actually, the reasoning behind this is a lot more interesting and goes a lot further than like, for instance, how midwesterners tend to say "cran" instead of "cray-on".
read below and i'll let you know everything there is to know behind this interesting regional dialect!🧵1/?
I am coming back to X because of this honestly wild thing that just happened.
Some company took my old "The Amazing World of Gumball" Fanart and put it onto their product???
The heck am I supposed to do now? I don't even know if there is a possible way to do anything xOx
10 years ago if I needed to find an individual who provided a specific or niche service, I could just Google it and find someone's dopey little personal website and I'd give them a call.
Now for every niche service there's 5 different aggregate websites with accompanying app I have to sign up for and log-in to and verify my e-mail with and receive a text code and fill out a 10 minute form about what I'm looking for specifically and I have to use their cursed little in-app chat to contact anyone and the demonic website/app ends up taking 25% commission every time I book someone and all the top matches are not individuals anyway but organizations where THEY have their own fucking system for soullessly matching me with one of their employees and they'll endlessly text me trying to convince me that they're the perfect fit for me if I'm looking for a DIFFERENT service I didn't ask for in the fucking 10 minute form THEY asked me to fill out! And all I get out of this whole tired ordeal is more spam in my inbox.
Even if I find names of people I want to contact on these sinful websites and then I Google them to reach out personally I end up finding nothing but their 17 OTHER listings on competing aggregate apps and/or their linkedin which I have to fucking personally deliver a vial of my DNA to some OTHER data company in order to verify my identity to and I'm just... so over all this.
I used to keep track of all of my log-ins and services I gave my personal data to and I simply cannot anymore. It's a deluge, a blight! I feel so stripped bare of my humanity and anytime I forget where I put my wallet when I'm leaving the house I think about how many hard drives in the world contain the supposedly private information I have so innocently and absentmindedly misplaced.
My body, my mind, and my spirit were not built for this! The days where technology was a tool with which to create for and connect to other humans are slipping away from me! For every phone call that is answered by a machine and every simple tool or device or appliance that I have to "register" to my phone app I lose precious, beautiful seconds of my one and only fleeting life! For every pin number, code, and login I must retain in my mind, a wisp of my soul is displaced to make room!
Humanity is so wonderful, so rich and so pure, it is no wonder that these things which lack it so desperately and aggressively try to steal it!
During the pandemic, the hospital I worked at sent out a phishing test announcing that masking was no longer mandatory on campus, and that we should click the link to learn more. Nobody clicked the link, everybody stopped masking, and they had to send out a panicked retraction
Google is using AI to censor & shape the web (and now YouTube) to its will.
Under the guise of “moderation”, Google penalizes creators whose content is competitive with its AI plans.
This is why Google destroyed many travel bloggers for example. So they could roll out AI travel planning features in the space they cleared.
They will claim they are going after spam, but actually they go after the most defenseless targets they can — small human indie creators who lack lawyers to fight back.
Then they replace them with Google’s AI slop. Already happened to many web creators with the “HCU”. And it’s starting to happen on YouTube!
When they get called out for clear abusive examples they’ll claim “we’re not perfect”. They’ll even apologize. But they won’t actually fix it.
I wrote to the FTC about it back it May (link in next tweet). What’s happening to YouTubers now follows the same pattern of conduct.
https://t.co/5fgl2HZNUc
Fun fact: the moment an ICE agent touches your security camera, they’ve basically tripped a legal landmine. Under Jacobsen and Jones, physically interfering with someone’s property without a warrant can count as both a seizure and a trespass. Courts call this a Fourth Amendment violation. Most people call it what it actually is: unlawful meddling with someone else’s stuff. Even the Supreme Court has said officers aren’t allowed to wander past the “knock and talk” boundary or manipulate objects like they're auditioning for a burglary crew (Jardines). So when an agent tilts your camera to hide their behavior, they’re not just being shady. They’re potentially nuking their own case, violating constitutional law, and handing your lawyer a gift-wrapped civil rights claim. Cute move, legally disastrous.
Sources
[1] Steptoe & Johnson LLP (2025). Judge holds that ICE workplace warrants must comply with the Fourth Amendment. https://t.co/VF2tooWKdo
[2] Cornell Law School – Legal Information Institute. “Fourth Amendment.” https://t.co/7ZSKQWFB9Z
[3] Arnold & Porter LLP (2025). “What To Do If ICE Shows Up: Legal Constraints on Agents Without Warrants.” https://t.co/uL3Hwzs6SS
[4] Blue to Gold (2024). “Covering Cameras During a Knock and Talk: Why It Violates the Fourth Amendment.” https://t.co/VaXJdwxoba
[5] Public Counsel (2025). “Guide to ICE Enforcement: Fourth Amendment Limits and Rights Inside the Home.” https://t.co/etVqx2LMkW
[6] DLG Learning Center. “Knock and Talks, Curtilage, and the Fourth Amendment.” https://t.co/e2XZ0aAyST
[7] Yale Law Journal. “The Lost ‘Effects’ of the Fourth Amendment.” https://t.co/Gt18fffQ0t
[8] Electronic Frontier Foundation (2025). “Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE.” https://t.co/VwAmS2h91T
seeing this literally hurts me physically I am not kidding
look how fast the program launched, and how quick it was to compile the code. what the fuck is happening to software