Theil’s puppet takes over when he dies. How is Vance/Theil better? Adjacent, at best.

FFS.

I’ve dealt with booking.com. Sent pics of what was clearly a homeless flophouse and not a vacation rental.

Customer service: were denying your refund claim because the manager says what you said and the pics you sent are not true.

If it wasn’t meta, and they were less obvious, they’d make great ICE watchers.

I was shopping for glasses late last year and these were frame options on every site I browsed. They’re out there. Whether or not people are buying is another thing.

I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.

And the halt on more accessible solar.

Or Iran makes good on its threat re Netanyahu, no one stops it, and we watch a power shuffle to see if anything changes.

Whatever malignant narcissists do inside their false realities. Cluster B is no joke and yet 1/3 of the American people voted for this because (their thinking, not mine):

A: Trans is weird and incomprehensible

B: Women’s liberation is making me feel bad as a man and I don’t know how to cope with #life so I’m going to blame women’s lib for me being me. Oh, and birth rate, bitches need to get back to their real role…

C: We want Christianity to be rule of law.

D: See A.

E. He said he’d reduce cost of living and I believe him.

F. Immigrants suck and need to go.

He has (had) the brain of an impulsive child. Now, he very likely has the brain of a child with Alzheimer’s.

So, he loses rare batteries crucial to US defense, spikes oil prices world wide (long term for US), alienates the world even more, jump starts Russia’s economy, proves he’s Israel’s little dog on a leash, and kills some people, but doesn’t want to talk about it.

I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.

Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

I realize younger people probably don’t feel this so viscerally, but shorts (not all, but many) are very in tune with old TV advertising format. It’s like an endless stream of Super Bowl ads, at best. Repetitive music. Designed for the short attention span. Makes you seek a product, in this case, more of itself.

Now, look at the “upcycled” (/s) version of YouTubr content. Reused video clips with a shiny, hyper-reactive talking head in front of it. Not human expression but caricatures thereof. Millions of views. Millions of viewers. For years. Not of human faces but caricatures of human faces. This garbage won’t go away because it’s consistantly being watched.

Now, after all that priming, introduce AI into the two most popular social medias, short form and long form.

How does this fully primed crowd know the difference? How would they suddenly feel the need to leave? Not you or me, but the people who consume the ad clones and charicaturized crap daily? The same people who slide their phones out of their pockets to scroll shorts, on automatic, whenever they have 5 free minutes at work. How do they even spot the difference after years of consuming garbage?

TLDR Less human interaction + more fake, caricaturized human vid content = where we are now, with AI on social media.

The problem is they’re already making bank on ads and data. They don’t need our money.

Hey, if you can find reliable vids on fixing just about anything, it’s in. Bonus if there’s solid journalism and documentaries.

The ability to host that level of video and audio data, streaming, though.

Nebula doesn’t have hobby vids. Good in some respects, terrible in others.

In addition, it’s locked down to posting, with only a nebulous indicator as to how to get invited to post creator content.

We need an alternative with people on it.

I don’t believe it’s true. I do believe it should be true.