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Wonder chicken.

Good primer on peptides. And look at the mouthpiece. No wonder everybody ditched CNN for TikTok.

@OliLondonTV Reckon "too fat to fly" was just hot air. Clearly. How'd she get a boarding pass?

Plus sized influencer has to be carried off airplane by staff due to her weight. ‘Put yourself in my shoes and see if you can walk in it for an hour.’ The influencer describes herself as a ‘Body Positivity Advocate.’

@kroketrendang Koreans and Japanese are not similar. For one thing, Koreans tend to be way more aggro than Japanese. Japanese rarely start throwing haymakers after a nip of the sauce or initiate argy bargy with adjacent tables at the pub; but this is common among Koreans.

Groups that have high similarity but are really insecure about it: - Jews and Arabs - Indians and Pakistanis - Moroccans and Algerians - British and Irish - Koreans and Japanese - Greeks and Turks - Thai and Laotians - Vietnamese and Cambodians - Indonesians and Malaysians

@business But have learned that Doha Airport is only half-operational.

@business I was seeing fares for April that were quite reasonable. Not sure where you're culling your data from.

Travelers hoping for a drop in long-haul airfares are in for a brutal reality check. Ticket prices on major routes connecting Asia and Europe have surged up to 560% this month, and are likely to stay elevated as war-related disruptions ripple through the Persian Gulf, according to Alton Aviation Consultancy: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@jacobincambodia Forget about transiting via Hong Kong. Use another hub.

Hong Kong just made it a crime to refuse unlocking your phone As of March 23, Hong Kong police can demand passwords and decryption for any electronic device during a national security investigation. Refuse and you're looking at up to a year in prison and a HK$100,000 fine. Give a false password? Three years. The scope is wide. It covers anyone who knows the password or decryption method, not just the suspect. Journalists, lawyers, IT administrators, a spouse. No judicial authorization is required. Customs officers can also now seize materials deemed to carry "seditious intention" without anyone being arrested first. The U.S. Consulate issued a security alert yesterday warning American citizens that this applies to everyone in Hong Kong, including people just transiting through the airport. Hong Kong's security chief says these aren't new powers, just procedural improvements. Critics, including UK-based legal scholars, say the lack of any judicial oversight makes this disproportionate to any legitimate security aim.

@DoctorLemma "Searching for Sugarman" was a good doc.

In 1970, a Mexican-American musician named Sixto Rodriguez released an album in Detroit, USA that critics described as genius. It sold approximately six copies in his home country. His record label dropped him. He went back to work in construction and demolition, swinging a sledgehammer in the streets of Detroit for the next two decades. Somewhere across the ocean, a single copy of that album found its way into South Africa. Nobody knows exactly how. The most repeated story is that an American girl brought it over during a visit. Her friends copied it. Their friends copied it. Under the apartheid regime that ruled South Africa at the time, the country was almost entirely cut off from the outside world. No internet. Severe media censorship. International cultural boycotts. Music from other countries circulated almost entirely through bootleg copies passed hand to hand. Rodriguez's music spread through an entire generation of young South Africans that way. His anti-establishment lyrics became a quiet soundtrack to those who opposed apartheid. By the 1980s he was considered as significant as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. Half a million copies of his album are estimated to have been sold or copied across the country. Nobody knew anything about him. Rumours spread that he had died on stage. The most common version said he had set himself on fire in front of an audience. In the late 1990s, two fans in Cape Town, South Africa decided to find out if any of it was true. They searched the early internet. They followed a chain of contacts. They eventually found him. Sixto Rodriguez was alive. He was in Detroit. He had no telephone, no computer, and no idea that millions of people on the other side of the world knew every word of his songs. He was fifty-six years old. He flew to South Africa and played six sold-out concerts to crowds who had believed for twenty years that he was dead. When he walked on stage for the first time he said: "I'd like to thank you for keeping me alive." He passed away in August 2023. He was eighty years old.

@acteduweininger Could tell from just the way she carried herself that all that bad policy would follow. Quitting the scene to go make babies was the shrewdest thing she could do. She would have otherwise have had to answer for her crimes.

New Zealand is on track to run out of fuel in about three weeks. First world country btw. No fuel reserves. Refineries closed down under Jacinda Ardern. Deep sea oil exploration banned under Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern and covid lockdowns. Jacinda and covid.

@AutismCapital Fallen off because now widely known that big accounts are intel-agency affiliated.

Is it just us or has engagement platform wide on X fallen straight off of a cliff?

@yarpegleg It's like when Japan tries to do a khai dow.

Doesn’t meet Thai standards

Things seemed normal out last night in BKK. Plenty of traffic and drivers enjoying driving, no grimaces I could detect.

