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You fucking just shared a version of the one picture that has a fedora and cigar photoshopped in like he’s the driving crooner from I think you should leave.
True but there’s for sure lots of confirmation bias happening too.
The picture here is an AI “enhancement” of a blurry picture. It’s fake, basically.
Yup, exactly where I am.
Ah so maybe the speculation is coming not directly from them but from the deranged fever swamps they’ve cultivated.
Yeah the Venezuela thing is probably right.
I saw this and then searched “resign” and like 75% of the results were responses to some MSW post I couldn’t see.
I say “am I to gather” because they blocked me a while back along with Seth Abramson and Sarah Kendzior for posting their names and being critical of them.
At what point are more or less conspiracy grift outlets like this gonna get called out on being full of shit all the time?
Lol am I to gather that Mueller She Wrote and the like are trying to convince people that Trump is going to resign tomorrow? Gimme every possible break, good grief.
(Laudatory)
Signaling the virtue of being a good soldier.
Like the only thing you can say against it is that the synth of it all wears a little worse than it could after these years, but it is truly great. And I love Storybook Love by Willy DeVille anchoring it.
I don’t even know much of their stuff besides the big ones, but I love it, and also the score for The Princess Bride (and the incorporation of Storybook Love by Willy DeVille, which rules).
“Sultans of Swing” rules but this reminds me that at every opportunity I need to remind people that “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most transcendent pop songs ever written.
I remember my buddy and I rocking out hard in my basement to What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
Strange Currencies fuckin rules. I don’t know if it’s my favorite but I wanted to pump it up and hadn’t seen anyone else mention it.
I painted it by hand at our local pottery place!
I have touched so much grass today you couldn’t even believe.
But the thing that complicates it is people pretty consistently rated their own situation as fine but thought everyone else’s sucked. Like if you aggregated the individual it was fine but if you aggregated people’s broad perceptions it was a depression.
I can accept that maybe that’s true but it really surprises me, and it makes me feel like the true mechanism, then, is media coverage.
Like one thing I think is probably true is that the rate of inflation is probably less salient in people’s minds than the price level.
Veggie burgers, grilled peaches, corn on the cob, potatoes.
As the Truffle Queen, I wish you a happy Labor Day.
Yeah, there’s use for video! I just resent that people want video to be for everything now.
Genuinely good point, though also there’s probably some craven proximity to power once Musk gained a disproportionate amount politically (this is maybe worse, to be clear).
And adults in the homes kids return to!
Genuinely one of the only ways to truly make sense of these types of sentiments is “I don’t care how many kids die as long as things are as nice as possible for the ones who survive.”
Sure, was using that as a shorthand, just like people were using prices as a shorthand for their other problems.
I got seduced by the polling version of this! I thought I had good reasons to doubt what polls were saying and I still kind of don’t understand why they seem to have wound up being accurate.
When it has to do with crime it’s a right wing thing mostly. When it had to do with prices it was just an across the board insistence that numbers aren’t real and I can only conclude that for varying reasons nobody *wanted* them to be real.
When it has to do with crime it’s a right wing thing mostly. When it had to do with prices it was just an across the board insistence that numbers aren’t real and I can only conclude that for varying reasons nobody *wanted* them to be real.
It appears for some reason (cowardice?) there are not enough other adults interested in a splash contest, but I have been offered an ex oficio spot as a judge of the kids’ contest, which is cool too.
I can
Ooh.
I don’t give a single fuck about production value or personalities or cute asides that tie in with other video topics. It’s not what I’m looking for in taking in information.
Maybe this makes me an old. Don’t give a shit. It sucks. And if all of the issues could be ironed out this would be a place I could accept targeted use of AI, in condensing and summarizing the content of a video to text.
I understand why it has happened but I loathe that everything is video now and I’m never gonna watch a half hour YouTube video to convey information I could read in three minutes.
Oh shit there might be another splash contest today. It’s on.
Honestly kind of
Same thing happened in college when at a frat party a couple of guys recognized me from having won the math bowl earlier that day.
Spending the last day at the pool club, and as I walked by some teens who had been at the Fourth of July splash contest I won, I heard them saying in hushed tones, “oh man, it’s him, guy’s a legend.”
Yeah, I should have been a little more specific but I think “as president” is an important sub question here too.
How many times in the last decade have we gone 6 days in a row without seeing Trump speaking on camera?
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social pointed this out, and like…his smile looks different than usual here right? Like strained?
Do you happen to have a pointer? I’m just kind of seeing these as I stumble on them.
Right, and in this picture it doesn’t appear there’s someone near him he’s talking to. This is not a camera and microphone shy man!
Like look at some point it’s gonna start being less convincing that every picture is capturing him at the same point in the middle of a sentence.
Not beating the “identical blank slack jawed stare” allegations.
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
Leaving depends on having alternatives that people didn’t comparably have at the early period of Twitter!
And Threads is difficult because it is all tied up with Facebook and instagram.
Or they’re all going to Mastodon and Spoutible, lol
Well first of all this isn’t the same metric as in the other chart, and second of all there wasn’t a Twitter competitor at the time Twitter was experiencing early growth.
I can see that you are interested in engaging this topic in extremely good faith. I almost can’t handle how good your faith is.
But the former needs more context! Is this abnormal for social media usage? It’s presented as though it is.
