Author: Blazingcatfur

Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, and the Myth of Permanent Platform Power

Today’s big powerful companies could become tomorrow’s also-rans, no government intervention required.

Twitter is changing ownership, following a purchase by Elon Musk, who has explicitly  said he intends to reorient the company’s approach to online speech. Netflix, whose business model has long been predicated on sky’s-the-limit growth, is bleeding subscribers. CNN+, a massively expensive project from what was once a dominant force in TV news, is shutting down a month after its launch. Facebook is losing regular users and taking a huge financial hit because of changes in the mobile ad space. Google is no longer the world’s most popular website. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter

Critical Race Theory Is Derived From a Laughably Dumb Series of Space Alien Stories

Appallingly bad critical race theory science fiction showcases the ideology’s toxicity.

One of the more interesting periodicals of the hard-left, Jacobin, used to have a book review column for old and new conservative titles called “Books we read, so you don’t have to.” It included mostly mass-market polemics the outlet’s average reader would find especially triggering. If such a column existed for an audience of the opposite orientation, one title that would have to make an appearance is Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by the late Harvard law professor, Justice Department attorney, and critical race theory pioneer Derrick Bell.

The book, published in 1992, is considered a founding text for the CRT movement. This is odd, as it’s not a jargon-heavy, law-based tome, but a collection of short stories, most of them science fiction-based. If you’re curious how sci-fi might translate CRT’s heavily abstract and legalistic ideas, the short answer is that it doesn’t. The stories are breathtakingly bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

A former Google CEO revealed how excited he is for you to be ruled by robots

In a rare moment of honesty, a high-profile Democrat revealed the left’s vision for governing in the future, and it is just as disturbing as you can imagine.

Eric Schmidt is your prototypical coastal elite whose God complex may rival Barack Obama’s.  The former Google CEO and Hillary Clinton crony shared the horrifying details of America’s future when discussing his new book about artificial intelligence.  Schmidt explains how a computer program called AlphaZero dominated the previous robotic chess champion, Stockfish.  What impresses Schmidt is that the AlphaZero program came up with unorthodox ways to win these chess matches, such as sacrificing its queen to achieve victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Sheriff reveals Alec Baldwin MAY still face charges for Rust shooting

Alec Baldwin may still face charges for accidentally killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October, sheriffs revealed on Tuesday morning after releasing a trove of documents and videos from their investigation into the on-set accident.

Baldwin, 64, was rehearsing a scene for the movie Rust on October 21, 2021, when he pulled his gun from his costume. It fired and shot Hutchins, 42, in the armpit, fatally wounding her.

The gun fired a live round which had been loaded into what Baldwin thought was an empty gun.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

No, the liberals will not leave Twitter

The hyper-partisans of the cultural hegemony won’t leave Twitter. They need to access its casual users for their strategy to be successful.

With the recent acquisition of the world’s largest social media platform by billionaire Elon Musk, the battle cry of “I’m leaving Twitter” has rapidly spread among the bluecheck caste. The chances of this actually manifesting in any notable number of people jumping ship are next to zero. They aren’t going to move to another site, and they especially will not be moving to the much-touted Mastodon, the domain of basement-bound tech nerds so complex as to be rendered effectively useless to anyone without an MA in Programming.

Indeed, the impossibility of migrating from the Big Tech titans has already played out in the likes of Gab, Parler and Gettr. Social media falls strictly under the economic concept of a natural monopoly, its utility and functionality entirely derived from everyone sharing the same platform to maximise reach and facilitate wider interaction. In the same way there are not many competing railways built along the same routes, there will not be many competing Twitters.

h/t MC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter

Biden Unilaterally Surrenders to Russia and China in Satellite Wars

Kamala Harris arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base where Discoverer-1, the first satellite to enter a polar orbit and America’s bold response to Russia’s Sputnik, was launched to announce that we would be unilaterally surrendering to Russia and China in the growing satellite wars.

