O'Neil Henry

Producer, Writer, Podcast Boi ™️ - OHP Productions and general funnyman @TriplePCast @YMBWPodcast

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@VanLathan not sure if y’all are still filming Higher Learning but peep the Johnathan Major news 👀

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@VanLathan What browser you using brother?

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@jowrotethis Sorry Jo but Sean and Mal were COOKING y’all this draft. Respect to the vamps tho.

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

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[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it.

Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.

In most cases, this is fairly straightforward...the service your speech provides for the platform is the capture and retention of attention. Whatever speech is better at capturing and retaining attention is the speech that will be amplified regardless of truth, care, or consequence. In many cases, it is amplified specifically because it does not place any value on truth or consequence.

In an era defined by these platforms, that has resulted in an information economy (and a politics) driven almost entirely by how good something is at capturing and retaining attention. This effect can even do this to our minds, re-forming our thought processes to weight whether a thought would grab attention over whether it is true.

The fact that this is done solely for profit does not change that it is a perversion of your speech. It does not just change how you understand reality, it changes how you engage with that reality. When we know that our speech will be silenced if it does not capture and hold attention, we alter our behavior to say only the most attention-grabbing things.

If the medium is the message, then the message of algorithmic content platforms is not expression or connection or freedom. It is salience above all else.

This is what is happening to us on these platforms. They cannot behave any other way.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

I Love Boosters.
In Theaters May 22nd.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Everyone is missing the point of this tweet. The problem isn’t that someone had an opinion you don’t like, it’s that the X algorithm promoted it to the top of the pile even though it got 7 likes and 20 replies. Everyone knows that that signal means “this tweet will make people angry” and X’s response to that is “yes, good. Put it at the top.”

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@VanLathan Kanye West will return…

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@hankgreen @NRSC Just realized who this is from. What do we do? These are people with immense control over our lives and livelihood: and. They’re. Just. LYING.

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@meganswoo Not only of the time but extremely prescient. Dear God, how much more art will be soiled by these fucking culture wars…

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@tuffymkgee @KyleKulinski We’ll circle back, but we get the rest of 2025 to be unempathetic.

I mean, seriously, there should be NO consequences for your actions? What we’re asking for you to do now is have some empathy for those of us who are currently suffering for Y’ALL’S actions.

Then we’ll kumbaya.

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@MarkusOReallius @ThomasMHern @ACTBrigitte Yes…? It’s like, his first gift to us? When God made Eve, he wasn’t just making Adam a wife, he was making another human. One that was different, but still in his image.

One that was DIFFERENT, but still in his image.

One that was DIFFERENT, but STILL in his image.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Man.

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@TheKidLaw_ Emailed you!

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@VanLathan No one asked for this but I need your take: is it possible Shedeur doesn’t develop into an all-time QB, but becomes a fantastic Defensive coach?

I gotta make the drop for my fantasy football team, but the optics are bad….

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

I’m glad that I’ve at least been consistent.

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

“Don’t speak ill of the dead” my ASS

I’ll talk shit about Hitler any time and I’m going to talk plenty of shit about this little piss baby too.

#RushLimbaughIsDead #RestInHellRush #RestInPiss

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@libsoftiktok He died the way he said was acceptable 🤭

Don’t worry though! Nothing will change because he died for nothing 👍🏽

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

I’m back to be a menace for a bit

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@hankgreen @counterconor Get him Hank

[O'Neil Henry @oneilyy12]

@SeanFennessey @TheBigPic Hottest 🔥 Spiciest 🔥Burning 🔥Take for you guys:

Adam Driver will be to Gen Alpha what Nic Cage is to Gen Z.

Now he will probably need to take on another memorable children’s film role, like Nic Cage did for those bonds to be tighter, but that’s currently where he lives IMO