gru:Bz
Average millennial living life on the edge (of the Midwest). Probably too immature for Micro.blog but I like it here.
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’
Oxford University chose brain rot and the Macquarie Dictionary picked enshittification. I’m noticing a trend here 🤔
More on echo chambers
US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye
Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 different food products, according to a database by one environmental health group, including Pez, Peeps, Betty Crocker’s products and Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Like other food dyes, it adds nothing of nutritional value and is used instead to add color to foods for marketing purposes.
I’ve always thought adding dye to everything we eat is dumb. Like how they add red dye to raw meat to make it look like it’s bleeding. o.O
…also Crystal Pepsi tastes the same as regular Pepsi. I’ll die on this hill.
Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons
The video…immediately felt off: the diva’s lips didn’t match up with her words, she was swaying strangely, and her perfectly-coiffed blonde hair was moving in peculiar ways.
Plot twist: Mariah Carey has been a robot all along 🤪
New obsession: I got this box of natural gum the other day. It’s made with organic xylitol, chicle gum, spruce gum and a bunch of other organic ingredients that come from tree saps. I like the natural piney flavor and it’s supposedly really good for your teeth. Trees have so much to offer 😌
‘Hawk Tuah’ Creator Haliey Welch Criticized For Memecoin Launch After Price Crashes
I wondered why “hawk tuah” was trending across social media again. I didn’t even read this article; the title says it all. Literally every cryptocurrency ‘project’ follows the same process.
Build hype around a new coin which is literally just a copy of the 20,000 different ones that came before it.
Promise a bunch of people on twitter that you’ve locked your entire holdings for X amount of years because you have a long term vision for it. Tell everyone you haven’t sold a single coin and you don’t plan on it. At least not for the foreseeable future. You might have a staking plan to make your investors passive income until the end of time, maybe a NFT project or an airdrop in a year (or three) for all the diamond hand holders.
We’re all gonna make it!
You aren’t doing this to make a quick buck, you tell your investors. This is a real project with real world utility. It looks exactly the same as last week’s big meme coin but you promise everyone it’s truly unique and different. This is going to be the biggest transfer of wealth in history!!11!
Publish the official contract address so no one buys the wrong thing and gets scammed - remember - this is definitely not a scam but there are so many scammers out there who want to steal the generational wealth you’re about to make!
The coin goes live, the people who got in early dump on all the dipshits who are YOLOing their life savings into it, it crashes and you assure everyone that it’s all going to be fine. Crypto is a volatile market after all. We’re definitely all still going to make it, you just have to hold until the next phase of this cycle.
Sure, it’s possible to make a lot of money if you learn how to play the market and exploit the greater fool, but then you can do the same thing selling crack too.
You know, Micro.blog’s comment system has its quirks, but it’s by far my favorite. It’s so true to the social web with how you can comment on Micro.blog, Mastodon or Bluesky. Those are the only social networks I really care about and they’re all able to comment on my blog natively.
Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How
if you have upgraded to Firefox 133 you can manually enable tab groups to try it out. Just keep in mind it’s not enabled by default for a very good reason: it’s not finished!
I’ve wanted this for SO LONG. Might have to switch from Firefox ESR to try it out 👀
No, Trump Didn’t Nominate El Chapo as US Ambassador to Mexico
The fact that Snopes.com even felt the need to post this says a lot about the state of things 😅
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is much better without microtransactions
The original Pocket Camp has technically shut down, replaced by Pocket Camp Complete, which gets rid of all the in-app purchases in exchange for a one-time fee.
Love this! The microtransactions are the reason I couldn’t keep it installed on my phone for more than a day or two. It’s now $10 for the full game and it looks like it’ll go up to $20 next month, according to The Verge. Well worth the price in the name of de-enshittification.
I just sent a huge paragraph to Google’s feedback form at the bottom of the search results. I asked it very specifically to pull up an article on something I was having trouble finding. I thought it was an AI search box lmao that’s going to be some very confusing feedback for someone today.
Meta says it’s mistakenly removing too many posts
He said the company regrets aggressively removing posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee the decision was influenced by pressure from the Biden administration.
I assume he means misinformation on COVID? Of course he wants more conspiracy theories. Meta is in the business of rage and division as a service.
The company publicly apologized after its systems suppressed photos of President-elect Donald Trump surviving an attempted assassination.
How dare they remove propaganda that makes Trump look like he courageously took a bullet to the face in the fight against fake news and the commie liberals.
I’ve never had a bullet slightly graze my ear but I DID cut myself shaving the other day. I feel like an American hero.
Here’s a fun link: everyone Donald Trump pardoned between 2017 and 2021.
But yeah; the Hunter Biden thing is a TRAVESTY 🙄
This New Microsoft 365 Attack Can Break Through Your 2FA
The Rockstar 2FA phishing kit is a unique set of malicious tools that cybercriminals can purchase on the black market for $200. This kit gives the criminals everything they need to break into someone’s Microsoft 365 account, even if they have 2FA enabled.
I had to learn the hard way 2FA isn’t impenetrable. It’s always a good idea to use a password manager with obnoxiously long and unique random generated passwords. Never click on a link anywhere unless you’re 100% sure it’s legit. Anyone can fall for a phishing scam.
What's going on with ChatGPT and the name 'David Mayer'?
Biden’s Unpardonable Hypocrisy
The president vowed not to pardon his son Hunter—and then did so anyway.
What a stupid article from The Atlantic.
A willingness to evade the rule of law is the foundation of Donald Trump’s entire career in business and politics, not a nepotistic exception…Biden chose to prioritize his own feelings over the defense of his country.
What’s the point of this article? The rule of law obviously means fuck all now. Half of Trump’s cabinet are rapists… Trump himself is a fucking felon, 34 times over but he’s still about to be sworn in as president.
What is Brain rot, the Oxford University 2024 word of the year?
Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok? If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which has become the Oxford word of the year.
Sounds about right. The Macquarie Dictionary in Australia picked “Enshittification”. Sums up 2024 beautifully.
About those UFOs over DC...
Our house tried to kill us
I love when some random person follows me on social media and they have a blog linked in their bio. There’s so much out there you’d never find otherwise. This is the good deep web.