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SMVS··on Jack Dorsey caused an uproar with a bizarre Web3 Twitter rant
Brave opinions from a guy whose legacy at Twitter was buying the next big thing and then closing it down. Vine, Periscope, Quill etc etc. Guy is a fucking idiot. Someone tell him to stay out of Africa. We don't want him.
SMVS··on Why Are So Many Prominent Journalists Abandoning Journalism?
What is Classified advertising and what has been it's role since the invention of the printing press in funding (especially) local journalism? What effect did Facebook and Google, taking the classified cake but paying zero tax anywhere in the world, have on abilities of newsrooms to find themselves and pay for good journalism? With their control over algorithmic distribution of news, what role did these same companies have in promoting bad actors alongside reputable news, in doing so devaluing the entire fourth estate. And how did this devaluation of traditional media affect the value of those companies, who were then bought out by yet more billionaires for super cheap? Let's ask Citadel CEO Ken Griffith's The Wall Street Journal, or Jeff Bezos's WaPo? Also it's dangerous. Look at what the West does to journalists. I hope Julian Assange is recovering from his stroke, while still illegally detained.
SMVS··on Mountain lion kittens found under picnic table in California
Lions have cubs, not kittens.
SMVS··on What’s Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy
It must be confusing for those in the West to see vaccine hesitancy in poor countries. But those countries have often been used for ethically questionable vaccine drives in the past, introducing things like HIV. Danish documentary maker Mads Brugger made an amazing documentary about the role that MI5 and the CIA had in spreading and cultivating diseases in Africa amongst black people to support the white supremacist movement. Turns out the same people killed the head of the UN. https://youtu.be/WUXnH-USX-I
SMVS··on Virgil Abloh Dies at 41
Also a recently named codefendant in the Ghislaine Maxwell case.
SMVS··on Good science fiction books about intelligence, AI, artificial life forms, etc.?
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time. Outstanding, philosophically charged sci fi.
SMVS··on The World Is Fed Up with China’s Belligerence
Lol. America is hilarious. China's "belligerence" is a soft power bringing jobs, industry and infrastructure across the developing world.

It is American "friendship" that still leads the vast majority of coups, wars, invasions and regime changes.

American power is only the hard kind, with that military bigger than the next 25 countries combined. The largest polluter on earth.

Unlike colonialism, which brought only bibles and depravity, and capitalism, which brought gross inequality and exploitation, China offers infrastructure for resources.

In most of the world, that's the most honest deal they've ever been offered.

SMVS··on My WhatsApp Security code changed, with no login or logout
I wonder why the founders left? I'm sure it has nothing to do with "end to end" encryption of WhatsApp being a spoof game since Z took charge.
SMVS··on What will the metaverse mean for current companies?
The Metaverse IS existing companies. There are literally hundreds of thousands working on the decentralized components of the future Metaverse. None of them work for Mark Zuckerberg, however.
SMVS··on Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company
The tech industry is chock full of spies working for one side or the other. FAANG has been an intelligence front since the beginning. The only bullshit here is targeting KSA, when everyone's involved.
SMVS··on The creator economy is failing to spread the wealth
You know whose wealth we could all benefit from a bit of sharing in? Billionaires. Theirs is the only wealth worth sharing
SMVS··on The Left and the Right speak different languages
But share the address where they both go so wrong. Left or Right, they're still "American". There's a whole spectrum of left and right outside of the Neo Liberal oligarchy-owned consumerist dystopia that is the USA.
SMVS··on Geena Davis's new role:Training AI bots to scrub movie scripts of anything un-PC
Sooo... And hear me out here... Censorship?
SMVS··on Mysterious Stealthy Shape That Resembles Future Fighter
Saw this Stabilised, flipped view on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/q3ubog/...
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