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Mild is rarely memorable.

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Whatever you do, Freddie Mercury probably did it better.

[Jake @JakeWally]

Pacino in The Insider yelling at Bari Weiss “ARE YOU A BUSINESSWOMAN OR A NEWSWOMAN?!” but she doesn’t really get the question so she just asks him if trans women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports

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@KelsWingert Take it back!

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Today would be a good day for the @PortolaFestival lineup to drop

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Find me the person that looks forward to a He-Man movie and thinks it will be better than Jupiter Rising

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@MB_EjectEject Is that 7,820 the total number of safe ejections that have occurred using your product?

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"When nobody knows what’s actually popular, the appearance of popularity matters more than popularity itself."

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

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

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wow great news guys. there's a new Drake album. i will rush out to listen to that just as quickly as i have for every other album he's released.

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@ericprydz One *double LP?

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@ericprydz Expand to 8 and make it a double LP?

Side note: can we get the Pryda - Everyday of My Life ID coming up here? Been a LONG time! Wouldn't hate the UMF 2016 IF either...

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Little Daba and Maxwell, sharing a morning hello!

Maxwell is the most popular member of our Nursery herd. Because he is blind – the result of a congenital eye condition – he has a forever home with us and his own spacious boma to lord over. (Black rhinos are solitary by nature and very territorial.)

But with that said, Max has appointed visiting hours. When he hears the elephants mobilising in the morning, he waits by his gate to receive them as they head into the forest. Very often, there is a queue waiting to have their moment with the black rhino. On this particular day, lucky little Daba got the first slot!

Meet Max and support him through an adoption: https://t.co/cFZxQPeR0i

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Anjuna should rope in @FerryCorsten to b2b with @marshmusician for ABGT700 at the Gorge in September. Just sayin, @Anjunabeats @Anjunadeep @aboveandbeyond

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Viewership for national exclusive MLB games through the first weekend of May is 2.28 million, a +44% increase over last year and the best start in 9 years

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@PitchingNinja This is prime use of the intarwebs. 10/10 no notes.

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@shishujenn That's the recipe for a perfect evening

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We need more large-scale high-quality disaster flicks. Deep Impact and Armageddon are both pretty close to being very good.

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@annabesss Does it come in black with white text? Men's sizing.

[Chris Stephens @ChrisStephensMD]

My man

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Why didn't anyone tell me Creepy Nuts were such a vibe?

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Sarandon wknd 1
Davis wknd 2

Sure