Dilla Taunt

A person who claims an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

"...and I can't understand why I'm so fucking thirsty all the time"

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@CTVNews tell that to the Epstein class.

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@JESnowden It was all downhill once sherdog got sold off, imo. Respects to @TheSherdoggy @TheSavageTruth and the rest of that crew.....including the g.o.a.t caller @BrandonfrmNJ and the o.g. intern turned betting czar @LucaFury . #RIPBreen. Those days were so fun/real

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

anyone using the new algo to sort X does not have a "follows" list anymore. who you follow becomes irrelevant and you just get spammed whatever an algo that is deliberately manipulating you to maximize engagement seconds thinks will make you into the best click monkey.

you will rapidly lose all perspective on frequency and how common a view is. click anything and you get more of it. "oh wow, look, everyone else is obsessed with medieval marmosets as well and they agree with me that this is the greatest threat to democracy the world has ever seen!"

it will turn you into a loon.

the "for you" algo is quite literally organized to make it impossible to see reality in any predictable form and will bury you in false signal frequency bias shift and rage and smugbait fractionation through content presentation structure.

this is not because that algo hates you, it doesn't. it's just trying to maximize your user seconds and to get you to view and click on ads but that optimization is not compatible with generating accurate worldviews about what is going on.

the beauty and genius of the original twitter was the reputation economy that underpinned it. you chose to follow those who you found insightful and credible. you curated your feed so that you got input from those you determined were worth listening to.

and critically, that choice was yours, not outsourced to the system.

the "for you" algo trashes this. it just spams you with "stuff i think you'll click on" not "the content of the people who earned your trust."

you're not "following" anyone. you're being fed content that you did not curate.

you're not seeking info, info is being used to seek your attention.

you can get off that hot mess and back to your own list by selecting "following" and then (critical) selecting "recent" so that you see the tweets in order and not (again) sorted by the algo.

that's the structure that made old twitter useful and that keeps you out of the content spirals of force fed clickbait.

really cannot recommend strenuously enough that folks flip back to it.

[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???

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

The blueprint is believing in yourself.

The cheat code is discipline and consistency.

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

Canada has a weird civilizational glitch where extreme restrictions on traditional vices like drinking and smoking exist right beside extreme permissiveness over radical progressive social decay.

24-hour taxpayer-funded crack pipe vending machines are normal but liquor stores shut down at 11pm. Anti-smoking laws are among the strictest on earth yet a doctor can legally euthanize you on the same day of your request.

Puberty blockers for kids are treated as progressive healthcare that needs to be more accessible while they throw up huge barriers to access nicotine pouches.

It’s the strangest inversion of priorities imaginable. Sometimes I think it’s a combination of Anglo Protestant moralism and bureaucratic socialism, but whatever the root cause, Canada manages to be simultaneously puritanical and nihilistic in a way that almost no other country is

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@lthomasnews The sport is trash. I say as this someone who consumed every single fight & analysis possible for years (UFC,SF,EliteXc,WEC,HDNET Fights).UFC started circling the drain yrs ago but I slogged through hoping it would improve. 2 years MMA free and don't feel like I'm missing a thing

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@VivaLaStool @Internetinvite @ForePlayPod @barstoolsports @spittinchiclets @ryanwhitney6 @bobdoessports Noun

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

I miss MMA but I'm so glad I stopped caring about/watching anything UFC. What a trash product.

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@JoeBuddenPod @JoeBudden why no @SoundCloud ?

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@JoeBuddenPod @JoeBudden Is uploading the pod to @SoundCloud not a thing anymore? would love to know what the reason is; best way to listen for me.

[Dilla Taunt @DillaTaunt]

@JoeBuddenPod whoever is in charge of uploading to @SoundCloud is slacking, again @JoeBudden

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Barely 1M Canadians have filed claims in the $500M #Loblaw bread price-fixing settlement.

That's it.

You could get $100 (est.)—deadline is Dec 12. Don’t leave money on the table...

Apply here: https://t.co/VYlui4d3RD

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

@TJDeSantis Teared up a bit hearing this again. The SRN was so important, thanks for all you guys did.

[Jason @JasonAmadi]

@TJDeSantis Yeah, I remember listening live, sending in emails, chatting with @LucaFury, listening to @BrandonfrmNJ call in to pop himself by mentioning an obscure early 00s fighter like it was yesterday. This hurts.

[Stamkos96 @Stamkos96]

i miss sherdog radio so much

they were so ahead of there time. live call in mma radio 20 years ago 5 days a week.

id seriously pay money for the full archive of the jordan breen show

[Ian @ToonIanB]

Jordan Breen was the best mind I’ve seen in the MMA media world. When I first got in to Sherdog, his breakdowns of fights on their radio network was elite even back then.

[Frank Fuhrig @FrankFuhrig]

@goldberg_ebooks Hey, @TJDeSantis, sincerest condolences. Would you be able to post the theme song from Breen's, or just play it on your Rounds podcast? Would a Sherdog Radio reunion to memorialize Jordan be feasible?

[Brandon Frm NJ @BrandonfrmNJ]

One of the smartest most unique personalities in the mma sphere. He should be thriving right now in this space. He will be missed

[Greg Savage @TheSavageTruth]

Seems like yesterday. I’ve missed you for a while now, hope you finally found peace brother. Rest easy.