Gregory's ServerI wrote about why Democrats won't "build their own Joe Rogan" and the vast differences in how the right wing influencers ecosystem functions vs left wing creator world https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own
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I wrote about how the viral Instagram food culture of the 2010s primed people to believe in AI food slop. All these buzzy food items created to go viral on social media in the 2010s, have set people up to think to themselves, 'well maybe that 12 layer sandwich is a real thing and not AI.’ https://www.usermag.co/p/the-1-restaurant-in-austin-doesnt  @taylorlorenz The logo on two of the T-shirts from their merch store looks a lot like that of a Dutch drugstore chain. "Team Ethos 010" and "Ethos Play Ball" “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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  @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
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@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. @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. 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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 @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 "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 "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  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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@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.  @taylorlorenz 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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everyone familiar with planes and aerodynamics would not fly a max  "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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"...told Tkacik, "a long and proud 'safety culture' was rapidly being replaced... with 'a culture of financial bullshit.'" In other words, #enshittification. Great article.  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. 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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 @taylorlorenz "Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz - What Else Can I Do? (From "Encanto")", https://youtu.be/bBeZSuHI4Qc?si=I_YTtmYaiWmjjzC1 “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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 @taylorlorenz @caseynewton It was time over a year ago. But...whatever. Better late than never. @taylorlorenz @caseynewton Space Karen will blame it on the Jews. What happened to that boy? "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/ 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/ 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
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@taylorlorenz @s0enke @PopCrave A good way to express her thoughts ! :D I liked that cake !
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 @taylorlorenz I had to read that twice. I expected a difficult distribution, but not that crazy detached from reality. Right wing influencers are convinced the Instagram Threads logo is the mark of the devil
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@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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@taylorlorenz point to the first person to get Bing AI and Google AI to get into a snarky argument with each other.  @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. |
@taylorlorenz It's not "right wing" vs "left wing". It is dumb vs. smart. And the media seem to like the dumb people more.
I think I know why.
@taylorlorenz Rogan is fairly liberal in many senses. They did not need to build their own Rogan, they could have just showed up, and it could have made a huge difference.
@taylorlorenz gonna go read this now!