Positivity
In which Rat accedes to demands
Good time of day, humans!
Our frenemy Elon has «bigger and better» ideas again:
We have some suspicions there might be a measurement problem lurking underneath the headlines. Drawing humans isn’t our strong suit but we’ll try…
Unequivocally positive things like cheese and kittens have never had any problem spreading on the interwebs. Beyond that, one man’s «positive and entertaining» is other man’s fake news.
There’s also no reliable way to measure how much regrets someone has when closing the app. Perhaps they should make not one but two big exit buttons:
Related — written before the latest round of fireworks but still worth reading:
What is wrong with simply showing people posts from those whom they choose to "follow" or "subscribe" to? To me so many social media sites view their viewers as "victims" so they feel the need to "Rescue" them by manipulating what they see on their feeds. We could do with a lot less manipulation. They could simply just give us more control over what we see and stop trying to interfere to "save" us.
I find people with direct experience of the Soviet bloc and its aftermath tend to have a more realistic appraisal of power than people in the nominally liberal democracies. Not always, of course, but on the whole.
Power in flowery drag is still power and it follows its own meat-grinder logic. To the nominally liberal, that's a betrayal and they feel it personally. To the oligarchs, it's not personal; it's just business.