scott worthington

musician, soccer fan, cat servant
bassist (🎻&🎸), composer, improvisor
classical/jazz/weird/normal

[scott worthington @stwbass]

this rules https://t.co/loFCZDAc6b

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ok I feel 3% better about the world cup prices (i.e. still feel 97% bad about world cup prices)

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Game 3, NBA Finals, Madison Square Garden.

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@MorePerfectUS @FOX4 cc @TheFIREorg

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...descending further into my irrelevant and irreverent cave...

[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

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The societal trend I’m most worried about these days is also one receiving very little attention from policymakers, most of whom would rather talk about anything other than schools.

graphic via @nytimes

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upon further review, I'm 99% sure Chat GPT wrote those responses...

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very surprised how many students are responding to a prompt that they previously thought jazz was slow, chill, relaxing, etc.

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I am biased in this case, but a 6 minute long VAR pause is just too long

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this guy's so good he should try his hand at batting too just for fun😂😝🤣

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

Dominance from Shohei.

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martinez golazo 🚀⚽😮

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*tudor 😭

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refreshing twitter to see if spurs fired frank yet 😬

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after scrolling, I am beginning to wonder if the person/people that run quotenietzsche have ever in fact read nietzsche

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this is really great, because it's not a Nietzsche quote

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love the internet where people make accounts called "quotenietzsche," use that account to say something is said by nietzsche, but in fact do not quote nietzsche

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@TalkSoccer @LAFC @InterMiamiCF @AppleTV I did it today just like every home game. you're the best! wish it worked for away games too

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers.
https://t.co/L73hEeNoPH

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@agoodjuan as an angel city DP

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we're back 🥳

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night before a new lecture class not a great night for the desktop power supply to fail...