Twitter C/D

I am normally ignorant of the numbers, but I claim a parental exception, where I put a limit on volume for my kids Bluetoothed bullshit on my cars stereo, and i say you may not go above 12 or suffer death or other worst consequences

even volume numbers really cancel out that odd harmonic distortion of the audio, really gives it the breath of life

^ science to the rescue!

I set TV volume arbitrarily, every number is interesting

I just have a little bar that shows up on my tv and most things these days. I try to make sure it’s not too full because that means it could hurt my ears

Wait whats that Ian Miles Cheong post in ref to, what'd I miss there? Was he banned or something.

this site still has the juice when it comes to making billionaires angry in public

Incredible stuff going on here pic.twitter.com/wQumddscxu

— Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@JosephPolitano) February 15, 2024

Wait whats that Ian Miles Cheong post in ref to, what'd I miss there? Was he banned or something.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

a singapore newspaper suggested he be arrested for supporting israel, which i guess is something that happens there, then everyone on twitter pretended he was going to be executed lol

I'm very offline so "Ian Miles Cheong" sounded familiar but I was unsure who he was. Then I realized—thats the man who sold me weed while I visited family in Malaysia! It's hard to forget a legendary drug dealer who shows you his gun collection/his plots to overthrow his country.

— Kylie Cheung (@kylietcheung) February 14, 2024

unfortunately I have it on good authority that he received the electric chair last night

posting about him doing crimes that make you get in big trouble in malaysia is cool and good

I'm pretty sure he lives in an interior room without windows in his mom's place, though. There's no way he even leaves the house

twitter pays this guy to make content. he's their main content guy.

Fantastic tech advancement! Guess who hasn't been in an airport anytime in the last 40 years? pic.twitter.com/83WVFmXIXM

— Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ (@chrissteinplays) February 15, 2024

He should interview the people who hang out in the ALDI near me offering to return your cart so they can keep the quarter. Entrepreneurs! (also appropriate for the American dystopia thread)

sigh. as a malaysian, americans can have ian miles cheong as far as I care. i swear y'all are obsessed with him. like I got on bluesky and 99% of malaysia content on there was about this fucking guy and none by Malaysians

there's something vaguely condescending about the wave of americans posting about him doing crimes in Malaysia, as if those tweets were enough to get him arrested/investigated. malaysians are online. malaysian police are VERY online. maybe the vast majority of malaysians didn't know who he was before this week, but i can guarantee he was already on cops' radar long before that. 

idk man, when I read one of those tweets, my reaction is less lol and more like "oh ok, so you guys think we're all so backwards and dumb that we'll arrest him just because YOU said he's a drug dealer"

yeah, the jokes are a little obsessive. I get the impression that it’s turned from “imply he did illegal stuff to genuinely get him in trouble” to jokes about that impulse to do that, though? twitter’s full of self-styled comedians who all think they get a crack at every opportunity

he truly is an extremely visible presence for reasons no one can really explain other than he’s extremely online. I would expect no one in malaysia knows him since he doesn’t go outside!

I’m honestly surprised Tucker Carlson isn’t the same. Figured he’d be locked in the tuckerbunker from here on out

yeah until this week he had little to no presence on Malaysian social media. like my sister works in tech and she'd never heard of him.

the jokes about him potentially getting arrested were funny at first but got old really quickly, esp because I know that if/when it actually happens, there's gonna be a lot of sanctimonious bs along the lines of "even though we don't like him, we shouldn't be celebrating people being arrested for sedition, malaysian laws are draconian blah blah". stfu we know

there would def be some annoying scolding but i dont it wouldnt be from the people joking about him getting arrested now

btw one thing i noticed re the decline in twitters infrastructure is before musk took over the trending topics turned over pretty quick they tried to keep them fresh things would only trend for a few hours, but he was trending for 2+ days

xpost sure

you can principally be against sedition laws prohibiting political speech and also think it's funny if ian miles cheong got in trouble because of them. if it were up to me laws like that wouldn't exist but it's not hypocritical to feel schadenfreude that he got fined or whatever

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) February 14, 2024

anyway i don't remember if this was ever posted here but evergreen imo: https://www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-should-be-able-to-mute-america

Holy lol@that Tucker video. Every supermarket in Aus (not just Aldi) has had coin-lock trolleys since for fucking EVER.
Theyre so uniquitous most places sell coin-sized discs you can clip on your keyring that'll work in their stead.
Did he think that was some marvellous ruskie invention that the US doesnt have because LOL HOMELESS CAMPS! Christ kill him already.

