X, the social media website formerly known as Twitter, stunned observers on Thursday when it posted a warning on links to an NPR story detailing former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week.The NPR report in question alleged a physical confrontation that too...
It's astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.
Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed "free speech absolutist" tries to censor it.
How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?
Fwiw, extras don’t have lines. If it weren’t a cameo(cause fame), he would be called a day player most likely. Larry Ellison is also apparently in there as himself somewhere.
That would require "journalist" to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where "outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts" is what passes for "news reporter" these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?
Every time I visit Twitter I feel a strong desire to watch the video or whatever I came for and get the fuck out of there.
It is impossible to look over someone’s profile; as far as I can tell I get it sorted in “random bullshit from 2018” order and there is no way to change it
It had weird pop ups that mean nothing. Sign up with Google! Sign up with Apple! Once you join X, you can respond which means you’re allowed to read the comments! Here is someone who thinks Covid isn’t real!
It feels like going to some kind of sketchy site to download the pirated software I am looking for and get the fuck out before something happens to my computer
I believe it was a musk move that changed the default sort order from "latest first" to "most engaged" as an intentional inconvenience to encourage users to make accounts and log in.
The most damage isn't even from the altercation their staff had with a worker. It's the picture he had taken of himself giving the thumbs up and smiling like the tone deaf, sheltered rich kid that he always has been while standing behind of the tomb of someone who died because of the absolute trainwreck of a negotiating job he did with the Taliban.
I’m tired of the superlatives, hyperbole, and exaggeration in the press.
It’s like that line from The Incredibles where Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” When everything is “destroyed, crushed, hammered,” nothing is.
The sensationalized language is useless and I can’t even be bothered to read how someone got “slammed”.
Also, this is his campaign staff at an event he attended. Can't recall what people thought was on the laptop, but Hunter Biden is not a part of Bidens campaign or presidency.