The last couple of days people all over the world are complaining that videos from non-fascist US creators related to politics are becoming unplayable. Instead of just slow buffering, the video will just stop and any attempts to play go back to the beginning and it will stop again at the same place. However, this doesn't seem to affect things like pet videos, even from those same creators. What a crazy coincidence.
TikTok never appealed to me. I can’t figure out the interface so I can see the things I want to see and not just a stream of random videos. I’ll stick with YouTube.
"And Singaporean-born Shou Chew is no longer the CEO, though still on the board as a director. Guess MAGA finally figured out that he is not from China, a whole other country."
Reminds me of my mother, who when she insulted me for liking BTS and asked why I liked a group who "gave us "the virus" acted the same way when I had to remind her that 1. No, they didn't and B. They're from Korea. Not China. And that China and Korea are...two DIFFERENT countries.
My daughter said to me today, " It's kind of a conspiracy but you know all this AI? People are thinking it is to get us to not know the difference between what is real and what is fake." I told her it was not a conspiracy theory, it is for real happening.
This is exactly what the Fourth Reich has been jonesing for: Project Big Brother tech.
Tom Cotton is as SMRT as a box of granite gravel, congresscritters and senatevarmints are bowing and scraping to be first up Shitler's (and his groveling henchmen and henchwomen) ass. Supremes are the third leg of the trifecta of terribleness and terrorizing toddlers.
The hed asks about "undesirables" but it's a tad ambiguous. Being an undesirable is in the eyes of the beholder -- to me undesirables are Right wingnuts spreading propaganda; misinformation; disinformation; racist, misogynistic, xenophobic bovine scat, and those who repost any of that shit. But I guess to the assholes now running Shit Tok undesirable applies to Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ loving, Drag show attending, Disloyal, Unpatriotic, Out to destroy our country (dare I say Treasonous?), Libs.
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"eerily realistic AI slop and right-wing propaganda forced onto everybody’s feed and suppression of progressive voices"
* Please see above re progressive/liberal voices vs Right wingnut voices.
* And then there were three: Xitter, "Truth" Social, and Shit Tok. As long as there are social media like Bluesky we're not doomed... yet.
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"Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information"
If Shit Tok can't collect and then sell your personal information then how in the hell can the platform rake in the big bucks demanded by the Fulvous Fuckwad's hand-selected Board expect to dramatically increase their net worth and still pay the Corrupt Coral Coward his taste of the action?
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"Whatever the new, domestic, MAGA-friendly moderation team will allow (assuming any moderation will exist)."
Of course there will be moderation, how else can you weed out posts antithetical to the current regime. We, as a people, should praise any such moderation; we can't allow seditious or anti-Safety Orange Suckass posts; it might give others the wrong idea -- that they have a 1A right to free speech!
"Being an undesirable is in the eyes of the beholder"
And we're back to Orwell again, 'Some beholders are more equal than others'. The beholders with the guns, badges and masks get to decide who is an 'undesireable'.
With the ICEholes thinking that they have the right to forcefully enter a private residence, those that live there might disagree. I would think they would see armed and masked individuals, no badges visible as usual, and with firearms, as the undesirable ones. And if the residents take advantage of their 2A rights, well... the invaders will feel a bit more through their ballistic vests than a submarine sandwich "exploding" might.
(Of course, after the smoke clears and everyone who lived in the house were riddled with bullets, Kash Patel's Pets™ will open an investigation. Thirty minutes later they'll close it and call it justified as self-defense. Everyone who was a legal resident in the US, or if for some strange reason they got the address wrong: ie those leading the raid are as functionally illiterate as the Fulvous Fuckwad, or "my bad, it's N 5th Street not S 5th street," will be declared "Domestic Terrorists" who got what they deserved.)
The last couple of days people all over the world are complaining that videos from non-fascist US creators related to politics are becoming unplayable. Instead of just slow buffering, the video will just stop and any attempts to play go back to the beginning and it will stop again at the same place. However, this doesn't seem to affect things like pet videos, even from those same creators. What a crazy coincidence.
The Ellisons didn’t spend all that money so you could have free speech.
Very strange. All of my content today is going straight into Under Review status. Innocuous stuff too.
TikTok never appealed to me. I can’t figure out the interface so I can see the things I want to see and not just a stream of random videos. I’ll stick with YouTube.
