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I will hand it to Suck, he seems to have seen what Musk is doing and was all like, "Fuck it, I am just gonna go hide in the shadows like Bezos."

Threads, like all of Facebook's properties has an algorithm problem. It makes the feed extremely annoying. Facebook is the absolute WORST. Maybe no one posts on FB anymore or something but my feed is like 25% ads, 70% suggested groups to join, and the last 5% is my SIL posting karate pics of my nieces.
 
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I only use Facebook for people I actually know, mostly family, so it's full of my cousin showing off the monstrous agricultural and industrial equipment he delivers on his flatbed semi.
 

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I see Threads as having most of the downsides of Twitter with a bit more competence to hide Zuck's techbro agenda.
People will, I think, use the platform where they can find most of the accounts they want to follow, regardless of what the platform is like in other respects. That's why many people, including me, stick with Twitter X for the time being.
 

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It's rather like the replies to announcements from our Crown Prosecution Service about prosecutions for using social media to incite racial hatred, which are all about the First Amendment.
We have quite a few of those in Canada, doofs demanding their first or second amendments rights. (I believe our second made Manitoba a province.)

I'd have been surprised to learn the UK might have these sorts of wankers (presumably some of them are genuine and not foreign agitators or bots), until saw a video of a police traffic stop in Australia involving an unregistered car by a 'sovereign citizen'. Then I realised that US propaganda is an Anglo world brain worm. (Although I probably knew this already, it was just when it was 'made real' for me.)

On the flip side, the immediate assumption that an English speaker is American offers those of us outside the imperial core a set of clues when a bad actor is in play. (Referring to any of our PMs as 'felons', for example.)
 
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We have quite a few of those in Canada, doofs demanding their first or second amendments rights. (I believe our second made Manitoba a province.)

I'd have been surprised to learn the UK might have these sorts of wankers (presumably some of them are genuine and not foreign agitators or bots), until saw a video of a police traffic stop in Australia involving an unregistered car by a 'sovereign citizen'. Then I realised that US propaganda is an Anglo world brain worm. (Although I probably knew this already, it was just when it was 'made real' for me.)

On the flip side, the immediate assumption that an English speaker is American offers those of us outside the imperial core a set of clues when a bad actor is in play. (Referring to any of our PMs as 'felons', for example.)
We certainly have some Sov Cits in the UK, too, unfortunately. These clowns wanted to arrest a coroner for necromancy.

 

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It’s an ambivalent feeling to know the price of a new Tesla includes unfair dismissals settlements and that the price premium is necessary in the first place .
 

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Dagny Taggert was difficult to identify with, too; she lacked business skills that seemed necessary for running a railroad...
Most of the people I know who think they want a "free market" have never been very high up in a corporate structure. Working deep in a big fortune 500 company was eye opening in a lot of ways.
 
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I will hand it to Suck, he seems to have seen what Musk is doing and was all like, "Fuck it, I am just gonna go hide in the shadows like Bezos."

Threads, like all of Facebook's properties has an algorithm problem. It makes the feed extremely annoying. Facebook is the absolute WORST. Maybe no one posts on FB anymore or something but my feed is like 25% ads, 70% suggested groups to join, and the last 5% is my SIL posting karate pics of my nieces.
Say what you will about Threads' algorithm, I encounter minimal MAGA nonsense while still having no trouble at all finding like-minded people there.
 

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Say what you will about Threads' algorithm, I encounter minimal MAGA nonsense while still having no trouble at all finding like-minded people there.
I just find it a little too sanitized I think.Plus I am a bit salty because a lot of what I see there is stuff that feels like I should be seeing on Instagram, but IG just wants to show me TikToks.
 

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Elon's Next Attack

How it started: In May 2024, Elon Musk told us that Grok AI was going to be the future of news.

How it's going: In August 2024, Grok AI users on X are now sharing realistic-looking images of Elon Musk as a school shooter, leaving huge trails of blood at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Uvalde Elementary School and other places. Sometimes Elon is acting alone. Others, he has accomplices such as Mickey Mouse and the video game character Mario.
 

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OMG, Mickey Mouse and Elon Musk were on the grassy knoll in Dallas, back in November 22, 1963!
 

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I can't WAIT for Disney to curb stop Elon and Twitter into dust. Disney has infinite money and does not take cindly to this sort of thing at all.