Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

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TikTok’s latest hit is an accidental upload from a government office in rural Indiana

Easily the purest thing on TikTok.

www.theverge.com

A series of accidentally posted office videos has become an unexpected viral hit on TikTok. The most popular shows a series of municipal employees bidding farewell to their colleague, Connie, against the backdrop of a prairie-hued office space straight out of Parks & Rec.

 

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Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable

Metallica played at Blizzard's big BlizzCon event today. But not on Twitch, where the concert was overdubbed by, like, Zelda-flutes-in-a-forest-type music due to copyright concerns.

music.avclub.com

 

[Lexxi]

9557 Winchester Ave, Bunker Hill, WV 25413
And they seem to like having signs like that. Another says "Tried to hire Brads wife but he got pissed"; "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn". Can't seem to include as pictures.

 

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Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable

Metallica played at Blizzard's big BlizzCon event today. But not on Twitch, where the concert was overdubbed by, like, Zelda-flutes-in-a-forest-type music due to copyright concerns.

music.avclub.com

If anybody deserves that treatment, it's Metallica. Remember Lars going around to personally harass kids using Napster? LOL

I do want to hear more of that 8 bit stuff, though. I'd rather listen to that than hear Metallica's overplayed corporate crap.

 

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YouTube's algorithm thinks chess is racist.

YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs

Although the channel was restored within 24 hours, YouTube did not explain why the Croatian chess player Antonio Radic was blocked.

www.news18.com

 

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YouTube's algorithm thinks chess is racist.

YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs

Although the channel was restored within 24 hours, YouTube did not explain why the Croatian chess player Antonio Radic was blocked.

www.news18.com

Also hates gays: The "queen" can't jump other pieces...

 

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Also hates gays: The "queen" can't jump other pieces...

 

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[Grandma Bates]

The former President who decided that instead of focusing on the readily available mobility data sold by US telecommunications corporations it would be best to instead do something about TikTok because they had a popular app on many phones that could harvest the same information. The concern was that TikTok was too close to the Chinese government. The sale never went through. First because it was not a sale but rather a bizarre payoff scheme to shakedown a foreign company. Second because the former President has the attention span of a cockerspaniel on LSD.

Since that time Oracle has openly advertised its analytics prowess by bragging about how its products helped Chinese police merge information from sources such as online comments to automobile license plate location data:

Exclusive: How Oracle Sells Repression in China

In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to stop data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for surveillance.

theintercept.com

Also, more context can be found here:

Oracle, Which Promised To Protect TikTok User Data From China, Helps Chinese Law Enforcement Snarf Through Lots Of Private Data

As you’ll recall, last summer there was a whole performative nonsense thing with then President Trump declaring TikTok to be a national security threat (just shortly after some kids on TikTok…

www.techdirt.com

 

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I'm in a facebook group for a web dev bootcamp, and one person got thrown in facebook jail for offering to help somebody with a problem. FB's algo says it is a violation of their policies against offering sexual services to ask somebody to post HTML and Javascript in a codepen, LOL

So, in related news...

I would like to announce my new only fans page! I'll write the dirtiest code for you, baby... it will be full of iframes and id tags, and every selector will only have one property. I'll make text blink and layout will be done with tables. I'll only use non-descriptive variables, and every loop will be goto, because I'm a bad boy! Then I'll stuff it all in your code pen and make you read it. It's guaranteed to make you scream all night long!

 

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I'm in a facebook group for a web dev bootcamp, and one person got thrown in facebook jail for offering to help somebody with a problem. FB's algo says it is a violation of their policies against offering sexual services to ask somebody to post HTML and Javascript in a codepen, LOL

The only way I can respond to that:

 

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The supreme rule: People are stupid.

Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet

How? Why? Yes.

www.theverge.com

 

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[Jolene Benoir]

The supreme rule: People are stupid.

Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet

How? Why? Yes.

www.theverge.com

Rich people buying stupid things as the poor go hungry and get covid. Lovely. Excesses like this HAVE to be common in extremely lopsided economies. I bet these same buyers would believe that people don't deserve a decent wage. More money for them to buy more stupid shit.

 

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Russia Disrupts Twitter Access in Banned Content Row - The Moscow Times

Russia’s media watchdog announced Wednesday that it will disrupt Twitter's loading speeds within the country for failing to remove banned content, a move that experts say represents a new crackdown on foreign social media. “Starting March 10, 2021, centralized response measures have been taken...

www.themoscowtimes.com

 

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