Cheerleader - Ivanka So-and-so - Don Jr What’s her face - Tiffany The Ugly One - Eric
Cheerleader - Ivanka So-and-so - Don Jr What’s her face - Tiffany The Ugly One - Eric
what’s a simpson’s paradox between friends huh
I mean aside from Biden dropping out, some of them were built in (magnitude probably changed because of the election’s outcome, but they would have spiked there regardless).
Oh definitely to both. Being ready for and pouncing on Other Things is key.
Maybe! But most of those other spikes are more or less exogenous (Biden dropping out, election, inauguration), not directly to do with Musk.
Like people mention sports and that’s a big one. Ahead of MLB playoffs is there a way not just to point people toward starter packs of sports accounts, but help build out the posting infrastructure around it somehow?
I think Bluesky should be (probably is) looking to manufacture surges where they can, but more so to identify events that might come up to naturally juice interest and figure out how to capitalize on those.
Unless you lie and omit that the spike is a spike.
Oh it’s 100% leveling out, and I presume this is what any spike and falloff looks like.
I’m not profiting off of Bluesky and I don’t care on that level, I’d just like it to be able to do what it needs to survive/thrive, because I like it.
Some obscure clause leaves his household staff to Jeffrey Epstein.
Yeah, for me, I was on both for like 3 months between June and September 2023, and I don’t remember what it was, but something at that latter point made me just say fuck it and pull the plug, and I kind of had to trudge along here from 300 followers and do it all manually.
Written before Barron was born and cut out Eric as Trump’s second youngest child but now leaves Tiffany out in the cold.
(Not judging per se, just saying)
Oh I don’t think it will ever recreate anything close to twitter’s user base. But neither will Twitter. And Bluesky may have made itself synonymous enough with lefty scolding for enough of the potential user base to limit growth that way.
Rebuilding a following, or at least just a community, is kind of daunting, especially if you had a community in late 2023 that mostly jumped ship and you didn’t.
Yeah, combined with this. When we were closer to when people had more recently gotten off of Twitter, it was easier to point toward starter packs of people they might have known on Twitter. Now the ecosystems are more separate.
There are many of these “yeah yeah I know it’s bad for me” and then just keep right on doing it behaviors. Some people think it’ll be harder than it is to quit cold turkey, or go on twitter methodone.
Eyeballing it, it looks like we’re ~3-4x YoY for this metric. Probably not a bad place to be! And there were exogenous events that juiced it in between, but crucially, a bunch of those users have stuck around!
Psychologically addictive behavior. Like before I got off twitter I’d mean to and then sometimes before I realized it I would have picked up my phone and tapped into it and started scrolling like as muscle memory.
It seems like starting this chart at January 2025 is an enormous distortion and I don’t know why you’d misrepresent things that way. This isn’t “numbers aren’t real,” it’s “there are more numbers to the context here.”
Man, like I said. Starting that graph at January 2025 is more or less the same as lying.
Man, like I said. Starting that graph at January 2025 is more or less the same as lying.
Yeah, I was thinking the same, the drop looks like slow decay off of that November-January peak, and before that peak the steady state was probably way lower.
That is, I block a good bit, and that smooths the experience for me, but sometimes I misfire and block someone that mutuals quote a lot and I want to see the context and it’s hard to track down to reverse it.
And there’s no way to make the culture of the site such that people would *broadly* be nicer. The site has gotten big enough that widespread blocking doesn’t *break* it, but it still straddles the line of making it more pleasant for users and less usable for everyone else.
I’m not even convinced the latter argument is wrong, but the horse may have left the barn on it two whole years ago.
Anyway the comments are a fight between people denying numbers are real and people saying that we need to kill Twitter by making Bluesky more friendly to the people that most people were glad to leave behind on Twitter.
Like maybe 600k daily posters is not enough to get it there and we need to figure that out. But I think it’s quite likely that before November last year it was well below 600k.
The peaks at the left of these charts don’t represent the steady state before them. Very far from it.
Doesn’t look promising but I think we need a graph that starts in January of *last* year, not one that starts between the election and inauguration, to see what to compare 600k daily posters to.
Nice to see Bill Lawrence stretching out, casting Christa Miller opposite a McGinley.
Watched the first two episodes of Shrinking tonight. Good show, very funny. Nice to see Jason Segel again.
Like I guess you could build countercyclical partisan control of opposing institutions into things, but I’m sure there are dangers in codifying partisanship into a system.
Yeah, I mean all of the balancing of institutions in the world ain’t gonna work if the same partisans capture them all. Guess we’re working at forestalling the ability to do that?
Yeah I’m just like wondering if a system needs to build in that power of the purse means Congress directly appoints an independent person from the executive who manages the treasury. Or like DoJ is actually walled off from other branches somehow.
I’ve also got a drummer, getting a set for Christmas. We’ve got a piano, and three more kids that haven’t gotten to choosing instruments yet. There is time.
So this might be a dumb question but how much of the danger of seizure of executive power comes irreducibly from vesting it all under one guy, including the people acting on the power of the purse, people tasked with investigating the executive, etc?
Oh definitely, I just mean specifically the place that the person exercising executive power in our system has in the legislative process, like to tell the legislature “lol no thanks that’s not a law.”
By the legislature independently that is? Like the legislature makes a law and then hands it to the executive and says “here, execute this,” not “here, can this be law pretty please?”
Got my daughter a trumpet today, so you know, goodbye to ears.
That aside, how could anyone disagree with this? The legislative branch has to be supreme, because it makes law and the other branches are acting in reaction to law!