Can I just say that those coin-lock grocery carts were the most annoying thing and I'm glad the one local grocery store around here that had it got rid of them during the pandemic (I guess because nobody was carrying any change anymore?). I'm still annoyed about the time several years ago when I went there and realized I didn't have a dollar coin on me and so couldn't use a grocery cart. I mostly boycotted that place after that until they got rid of them.

Tucker Carlson discovering a bunch of things in Russia that are completely commonplace in parts of the US would be a good direction for his show. In the last episode they could walk him through a random town in the US

Huell Howser style (I apologize for linking Howser and Carlson).

My SiriusXM show: A rare, hour-long sit down with former music journalist-turned-activist fighting antisemitism on social media, Eve Barlow. Saturday 8am, 4pm, Wednesday 7pm (all ET), Channel 167 and on the app anytime. pic.twitter.com/IDgMSSdx4R

— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) February 16, 2024

Eve Fartlow

Running into Chris Stein at Aldi would be the highlight of my year, possibly my decade.

Had never heard of Barlow before today— another media personality to despise

When they fart low we fart high

According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake.

"I've never seen anything even remotely close to 50 percent, not to mention 76 percent," CHEQ founder and CEO Guy Tytunovich told Mashable regarding X's fake traffic data. "I'm amazed…I've never, ever, ever, ever seen anything even remotely close."

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

all the ads i now see are from liver king

i've not clicked on anything liver king-related, but they don't seem to link to a site? just more videos or some such

so i'm not even sure what he's selling apart from poorly spelled masculinity

cannot argue with the bounty renewing i guess

My favorite ad recently was accounting advice for pastors, the tag line was actually along the lines of “is your bookkeeping serving Christ?”

I think liberals struggle with this; they tend to either want to treat dangerous and bigoted ideas as too explosive to handle or acknowledge, or they engage with them as a kind of logical abstraction to be debated. Don't do either: say they're bad, they're gross, but don't hide.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) February 20, 2024

this is obviously the approach Stancil has been taking over the last few weeks by endlessly arguing with the 'race science' IQ difference people, but this seems like the worst of all worlds? You're engaging with them, so helping spread their ideas to people who might not otherwise have seen them, but also refusing to actually debate them or make an argument about why they're wrong, so providing more fodder for them to claim that they're being persecuted for "just asking questions". What good is Stancil's method of engaging with these guys actually doing anyone except the racists (and maybe Stancil himself)?

Think you’ve answered this with your last four words

he could have stopped with “don’t engage with them” since he has enough followers to just quote-tweet them once with “this is just eugenics” and walk away

our very annoying boy is going irl

Well it's out there now! Yep, I'm running for Minnesota House District 61A. More info very soon. This campaign won't be conducted on Twitter, but if you like what I'm generally about, or like metro planning and dislike far-right extremism, here you go: https://t.co/PEqsxY7PXu

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) February 21, 2024

running in a solidly blue district it should be noted, gotta get those seats for the theres nothing you can do wing of the party

good stuff thanks twitter

https://i.imgur.com/6zWiiAE.png

Every John Ganz tweet is an event

Feel like Ganz has been bad for a while now right

idk i dont really go on twitter anymore so i forgot about him

i do like him tho i think hes an interesting writer who takes his work seriously, which is not to say im totally aligned with him ideologically and so forth

lol just looking at the tweets in that screenshot seems like theres some sort of weed storyline going on

lmao

ive never been right with this stuff ever since i watched belly in freshman year of college and then tried to smoke an entire blunt by myself

— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) February 20, 2024

his new book about the early 90s looks good

i like how it has a 90s politics book looking cover

https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9780374605445.jpg?w=900

Ganz is good, wish he'd dump Twitter, which, since the death of Nitter, I can't read anymore.

I like Ganz but his "I got too high" tweet was really just begging for it. NEVER POST ABOUT CANNABIS, you will be swarmed by bud bros.

his podcast with jamelle bouie on 90s post-cold war thrillers is pretty good

what an amateur, everyone knows that you smoke the blunt before watching Belly, not after.

he didnt know before he watched it because he was an amateur, you gotta learn somehow, i guess he shouldve watched it again