Last November, Russia had conducted a DA-ASAT or direct-ascent anti-satellite test which demonstrated its ability to take out satellites. The Russians had used their A-235 anti-ballistic missile system to destroy their own Kosmos 1408 satellite. The message was clear: Moscow had the ability to clear out enemy satellites in the event of any conflict. Including ours.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Ilhan Omar Finds a New Way to Attack Freedom of Speech

War in Ukraine, an essentially nonexistent Southern border, out-of-control inflation, rising crime, deep societal divisions, and what does the de facto leader of the Democrat Party, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Islamabad), who can always be counted on to have her finger on the pulse of the American people, decide to tackle? Why, “Islamophobia,” of course. Come on, man! Is there something more important that she could be focusing on? “Islamophobia” is, after all, a free speech issue. The only problem is that Omar is on the wrong side.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islamization of the West, USA

Four ways Elon Musk might change Twitter … and Leaked Project Veritas vid

Twitter is usually awash with topics for discussion, but over the past couple of days one has stood out on the platform above others – what does the future hold for Twitter itself?

With Elon Musk set to purchase the site – subject to shareholders’ approval – for $44bn (£35bn), tweeters across the world have been offering their opinions.

No-one knows exactly what the billionaire entrepreneur has planned, with even Twitter boss Parag Agrawal acknowledging the future is uncertain. But the world’s richest man has given some clues.

Twitter Insider Leaks Audio Recording of Internal All-Hands Meeting Following Elon Musk Takeover

h/t RM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter

Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income – as emails show he paid Hunter’s legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as ‘big guy’ to get a 10% cut in another

Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter’s legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal.

The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter’s overseas business dealings – and makes his previous claims that he never discussed them with his son, even less plausible.

Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife’s companies after he left office as vice president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

The Left Is Willfully Blind to Transgender Attacks on Kids

The left knew full well they could “woke” their way into letting dudes in dresses use ladies’ rooms (and attack women and girls in those restrooms) because they saw something very similar happen in England.

You may not have heard of England’s Muslim grooming gangs, but here is the dirt: Brit cops turned a blind eye toward Pakistani Muslim men raping mostly English girls between the mid-’90s and the late 2000s because — ready? — they thought that arresting them would be “racist.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Did a Key FBI Agent in Whitmer Plot Attempt to Surveil Steven Crowder?

It appears Jayson Chambers, one of the key FBI Agents involved in the entrapment effort, did just that. Why?

In 2017, Steven Crowder, a conservative activist and host of a popular YouTube channel, infiltrated Antifa with his producer.

Weeks before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro at the University of Utah—an event Antifa planned to disrupt violently—Crowder worked his way into the group through the use of burner phones and encrypted chats. Crowder secretly recorded discussions between Antifa thugs promising to use “plain clothes and hard tactics” to shut down Shapiro’s speech on September 28, 2017. This included distributing weapons such as ice picks, combat knives, and guns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

GOLDSTEIN: Raise taxes $1, it costs $3 in economic growth, says report

Every extra dollar the federal government raises by increasing the personal income taxes of Canadians costs $2.86 in reduced economic activity, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

The study by the fiscally conservative think tank also found the decrease in economic activity when corporate income taxes are raised by $1, is $2.02.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Biden Administration Ignores What the Palestinians Are Really Saying

The recent riots at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in Jerusalem provide further proof of the widespread support among Palestinians for Hamas, the Islamist group controlling the Gaza Strip that is designated as a terrorist organization not only by Israel, but also by the US, Canada, the EU, Japan, Australia and Britain.

Yet, none of these countries has so far condemned Hamas for orchestrating and inciting the violence, during which thousands of Palestinians desecrated the al-Aqsa Mosque compound by hurling stones and launching fireworks at Israeli security forces. Nor have they expressed concern over the calls made by Hamas supporters at the holy site to murder Jews and wage jihad (holy war) against Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Israeli - Islam Conflict