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@prettymadtree

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Katılım Temmuz 2018
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DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm·
David Zaslav will receive $887M as compensation for the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs in layoffs after the merger closes. (Source: Deadline)
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dad who stepped up
dad who stepped up@prettymadtree·
@jrs4842 @KobeissiLetter First of all, learning to fish, hunt and grow food at all, let alone enough to sustain yourself, is absolutely difficult, don’t be a dope and pretend otherwise. And second, do you really think that’s logistically feasible for the bulk of the population? Are you 5?
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James S.🇺🇸
James S.🇺🇸@jrs4842·
@KobeissiLetter Eat salads, and quit coffee. Both are bad for you. learn to fish, hunt, and grow food. Just like the old days. Adjusting is not that difficult.
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The Kobeissi Letter
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter·
US coffee prices are surging at a record pace: The average price of ground roast coffee is up to a record $9.46 per pound. In February, coffee prices jumped +30.5% YoY, and have surged +127% since January 2020. Over the same period, ground beef prices have risen +73% to $6.74 per pound, near an all-time high. Furthermore, steak prices have soared +66% to a record $12.74 per pound. Overall, the "food at home" category price level is up +31% while "food away from home" is up +36% since January 2020. Food inflation remains a major issue.
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Steve Magness
Steve Magness@stevemagness·
In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...
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John Arnold
John Arnold@johnarnold·
The Atlantic has a sobering, first-person look at the ramifications of legalized online sports betting. Here are a few of the more telling passages. 1/5
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Based Anglo
Based Anglo@BasedAnglo3·
@johnarnold @MartinShkreli Hello you have reached the Gamblers Anonymous hotline: Have you tried winning?? If you are terrible at gambling then maybe you should try betting the opposite of what you are currently doing.
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Money Is Clear💰
Money Is Clear💰@MoneyIsClear·
The $2.99 McDonald's meal just told you everything about inflation. 3 fries. 1 nugget. 1 pickle. That's not a value menu. That's a poverty menu dressed up in marketing. When corporations shrink the product instead of raising the price — they're hoping you don't notice. You noticed. Now act accordingly. 💰
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Money Is Clear💰
Money Is Clear💰@MoneyIsClear·
I had this X account since 2023. 43 followers in 3 years. Last Sunday I decided to actually show up. 5 days later: 106 followers. 85,000 impressions. Hit 100 followers this week. The only difference between then and now? I started. Thank you guys :)
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VARIEN
VARIEN@varien·
wifi signals detecting your movement through walls without cameras keystroke cadence identifying you faster than a fingerprint your phone's accelerometer logging your gait so precisely it knows which leg you favor ultrasonic beacons in retail stores pairing your devices to your physical location license plate readers logging 99% of urban driving routes within 24 hours behavioral biometrics scoring how you hold your phone to decide if you're you and these are just the ones with published white papers
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@varien what does that mean

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flimflamfan
flimflamfan@SaucePieJones·
@prettymadtree @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine Correct. I do not feel obliged to relay a personal story about why it’s meaningful to me. I followed the debate & saw that GC/TERFS make good points that go unanswered. TRAs make absurd claims & bad arguments. They lie frequently & rely more on social pressure than persuasion.
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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
Graham Platner: “The anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to make sure we have this discussion and we don’t talk about raising his taxes. That’s why it exists. I think there are like two trans kids that compete in high school sports in Maine? There are 40K Mainers who are going to lose healthcare because of the lack of the ACA extension. One of those things seems very important and real to me. One of them seems like an invented culture war scare to keep people divided”
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flimflamfan@SaucePieJones·
@prettymadtree @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine I don’t think it’s a trivial issue. The reason for keeping men out of women’s sports is clear: they have an unfair athletic advantage. There’s no reason whatsoever to segregate sports on the basis of “subjective sense of gender”.
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flimflamfan@SaucePieJones·
@MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine If it's such a non-issue & makes no difference either way, why don't you & the Dems just side with the people who don't want men in women's sports? Then all the out of state Republican money wouldn't make a difference because the parties would be on the same page.
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SGravity
SGravity@Gravity1776·
@HasanabiProd People are allowed to grow and change opinions. If you never changed your mind you’d still believe in the tooth fairy.
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Asmongold completely flip-flopped on War with Iran. 2024: "We're too interventionary, we get too involved into other people's business, it's a waste of our money" 2026: "I am so happy this has happened...we're bombing them again, this is just amazing."
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone. Workers in Kenya are watching the footage. Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents. The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything. Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now. The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not. Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated. Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter. This is not a bug. This is the business model. The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design. Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed. Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it. Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process. The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces. Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock. The glasses are selling faster than ever. The contractors keep watching. And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.
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E.D.N.
E.D.N.@_BlessedKingg_·
@thekonyjen Hey, former Marine here. Best decision I ever made. It's truly a stepping stone. Especially when you're young and everyone around you is making the dumbest decisions of their lives and you're stacking money and skills that are gonna be useful for the rest of your life.
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