original article on The New Voice of Ukraine. »

India celebrates 50 years of project ‘bringing tigers back from brink of extinction’

Authored by independent.co.uk
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India is celebrating five decades of tiger conservation as it marked the 50th anniversary of “Project Tiger” on Saturday.

India first launched Project Tiger under then-prime minister Indira Gandhi on 1 April 1973, in a bit to promote conservation.

In an interview with the Times of India to mark the anniversary, environment minister Bhupender Yadav said: “Project Tiger has been successful in bringing tigers back from the brink of extinction.”. »

Texas man tracks stolen truck with Apple AirTag, shoots alleged thief

Authored by chron.com

A San Antonio man is not expected to face charges after his car was stolen and a confrontation with the suspected thief ended in fatal gunfire on Wednesday, March 29, police said.

Soliz said he could not confirm if the man and the suspected thief argued, but said the car theft victim told police he believed the suspected thief pulled out a gun which prompted "a firefight.".

The suspected thief, another man, was shot and pronounced dead, Soliz said. »

Rock crystal sat in museum for nearly 2 centuries — then they found it wasn’t a rock

Authored by yahoo.com

Although beautiful, the stone was “not thought to hold much other significance,” according to a March 29 news release from the Natural History Museum.

“That was the lightbulb moment when I thought: ‘Hang on a minute, that looks a lot like the one we’ve just put on display at the museum!’”.

It means that the egg was collected “at least 80 years before dinosaur eggs were first scientifically recognised,” the museum said. »

A Christian store is stocking a Lamb Of God mug unaware they're a heavy metal band, and guitarist Mark Morton is not happy

Authored by loudersound.com

In fact, in Christian terminology, 'Lamb of God' is another term for Jesus, who, like a sacrificial lamb or animal, was allegedly sacrificed for the sins of humankind.

Great mug showing the Ashes of the Wake album cover of the secular heavy metal band, Lamb of God.

As Loudwire point out, this isn't the first time Lamb Of God have been accidentally represented by a Christian organisation. »