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  • 24-year-old man punches election judge in the face while waiting in line to vote

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  • The day is young, so many elderly out there for a young MAGA to assault!

  • Tucker Carlson claims hurricanes hitting US 'probably because of abortion'

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  • 🔔 🔔 🔔

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • Duly noted, i appreciate the feedback 👍

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  • This is an important thing to note: when the civil war ended, when women's suffrage was achieved, when equal rights were passed--it's not like a magic wand was waved and the inherent hatred driving those policies is gone. There are tons of old racists/misogynists that are still salty over those things to this day 🫠 (not to mention generations of offspring that carried their bigotry into the present day)

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • That's certainly a possibility. I'll have to ask around my friends and see if anyone else is getting similar results from their feeds.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • I'm glad i ran into this article, because it spells out something I've been suspecting for some time. Back in 2016 i got a sour taste from Facebook, mostly because it helped expose how shitty a disappointing amount of my acquaintances were.

    In addition to that though, i was finding less of my feed was posts from friends and were more from 'Liked' groups and suggested groups etc. I gradually found myself stopping there less and less and eventually stopped going at all. Years later, i finally decided to come back and see what I've been missing and it's an absolute shitshow now.

    Just the other day i went on and started scrolling on my Facebook feed and after several pages, it occurred to me that i hadn't seen a single post by any of the friends. I don't have a lot of friends/family/acquaintances on there to begin with (~150 i think) so it wouldn't surprise me if they aren't sharing that much anyway. Still, I became determined to see how many posts i would have to scroll past before they inject one of my friends posts into the feed. It was the first time i reached the 'end' of my feed--I actually reached 250 posts (given my count was correct) when it told me i reached the end...and by that point i didn't see a single post or anything pertaining to any of my friends in that session...just liked groups and suggested groups.

    So when i read this article, i perked up when I caught this particular part.

    "And then we went into this era where we added in creator content too, where now a very large percent of the content on Instagram and Facebook is not from your friends. It may not even be from people that you’re following directly. It could just be recommended content from creators that we can algorithmically determine is going to be interesting and engaging and valuable to you.”

    Unsurprisingly, Facebook is trying to do what every social media company is trying to do these days--create an endless feed of content... They're just trying to make it "curated" by AI so that the user has to do little/nothing to find stuff that's speaks directly to them, get hooked and begin endlessly scrolling (sounds like paradise, right?)...

    It gets worse though! Many of the groups i was suggested (and some I had chosen to follow) were simply posting AI-generated garbage. One thing i kept seeing is Art-focused groups misattributing works to famous artists. How many times I've seen a work supposedly by Monet and it was stupidly obvious that it wasn't. The comments will be in the hundreds or even thousands, and 99% of them will be one-word praises like "beautiful" or "wow" or other useless stuff like that, and the 1% remaining are people appalled that their favorite artist is being mis-credited and that the group should know better being dedicated to that very artist.

    Don't even get me started on the AI-artists suddenly becoming Facebook-famous like "Juan Brufal" who i strongly suspect isn't even a person at all, but a company/schemer/who tf knows. Bonus points to that fucker for posting their works captioned with something to the effect of "Juan Brufal 1976" as though that's when it was painted (surprise! it's not a real painting)... After a bit of googling it turns out 1976 is when the AI "artist" was born. None of that is openly shared though, and the name/year format is the same as many others use when attributing other artists works, so it's easy to convolute the meaning. Hardly anyone even send to care though, and the few that do are drowned out by the "beautiful" comments flooding every post. You can't even avoid some of these fuckers because Juan Brufal et al are in all the popular art groups -- and in many of the groups that the algorithm is going to recommend to me as well. Can't avoid these assholes, so the play is not to go there anymore---which is all the easier knowing I'm not likely to see anything my friends are posting there in the first place. Maybe they're already as tired of this shit as i am ¯(ツ)/¯

    The bottom of the barrel is a distant memory at this point, Facebook is becoming shit on a primordial level lol

  • the time has come

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  • I actually really like that song, lol 🎄 🫠

  • "This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

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  • Excerpts from the article i found most poignant. This guy just lies and lies and lies:

    “You talking about the ballot the lady told me I could take,” Savage said. “I got the paper you’re talking about. I just rolled it up and put it in my pocket. I wasn’t trying to steal from nobody.”

     

    Savage reportedly began blaming other Madison County officials for this becoming a criminal incident, telling officers that “this is all political bulls**t is all it is.”

    When told that the security video did not show Savage ever asking permission to take the ballots, Savage reportedly admitted that he did not. He told officers that he thought he could take the ballots because they were marked “sample.”

    “If you got to Payless, or go wherever, it says sample and you usually can take a sample,” Savage said. “So that is the way I took it. I thought they were fake f***ing ballots.”

    Court documents detail how text messages found on Savage’s phone show he did, in fact, know that the ballots were not just fake. Furthermore, both stolen ballots were clearly marked “IT IS A CRIME TO FALSIFY THIS BALLOT OR VIOLATE INDIANA ELECTION LAWS.”

  • Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes and hits out at critics: ‘Change your tampon’

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  • It should have been funny if it had to do with comedy ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes and hits out at critics: ‘Change your tampon’

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  • If it pushes Harris more decisively into office, all the better 😄

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    Nostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction – and how he’s never had ‘so much hate’ in an election

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  • 🫠 i jumped right into that one 🤣 i lol'd at myself over that one, thank you for the proper bamboozle

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    Nostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction – and how he’s never had ‘so much hate’ in an election

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  • Do you understand how to process facts or do you just make it all up as you go along?

  • Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48%

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  • Which leads me to think she could actually be a good president if she wins 😅🤞

  • DNC projects message tying Trump to Hitler on Madison Square Garden during rally

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  • Have you? I've been there numerous times and can't ever recall the smells to be anything worse than any other public arena

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  • Well it better apologize then!

  • The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point | One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

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  • Lol my bad 🙃

  • Elon Musk has become a perfect punching bag for Harris and Walz

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  • Projection for the 15 zillionth time by the GOP

  • Half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist: POLL

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  • They'll just call your bad news "fake news" and move on with their day ¯(ツ)/¯

  • The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point | One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

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  • They make feinting chairs for a reason, after all 🤔