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[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones. It’s the phones.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this stuff is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

https://t.co/iD7kCAeJdk

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

the decline of third places is almost entirely fake in explaining why people hang out less. it's the phone and always available video entertainment. one thing this does is pulverize people with media telling them that there are structural causes for everything bad in their life

[Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols]

All the Luka stuff aside, the team that will draft Cooper Flagg already has three future Hall of Famers on it. The team picking No. 2 already has a generational player in Wemby and the reigning Rookie of the Year. This isn't the route to competitive balance.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

I mean…

[Nicolas-Tyrell Scott @iamntyrell]

It’s crazy how comfortable we’ve all gotten with non state surveillance. Capturing and posting someone’s texts to social media for commentary is quite literally insane

[Grace @gracecamille_]

David Foster Wallace. “In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I usually try not to post too hysterically because it's not strategically useful, but you really do need to admit that the completely hysterical anti-Trumpers were right about everything.

People are always attempting to sanewash Trump's latest idiocy, and it always fails.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

In 1981 this site would absolutely believe Reagan made a special phone call to get the hostages back that Carter was too weak to.

[F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco]

Genuinely: who wants this. I just straight up do not understand.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Almost nothing Andreesen says here is true. The CFPB has been backed by the Supreme Court and has saved billions for US consumers.
And it's sad to see 'populist' ex-Bernie backer Joe Rogan just credulously swallowing up this billionaire's self-serving, anti-regulation propaganda.

[Will @chillwobb]

@emilyebytx She’s a comedy writer, Emily… maybe sit your ass down and listen on this one.

[Will @chillwobb]

@_CorporateChris @clairetmars It’s about water bottle.

[Will @chillwobb]

Wow. Would have been a much better candidate for Jeremy Fragrance’s unofficial channels.

[schMax 🇩🇪🦅 @schmaxelio]

jeremy fragrance posted this on his official tiktok account

[Will @chillwobb]

Do people actually find this activity fun or are they all kind of pretending while side eyeing to make sure they react in the uniform way?

[Grosdoriane @Grosdoriane]

another one for the list

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The comments around this video are really interesting. A lot of right-wing folks—who I'd imagine are against government mandates—absolutely slobbering over a plan to get people to adhere to a government-spoon-fed "organic" diet.

Their only stable principle is: I don't like liberal-coded elite top-down authority, and I trust bottom-up, intuitive, common sense folks who also hate that top-down authority. Anything can be defended under this principle, even banning Ozempic and administering a national organic food procurement and distribution program aimed to feed people govt food and keep them from enjoying potato chips.

[Will @chillwobb]

Happy monthly “feed becomes 80% Elon Musk or his cronies despite hiding them every month” day to all who celebrate.

[Will @chillwobb]

Caitlin Clark continues rivalry with Kim Mulkey, DENIES theory of life at conception at :21.

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

Caitlin Clark signed an Indiana Fever fan’s baby 😅

(via @IndianaFever)