Rob

All aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle. We will add another 20% deduction in the next cycle. It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth. The next step is to assign a permanent deduction to habitual bait posters who use “🚨BREAKING”on every post. X will never infringe on speech or reach—but we will not compensate for manipulation of the program or our users.

It’s forgotten now because we’re on the back slope of the revolution, by van Gogh’s decision to prominently celebrate the Sun in many of his works was a radical departure from the Western tradition, where it is largely absent It sounds surprising, but the Sun is absent in most of the Western canon. Van Gogh restored it to a pride of place it perhaps hadn’t enjoyed since the ancient Egyptians. He was arguably the original poet of the modern civilization of the Sun.

My patience is wearing thin Claude.

How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?