12 thoughts on “Friday Cat Blogging – 29 March 2024”
Salamander
"The Thinker", feline edition.
S1AMER
We humans spend time and money trying to find what -- we think -- is just a perfect comfy cat box.
And -- damned near every damned time -- the cat will go for a free cardboard box (often times, just to rub it in, the box our choice came in).
Sigh ... living with cats is one of life's most humbling experiences.
Salamander
My current pair have been known to pull out several Larry Niven paperbacks off the bottom shelf and stuff themselves into the resulting gap on the bookshelf.
Rumor has it that cats helped invent Amazon just for the boxes…
painedumonde
+1
lower-case
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption.
Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N=22,743).
Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories from Upworthy.com that generated 5.7 million clicks across more than 370 million overall impressions.
Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%.
"The Thinker", feline edition.
We humans spend time and money trying to find what -- we think -- is just a perfect comfy cat box.
And -- damned near every damned time -- the cat will go for a free cardboard box (often times, just to rub it in, the box our choice came in).
Sigh ... living with cats is one of life's most humbling experiences.
My current pair have been known to pull out several Larry Niven paperbacks off the bottom shelf and stuff themselves into the resulting gap on the bookshelf.
An uplifting tune,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuN2QzKUtA
Rumor has it that cats helped invent Amazon just for the boxes…
+1
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption.
Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N=22,743).
Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories from Upworthy.com that generated 5.7 million clicks across more than 370 million overall impressions.
Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates).
For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%.
nature paper: Negativity drives online news consumption
Actually " nature human behaviour" paper.
Lest you forget, I am the KING!
Hilbert is aware that there is a cute cat with a tuxedo head that has gone viral and he is trying to be that cat with the box standing in for the other cat’s ginger fur.
the chimera cat with the tuxedo head:
https://cheezburger.com/25095941/unique-tri-color-chimera-cat-bruce-found-and-is-living-his-best-life-internet-reacts-to-his
If that cat is real why is he wearing contacts?
All the better to hunt you with ….