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@NYMag @OhItsTeddy has been saying this for what feels like eternity 🤣

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N

@EricBurlison @MvonRen

This was the low hanging fruit. Apollo 17 photos. Pilot accounts. Predator drone footage. More is still classified, and I've seen some of it. If the administration doesn't release it, I will, under Speech or Debate.

He has a 530am flight. Only staff one TSA agent in the pre check line

@zwiftinsider When is Y1RS or Factor One being added? @GoZwift @werkdodger

Zwift version 1.113 begins its phased rollout today. The update adds configurable fields to the workout HUD, plus three new Van Rysel bikes and two Swiss Side wheelsets to the Drop Shop. Learn more: zwiftinsider.com/update-1-113-1…

He’s going to the post office. Add 10 people in line who have never mailed anything in their entire life

EF Education–EasyPost with a new kit for the Giro d’Italia 👀👽 How are we rating it: HOT or NOT? 🔥

The backyard mountains from today’s drive with the dog.

@OhItsTeddy happy birthday sir

🇺🇸 EF Education-EasyPost reveal 'Ride in Peace' 🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia jersey 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ef-edu… 📸 EF Education-EasyPost/ASSOS

La formation EF Education EasyPost portera un maillot vert sur le Giro d'Italia ! 👽🐄 L'équipe États-Unienne (contrainte de changer de maillot en raison de la proximité avec le maillot rose) a dévoilé un maillot nommé "Close Encounter" 🛸

Somewhere a golden retriever is running on a beach right now. At full speed. For no reason. Just because legs work and sand exists and life is good.

@Domestique___ RIP orange and cream kit

The Netcompany Ineos kit! What are your thoughts on the kit? 🤔 📸 Ineos

@EarthlingRohit @nandoprince93 Some said the same about Peloton, how’s Apple Fitness going?

@nandoprince93 Whoop I think is on borrowed time. Once Apple launches their own no-screen wearable…..

It’s been 60 days of me wearing an Apple Watch Ultra 2 and a Whoop MG. I have a video in the works that will surprised some people. Whoop opened my eyes to something unexpected. Ask me anything about the experience! Which are you choosing? 🤔

Playoff Hockey > anything else on.

@OhItsTeddy another heater today

@OhItsTeddy One of my all time favs

V1 -2021.

@aksis_21 @JFreshHockey Marginally better stats, so again, too early to really pass much of a judgement. Sounds familiar to what I said earlier.

@cosmic_szeth @JFreshHockey Carlsson has 7 more in 13 fewer games. Bedard has another 7 in one fewer than Carlsson. Bedard: 1.07 p/g Carlsson: 0.96 p/g Fantilli: 0.72 p/g Fantilli regressed to 24 goals, Bedard has substantially worse linemates, and while ANA is solid they don't have anyone like Werenski.

Another shrug of a year in Columbus. Six straight out of the playoffs, that's 19 out of 25 seasons in franchise history. One visit to the second round. Tough, fans deserve better.

@realwilliam59 @aksis_21 @JFreshHockey So, Fantilli the most durable of the 3? I agree and that factors in somewhere.

@cosmic_szeth @aksis_21 @JFreshHockey Yeah let’s just ignore the games played where Carlsson’s played 13 games fewer.

@aksis_21 @JFreshHockey Lol, Carlsson only has 7 more points this season. Fantilli still currently the one to hit 30 goals. Fantilli also hit it faster than Bedard as well. All this to say it's entirely way too early to pass any hard judgement on the 3, let alone Fantilli.

@JFreshHockey I really did think Fantilli might help them turn the page, but… no luck there yet either. Seems like ANA might’ve been right to take Carlsson ahead of him :/ Frankly, it gets to a point where you really do wonder what has to change for any measure of success to happen.

@cbjfan2015 Been putting it in the STH surveys for years… they don’t listen.

I may be in the minority but the in arena entertainment (outside of the game) needs a major overhaul. Same stuff recycled for the last 25 years. #cbj