Twitter is going to give us full Dead Internet theory. The only real humans left on there see all the bots and can't tell them apart because the people are idiots in the first place.
That being said, Bluesky seems to be 30% bots when I rarely get on it, and maybe I'm just not seeing the daily active users, but my spouse just stopped checking it because nothing punching her cortisol button was happening there.
A straight up HTML ad for GEICO? That means I can't block it. Genius.
It's more prevalent in Latin America right now, but with the ease of being able to clone the voice of someone that posts on social media, virtual kidnappings are a thing that aren't going away. So the codeword is actually very relevant today.
Ah yes, the ol' Developing World Jobs Program method. This is just corruption in practice. The local entity is a means by "local investment" requirements mean hiring several locals and renting office space, all from people connected to the government. And when the party in power changes, everything moves and shuffles and starts over.
Fun fact: if you go to Clearview's website to try and opt out, you can only opt out of individual images. So either you collect every possible image of yourself from the internet, or you fail.
I did love the outright contradictions about COVID vaccines. But my cat snores like he breathes when he's awake. Dude is not well. But we knew that.
I'm in the same exact boat.
At some point when Google kills custom ROMs, everyone working on customs ROMs won't have anywhere else to go other than a Linux phone.
Oh, he's banking on society collapsing. That's what his Praxis network-state-city is about.
If you're not familiar with Curtis Yarvin, he's the crazy glue holding it all together. Get deep into that mess, it's what happens after Project 2025 runs out of ideas.
I bet this guy was selling AI images of a dragon playing the 3-cup-game with another dragon pretending to be in on it to build hype.
You can have them pull a little carriage if you spend about 3 months training them to deal with the sound behind them and harness.
I have family that tried this because they "gOt a gUd dEaL!" on a wagon with car tires (part of their apocalypse prepping stuff) and ended up getting a mule because none of their 3 horses could stand the wagon.
I thought that was only the dragons fucking cars thing.
Same.
Like.....exactly the same. Weird.