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Commented in X unveils new premium subscription plan, including ad-free tier for $16 a month
I'm not into "social media" all too much, because it takes up a lot of time and energy, but never returns anything. There's just one social media account that I cultivate, which is my Mastodon. Not that it brings in any bread or butter, but at least it's less addictive and I can post on servers that fit my needs. For instance, I have just moved my account to a complete new server (specialized in art) from a common one (for beginners). Easy-peasy, no hassles. Never had any annoying ads and the users that post questionable content are easily blocked (and/or reported). And all that is without any subscriptions or ad-streams. I'm free to donate to the maintainers of the servers where I reside, which I will, eventually, when the servers bring me the joy I'm expecting from all of this.
TL;DR: Twitter and its' ilks can shove it. Long live the Fediverse!! :-)
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Commented in Social Media Scheduling Tools Made For Blogging Success
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Commented in BMW adds games to the 5 series
The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global. Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global. She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided. Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud. In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion. According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.
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Commented in UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones
I think it's better to ban all social media from government phones, especially from the representatives. This way they can focus on their work, instead of showing their smug faces to fullfill their desperate need for attention. Extra tip: regular media should also focus more on the quality of their work instead of the quantity of attention.
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Commented in White House says intelligence shows Russia is stirring unrest in Moldova
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure, an "intelligence official". You may remember me from such things as the Bay of Pigs, The JFK assassination, Project Mockingbird, Iran-Contra, WMDs in Iraq, Russian collusion, Nordstream, and censoring and "guiding" media narratives. You can totally believe and trust me when I say that Russians are going to be naughty and topple governments, which incidentally, we've never done and placed blame elsewhere."
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Commented in Meta would end Canadians’ ability to view and share news under Bill C-18
Just another tax.
The committee also complained that Google had failed to comply with a request that it produce internal documents about its response to Bill C-18. Members said the company had produced only public information.
Did they produce all the internal lobbying documents that went into this link tax bill?
Mr. Rodriguez said it is “disappointing to see that Facebook has resorted to threats instead of working with the Canadian government in good faith.”
It's a threat to pull a service that is a gift to Canadian media? It's what they want isn't it? Facebook not to benefit of the media, one way or another?
Frankly facebook without news would be a better facebook.
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Commented in ‘Lab leak’ report energizes Republicans’ covid probes
The steps the media takes:
"That's a conspiracy theory."
"You're crazy if you believe that conspiracy theory."
"Ok, you may be right, but it's not what you think."
"You're right, but that's old news."
Followed by never talking about it again.
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Commented in US halts Blinken China visit after spy balloon row
Alleged spy balloon, but probably just a weatherballoon. Btw, a country that spends over 800 billion dollars a year (and probably way more, because all kinds of covert agencies and operations) that shits its' pants because of a balloon? Killing millions of people throughout the decades and gets scared over a fucking balloon with solarpanels. Yup, this sounds very much like opportunistic media and politicians to frame China as a bad actor, probably to justify even more dollars on violence and imperialistic behaviour. All the while when their own people are going hungry, homeless or bankrupt over medical bills. How sad of an excuse for a third world country are you, USA?
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Commented in Meta fined more than $400 million over ad targeting practices
Nothing new here. Social media,in reality was created for the sole purpose of shoving ads on everyone and all the nastiness that comes with ads. And the "fine" is the slap of a feather landing on a wrist and just the cost of doing business.
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Commented in Elon Musk’s Twitter poll: 10 million say he should step down
Musk is just an attention-whore, who abuses the media to advertise his businesses.
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Commented in Elton John says he's quitting Twitter: 'it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world'
People have lied on the internet since the internet was invented (by Al Gore, no less). For the last decade or so, big media and big tech became the arbiters of "truth" and lazy thinkers ate it up. Now, they don't want to question what they've been told, so they seek avoidance.
Discussions between people with different opinions used to be a common thing. Now they run away with their fingers in their ears.
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Commented in Sleep Simulation: The Future of Sleep?
What I get from the article is mostly: less hours of sleep, is more hours of "being productive", as in: more hours of (wage) slave labor. I refuse to trade my hours of dreaming, resting and enjoying the best part of my life for some underpaying, high earning boss. Fuck. That. Shit.
Being more connected to our technology: shove that where the sun doesn't shine.
Then this:Sleeping is a big part of our lives, and it’s no secret that the less we sleep, the shorter our lifespan would be. But if we could find a way to reduce the amount of sleep we need, it would stand to reason that our lifespans would increase as a result.
Am I the only one who sees the utter bullshit of that quote? First stating a truth that if we sleep less our lifespan reduces and right after that trying to state that if "we" reduce our hours of sleep we'll increase our lifespan.
I admire the effort of sounding all utopian, but this pure bullcrap of an article tries to make us believe that we need to be more productive. Work work work work work, till you drop dead. In this world of overproduction, unequal divided resources, depression as one of the main diseases and also thanks to all that producing a more and more polluted world with a climate about to go haywire, yeah, let's sleep less and produce some more of that unneeded and unwanted shit.
Anyways, it's always nice to read that this kind of propaganda tries to manipulate us towards a dystopian world masquerading it as some sort of paradise.
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Commented in Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines
The coincedence serves the politicians and media quite well in their scapegoating countries for everything that's going wrong in this beautiful world. ;-)
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Commented in They built their businesses on Instagram. Then the platform changed
In the article it says there is a big push to video such as Instagram Reels, which is not always what viewers want. I think too many social media platforms are trying to copy TikTok and prioritize video, but if people want video they are already on TikTok anyway. The reason they're going to Instagram isn't for video. It's the same with Pinterest - it's trying to prioritize Idea Pins, which are videos, but I'm not on there to watch videos (if I was, I'd just use TikTok instead). So it's really frustrating trying to "dodge" the videos on Pinterest, and I suspect it's the same with Instagram.
