I don't think I'll subscribe to any streaming service that either has a restrictive moderation policy, or wants to serve me ads. I was hopeful for Rumble but it's disappointing, so far.. I don't mind the algo serving me reactionary content and having an erroneous assumption on my interests, but my attention has limits, and it'd be so easy to put right.

• Focus less on inflammatory and sensational media
• Offer in a broad range of topics and opinions
• Allow a natural trending discovery through voting
• Attract and retain quality content through donations with a choice to be a verified user (for large donations, and declared for sponsored content) or unverified for tips without having to involve my name, age, gender or other identifiable data.

Like all the best sites right now, you shouldn't need to dox yourself to supporting content you are interested in engaging with, that allows natural discovery, meaningful statistics, and would help to retain quality content and discovery.

Thanks for the hilarious write up!

The write up made me chuckle.

$5.71 seems pretty reasonable for a KG cluster to me.
Maybe we will see a renaissance of physical libraries, one day.

I feel that some kind of balance sheet responsibility, risk management, is necessary, if you are a public company.

I didn't know there's a ciy/state division in terms of tax. I might have been affected after glossing over some news on someone in the mayor's circle. She sounded slightly unhinged claiming that landlords were immoral for owning property. I'm not sure, could be made up. Maybe had my wires crossed.

I've not seen or heard anything remotely impressive yet from NY city since new guy.

They should put a removable sticker on all phones and device packaging instead, reads "you will spend lots of time on your new phone, remove sticker if you already knew that."

Imagine using your time, your creativity and other people's money to actually fix something, rather than fixing nothing, wasting your own time and other people's money to annoy people further with unnecessary things, just to make it look like you are doing something.

I'm going to try to answer your question!

For Elon, public owner of x, richest man, and generally smart dude who exhumes righteousness and serves as a reflection of the indignation of the righteous suffering of the downtrodden collective censored west, it serves the platform well to maintain a human presence that embodies its values. Particularly as Jack Dorsey gave birth to the platform and steered it well, before it became what it became, before now.

As for The Don, my memory stretches back to the dreamstate typo kofefe mystery which captured the imagination, and if I was to build a persona, it would be that of a non-digital-native age guy, a quirky but astute tychoon.

They definetly both appear to post the least orchestrated bulletins. There have been acccounts taken of control of, maybe. So, hard to say how else to explain! I'd say there's a need to foster belief in the dictat coming from the horses mouths. In the end, I'm in the same ballpark, where I choose to believe and I give it a pass. We both can assume policy originates from where it originates, and that's not the mouth of one or two horses.

If such high-level leaders, political or otherwise, can enter a live debate, talk coherently, humanly, and convince us they have more than an uncle Jim level of undersanding of the world, I think it lends more credence than a polit-bureau speaking for individuals (or a nation) at minimum, as a reflection of a free society with checks and balances on the direction of a nation.

Agreed.

Fair and logical assessment.

I didn't mean to suggest that all important public facing social accounts are not their own, just that there must be a large swathe that are too ingenuine to actually put themselves on the line. Some actually do come across as unfiltered and genuine.

I'd imagine national government and opposition routinely run there posts through a whole team of PR and legal scrutiny before they post more than 'GM' or a picture of their latest campaign photo-op.

Are you saying that the narrative of deep fakes was all an elaborate ruse to rouse us into trusting sources, as opposed to the evaluation and forensic study of primary evidence? Maybe that wasn't what you said, it could have just been the voice of the general from Ghost in the Shell, hacking my ghost as I read ;-)

I was thinking about the authenticity of media accounts while reading some the other day. I suppose another valid concern in addition to hacks would just be the general nature of assistants human or otherwise. I mean, am I to believe that the social account of politicians and leaders are the actual person posting these notes themselves in real time?

I want to know about it but not enough to click on cnbc.

"It felt ridiculous to pay for Snapchat and still have to watch ads."

Jesus. I feel it's ridiculous to pay to not watch ads.

Thanks for this. I don't seem to be connected to any film review, trailers or news these days. The only time is when I walk into a physical cinema. Predator Badlands was showing the last time I did, and watched that in Russian. I don't understand Russian but it was surprisingly watchable, if not a little predictable and annoying with the introduction of a femmebot predator friend. Quirky but fun maybe. Other than that, I've only seen The Gorge. Agree with what you said about that, I'd love to see that with someone. Alas.

Out of the ten, I've chose Weapons. Your description piqued my intrique.

Interesting that there are two mints in the top ten. Trickle-up, Cantillion effect?

Oh dear. Something reminds me of that phrase about keys and coins.

So, when you say "to European standards, right-wing faction", what you're saying is, by the European bloc's notoriously left-wing standards, the Belgian coalition government can be perceived to be positioned to the right of the left. So, it's a centrist member state, coalition government, and it's policy is, unsurprisingly representitive of a centrist government.

Gotta feed the monkey.

Today, I was educated.

Long reads, but enjoying them. Thanks.