Comment Re:American influencers. I don't watch them !! (Score 1) 108
I am so glad that I don't follow 'influencers'. Of any nationality.
Comment Re:What I've been telling colleagues... (Score 1) 287
I've been calling it 'predictive typing on steroids.'
Comment Re: Really? (Score 1) 287
Funny, but the entire human population spends most of their time not "thinking."
And ingesting substances to help them "not thinking."
I guess that thinking ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Submission + - Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls 4
Nicholas Grayhame writes: The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app. Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas....
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe. An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria. ...
Donald Trump and several close associates were investigated for conspiracy or coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. Two of Trump’s campaign members were indicted. Certain content creators are paid for tweets that drive engagement on the site formerly known as Twitter, which gives them a financial incentive to cash in on the divisive nature of U.S. politics. For those in countries like Nigeria or Bangladesh, the American dollars paid by X for their work can make a big difference to their lives. X payouts are calculated on the basis of engagement from verified premium accounts with content on X.
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe. An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria.
Donald Trump and several close associates were investigated for conspiracy or coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. Two of Trump’s campaign members were indicted. Certain content creators are paid for tweets that drive engagement on the site formerly known as Twitter, which gives them a financial incentive to cash in on the divisive nature of U.S. politics. For those in countries like Nigeria or Bangladesh, the American dollars paid by X for their work can make a big difference to their lives. X payouts are calculated on the basis of engagement from verified premium accounts with content on X.
Comment Re:Learned something today (Score 1) 52
disproportionately harming the Asian community.
Yeah, I'm not getting this either. That's a lot of rice cookers going ever day to spike the usage that much.
Submission + - Elon Musk's Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire's Pee-Drinking Skills (mediaite.com)
fjo3 writes: After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.
But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.
But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.
Comment Re:Meanwhile in the USA (Score 1) 119
If they had the slightest fear of competition then they wouldn't take that risk because a competitor might work their way up in the cheaper markets and then jump into the more profitable ones, but since we don't enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest you can kiss that goodbye.
Winner of the longest sentence of the day award right here.
Comment This reads like the British royal family (Score 1) 40
The commoner's obsession with succession is like some kind of soap opera.
Just eat your own dogfood and put an AI in charge FFS.
Comment Re:It's about priorities (Score 1) 245
The same people pushing cursive are also pushing privatization and the elimination of higher education for everyone except a handful of the elite.
Bullshit. I wonder where you get this stuff?
Comment Re:World's fastest typist (Score 1) 245
Unless you are using a stenographers keyboard, I'm calling 100% BS on this comment. 240 wpm would put you in world record territory.
This is the internet. *Everything* is 100% BS.
Including what I'm saying right now.
Comment TLDR (Score 1) 98
You lost me at 'less people.'
Comment Re:Concerned about bandwidth? Use a tarpit (Score 1) 43
'Mailchannels' did this with good results.
Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 126
I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.
Go out to see a movie? That's just so funny.
Comment Re:It's too early to tell, really (Score 1) 126
Trump's hateboner for anything progressive won't stop the rest of the world from adopting new tech.
Hateboner for anything progressive - what a great phrase.
You are an artist!
Comment You've Seen Us Drive.... (Score 1) 38
Now watch us fly!
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