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People love art by famous, dead, white people.

Assuming this is an op like @b_m_b_m_b_m is saying, it would go like… Oil group wants people to dislike anti-oil activism > oil group funds a group to pretend that they’re opposed to big oil > said group engages in activities that they claim are to draw attention to big oil, but they do stuff that makes the public hate them > the public hates oil protests in general

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Musk said he uploaded his brain the cloud, nothing he says should be taken seriously. The fact that the market does says a lot about economics and finance.

I mean I suppose at the point you’re at, it’s just a matter of setting the rim at 5’ and then dunking, but… that’s kind of the point I suppose.

Abolish the second amendment. Buy back guns. Walk unwilling gun owners into the uncaring sea.

CALM DOWN

Buy eggs from the merchant for permanent stat boosts?

doesn’t matter had sex

@fbi

Thanks. That wasn’t working for me at some point in the past.

Teach me senpai

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I think this bit in that article demonstrates how ultimately unimportant twitter actually is…

Boils down to... Sneakers have never been more popular > Yeezys are very popular sneakers > Adidas makes Yeezys

The whole cloth userbase of the web engages in fake news, TikTok is not unique in this regard at all. You just have muscle memory for it built in when you're browsing the web, filtering emails, etc. To be clear my point is not, "you should use TikTok." There's only so much time in the day. But I do think the narrative from people around my age is that it's for kids with no attention span and that's just not correct at all. It's very useful if you know how to use it.

If you're getting fake news on TikTok it's because you're using the app to engage with current events to some extent. I use Twitter for that along with more traditional websites. Twitter and Facebook will show me stuff I've not engaged with or searched for in months, if you swipe past a couple TikTok's on a certain topic or you don't follow creators that post on those topics, you just don't see them again after almost no time at all. And there is absolutely nothing about TikTok that sucks as much shit as long Twitter threads. Twitter threads are fucking terrible from a usability and engagement standpoint, the fact that people cram moderate length content in a platform designed for snippets of text boggles the mind.

TikTok, especially compared to Twitter or Facebook, has its algorithm adapt to your views and follows at lightning speed. I don't blame young people for using it the way they do, and if there's a topic you're interested in that has a decent number of creators that post on the app, it's super useful to find content very quickly. I've found a number of miniature painters, cooking / bartending content, musicians / bands, etc., that I never would have found on google or have had YouTube or twitter put in front of me. This can obviously be problematic depending on how you use the app and how savvy at filtering you are, but I refuse to accept that anyone shitting on it or saying that it's just for kids / teenage girls has bothered engaging with it at all.

I haven't paid enough attention to Ye to know what mental illness he's dealing with, and it's been almost 20 years since I've worked in a field adjacent to mental health. So I don't mean this about him specifically per se. But it is not uncommon for people with significant mental illness to say things they don't believe beyond what they're dealing with, things they don't believe, etc. I worked with many people who had bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, schizophrenia, etc., whose entire belief system changed depending on their very immediate state of mind, medications, etc. That's just... how it goes. Certain mental disorders very commonly involve conspiratorial thinking. Again I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Ye specifically but I think it's worth calling out that, "taking your meds suddenly makes you NOT hate the Jews," just is taking something potentially complicated and nuanced and distilling it down to something that really isn't how any of *all that* works. And until you know or have worked with someone for a long time and with whom you have a baseline, then experience them talking about how literally everyone involved in their care and in their life is part of a Masonic conspiracy to control them, and then have them acknowledge that's incorrect later on... it's really hard to appreciate.

Tired Wired

Trailer is out: The Ant-Man movies have both been pretty fun. I hope emphasis on the quantum realm in this one doesn’t mean that we miss out on the real world shrinking shenanigans and Michael Peña rants. Looks neat regardless.

It’s like you don’t know me at all.

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