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Commented in TikTok is "unacceptable security risk" and should be removed from app stores, says FCC
Probably just as heinous and/or dubious as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other American social media outlets.
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Isn't the internet always social and depending on interaction? What's not to like about social media are monopolies of the keyplayers, I think. And I question, for years, the amount of users those keyplayers announce they have. More users mean more advertisement income and reason enough to add a little spice to the actual numbers. The longer I am not using Instagram, Facebook and so on, the more I RE-discover the actual internet with a lot of "substitutes" to the mainstream outlets. And good heavens, there are actual sites that function and blossom without any algorithms or other beatmakers. ;-) Even way better technologies, as in peer-to-peer distributed sites and content or, hold on for this one, actual ad free websites that make a profit by paying their users and taking their (fair) share of the tokens that are traded (Odysee).
The big ass monopolies are on their way down, I guess, just by seeing how fast decentralisation is starting to get a grip on the internet. More and more tools (Signal) and sites like Pixelfed or Mastodon are popping up and growing really quickly. I like that a lot. It's never gonna be like "the old days" again, but there's definitely a renewed and really improved internet for all on its' way. From that point of view, and experience, Musk has made his worst investment to date by buying Twitter (with borrowed money and other forms of debt and by selling some of his shares of the companies he "founded" (read: bought out)).
Like with MySpace and others that are long gone, the current dominant players will deminish if they do not get a hold of that decentralisation and other technological developments, which they will be hesitant towards, since that also means a loss of power, besides income. It's like with banks versus crypto and trading apps: old versus new. And guess what? Old is already going down, kicking and screaming. But this will not go over really peacefully, we're talking about a lot of money and power here that is shifting towards new players , innovators (real ones) and visionaires that do not copycat old shit and call it theirs (I see you Microsoft and Apple). :-)
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Yeah,large swaths of the Internet are such a wasteland. I liked it way better before social media.
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Commented in Streaming Overload: Viewers Feel Overwhelmed by Too Many Choices, Nielsen Survey Finds
It's definetely an overload, yes. I visit regularly several websites for my binge-watch-cravings and they offer really a lot of series and films from all providers. The majority of the content quality correlates to the quality of the majority of the regular internet and is slightly better than the average social media outlet.
That being said, once every few weeks I play a game of chicken with a movie which I select by searching on numerical reviews. One out of five stars, less than 4 out of 10, you get the idea. The chicken part is about how long I can stand the movie until I turn it off, because of several things like acting quality, special effects, soundtrack, et cetera. -
Commented in Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
Unfortunately, all of the social media and media platforms that have sprung up to offer alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, etc, are either filled with political extremists who have been banned from other platforms or are dead. I like the idea of Substack and Minds and any other platform that allows creators to monetize their content easily. I just wish they weren't populated with the dregs of society.
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Commented in Texas is set to pass a new law banning Facebook from censoring conservatives
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Commented in McDonald's has run out of milkshakes in the UK
You forgot something. :-)
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Commented in YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month
They have a work around they are gradually unfurling world wide which makes add blockers useless. I copy the url of what I want to watch,plop it down in the media window on a website,hit review,watch the video,which won't have the ad at the start,then delete the whole thing.
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Commented in Biden to donate 500 million Pfizer doses, urge others to join in
So Pfizer is only getting $7 a dose?
Doesn't square with media reports of $19.50 a dose in the US and $30 a dose in Israel.
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Commented in FBI: Tennessee man paid hitman in Bitcoin to kill his wife
could you imagine if the media reported the specific currency used in each of the crimes they report?
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Commented in Science has fixed the worst part of psychedelic drugs usage for depression
Last year I have tried psychedelics for the first time in my life (I'm 51 years). Both out of curiosity and for getting insights LSD-25 (the classic), 1cp-LSD and mushrooms passed "the lab". I got my insights and it helped me with my attitude towards several things in life and a cascade of good things followed, courtesy of Mother Karma. But the thing is that the hallucinations were a real part of the entire experience and helped me understand the source of, for instance, my more or less depressed state of mind. Even the staring at the curtains and being really fascinated by the dance moves of the wrinkled up bedsheets helped me free my mind. And the colours! Oh, the colours were splendid and out of this world. Good thing it is not a drug that has habitual tendencies like alcohol (which I do not use for over six years) or cannabis (which I sorta quit a few months back, thanks to the psychedelic journies). Listening to music helped also boost all the wondrous things I was able to encounter during the sessions.
Taking away the hallucinations is not helping with the healing qualities of those glorious chemical compounds. Having a bad trip has mainly to do with the settings you have the trip in and with the sources of whatever you're trying to deal with IMHO. For instance: having babbling nurses and analyzing doctors around you won't really do any good to the effectiveness, I'd say. Also, having hallucinations helps you discover your true potentials and, believe me, is just worth undergoing it. Every trip, before ingesting the tab or capsule I gave myself a hug and told myself: "Whatever you see, hear or encounter, is you with the help of what you're about to take. And I will love that to its' full extent." Also: I did the trips alone, no disturbances, phone turned off, social media was forbidden, no communication but myself and the thoughts.
Researching these medicines is very good and will help a lot of people, I'm so sure about that, but please: healing is a fun experience, the visuals and silly stare downs of the carpet and wallpaper could make one wonder about what we don't see or forgot to look at. Anyway, let's see if those doctors and researchers will get that part. It might help if they tripped themselves before they started researching. It would save a lot of implants in those poor mice.