Friendly reminder that some of us have no idea who the questionable characters of the fandom are. And To be honest I donβt think I care to know, way too much negativity there. I just came here to support WHβs career not get sidetracked by hate π°π
#BestOfWonho2019
Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, letβs remember they oversaw:
- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.
- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.
- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.
- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.
- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final
- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.
Lee Dong Wook is going viral after saying he wants a wife whoβs comfortable spending his money because he has enough for both of them as long as sheβs passionate about her profession. ππ₯Ή
And the way the other guy casually blurted out, βA sexy wife.β ππ π
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Out of all the countries in this entire world, this is who you choose? ππ«
Apple just announced the iPhone 17e featuring the C1X modem, a chip developed and engineered in Israel. While the world witnesses the starvation, the torture, and the systematic murder of an entire people, Apple chooses to deepen its ties and investment in a state committing genocide.
Do the lives of women, children, and babies mean nothing to you, @Apple? ποΈπ Your "innovation" is built on the back of a regime carrying out unspeakable atrocities.
It is time to take a stand. We cannot fund this. We cannot look the other way while our tech dollars support the destruction of human life!
CALL TO ACTION: π’ BOYCOTT APPLE
π’ Do not upgrade. Do not buy!
π’ Demand that Apple divest from apartheid and genocide!
Humanity over hardware. βπ΅πΈ #BoycottApple #iPhone17e #FreePalestine #EthicsOverProfit #AppleGenocide @Apple@applenws@theapplehub #IsraellsAGlobalPeaceThereat #IsraelIsATerroristState #IsraeliNewNazism #IsraelisGenocidalEntity #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelisParasite #Apple #JewishTerrorisim
If you use TikTok, you should read this once.
In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a copy.
What was inside was TikTok's own engineers, in their own words, describing what their app does to a human brain.
Not a critic's brain. Yours.
Here is what they wrote down.
β TikTok ran the math on how long it takes to develop "compulsive use" of the app. The number is 260 videos. With 8-second videos played in rapid-fire succession, that works out to roughly 35 minutes. The company's internal documents call this the compulsive-use threshold.
β TikTok's own research describes what compulsive use causes: "diminished analytical ability, impaired memory, contextual reasoning, conversational depth, empathy, and heightened anxiety." That is not a quote from a critic. That is TikTok's own language, in its own internal documents.
β A team inside the company called "TikTank" wrote in an internal report that compulsive use on the platform was "rampant."
β After 30 minutes of continuous use in one sitting, the company's own documents state that users are placed into "filter bubbles" β algorithmic loops the user did not choose and cannot easily escape.
Then there is the screen-time tool β the one TikTok publicly markets as proof it cares.
β TikTok ran an experiment on the 60-minute screen-time prompt. Daily teen usage dropped from 108.5 minutes to 107. A reduction of 1.5 minutes.
β Internally, the screen-time tool was not measured by whether it reduced screen time. Its top success metric, in writing, was "improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage."
β A project manager wrote in internal chat: "Our goal is not to reduce the time spent." Another employee added that the goal was "to contribute to daily active users and retention."
β A TikTok executive approved the screen-time feature only on the condition that its impact on the company's "core metrics" was minimal. The lawsuit alleges the company planned to "revisit the design" if the tool ever reduced usage by more than 10%.
The "Are you still scrolling?" break videos? An executive admitted in an internal meeting they were "useful talking points" for lawmakers, but "not altogether effective."
Then there is the algorithm itself.
β An internal report flagged that the For You feed was showing what the company called "a high volume of not attractive subjects." TikTok then retooled the algorithm to suppress those users. Kentucky authorities wrote: "By changing the TikTok algorithm to show fewer 'not attractive subjects' in the For You feed, [TikTok] took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users."
That sentence is the entire pitch of the platform, said out loud.
β Internally, TikTok also acknowledged that its publicly reported content moderation metrics were "mostly misleading," because they only measured the content the company successfully moderated β never the content it missed.
Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case.
The company knows the addiction threshold. The company measured it. The company ranked engagement over mental health in writing. The company built a screen-time tool whose internal success metric was PR. The company suppressed people it deemed unattractive to keep you scrolling. The company called its own moderation numbers misleading.
None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist's interpretation. This is a court filing. The documents are TikTok's. The words are TikTok's. The math is TikTok's.
The 14 state attorneys general who signed onto this lawsuit aren't fringe activists. They're a bipartisan coalition.
Sources at the bottom: NPR, CNN, AP, Mashable, OPB, The Independent. All citing the same accidentally-unsealed Kentucky filing from October 11, 2024.
The next time the company tells you it cares about your wellbeing β the screen-time prompts, the break videos, the safety features, the careful PR statements β remember that its own engineers wrote down, in court-admissible language, that the safeguards were never meant to work.
The app is not broken.
It is performing exactly as designed.
You were the spec.