Twitter C/D

yeah Rufo has been pretty successful in astroturfing at least, a lot of the anti-CRT/DEI/"Wokeness" stuff comes from him, it's not like these are issues conservatives really care about or can even define

seeing the phrase "titan submersible implosion" and remembering how happy we all were back then

lol

Special times

“remembering how happy we all were”

i wasn’t it’s against fucking policy but alsoi wasn’. shit was horrific. even if it was an underwater deservable.

it’s funny because the reality of people getting crushed is sad and that kid was just there for his dad, but in the stakes of tragedies dying instantly by being crushed like a grape is not a terrible way to go, all
things considered. and the ridiculous hubris of a guy who ignored every expert taking insanely rich people in a death tube is wild

so many good details in that story the video game controller every submarine person telling them to stop

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jwc6rjltbvw2wffcxyvy44qy

whoa utilitylimb has made me login to bluesky for the first time in foreevr

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🖼

whoa utilitylimb has made me login to bluesky for the first time in foreevr

― 龜, Friday, April 26, 2024 7:23 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats awesome, every once in a while I remember there was a Lovecraftian dril account out there that just disappeared

yeah Rufo has been pretty successful in astroturfing at least, a lot of the anti-CRT/DEI/"Wokeness" stuff comes from him, it's not like these are issues conservatives really care about or can even define

Well, they definitionally care about them? It's being able to name them (even if the definitions are wavy) that he's done the work on - so 35 states can pass anti-CRT measures, but they can be applied on a "you know if it you see it" basis - even worse than CRT is CRT that's denying it's CRT!

meanwhile elsewhere 😔

this email subject just in: "A New Chapter Begins: Post News Users Are Migrating to Spoutible"

lol
I saw a couple new bluesky users with “coming here from Post, nice to see you!” as their first skeet and laughed

trying to DM a support account for a company and it turns out i can't unless i upgrade to twitter premium - very sad lol

what's the deal now, you have to be mutuals to DM? explains all the funny things where people are posting complaints a lot and tagging brands until they follow back to get a support ticket going

Good thread going against claims that social media has done that much damage in our politics.

Basically did little to nothing. More evidence social media has been overhyped as a cause of our political dysfunction. https://t.co/rn4ncBnl2X pic.twitter.com/U9wvnuGR2G

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 13, 2024

I was in that study! They paid me not to use stuff. Good times.

I also don't think the timeframe of the study was that useful. If you weren't already in the bag for one candidate five weeks before the election, you probably weren't going to be swayed.

Does anybody use Telegram? in terms of breaking news etc. which Twitter feels less and less useful for

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Always keep learning

public and private thoughts and questions

jfc

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Here's a way to stop the internet having your "private thoughts and questions" STOP PUTTING THEM ALL ON THE INTERNET.

tbf you (and i!) have been on ilx for decades now

but mostly that guy is a (really rich) fucking moron

within the last couple years there was a piece by someone (maybe tom scocca?) noting that in the last 25 years there have been so many people trying to game the system that inevitably a few were going to win -- like elon buying himself the 'foundership' of tesla. jack seems like a business school study in progress, except none of his idiocy will ultimately affect him personally

Finally some good news:

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/x-twitter-porn-policy-update-1236023536/

Elon Musk‘s X now officially allows NSFW content on the social network formerly known as Twitter — with some restrictions.

In a recent update to its official usage policies, X says, “You may share consensually produced and distributed adult nudity or sexual behavior, provided it’s properly labeled and not prominently displayed.”

“We believe that users should be able to create, distribute and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed,” X says in the update, which was spotted earlier by TechCrunch. “Sexual expression, whether visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression. We believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality.”

who’s going to tell them

Concerning

“We believe that users should be able to create, distribute and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed,” X says, "but we will do fuck all to determine how the material was created or distributed, because we don't really care about that."

Musky seem to have taken away the ability to block ads from the timeline, you have to go to the ad's profile page and completely block them now.

You can still block everything except for fucking Temu.