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This is sad, but all too predictable. Drug addiction and mental illness often conspire to end in death. On Wednesday, Liam Payne, 31, fell from his hotel balcony in Argentina. Moments earlier, hotel staff complained he was behaving erratically, appearing “overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol.” His ransacked room only supported their claim. But Payne’s well-known… Read more.
The Kardashians are becoming an endangered species A new breed of influencers is taking over social media, and they’re not even real. Virtual influencers, or VTubers, are digital avatars created using CGI and AI. And they’re giving new meaning to thirst traps, captivating millions of already zombified humans with fantastical personas, hypnotizing voices, and flawless… Read more.
Threads one-year anniversary When Meta launched its new app ‘Threads,’ the hype was that it would be a “Twitter killer.” That’s because Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, wasted no time rebranding it as X and turning it into a social media hellscape, which most users seemed desperate to escape. In other words, Twitter was in… Read more.
Musk reinstates Jones on X Elon Musk proved long ago that he is to business what Donald Trump is to politics. Both revel in defying norms and conventional wisdom. Yesterday, Musk proved it again by reinstating Alex Jones on X, formerly Twitter. Jones gained infamy by spreading wild conspiracies, including that: a “New World Order” is… Read more.
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The Justice Department plans to arrest Donald Trump tomorrow. And media reporting on his pending arrest is redolent with hypocrisy. Even worse, they are warning about Trump and Republican leaders inciting violence. Yet their coverage is inciting that violence. Of course, Trump has given the media cause to broadcast fears about him inciting violence. That’s… Read more.
Yes, TikTok harvests your data. But social media like Facebook and even retailers like Whole Foods and Amazon do too. Banning TikTok? The difference, of course, is that the latter are US companies harvesting data to sell you stuff. Whereas the former is a Chinese company doing so to turn you against your own country.… Read more.
Podcast Episode: 103 Granted, believing that famous people die in threes was always a silly superstition. On the other hand, you’d be forgiven the belief that they are dying in droves lately. Our interconnected world certainly makes it seem that way. That is because, thanks to social media, we experience the deaths even of famous… Listen.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
Kanye West (aka Ye) spent much of last summer bullying Pete Davidson, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, on social media. This, because he could no more accept losing Kim to Pete than Donald Trump could accept losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. But Kanye had the last laugh, which I decried in “Kanye,… Read more.
