got me and my wifes anniverseary mixed up with 9/11 again. in my defense the numbers are kind o f close together. "Im sorry Toots"
For any paid platform, there are two ends of the spectrum. You can be cool, funny, weird, unexpected, interesting, or you can make money. If you decide to make money, you have to be brand-safe. This is what creates “boomer normie slop.” Every choice you make every day moves you along the spectrum.
Comment from Hackernews, “Why is Instagram full of boomer normie slop? You can say youtube is close, but Shorts aren't their prime source of income.”
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Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽
In addition to the Nuclear Block™️ we should have a Break it Up function where when two people get into a fight in our mentions we can prevent them from seeing each other’s posts 😡 🫷😑🫸 🤬
I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.
Bluesky is so much better than Twitter. That's the post.
mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.
We really do have the weirdest, creepiest robber barons imaginable
i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
It’s probably good that car headlights can now be brighter than 7000 exploding suns, I’m probably wrong for not seeing the benefit. Sorry, I’ll do better.
If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.
Subway people.
I am amateur watercolor of people staring at their phones on the subway.
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What is the charge? Writing a post? An innocent online post?
There is a non zero chance that the stylist Mark Zuckerberg paid for his midlife crisis makeover played the world's funniest prank ever and he completely fell for it.
My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
2024 was a big year for atproto! We've got an update looking back at progress that has been made, and some protocol work in progress. Will have a 2025 roadmap to share soon.
This morning’s window frost
View through a window, sunrise shining through ice crystals on the glass forming patterns that look like a tangle of climbing plants
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forgot about this classic
this is a 2010 video game stop wasting so much money on fidelity and realism and just make more cool video games that will be quicker to release and cheaper to make and also look fine
NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a 'shifting legal landscape.' What they're saying inside the company ➡️ www.platformer.news/meta-kills-d...
Another employee noted in an internal post how reactive the company had become, dramatically changing policies and positions based on one relatively close election. "It's a bit crazy, just thinking that if the election result was different — none of this would happen? Does it mean we were doing things that we did not believe in? Are we going to have such big changes every time power shifts?"
Responded another employee: "Apparently the current direction of the wind is the way we 'lean in.'"
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