Kau'i: It's Ka-ooh-ee. Teacher: I'll call you Katherine. Kau'i: And I'll call you Motherfucker, motherfucker.

So many MAGA raigebait accounts turned out to be from India that Elon Musk had to disable the feature within an hour. Turns out he had outsourced billionaire propaganda machine to the cheap Indian trolls.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!

Fuck Rowling.

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

Another reason RFK jr should resign

Every cut. Is a theft. EVERY CUT OF FUNDING IS THEFT.

That's not a hard name to pronounce and hell, I repeated it loud to myself and yeah, it's an easy name to pronounce it turns out.

A Muslim activist tried to tell Texas education leaders about a growing wave of Islamophobia. Some of them called her a terrorist. A dispatch from the front line of the battle to Christianize public schools:

Yeah, no shit. After all the pain and misery they caused, karma is likely to catch up with the DOGE members.

I was guilty of this too, looking at the immediate aftermath of '24 is that people thought there was all this data about Gen Z that they were all right leaning and the democrats had a massive young man problem and... yeah it's all bunk. Uniform swing because of inflation. They all swung back

a temerity of twitter users

So, um... yea, I think EVEN if they miraculously make half-decent TV of this to start with (doubtful!) and people don't hate it (maybe?) and things don't go wrong right away (probably!) ...there's NO WAY this doesn't ultimately end in disaster - and they'd be better off it it's an immediate one.

...OR further public disturbances caused by the mercurial executive producer who controls the property or calamitous geopolitical situation in the unstable United Kingdom.

And that's **IF** the production of this massively expensive TV show, being shot with child actors - famously the most fraught and difficult type of production anyone can undertake - goes off completely without any major problems, accidents, departures, losses of elder adult actors...

And anyone who DOESN'T care enough to be effected either way also probably doesn't care to watch multiple seasons of television to fill in book lore when there were already 8 movies that averaged out pretty good and already on TV all the time.

...and the Millennial HP-fandom is solidly divided between "Potter is dead to me because JKR became Girl Hitler" on ONE end and "I actually love Girl Hitler but that means I'm seething mad about Black Hermoine and Black Snape!" on the OTHER end so who is the audience for this again?

Does GenZ even care about "HARRY POTTER?" Harry Potter is books and movies and all we hear about GenZ-A is that they're Fortnite-huffing illiterati who don't have the attention spans for movies without Chicken Jockeys, so I don't know 🙃🤷‍♂️ I feel like this is a Millennial-ceiling IP...

Do you guys feel like the POTTER show is definitely going to fail? I'd like to believe that but don't. I still feel like the % of the overall population that has turned on Potter because of JK being super awful is low and there's still a lot of Hogwarts interest/awareness out there.

Like this whole thing needs to fall apart and burn TWICE as fast as the DCEU did for these kids to not have their entire lives ruined. Minimum.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

(I'm exactly old enough to remember the BRIEF moment in history when "alternative rock" was aka "college rock" or "college music," BTW - which was a more cynical but maybe more accurate description of at least the audience that thus simply couldn't be allowed to stand... 😏)

I am 44 and this is 100% correct. GenX/Elder-Millennial alt-rock people WORSHIPPED Boomer rock gods, it was the immediately-previous late-70s/80s mainstream "studio" hard rock acts that were the 'enemy' - thats what the 90s sound was supposed to be the "alternative" to.

I can’t say I feel particularly bad about this prospect but I think the intensity of the crackdown the next time there’s antisemitic violence in NYC is going to astonish some people

Good article. Do you best not to say "I told you so" after each sentence. Try. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/i...

given this is likely an evolution to the spam networks, there's a good chance many of these are done with slave labor.

Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.

13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.

Actually, Howard, stealing the land of an occupied people does violate international law. By the way, many of the people who greenlit the Holocaust were attorneys.

Nigerian prince scam ass website

@davidgerard.co.uk don't know if you have seen this already. Turns out the one good use of AI is detecting AI-based accounting fraud substack.com/inbox/post/1...

She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

[SOMEWHERE IN SERBIA] "Speaking as a Black Man, I think Kamala Harris is a worse option."

Secretary Kennedy has spent his time in office spreading doubt about vaccines. Now measles is back. He is a threat to our health and must be fired immediately.

Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...

So Olivia Nuzzi, who hyped RFK Jr. during the 2024 campaign and helped get us into this mess, was having an affair with RFK Jr. at the same time.

BROTHER HE’S COPYING HIS LOOK NOW LMAO

some of us have been online too long it is already far too late

listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable

can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****

Tea? Out of a *vase*??

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Eh, I could definitely understand preferring a smaller, cozier living space no matter how rich you are. But I don't think that room is where any of them live. They probably picked it for the photo op JUST to make themselves try to look "down to earth."

there are people who think i am upset by Zohran's meeting or criticizing him in this tweet mfs just don't even read the words on screen they just imagine what they think you said and roll with it

sigh