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  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Stop trying to find reason in a situation devoid of reason. You're clinging to that for personal comfort, if you feel like you can wrap it with a bow, you feel in control of it. You're not.

    He's a broken narcissist and a psychopath. His dad didn't love him and told him so. He'll spend every worthless day of his life trying to get his dead dad to say "I was wrong about you", and of course, his dad is dead so that won't happen (wouldn't have anyway, as that guy was likely an even bigger piece of shit, just not born with money like trump was so didn't reach the same heights).

    So ask yourself why you don't realize the above. If there's an end to this presidency, or if say he gets diagnosed with a terminal disease, there's a non-zero chance he launches all of the nukes with the hope of a worldwide nuclear holocaust - because at the end of the day, if his life was ending, and you told trump he could press a button and be sure that nobody was laughing at him after death, posthumously convicting him of crimes or just pissing on his grave, he'd kill every single person on the chance.

    A stranger's opinion is meaningless to him? Brother, it's fucking everything to him.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • As designed by the republicans. There are legitimate reasons to regulate tiktok, if Biden opposed though, they'd say he was a weak Chinese sympathizer, if he complied, they'd do this.

    It was a trap where you were fucked either way, as the republican think tank ghouls drew it out.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

    trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

    It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

    And now, this adds two layers:

    1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.
    2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

    P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

  • Warning to whistleblowers: “We are back in the days of the Red Scare”

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  • The whistleblowers can't hear you. They've "committed suicide".

    On the bright side, chocolate rations have gone UP from 10 to 8!

  • Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in unanimous ruling

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  • This is all theater.

    trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

    It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

    And now, this adds two layers:

    1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.
    2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

    P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • Shorten to "Frendi", probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.

  • AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY

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  • That's not what they said, but now that you mention it, both concern the regular transfer of information. USPS should be a utility broadband provider.

  • Give me some of your hardest riddles? (with solutions in spoilers)

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  • A dolphin is neither a horse nor a boat.

    A boat is neither a horse nor a dolphin.

    A horse is neither a dolphin nor a boat.

    But what is the one common thing that would happen if you were to bite any of these three things?

  • TikTok Plans ‘Immediate’ Shutdown of App in U.S. on Jan. 19 If Supreme Court Doesn’t Block Ban: Reports

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  • This is all theatre, trump is going to "save it" after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

    It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

  • TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned

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  • I see ZERO discussion about how this is obvious theatre. We are so incapable of standing up to basic manipulation tactics from the right.

    trump first started using tiktok as another xenophobic boogeyman, in what was a fairly nuanced situation - trump's position being completely wrong, but ultimately some truth to the fact that companies run in China inherently have involvement of the Chinese government and thule should be reached, monitored and if abused, access should be removed.

    This actual push was always meant to be something to hang on Biden admin either way (because again, some valid points to a potential ban) but in reality trump will now "save" this artificial shutdown to "restore tiktok" and millions of low information voters and non voters alike will think he did something. And in the meantime, whatever the fuck this lemon8 and red whatever apps are will likely be a huge privacy monitoring home as midst will leave things dormant in background as well after tiktok is "restored".

    Again, we are just so I'll equipped for anything to do with technology.

  • Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

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  • How it started:

    "Oh, non-profit tech company! How noble! I trust that!"

    How it's going:

    I have no interest in these hollow PR dance moves until CEOs are publishing compelling outlines of how they have instituted complex legal frameworks that mean they can't reverse (or others can't reverse) these cynical moves to temporarily sway public sentiment during a building phase without say... Being legally compelled to immediately forfeit all historical stock earned and donate any historical salary and bonus compensation to the Red Cross or children's cancer research. They won't though, at best, this is an option, subject to change at will.

    Remember that Zuckerberg initially allowed those tampons in the men's rooms and got a little praise, because some men do have periods and require tampons. They were in little wicker baskets, with the lids propped open on full display as you walked into any of their global offices. Zuckerberg then quietly told them internally to start closing the lids in the basket by default, still there, but closed, and then to place them on a lower shelf out of the way and ultimately, you now see the headlines that he ordered them fully removed performatively.

    Declarative statements matter from people with proven, consistent integrity - that trait is inconsistent with anyone who can successfully rise to the level of modern CEO.

  • Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

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  • Thank you, but look at the publish date on that, I think this info may be out of date at this point. Altman headlines in past year.

    Also, seems his own sister is suing him for sexual assault, so that's something to get to at some point as well I guess...

  • Removed

    Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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    1. Announces moderation team gutted
    2. Announces that "community notes" will handle moderation
    3. Make a bunch of moves to purge anyone in the community that might actually provide a factual "community note"

  • Weeks when decades happen

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  • Week three will be trump watery shitting over a bible during inauguration with kid rock singing while the cult members literally claw each other's skin off trying to get a finger on the bible to taste.

  • Weeks when decades happen

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  • Some guy, you mean RFK Jr. probably. And soon mandatory lunch snack at the public tax voucher-funded Christian school your kids will attend (you won't HAVE TO go, but the only other schools won't bee subverted by the voucher.... So, up to you bro....)

  • Weeks when decades happen

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  • All the people who see arbitrary signs in everything will see nothing at these things happening within weeks of 2nd trump presidency starting (and the last American presidency under some form of democracy)

  • Mike Johnson vows to hold aid to California hostage after deadly fires

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  • After the east coast relief was swift and without condition, as it should be.

    Remember the red states take more than they contribute, now on top, they will restrict access to the federal tax funds that California disproportionately contributes to keep this rotting corpse of a country afloat.

    The Republicans are the bad guy from the 80s movie. They are hanging from the cliff about to die, the hero reaches out to save them, they climb up the hero's outstretched arm to safety and then immediately turn and kick the hero off the cliff with a boot to the back of the head.

  • Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

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  • Bluesky has jack dorsey, Twitter founder, in its DNA. Dorsey cheered musk on and they call each other friends. Bluesky is not the win people want it to be, it's just a bandaid for your conscience with the same infected wound under the surface.

  • Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

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  • Weird man, had no idea that rupert murdock bought MySpace?