MJT

Author of The Other World, Up The Hill - a magical realism/sci-fi novel about fame and evil. Coming soon! More info 👇

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling

searched london to new york on a tuesday

$483

checked again 2 hours later

$512

next morning: $547

panicked and booked it

the guy sitting next to me paid $391

same seat, date + airline

$156 less

he searched once i searched 3 times

the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke

the seat doesnt have a price

you have a price

and it goes up EVERY time you show interest

couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier

asked him what happened to me

"you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back"

asked how to beat it

"most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying"

"so what actually works?"

"you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity"

the protocol he gave me:

VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase

use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies

one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice

book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against

if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network

"we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab"

$900 billion industry

the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug

its the entire business model

stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable

[MJT @mjtuckerr]

@BnBTianWeb3 @grok Count me in!

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Asian street food final boss.💀

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@AndrewBolis Canva

[MJT @mjtuckerr]

Currently reading #DeathsEnd by @liu_cixin. Absolutely loving it. Here are some AI generated images of the Space Cities from the bunker project.

[ZORO @_brinxinx]

A thread of the most hilarious people’s name you’d ever come across😭🤣😂

RIP Moe🤭

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Olympus Mons, located on Mars, is the second tallest mountain and largest volcano on any planet in the Solar System. It’s a shield volcano and it roughly covers an area of 300,000 km².

Due to the size and gentle slopes of Olympus Mons, an observer standing on the Martian surface would be unable to see its peak, because it'd be beyond the horizon. Similarly an observer near the summit wouldn't even see parts of Mars that aren't Olympus Mons.

[image: artist's impression]

[eve @eveforamerica]

A shark seems to save a turtle that has a rope wrapped around it.

This is incredible.

[Is he Slovenian? 🇦🇹 UTB @izzyslovenian]

Scary 😀 UTB

[MJT @mjtuckerr]

One of the good little things about Christmas is finding out how many people on LinkedIn have added you to their company's newsletter. Merry Unsubscribemas!

[Caveman @cavepaleo]

Still thinking about this indian study where they applied lard (pig oil) daily onto the scalp and completely reversed hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)

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Getting stuck in traffic is just punctuality leaving the body

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@HelloFreshUK I didn’t realise my okd address was on your system 🙊 how do we let the courier know the new one?

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@seeshespeak Haruki Murakami

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Mosquitoes and people that think it’s okay to hold conversations stood in a doorway

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

what would you delete?

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What’s the most interesting cult that’s still active today?

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@jonnydixon59 @ianmiles Let’s have a game,

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@charlienich99 Anything with animals on, but in general they just love a gouch on the sofa while the humans watch whatever

[MJT @mjtuckerr]

One thing that’s not talked about much: dogs love watching telly!