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Taylor Lorenz
“We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content
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JamesWNeal
@taylorlorenz When you're drowning, your panic causes you to grab onto whatever floats your way. Of course if it's a person and they're not a lifeguard, you may cause them to drown too. In this case, one can only hope. 
Julio Perez 🌏
@taylorlorenz es interesante el desarrollo de apps muy populares entre los menores de 25 años, quienes sin duda acaparan el tráfico web, aun con ello Twitter es una plataforma robusta para el mundo real, no por nada ahi se realizan campañas políticas y se filtra la brutalidad de las actuales guerras.
Taylor Lorenz
Members of Congress who voted for the TikTok divest-or-die bill last week "may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies" https://gizmodo.com/politicians-who-voted-to-ban-tiktok-may-own-as-much-as-1851356203
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Chris Williams
@taylorlorenz Professional athletes are prohibited from betting on their own sport, but somehow lawmakers are allowed to own stock in companies and options that they directly influence...makes sense
Taylor Lorenz
"Any social media platform that dips under 10% poster will fail, but as the early days of Bluesky demonstrated, if you over index on posters, you will have endless fucking chaos. It is possible that posters are deeply unwell. Certainly they are far too online." https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads
Taylor Lorenz
"Posters generate Discourse; reply guys and commenters continue and refine it; finally, influencers and Brands capitalize on it. It is possible, though rare, for reply guys, commenters, and influencers to generate Discourse, but the point is: someone has to kick it off and usually that someone is the person with the least inhibitions." https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads 
Taylor Lorenz
This is a good piece on the major issues tiktok is facing and how a lot of their problems are self inflicted https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-is-destroying-itself-from-the-inside-out-1851227491
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chx
@taylorlorenz https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle. 
Lee 🌏
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Taylor Lorenz
People who worked at Boeing wouldn't fly Boeing planes https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-30/boeing-max-9-flying-again-after-door-panel-blowout
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𝗣𝗠𝗝 👽
everyone familiar with planes and aerodynamics would not fly a max 
Taylor Lorenz
"At some level, this is just one of the asshole capitalists who are wrecking the world talking like the sort of asshole capitalist who would wreck the world. But there is a threat only barely latent in it, too." https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end
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Queen of the Crone Age
"...told Tkacik, "a long and proud 'safety culture' was rapidly being replaced... with 'a culture of financial bullshit.'" In other words, #enshittification. Great article.
Taylor Lorenz
Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
Taylor Lorenz
At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers who have pulled out of X — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves.
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mjk_4mjk
@taylorlorenz "Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz - What Else Can I Do? (From "Encanto")", https://youtu.be/bBeZSuHI4Qc?si=I_YTtmYaiWmjjzC1
Taylor Lorenz
“It is just over,” journalist @caseynewton told The Post. “If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.”
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DC Deejay
@taylorlorenz @caseynewton It was time over a year ago. But...whatever. Better late than never. 
scobiform
@taylorlorenz @caseynewton Space Karen will blame it on the Jews. What happened to that boy?
Taylor Lorenz
"Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol. Once that happens people will be able to enjoy the best features of Threads across platforms." https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/
Taylor Lorenz
Joe Cox got a hold of internal documents that provide deep insight into GOST, a system used by ICE to find "derogatory" speech online. Analysts can use a "thumbs up," "thumbs down" decision on the material, and feed it into visa decisions and immigration enforcement https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-database-derogatory-information-giant-oak-gost/
Taylor Lorenz
NEWS: IG Threads blocks all searches related to covid and vaccines in the midst of a major covid surge. Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information
Taylor Lorenz
Former Twitter employee resigns with “Rate limit exceeded” cake via @PopCrave
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Mert Gör ☭
@taylorlorenz @s0enke @PopCrave A good way to express her thoughts ! :D I liked that cake !
Taylor Lorenz
Things seem to be going just as Musk planned over on Twitter
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Floppy 💾
@taylorlorenz I had to read that twice. I expected a difficult distribution, but not that crazy detached from reality.
Taylor Lorenz
Right wing influencers are convinced the Instagram Threads logo is the mark of the devil
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Sydney
@taylorlorenz These are the same wastes of neurons who see the word "demon" in pride month and think they're on to something. No, Patricia, you're just on something.
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Ian Kennedy
@taylorlorenz point to the first person to get Bing AI and Google AI to get into a snarky argument with each other. 
MudMan
@taylorlorenz That's some real "let's all get together to see the MMO servers go down" energy. Only seeing Twitter from the crossposting peephole creates such a weird impression of it, which I'm guessing is not entirely accurate, but really conveys a mood. |
Gregory's Server
@taylorlorenz The garbage machine is just getting started..
@taylorlorenz @kcarruthers so this will be what finally kills off commercial journalism, companies devaluing writers to the point where they are willing to publish mush written by robots instead
@taylorlorenz
This explains so much and also totally sucks to be aware of. In any case, thanks for sharing it.