Firebrand

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by Firebrand 3y ago
Never truly appreciated how many niche porn subreddits with significant following there were until I started watching the stream.
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by Firebrand 4y ago
Users affected by this still have until March 6 to file a claim, in case anyone was unaware of the class action settlement: https://www.keyboardsettlement.com Don’t miss your paycheck!
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by Firebrand 4y ago
The only new Mac products last year were the M2 MacBook Air and the Studio. Everything else for sale was at least a year old.
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Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”(vox.com)
3 points by Firebrand 4y ago|2 comments
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The Genius of Lionel Messi Just Walking Around(newyorker.com)
5 points by Firebrand 4y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 4y ago
TikTok’s popularity is already waning in the U.S. Installs of the app are down 33% YoY in November, from 6.6MM in November '21 to 4.5MM in November '22. -0.3% YoY worldwide. In fact, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outgrew TikTo
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by Firebrand 4y ago
Aaron Sorkin made the most concise counterargument to this in Steve’s biopic: “Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.” https://youtu.be/-9ZQVlgfEAc
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by Firebrand 4y ago
Bytedance even publicly denounced Tencent last year after a VP compared Douyin’s content to pig feed: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3136168/tiktok-ow... It’s all the same crap being served.
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by Firebrand 4y ago
I’ve seen Twitter uproars against Google and LinkedIn employees who have uploaded similar content: https://twitter.com/coldhealing/status/1561022408206729216 A lot of the lavish perks they’ve showed have been part
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My Common App Essay: “Every School Reading This Except Dartmouth Sucks Ass”(mcsweeneys.net)
2 points by Firebrand 4y ago|0 comments
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Googlers Are Insufferable(teamblind.com)
6 points by Firebrand 4y ago|0 comments
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Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet Is Fake(forum.agoraroad.com)
32 points by Firebrand 5y ago|24 comments
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by Firebrand 5y ago
I thought about starting my own TikTok page dedicated to programming so I recorded one about why I still prefer C++ over Rust. While I got decent views for the subject matter, I got roasted by 12-year-olds in the comments section. The top o
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The product manual for NSO's Pegasus spyware [pdf](s3.documentcloud.org)
26 points by Firebrand 5y ago|4 comments
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I find the concept of hiding behind my profile picture while I speak to potentially hundreds of people in my pajamas to be not nearly as frightening as uploading a video of myself for hordes of 12-year-olds to roast
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Did that actually happen? I thought the Saudi Arabia hack was a convenient tale conjured up by Bezos’ team to cover up that his girlfriend was the one sending his pictures and messages to her brother, who in turn tried selling it to the Nat
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Hasn't Twitch always been that way? It's been my impression that streamers are a bit more nuttier compared to the average Instagram influencer or TikToker since most of them have to grind videogames while talking to their computer
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by Firebrand 5y ago
> On Wednesday, mobile insights firm Sensor Tower said that TikTok was the most-downloaded app globally in the first half of 2021. TikTok also surpassed 3 billion installations globally, SensorTower said, making it the first non-Facebook
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Columbia also has the School of General Studies bachelors program for non-traditional students that costs $85k (including living expenses) a year, and it’s notorious for offering little to no financial aid for it. You end up paying $340,000
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Imagine a story about Charles the software developer, who lives in Chicago, being a horrible, predatory romantic partner. Not trying to imply that you are one of course, but that’s about as much detail she changed from the real life story—j
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Find a Job with TikTok Resumes(newsroom.tiktok.com)
3 points by Firebrand 5y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 5y ago
Reddit bought Dubsmash last year, too. I imagine the app will eventually operate almost similar to TikTok: funny picture, advertisement, cat video, person live-streaming. Whether or not they can attract more of these power users to use the
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by Firebrand 5y ago
You focus on things people aren’t willing to post on their Facebook feed. Snap and TikTok remain strong despite being copied because it allows people to essentially shitpost without their close friends and family seeing it.
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by Firebrand 5y ago
How timely for Instagram’s CEO to say the quiet part out loud and announce that they’ll be helping content creators to get around Apple’s 30% cut today: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/instagram-ceo-facebook-w
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‘Old’ workers not wanted as China’s Big Tech sets age glass ceiling at 35(scmp.com)
9 points by Firebrand 5y ago|2 comments
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by Firebrand 5y ago
I wonder what happened with Walmart’s partnership with TikTok and if they’ve given up on their social media/e-commerce ambitions: https://www.vox.com/recode/21448460/walmart-tiktok-amazon-de... They were very
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by Firebrand 5y ago
I think a good example of this would be Tim Cook’s email to Phil Schiller on why the Mac’s App Store wasn’t taking off, which was revealed during the Epic Games v Apple trial: https://mobile.twitter.com/benedictevans/s
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by Firebrand 5y ago
If I call out BS there’s a risk of the influencer incensing their followers enough for them to go after my employer and colleagues and tell them that I’m bully. Best not to poke the bear.
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by Firebrand 5y ago
I don’t know what’s more shocking, Zhang stepping down or an HR head becoming CEO of a major tech company.
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by Firebrand 5y ago
What’s really interesting about TikTok is that they’ve seem to have successfully taken making a fool of yourself on the internet (and out in public if you dance outside) mainstream. I have no idea what compels otherwise everyday people to

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