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    ‘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 🤔

    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 🤪

    ‘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.

    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.

    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'?

    I love random internet mysteries. Today I came across one while doomscrolling TikTok and it looks like a lot of other people are talking about it across the web too!

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    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.

    What Breaking Up Google’s Search Monopoly Could Do to AI

    Making it harder for Google to give its own products preferential treatment might not actually drive people away from the company’s search engine–but it could make them second-guess Gemini.

    Good! Gemini is still terrible. The fact that Google already has that “sprawling ecosystem and user base” means that they can slap it on all of their hardware and suddenly they look like a legit AI company with as many users as anyone else.

    Small scale is the best scale – Manu

    I can’t help myself thinking that I’m getting to the point where the bigger you are the more unappealing you become to my eyes.

    And that’s true not just for social media platforms but for creators and personalities in general. I’m an absolute nobody in this world. My blog’s not famous, my work doesn’t spread around. And that’s a good thing. Because it means I can still do the things that matter and that is taking the time to interact with every single person that gets in touch with me.

    I’ve been feeling this a lot lately too. You can have 1000+ followers somewhere and 99% of your interaction is Likes and Reblogs with little meaningful conversation, if any.

    Or you can have five followers and make five legitimate friends.

    Or maybe you have no idea how many followers you have, or how many people like your posts because you’re on something like Micro.blog. That’s been the most rewarding and engaging community I’ve ever found online, and it does it without internet points. Small indie web communities are where it’s at <3

    Walmart made a whole Christmas movie just to sell you stuff

    Walmart is linking up with Roku to release a full-length Christmas movie that will let viewers buy products on their TV during specific parts of the story

    The film is titled Jingle Bell Love and stars Joey McIntyre, a member of the boy band “New Kids on the Block…”

    What a fun spin on late stage capitalism!

    Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’

    I, for one, think it’s great the deer are taking traffic safety more seriously.

    Mark Zuckerberg meets Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

    “Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming Administration.”

    Well I guess the foreseeable future was about two months, eh?

    After facing significant backlash over the past few years, Zuckerberg has chosen to distance both himself and Meta from political involvement for the foreseeable future. - via ColumbiaOne, September 26, 2024

    Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years

    Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still aren’t sure why they do it.

    I love these guys. They’re just as intelligent as we are. Probably more so.

    Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students

    I fucking hate this. We’re making leaps and bounds in the wrong direction. Fuck DeWine.

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