Elon Musk just posted the dumbest, most ignorant, and dishonest take in the history of social media.
Calling Hitler a 'leftist hardcore socialist' is brain-dead historical malpractice.
Hitler hated actual socialism. He called Marxism a Jewish conspiracy and said: 'Marxism is not Socialism.' He stole the word to scam workers.
Then he did this: banned socialist/communist parties, smashed unions, sent leftists to camps, and murdered the 'left-leaning' Nazis in the Night of the Long Knives. Economy? Kept private property and big business (Krupp, IG Farben) — just made them serve the Reich. Opposite of socialism.
'National Socialist' was marketing, you fucking clown. Historians call it far-right fascism for a reason: race, nation, hierarchy, anti-communism.
Elon Musk needs to stop embarrassing himself with TikTok history and read a fucking book.
An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.
Meet Mia Heller.
A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.
That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.
Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.
The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.
So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.
She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.
She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.
The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
Cutting Social Security would be literally, not metaphorically, literally be stealing earned money from American citizens.
Please let us hope that MAGA gets this news from some source other than Fox; otherwise, MAGA might agree to it without comprehending.
Market a all-time high is great news for Wall Street, big investors, and anyone with a fat 401(k). For the other 60-70% of Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck and don’t own meaningful stock, it changes exactly nothing about the price of eggs, ground beef, gas, rent, or insurance. Those are still crushing people. The stock market is not the economy. It’s a casino that rewards the already-wealthy and large corporations far more than it does the median worker. Jobs “booming” sounds nice until you look at real wages after inflation, labor force participation, and the quality of those jobs. Celebrating the Dow while the grocery bill is still double what it was a few years ago is tone-deaf. The “Golden Age” line is marketing. Most families are still waiting for it to show up in their bank account, not just on a Bloomberg terminal. 🇺🇸🔥
@qtcinderella@lilcoots It’s the hardest thing you’ll ever go through. for me it was like your soul getting ripped out. The only thing that helped was the passage of time. 🕊️