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Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

@ShansDaBoss I would be too, who’s taking the risk of giving that space 😂

her husband and boyfriend are close omg

i won’t shut up until i feel better ‘bout it. everyone finna hear me.

musical exploration and genre hopping ain’t the same

no toronto is racist

BARS

@Blackkout__ I was ready to be on your side with this one (and generally I am on this point, anime clears western stories imo) but ATLA is in fact peerless.

OBAA was a great movie with a shit politic. Before I knew who made it, I thought the movie was a covert criticism of white folks casually “involved” in revolution. Once I learned, a lot more about the movie made sense & made me angry.

@BlackVelvvett If you watch it with a truly critical eye, you will hate parts of it, but if we’re taking it for what it is & strictly talking cinema?! It was a great watch.

i really gotta watch OBAA so i can have a real opinion on this highly controversial movie lol.

The guts of Ryan Coogler to write and pitch a Rocky movie to Stallone at 28 years old and then get it made and have it be an immediate all timer is something I think about a ton. Guy is really, really special

Biggest take away from the Oscars for me is that finding people you love and making art with them is a worthy, integral and noble human pursuit, no matter the odds or outcomes.

Getting in shape is another. If you don’t have a workout ethic before a certain age you aren’t magically getting one that’s why so many people just hurt and ache, and then can’t do anything after a certain point

& it’s not just llm’s telling you. you are in a reinforcement loop when you’re on the internet & you don’t even realize it.

Autumn Durald Arkpaw is the first woman EVER to win Best Cinematography at the Oscars. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

Please just say MBJ was better. PLEASE. Please dig into acting a little bit more. No one put the work into the characters that he did. The development of his accents, his mannerisms, the closeness & clear distance in the twins internal worlds. The ease of his performance.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN IS AN OSCAR WINNING ACTOR….. The Smokestack twins will go down in history, and we all thank you for the multiple legendary performances🎭 🔥 #TeamSinners

@Blackkout__ Nah this is a valid take. I was a child actor, what Lohan did at 11 was insane. Tom Hardy did incredible as twins. James McAvoy did 12 personalities in one film. Multiple characters isn’t new. MBJ gave a unique, elevated performance. Being twins isn’t what made it special.

We gone act like 11 year old Lohan was asked to do in Parent Trap what MBJ was asked to do in Sinners? Fr?

Ryan Coogler wrote a period film, about blues music in a decling industry to honor his uncle. I hope this #Sinners journey teaches you to stop chasing trends, listening to the doom scrollers, and what doesn’t work and can’t happen, & write the story that moves you.

It is tiring to hear takes like this. This film didn’t express that. His characters didn’t express or represent that. His win tonight was not a reflection of that. Playing multiple characters is not new or groundbreaking, MBJ was just excellent. Better than his fellow nominees.