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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I’m glad someone else realized this too.

    I realized something, ever since 2016 we have been trained by the media to constantly be outrage over words that may never become actions.

    So now I only care if an action is made. All this “news” about trolls trolling the world is just a big nothing burger that you don’t need to know unless you actually work in politics.

    I would go as far as to say it should become a rule on some news subs that a controversial figure saying something controversial is not news.









  • Pretty good article, this stood out for me:

    Something about George Romero’s 1978 film about doomed survivors riding out the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall feels resonant today as I look across Meta’s suite of AI-created profiles. The movie’s blue-skinned corpses don’t know they’re dead. They just wander through the shopping center on autopilot, looking for something new to consume.

    That’s how many of our social media spaces feel now. Digital town squares populated by undead posters, zombies spouting lines they learned from an LLM, the digested material from decades of the internet spewed back at the audience. That’s what Meta is selling now.