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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

WE'RE OFFICIALLY ON THE BALLOT!!! 🌹🎉 Against immense odds, this is the FIRST DSA-endorsed congressional campaign to make the ballot in Florida. And we did it without billionaires or political insiders — we did it through PEOPLE POWER ✊❤️

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New Orleans Style Courtyard posting will continue until morale improves.

So apparently you’re my target audience

The U.S., Israel, Honduras and Argentina’s president were caught working together to destabilize leftist governments in Latin America, in audio leaked by Diario Red America Latina and Hondurasgate.

Here are some photographs I made of Creek Indians I met last year at the Sinners screening in Clarksdale Mississippi. It’s hard to find any information on them online and there stories matter too. It’s so much culture in Mississippi that goes under the radar but that’s exactly why i choose to stay in Mississippi. To tell the stories of the UNSEEN.

Marlon Brando, conocido, entre otros muchos papeles, como Vito Corleone en El Padrino, era fiel seguidor de los Panteras Negras y fue de los pocos actores que los apoyó abiertamente su lucha. Incluso Marlon llegó a dar este discurso antiracista en el funeral de Bobby Hutton.

Que pensez-vous de l’art de Richard Nadler ?

UPDATE: People stopping to look at the Everglades fire are causing traffic backup along US-27 and Pines Boulevard. PPPD is requesting that drivers please stay out of the area; cars attempting to stop along the roadway will be directed to move. 1/2

@Jerry__Grey @DennisMisigoy @NappingRooster @tomaskenn Are they still developing a nuclear weapon right now?

@DennisMisigoy @marleanin @NappingRooster @tomaskenn They were developing a nuclear weapon.

$4.99 a gallon of gas in Miami, Florida. On 167th St and NE 6th ave.

@Jerry__Grey @NappingRooster @tomaskenn Why are we letting a sorry ass country like Iran affect the pockets of the average American?

@marleanin @NappingRooster @tomaskenn Iran.

@Jerry__Grey @NappingRooster @tomaskenn You’re right about Biden. Who is the problem now though?

@NappingRooster @tomaskenn Biden was "handed" three vaccines and a rapidly improving economy. Gas prices peaked more than year after he took office. COVID was not the problem. Hope this helps.

That wasn't the point of the sit-ins. Black people were paying taxes for libraries, schools, grocery stores, and other facilities they weren't allowed to use. This wasn't to be in a space, it was to stop get equal access to what they're already paying for.

@bryan_m_b_u_3_m @the_bonnfire Website says recycled polyester so yeah u right lmao it’s just DHgate leftovers ground up into some new ugly ass designs 😭😭😭

@marleanin @the_bonnfire Lower quality than DHgate

These absolutely hideous “host city jerseys” are $375 😂😂😂😂 Who on earth is going to buy these?

If someone ever questions the value of transit investments show them these receipts ….50% LONGER driving than riding the E Line from Santa Monica to Downtown.

“In Ethiopia, running alone is seen as deeply antisocial in the same way that eating alone is.” A remarkable essay on African v American training philosophies. aeon.co/essays/what-et…

In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's. Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend. #YouGotThis

NEW: Gov. Ron DeSantis is now backing plans to shutter Florida’s state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades, 10 months after the state opened it and after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its construction and operation. miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…