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[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

$MSTR - STRATEGY'S BITCOIN U-TURN:WSJ

For years, Michael Saylor urged investors to never sell bitcoin—famously saying, “Sell a kidney if you must, but keep the bitcoin.” Now, his company, Strategy, is preparing to sell part of its bitcoin holdings to remain solvent. The irony is hard to miss: Saylor still appears to have both kidneys.

[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

[Reece Wabara @ReeceWabara]

@GuthixMoney @mkftheone @jturnxr04 Being rich isn’t cool anymore in a world where everyone “appears” rich

What is cool, is owning brands people admire, and living in peace without the need to keep up appearance or be seen.

In my opinion.

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@mikefutia NANO

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@B2Edword51093 Free

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@MarnieCrypto @the_alphamind 🤣👌

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@liamcameron21 hahahahahaha

[Reece Wabara @ReeceWabara]

@TheTylerCurrier “Bench players talking like starters I hate it”

[Kevin Finnerty @timeimmemorial_]

The art The artist

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@realfrugalmogul You wouldn’t. You would just work from another country with a closer time zone that offers the same amenities / weather etc.

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@realfrugalmogul @realEstateTrent Lead from the front then. Landlords aren’t charities

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@MarnieCrypto FaceGym ftw

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@LiamGoodfellas @CalumBest The Glazers have given managers blank cheques for the last decade. It’s not their fault that the managers buy shit players.

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@CharIieParsons Obvious Allen wasn’t going to win unless he got the KO. Lol

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@crypto_steves @TheDegenesse Echo chamber my friend

[Joe Rogan @joerogan]

Since there's an issue with searching for this episode on YouTube here is the full podcast with Trump

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@joeroganhq “Vladimir, you’re not going in”

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@estrelasenorita 😂

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@Whotfismick

[Naval @naval]

Social approval is the enemy of clear thinking.