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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Like it would be impossible to post on X The Everything App anymore without feeling like far-right frames on every single aspect of observable reality are incredibly popular, nearly ubiquitous, when in reality a lot of this shit seems to have hit the high water mark of popularity a while ago

And inevitably they end up reinforcing right-wing frames (whether overtly or through omission) because they have to choose the top 5 avenues of bullshit to counter out of the firehose volume of bullshit sprayed onto anything they post. Seems like a great way to keep all those folks on the defensive!

Something I've noticed when checking in on X The Everything App is that the remaining left-wing media types are spending significant chunks of their time fact-checking floods of bad-faith bullshit that the algorithm elevates in response to all their posts.

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

No, but under this new arrangement, this very post of your's will make it so all your posts are hidden to other users. Algorithmic content labeling always marks a polite, soft-spoken Nazi as respectful and someone expressing justifiable revulsion at the Nazi as toxic

Doesn't matter if you literally made "no algorithms" a primary marketing pitch for your social media site. When the CEO has their fee-fees hurt by the peasants, the long-term roadmap for the site immediately shifts to social control and soft censorship

The post doesn't make it sound like something you can opt out of. When social media companies get to the stage of trying to forcefully "improve conversations" through algorithmic exploitation, the idea of an actual user-driven (or just non-algorithmic) experience becomes a much lower priority

As U.S. ramps up the pressure, Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help Documents show Maduro drafted letter asking Russia for missiles, radars and upgraded aircraft as U.S. forces amass in the Caribbean.

Maduro has reached out to Russia, China, and Iran to ask for weapons and other military capabilities to fend off what looks like an imminent attack from the trump admin. wapo.st/4oKBgKO

"My newest hobby is finding lines from The Simpsons that could pass for Morrissey song titles." I took this image from somewhere else and can't write all of these out on my phone, so if you're reading this because you need the alt-text, take the opportunity to brainstorm some good ones of your own.

oh my god

Gig app work has already been circling the drain in terms of rates and prices, but I'm sure millions of people losing their benefits while lots of people are out of work and desperately seeking temporary revenue won't make that a lot worse

There would already be an account called Aggressive Herpes Monkey selling t-shirts

It’s a real sign of how tired we all are that this was posted 45 minutes ago and barely any posts about it, never mind that 2 years ago this would have been the entire timeline

Like I suspect a lot of text-based conversations now are just people sending LLM-written messages back and forth

If I was super petty I'd respond with my own obvious LLM message but upon further thought I think that is exactly how a lot of people have been communicating for a while now

gommunism means evacuating effectively during a hurricane instead of just abandoning your citizens to tank it

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I feel like I'd be more bothered by an LLM apology than none at all

That sounds about right. It feels like a lot of "Berniecrat" types (for lack of a better term) are finally being brought into the fold by proving they are also happy to take on The Groups for their woke purity politics

Who could have guessed that all you needed in order to unite radical centrist wonks and "dirtbag left" alums was an attractive left-ish candidate with racist bonafides

Others have said this already, but the Platner tat fallout seems to be single-handedly shifting the US electoral left battlelines in ways that many of the frontline fighters seem to be struggling to see

Been some hard days lately but Rosa's being extra snuggly. Gotta take the good with the bad

George W Bush also had 4x as much career WAR as his dad

This is the type of "our story" packaging I can get behind

It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest

the crisis pregnancy center and the gender counselor who will keep you in conversation forever are the same model. they do not want you to know they aren't real care providers and that their goal is to get in your way

one of the scariest things about conversion therapy is that you aren't supposed to know when you are in it