Jack Dorsey at ridiculous Senate hearing Lindsey Graham is running like a 4th grade reading class:
So the thing is, the issue is really the algorithms.
Zuckerberg: Ummmmmm I dunno that I would say the algorithms are the most important thing 🙄...
Zuck: “...we don’t design the product to be addictive... our goal is to help people connect.”
Sigh. Just sigh.
Whoa. Graham is arguing that social media should be regulated based on *health concerns* and their impact on health.
That’s ... interesting...
Zuck awkwardly arguing that calling for the beheading of US officials shouldn’t result in an automatic ban from FB.
Zuck admits they subjectively decide not to apply penalties for violations whenever they feel like it.
Lol Cornyn trying to argue the issue with social is there isn’t “enough speech” on the platforms 😂😂😑
Dear senators: please do not use the word “arouse” thx
This hearing is so profoundly bizarre. Like two hearings about different events shuffled together into one.
I mean you don’t even need to make a satire version. It’s already so weird.
Mike Lee is falsely and stupidly and disingenuously arguing the only violence he has heard of is by “antifa”.
Nope.
Desperate for some presidential clicks with this statement.
Lee now arguing the platforms are explicitly anti pro-life. What a smarmy and ridiculous argument to make.
Mike Lee wants the list of every account that has ever been penalized or removed for content violations 😂
This would be millions of accounts
Mike Lee, who is absurd, is now praising how smart and handsome Ben Sasse is, and how jealous he is of his beard — and nooooo I’m not kidding.
This is literally the most ridiculous human. He won’t gavel out the hearing for the vote and is going on and on about how social media is “state propaganda”
Can anyone prove Mike Lee and Ted Cruz aren’t actually the same person?
They should both just go do bad Shakespeare in community theaters. They would be happier.
Text from a friend on the Hill: “Ted Cruz grew a beard so people would stop thinking he was Mike Lee, duh”
Jack again: no really the issue is the algorithms. Seriously.
Not to be outdone, Josh Hawley is now talking about robber barons
Zuck: uhhhh I’m not sure if we have internal research on if FB is addictive
Jack: I mean of course any tools like these can encourage behaviors that can be addictive
Josh Hawley: we the republican champions of free market capitalism utopia who will defeat all socialism would also like all internal communications from your private company about how you assign basic corporate tasks
Honest to god do the republicans have any future presidential hopefuls would wouldn’t rather be a mega billionaire radio host?
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My new essay on the tidal movements of disinformation, how it shape the decision-making of POTUS, and how it all reminds me of the Insane Clown Posse telling everyone not to be crazy.
Lies and disinformation have tidal effects, and we need to understand that the president is being led by disinformation as much as he is driving it. /2
Manipulative information environments don’t just move in one direction. It’s more like a river with strong tidal influence, carrying narrative out to sea and back up the river where their impact on behavior and communities is more apparent and measurable /3
My dad is cooking dinner for a lady friend tonight (I know — ooooooooooooo)
My mother was a self-taught chef. So this whole “cooking” thing is new to him. But I introduced him to the simple-yet-fancy, easy-to-follow recipes of @inagarten, and he’s giving it a go.
So far...
...He’s learned to make a beet & orange salad, like a champ! He asks hilarious questions. Thank god for FaceTime. Explaining zesting is hard.
Btw he has ordered like all 12 Ina Garten cookbooks, because dad
Today he’s trying to do her famous filet Mignon with mushrooms/mustard
Today’s FaceTime questions so far:
- Which skillet to use? Skillet runway show, hilarious
- is this the right mushroom?
- which pan goes in the oven?
- how do I turn the oven on?
- are you sure it’s on?
- how do I turn it off?
- do the shallots have to go in the fridge?
POTUS has nothing else on sched today but is nonetheless late to Arlington National Cemetery to honor veterans on Veterans Day, keeping decorated veterans, their families, and others waiting in the rain, not understanding the significance of the day, hour, minute of commemoration
The party that Newt built has no leadership. It is captive to the whims of whichever mob is loudest — an energy cultivated and stoked by right wing media and ideologue billionaires. No one has been in charge for years.
This is why they almost all play along with this madness.
Perhaps the defining moment of the end of the Republican caucus was when Boehner was like “screw this, I’m outta here, y’all have fun with these Freedom caucus yay-hoos, I’m gonna go swill wine and invest in cannabis” and no one — literally no one — wanted his job. No one.
It’s like being the bus driver of a school bus with no steering wheel or brakes: you’re responsible for the safety of the people in the bus, but you’re not in control of it at all, you can just beg them to sit down and tell them to stop throwing boogers at you & each other
WARNING: Trumpworld — incl
stars Bannon, Flynn’s lawyer, Papadapoulos, Bin Laden’s daughter — are alleging a secret NSA program designed by Obama has been used to “switch 3% of votes”
None of this is real, nor does it make sense. They want Barr/“military intel” to investigate
Of course they are connecting it to the “Russia hoax” and the “Biden laptop from hell” because these f***ing people are the absolute g*****n worst
There is no coup. There is no electronic coup. These people will push an unstable POTUS to do something dangerous in coming weeks.
And hey, let’s make sure we understand this is an attack on the whole system, as they allege Democrats, Republican state legislatures, the intelligence community are all in on the plot/turning a blind eye to the “coup”