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That’s some serious constipation.

It’s probably worth mentioning Disney pulled the show after the head of the FCC, who often wears a lapel pin of Donald Trump’s face, threatened their broadcast license.

I suppose we’ll find out at some point though likely not soon.

Don’t tell the Trump Administration but today is actually Constitution Day.

It’s true the algorithm is implemented in code, but what seems to be relevant here is that the consortium will be licensing the algorithm from ByteDance.

We should have a thread dedicated to your JDS, so that when you want to turn the conversation to me instead of the topic under discussion, you can post it there so that people can choose to read that if they want or just stay with the topic at hand.

At any rate, I’ll repeat, the code isn’t all that important. The algorithm is.

ByteDance is writing the US version of the app now.

But the app isn’t the concerning bit so much as the algorithm. So yeah, Matt’s right. And I was too. Unfortunately.

@jon-nyc said in TikTok:

They haven’t released the details yet of the deal but somehow I suspect the outline of the deal is China still keeps data and/or algorithm and Trump and/or his buddies get paid.

And before anyone asks, the answer is of course yes.

Congressman threatens heads of social media companies if they don’t take down posts he doesn’t like.

More Louis.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CgrmiLXXZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

But not from the guy who matters most, who doubled down on her comments.

So now Patel is saying ‘his hands are tied’ by courts.

But the courts said the exact opposite.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/17/congress/kash-patel-epstein-files-hearing-00568547

According to Givewell (the effective altruism org founded by a couple of Bridgewater traders) the marginal cost of saving a life is about 8k. It varies over time but last time I checked buying mosquito nets was the cheapest way to save a life.

(It’s always some sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention to reduce infectious disease in Africa.)

The only thing I’d take exception to is his downplaying the MAGA base.

First of all, it’s (probably) his sample bias showing when he says ‘most Trump voters are…’. I’m guessing no one in his neighborhood has attended a Trump rally except with a press credential.

But the other reason is the Trump voters he described would have rather voted for (say) DeSantis. If it were up to the people he describes, Trump wouldn’t be president because he wouldn’t have won the primary.

Where is Peter Singer when you need him?

@taiwan_girl said in Anyone else do the monthly Apple iPhone plan?:

@Mik said in Anyone else do the monthly Apple iPhone plan?:

My 12 is still going strong and the overnight charge almost always lasts the whole day. I don't use a lot of storage on my phone. Can't see the fixed cost.

Same! LOL. Great mind think alike.

And so do you and Mik!