Strange sightings of electoral posters in Tokyo:
https://religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/
Ran across this a few weeks back and boy howdy it explained some things…
"look surely not everything in America is explained by racism" "... OH COME ON NOW"
I doubt you had to do square dancing lessons in school over there but apparently that was a RW thing too.
some of the rest is explained by greed
I only visit twitter when I run out of lemmy and mastodon and I'm still not sleepy enough but can't be arsed to read a book.
What do normal people - people who don't pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?
Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it's the latest kid's movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can't figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from "HBD Chick".
And I'm like okay, that has to be "happy birthday, right?". Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.
Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don't follow her or anybody that follows her, there's literally no connection or personal interest.
I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site's gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I'm surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.
It's pretty amazing that this so-called genius spent $44B on a company without apparently knowing anything about how the market it operates in (advertising) actually works.
“"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,””
He is the PR department.
I assume some PR departments of potential advertisers saw that and went 'lower the twitter spend more!', I'm imaging the Futurama joke where Fry talks to investors while stock price tally is running live behind him.
I used to hear about it IRL and now I don't idk
not a single fucker ever calls it anything other than twitter
Note: all the talk I mention is online talk. Nobody in my irl life talks about social media dynamics ever, thank GOD
I tried using Claude 3.5 sonnet and .... it's actually not bad. Can someone please come up with a simple logic puzzle that it abysmally fails on so I can feel better? It passed the "nonsense river challenge" and the "how many sisters does the brother have" tests, both of which fooled gpt4.
Chuck a murdle into it, maybe?
By murdle I mean one of those process of elimination grid based logic puzzles that can be encoded as a list of statements.
hah, didn't know of those, neat. might try a few
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