Got a good promo offer last night from Royal Pizza because I'd pitched Capone's earlier on opening another location in BKK. Used to be an RP regular, guess they wanted my business back.

@mrexits But, because "nobody walks in L.A." (or anywhere) there was rabid demand for the service.

Uber Pool might’ve been the most chaotic shit the tech industry ever shipped Was like $1.40 basically anywhere and it’d be you, a crackhead, an emo teenager, and a mother w a newborn in a 2007 ford focus

@straits_times Getting 37 million tourists rather than 40 million this year would not be a bad thing.

Thailand at risk of losing 3 million visitors if war persists bit.ly/4tcivm2

@WallStreetMav Or maybe he'll stay monetized but will get paid-out based on Malaysia's lower cost of living.

@WallStreetMav But Ian Miles Cheong, posting from Malaysia, exclusively on all things U.S., gets a pass because he's Deep State.

Nikita Bier just announced that X ad revenue sharing will be based on your home country or region. 10,000 monetized X accounts in India, Pakistan and Nigeria just lost their entire income.

@aakashgupta They can bring back a former CEO if they have to.

Radvinsky collected $701 million in dividends from OnlyFans in 2024. That’s $1.9 million per day. He earned more every 100 seconds than most creators on his platform earn in a year. He didn’t found OnlyFans. Tim Stokely did, in 2016, as a general subscription platform. Radvinsky bought 75% of the parent company in 2018 when it had 350,000 creators and $59 million in revenue. He immediately pivoted the platform toward explicit content, turning it into what one British filing called “a hive of pornography.” By 2024: 4.6 million creators, 305 million users, $7.2 billion in gross payments. He 24x’d the revenue in six years by doing the one thing the founder wouldn’t. The cause of death is where this gets hard to process. Radvinsky died of gastrointestinal cancer at 43. In 2024, he and his wife publicly backed a $23 million grant program for gastrointestinal cancer research. He donated to Memorial Sloan Kettering. He was fighting the disease privately the entire time he was funding research into it publicly. Nobody outside his family knew. The platform he leaves behind has 46 employees. Forty-six. That’s $30 million in revenue per employee, roughly 18x Google. The entire operation is a billing layer. Creators produce the content, users pay directly, OnlyFans takes 20%. No content team. No algorithm team. No ad sales. The cost structure is the payment rails and a skeleton moderation crew that Reuters found was letting some of the worst content sit for over a year before removal. And about that moderation. In 2021, OnlyFans announced it would ban sexually explicit content entirely, blaming JPMorgan Chase for refusing to process payments. Six days later they reversed course. The creators who built the platform lost followers and thousands in income during that week of chaos. Radvinsky kept the porn, kept the 20% cut, and paid himself $1.8 billion in dividends over the next four years. Before OnlyFans, Radvinsky ran MyFreeCams. Before that, as a teenager in the late ’90s, he operated a network of websites advertising “hacked” and “illegal” passwords to porn sites, earning referral fees on every click. Microsoft and Amazon both sued him in 2003-2004 for mass-sending deceptive emails through Hotmail, including messages faked to look like they came from Amazon. Both cases settled. He started building this machine at 15. He was worth $4.7 billion when he died at 43. The company was in active sale negotiations at an $8 billion valuation. There is no public succession plan, no CEO in place, and no board anyone can name. The man who profited more from the creator economy than any creator ever will left a company that might not survive him.

@pubity I reckon he did not actually die. Rather, he faked it, then emigrated to Israel to enjoy his vast fortune in peace on the DL.

OF owner, Leonid Radvinsky, has died at age 43

@cenkuygur The guy was 76 and probably also mega-jabbed.

Charlie Kirk's mentor just died in a freak pickleball accident. That's an incredibly strange coincidence. If you're going to say that's not weird, that there are tons of pickleball fatalities, you sound nuts. I don't know what happened but I don't think this is perfectly normal.

@Namjujunini @TheMindScourge Where's a good area for late night food hunting in KL?

@AddenoidalHonk @TheMindScourge KL shuts early is a very funny thing hear as a local bc ppl here habitually go out food hunting at 11, bars don’t really get going till midnight and mamaks are 24 hours and so are most 7 elevens

If you’re from the Anglosphere, you’ll get more out of visiting Kuala Lumpur than you will Bangkok today, simply because KL’s level of development will surprise you since you’ve already never heard of it and won’t suspect it By contrast, Bangkok is rated mostly correctly in the West, and so you already know what to expect, and you’ll mostly get that I agree with @akarlin that if you’re looking for the expat life, Westerners are going to be more comfortable long term in Bangkok