Of course they are
"And Singaporean-born Shou Chew is no longer the CEO, though still on the board as a director. Guess MAGA finally figured out that he is not from China, a whole other country."
Reminds me of my mother, who when she insulted me for liking BTS and asked why I liked a group who "gave us "the virus" acted the same way when I had to remind her that 1. No, they didn't and B. They're from Korea. Not China. And that China and Korea are...two DIFFERENT countries.
And I’m sure algorithm won’t be rigged to funnel lots of pro-fascist propaganda to the youth of America. Right?
Ta, Dok. I never joined Tik Tok; I only see their videos when they're posted to bluesky. Quitting Twitter and Facebook was a great move.
Somehow I continue to live without this crap. Weird, I know!
Or let's fuck the algorithm follow me to see how.
You need a penpal in another country.
🩷🧜♀️🩷
My daughter said to me today, " It's kind of a conspiracy but you know all this AI? People are thinking it is to get us to not know the difference between what is real and what is fake." I told her it was not a conspiracy theory, it is for real happening.
It is for real happening
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/while-trumps-administration-distorts
and I wish people would stop believing the gaslighting we're being fed about it "being a conspiracy"
This is exactly what the Fourth Reich has been jonesing for: Project Big Brother tech.
Tom Cotton is as SMRT as a box of granite gravel, congresscritters and senatevarmints are bowing and scraping to be first up Shitler's (and his groveling henchmen and henchwomen) ass. Supremes are the third leg of the trifecta of terribleness and terrorizing toddlers.
F(Our Collective)Ls
"We may also collect precise location data"..Nefarious. Never had TikTok and got off Fakebook a long time ago.
The hed asks about "undesirables" but it's a tad ambiguous. Being an undesirable is in the eyes of the beholder -- to me undesirables are Right wingnuts spreading propaganda; misinformation; disinformation; racist, misogynistic, xenophobic bovine scat, and those who repost any of that shit. But I guess to the assholes now running Shit Tok undesirable applies to Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ loving, Drag show attending, Disloyal, Unpatriotic, Out to destroy our country (dare I say Treasonous?), Libs.
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"eerily realistic AI slop and right-wing propaganda forced onto everybody’s feed and suppression of progressive voices"
* Please see above re progressive/liberal voices vs Right wingnut voices.
* And then there were three: Xitter, "Truth" Social, and Shit Tok. As long as there are social media like Bluesky we're not doomed... yet.
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"Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information"
If Shit Tok can't collect and then sell your personal information then how in the hell can the platform rake in the big bucks demanded by the Fulvous Fuckwad's hand-selected Board expect to dramatically increase their net worth and still pay the Corrupt Coral Coward his taste of the action?
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"Whatever the new, domestic, MAGA-friendly moderation team will allow (assuming any moderation will exist)."
Of course there will be moderation, how else can you weed out posts antithetical to the current regime. We, as a people, should praise any such moderation; we can't allow seditious or anti-Safety Orange Suckass posts; it might give others the wrong idea -- that they have a 1A right to free speech!
fnord
"Being an undesirable is in the eyes of the beholder"
And we're back to Orwell again, 'Some beholders are more equal than others'. The beholders with the guns, badges and masks get to decide who is an 'undesireable'.
With the ICEholes thinking that they have the right to forcefully enter a private residence, those that live there might disagree. I would think they would see armed and masked individuals, no badges visible as usual, and with firearms, as the undesirable ones. And if the residents take advantage of their 2A rights, well... the invaders will feel a bit more through their ballistic vests than a submarine sandwich "exploding" might.
(Of course, after the smoke clears and everyone who lived in the house were riddled with bullets, Kash Patel's Pets™ will open an investigation. Thirty minutes later they'll close it and call it justified as self-defense. Everyone who was a legal resident in the US, or if for some strange reason they got the address wrong: ie those leading the raid are as functionally illiterate as the Fulvous Fuckwad, or "my bad, it's N 5th Street not S 5th street," will be declared "Domestic Terrorists" who got what they deserved.)
fnord
Noem stood at a podium with a sign “ One of ours, All of yours “
This is a pretty definitive threat to exact Lidice-style vengeance if Americans kill one of their goons.
Tiktok gonna be soooooo boring.
Nope, nope, nope!
I feel so fortunate that TikTok forced my hand a year ago. I've been banned from it twice lol
Great Name! 🤩