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Influencers were paid by Google to promote a Pixel phone they never used

The FTC says Google paid radio DJs to say they loved the Pixel 4.

arstechnica.com

I would have done it for a lot cheaper, Google. And I would not have been lying! (But then my influence is practically nil.)

 

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

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I guess it's for when you're on the toilet and you forgot to bring the phone along with you.

Dril is selling the archives of his legendary tweets

There are four editions, along with a digital bundle.

www.theverge.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I guess it's for when you're on the toilet and you forgot to bring the phone along with you.

Dril is selling the archives of his legendary tweets

There are four editions, along with a digital bundle.

www.theverge.com

There’s also a digital edition on sale for around $6 (roughly half of the paperback’s $12.89 price), which Dril says is for people who “like to read my posts on a site not run by a car salesman who tortures apes.”

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I was just thinking of the pinball numbers song yesterday!:

 

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How to get your news fix now that Twitter sucks

Scratch that itch without the bird site.

www.theverge.com

 

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just kidding

 

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Poor right wing entrepreneurs

Parler owner laid off 75% of staff and has only 20 employees left, report says

Parler reportedly laid off staff and execs after ending deal to sell to Kanye West.

arstechnica.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘They filmed me without my consent’: the ugly side of #kindness videos

Some social media users are building a following through ‘feelgood’ videos, in which, for instance, they give flowers to a stranger. The stranger then becomes their clickbait. Is there anything we can do to stop this?

www.theguardian.com

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

‘They filmed me without my consent’: the ugly side of #kindness videos

Some social media users are building a following through ‘feelgood’ videos, in which, for instance, they give flowers to a stranger. The stranger then becomes their clickbait. Is there anything we can do to stop this?

www.theguardian.com

I always hated that "genre" of videos... so obviously performative and gross. Related, I was always grossed out by turning pictures of real people into meme's... I'd dread that happening to me. Meme's need to be based on cartoon characters or at least celebrities who were already super well known in my view.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Verifying Device

Link to archived content

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Bluesky is a decentralized social media protocol much like Mastodon, started by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and spun off of Twitter before the whole Musk thing happened.

It published an iOS app earlier this year and an Android app earlier this month, but for now is in a closed beta.

Still, some users have noticed some issues with it.

https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/110278093126380845

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The protocol mastodon uses is called ActivityPub and is older than Mastodon, because Mastodon didn't create an unnecessary new protocol when one already existed.

On top of that "proprietary decentralized protocol" is kind of super missing the point.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Q: Jack Dorsey is launching “Bluesky,” a new social network to compete with Twitter. I’ll just join that instead!

A: Sorry to disappoint, but Dorsey played a key role in Musk’s deal to take Twitter private. The two are good friends. And Bluesky is an initiative launched by Twitter. In April, Dorsey wrote, “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” [Update: Dorsey did not transact his shares in Twitter, and now holds equity in Musk’s venture.]

No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.

Wherein I attempt to clarify a number of ridiculous and false narratives currently taking hold about Musk and Dorsey’s “rivalry.”

davetroy.medium.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

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This is, conceivably, why BlueSky as it exists right now doesn't have a block function. He wants user-blocking and other moderation actions to be something third-party developers have to code for on the client side; the government/user base can't demand that he block nazis from his platform if there's no ability to block users on the platform level.

 

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[Isabeau]

I thought that was Mrs. Roper.