That standard would be an excellent first step. Honestly I think advertising specifically targeted towards kids should be banned in general though.

But you had something new to look forward to when you were older, I hope?

Yeah they did do what they could to appease their critics/advertisers (a little over a year ago I think?) but the user base was ignoring it and still favouring leftist content even after the algorithm tweak you mention, if only slightly. In the Pew-Knight study from last summer, it was also only second to Twitter among users who use the site to get news on political issues. Keeping in mind that everyone whose job is to do or talk about politics is on Twitter and only some of them are on the other platforms, I think that means a lot.

The single one they banned was the only one that leaned more to the left in terms of content overall. (The left vs. right dichotomy remains a relevant descriptor as long as major parties define themselves in this way.) Even people who want all social media banned should see a problem in the lopsidedness of this outcome and the problem it poses for democracy.

Nowadays more and more businesses are built to rot (or bought by private equity and converted to this model), spending only a very brief period of their life cycle trying to attract customers and talented workers. Or put another way, they’re increasingly being fattened up as quickly as possible for slaughter.

Most will die quickly while clawing as much value back from both customers and workers as possible, while a few winners are monopolies that do the exact same thing but get away with it for longer because there isn’t strong enough competition for people to stop doing business with them (such as Adobe, from what I’ve heard).

As long as investors and executives keep getting the big payoffs they do by gaming the system, it keeps getting worse.

At this stage it’s like nature is trying to make a point.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Sorry I thought I said it was in lemmy.world, but apparently not! Here’s the link: https://lemmy.world/post/24250168

CEO is Singaporean (and according to the BBC article I mentioned in my other comment, he says this report of a sale is “pure fiction”). China has some people on the board though. Not sure what to believe here.

There’s actually a post in the “News” community with a link to a BBC article directly contradicting this very article, per TikTok itself.

Old news. What else you got?

Those window opener crank thingies sucked, but I miss knobs and dials. They might look dated now but they were actually rather convenient. Touchscreens are annoying as eff to multitask with. There’s so little you can do on a screen without looking. Of course we weren’t multitasking quite as much in those days, so just when we started to need tactile controls the most, they were already gone.

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Snow can be wet and heavy, but this is straight up slush.

Unfortunately those two sets of interests typically aren’t mutually exclusive (except for protectionism or the rare case like that which might hamper trade), so he could largely do both.

Yes, Canada’s Liberal party is pretty much equivalent to the US Democratic party in many ways.

He should use that picture in his “BRUV” party campaign for UK Prime Minister (which is totally not just about attracting money from Elon Musk).

Nice, but rather than “self-reflected,” maybe this: “I’m capable of profound reflection and critical analysis.”

The author was born in Jerusalem to American parents and raised in an Orthodox setting. In 1993, his family moved back to the US, first to Cleveland and then to Boston, where his father got a job as a director at Harvard University.

I’m sure people doing this are burning at least some social bridges within the wider community, in order to make waves there and beyond. That’s probably the biggest sacrifice. Maybe since they recently started trying to draft even Orthodox Jews into their military for the first time ever, some more people’s eyes will be opened?