Aside from this clearly being a reactionary decision from Elon to prevent getting roasted with screenshots every time he likes nazi tweets, this also appears like a convenient way to obscure the fact that certain tweets with a large number of likes are being artificially juiced by bot accounts. Just another day on X, the best place for fake news, ragebait, and forced memes. It's honestly impressive how he's managed to fumble the platform this bad.
>this also appears like a convenient way to obscure the fact that certain tweets with a large number of likes are being artificially juiced by bot accounts
I'm not sure. You will (AFAIU) still able to check who liked a particular tweet, so you can check suspicious tweets for bot activity. But you won't be able to pivot and check which tweets were liked by a (suspected) bot account.
It's bad day for transparency, but this is not completely unlike other platforms (for example: I can't check the list of google docs you have access to, but I can check a list of people who have access to the google doc I have opened)
I wasn't suggesting the like count would be hidden, but the ability to click into the like count underneath the post to see the list of users that liked the tweet. The article isn't entirely clear on if this feature would be disabled once user likes get privated, but I don't see why they would make the effort to do this in the first place if one could still see the users that liked an 'edgy' tweet anyway.
My read is that TV (or 'entertainment' as we've come to know it since the cultural explosion of television) still requires artists and/or professionals with some form of skills/vision in order to be made, but is ultimately produced by and for the enrichment of corporate giants at the end of the day. Under that system, works can still potentially be made which satisfy the interests of the artist, the corporation, and the consumer (and everywhere in between). The transition to the distraction economy (e.g., TikTok but more generally 'content' as we've come to know in the last decade or so) seeks to remove the pesky artists and professionals from the equation, and tighten the corporations' collective grip around the consumers' attention to the point that the constant use of their product is less of a choice, but more of a compulsion (or as the author states more plainly, addiction) to which there is little alternative thanks to the current landscape of culture at large essentially now being contained within a handful of apps.
To each their own I guess, but in my opinion one of these media forms has much more potential for deep quality. I have never seen a TikTok video that left a lasting impression on me, or I was compelled to rewatch years later. I would be shocked if anyone has…
You wouldn't even if there weren't so many new ones, it's low quality, highly derivative content. Even if new TikTok videos were banned, no one would go back and watch the old ones as they have no lasting value.
Think it just depends. If they're, you know, writing a little sketch or something that fits into the constraints of the format, that's obviously more artful than cutting out a 15 second funny Family Guy clip.
But I think the bigger issue is that these platforms actually incentivize creators to conform to their formats. Look at the weird little "genres" that have popped out of TikTok / YouTube Shorts / Instagram, like short videos of some (usually stupid) "tool hack". These kinds of things do numbers because they're exactly what the article describes - a 15 second rush of "interesting."
+1 for international orders, would love to get notified once that goes live. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a shopping cart to check out with multiple items at once, even if they're all from the same seller. Suppose that's not a big deal yet until I'm actually able to get orders shipped to USA, though. Good looks so far, very promising stuff!
Absolutely! I'll prioritize working on the shopping cart soon.
Thanks for your interest! To stay updated, the best way is to create an account. Once international shipments become available, I'll send an email to everyone since it's a major development.
You could always try making some music with mobile DAW/synthesizer/audio sampler apps. Or play around with photography and graphic design apps. Or get good at chess.
It's ironic that as a result of previous generations of the USA being so terminally car-pilled, the "scenery" of most American towns/destinations have slowly transformed into bland, ugly parking lots as far as the eye can see.
Of course, the generations that did this will deny they had any hand in it, and suck it up to their children (you know, the ones they raised apparently) are lazy, sheltered (by who I wonder), etc etc.
In this instance, the risks to be worried about is far more than just cancer. And it isn't exactly comparable to a career in a vinyl chloride factory because factories don't typically have these production chemicals ablaze and mixed with whatever else was in the train wreckage, seeping into the surrounding earth, water and air. Before even speculating on the undetermined adverse health effects of this event in the long term, the immediate impact of this environmental disaster should warrant a mandatory evacuation and corporate accountability.
Before writing any code, you'll probably want to lobby the government to completely overhaul the broken copyright and DMCA laws first. Then design the hosting around a decentralized infrastructure like Peertube.
