How YouTubers pushed young male voters to Trump (with receipts), a Gamergate 2.0 speaks out, pocket cheese, NYT on The Rizzler, MrBeast is hiring, and a Twitter exec reveals why Vine *really* failed. All in today’s newsletter 👇👇👇
Korean imitation chicken from the international food store is vegan 👍
And thus the witches/werewolf/vampire trifecta is complete
I had this. It fell apart, but the magnifying glass was always useful.
I was never on TikTok. Considering joining red note for the cultural exchange
Lake effect snow is the best snow. Fuck all that other snow
Openly fascist USA feels more honest, I suppose
Libs out here acting like Trump was behind the TikTok ban in the first place, totally ignorant on how the security state influences both parties. This was a bi partisan law signed by Biden. Calm down.
Can’t wait to read about the TikTok riots for the rest of my life
These dinosaurs have no idea how to approach new media. New media being 20ish years old, at this point
I haven’t seen a thing in the governmental discourse around online platforms that addresses the fact that millions of people rely on these outlets for income. Politicians address social media and video sharing like traditional media outlets, not workplaces
I try to remind my clients that we engineer our product to be user friendly, and we want feedback from the people actually using the software. The vast majority of the time the actual workers are ready to adapt
Somebody’s says “we need to idiot proof this” during an implementation, basically calling their employees idiots. Just because you find learning hard doesn’t mean they do, boy-o
Part of my job as an implementation consultant is talking to high level stake holders and my number one red flag is when higher ups don’t trust their employees to learn new software.
Good morning
When the ceasefire was announced we took in collective sighs of relief and grief. Although the violence of occupation may not be over, we are looking back over the past 466 days of genocide and mourning those who were killed, the fellow journalists targeted, the medics who died saving others.
Just started this new Delta Green arc and it’s already the darkest ttrpg I’ve ever played. Here’s Einstein.
Laughable.
lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train
labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...
If you, the American public, would like to exercise your First Amendment rights on TikTok, tough luck, you have to use IG or YouTube.
If you’re the U.S. government, however, *only* TikTok will do. In fact, the cable stresses how crucial and essential the platform is.
It's 2025. I don't want touchscreen everything inside my car. I want a windshield wiper fluid gauge!
Classic projection to be terrified of TikTok collecting personal information because that is what the US companies do. If you are American, your personal info is probably out there somewhere. If the Chinese government wants it, they are going to get no matter what app you are on
Nakedly, the opposition to TikTok is fueled by Meta’s lobbying of congress. Meta’s platforms are now the tried and true method for manufacturing consent and the proliferation of wedge issues. Meta is 100% an unofficial arm of the US security state.
Absolutely. The individual nation states have an alarming record. China is the only member that I think stands a chance at leadership. Xi’s comments about bolstering the “global south” is compelling. That phrase should pique the interest of most US leftists, I would imagine
I'm definitely not going to reject multi-polarity on its face, but until BRICS is actually a fleshed out structure, it effectively promises to be a front for laundering Chinese money that comes from the US or IMF, anyways.
There is a tension between western leftist values when it comes to personal freedoms and eastern notions of the greater good. That’s the most interest thing going on in leftist thought right now as we move toward the end of western global dominance
If you are against the American empire, you should be watching the alternative forming with the BRICS nations. Something is going on out there…
This is an incredible advancement. We’re over here infighting over culture war bs and fully committed to fossil fuels.
Frankly we need the technology Chinese companies have developed if we’re going to survive climate change. Specifically gen 4 nuclear reactors
