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  1. Maybe I'll go apply to #TikTok, and secure the american app and fix it. TikTok's current #algorithm is #insidious, I think designed to create #division and #radicalize people. Soon TikTok will tell me its #secrets, but I have to work on some #vulns system for a few weeks. Designing some brains for other important non-hobby smtask lol

    My initial #scans for #TikTok are #worrying and I was concerned after my initial scans. My #AI systems were flagging everything. The #content never scored high like other #socialmedia platforms. The content is worrying not just from #radical left or right. There is something non-biased about how it tries to #radicalize. Like it is learning based off #heuristics, like time spent hovering over a #videotile. This triggers an #alert, where you didn't interact but it detected the most likely #video. Then provided more #content. It also gives a heavy weight to #interactions. Which then changes the #algorithm and how it provides #content. None of this is really bad, it is trying to be helpfulful. What I find concerning is the videos it provides. Like a stream of #bothsides #content. Trying to figure you out and provide more content. There isn't even #educational poop on TikTok. So most of the content is #madness Lol

  2. With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
    the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.

    ⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
    🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.

    And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
    when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

    This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
    It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
    then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
    and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.

    There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
    uttered at this time, from that stage.
    #Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.

    They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.

    You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.

    Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.

    The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.

    It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.

    On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.

    MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.

    And disbelieving laughter could,
    I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed

    nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion

  3. With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
    the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.

    ⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
    🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.

    And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
    when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

    This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
    It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
    then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
    and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.

    There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
    uttered at this time, from that stage.
    #Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.

    They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.

    You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.

    Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.

    The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.

    It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.

    On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.

    MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.

    And disbelieving laughter could,
    I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed

    nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion

  4. With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
    the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.

    ⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
    🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.

    And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
    when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

    This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
    It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
    then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
    and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.

    There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
    uttered at this time, from that stage.
    #Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.

    They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.

    You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.

    Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.

    The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.

    It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.

    On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.

    MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.

    And disbelieving laughter could,
    I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed

    nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion

  5. With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
    the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.

    ⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
    🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.

    And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
    when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

    This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
    It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
    then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
    and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.

    There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
    uttered at this time, from that stage.
    #Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.

    They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.

    You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.

    Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.

    The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.

    It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.

    On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.

    MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.

    And disbelieving laughter could,
    I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed

    nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion