Firebrand
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Comment · 3 years ago
Never truly appreciated how many niche porn subreddits with significant following there were until I started watching the stream.
Comment · 3 years ago
Users affected by this still have until March 6 to file a claim, in case anyone was unaware of the class action settlement:
https://www.keyboardsettlement.com
Don’t miss your paycheck!
Comment · 3 years ago
The only new Mac products last year were the M2 MacBook Air and the Studio. Everything else for sale was at least a year old.
Comment · 3 years ago
TikTok’s popularity is already waning in the U.S. Installs of the app are down 33% YoY in November, from 6.6MM in November '21 to 4.5MM in November '22. -0.3% YoY worldwide.
In fact, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outgrew TikTok and even YouTube during this period:
https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1602045164016615428?...
Comment · 3 years ago
Aaron Sorkin made the most concise counterargument to this in Steve’s biopic:
“Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.”
Comment · 3 years ago
Bytedance even publicly denounced Tencent last year after a VP compared Douyin’s content to pig feed:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3136168/tiktok-ow...
It’s all the same crap being served.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve seen Twitter uproars against Google and LinkedIn employees who have uploaded similar content:
https://twitter.com/coldhealing/status/1561022408206729216
A lot of the lavish perks they’ve showed have been part of these companies since these two young women were toddlers. It’s privilege discourse meeting the cringey nature of TikTok.