As a heavy tiktok user I would probably only use this if it had an algorithmic feed.

Perhaps a bad example because most people undermine them, but China has still decided to move forward with 4 different nuclear facilities this year despite having an ABUNDANCE of solar manufacturing. If they found that decision worthwhile I would think the opposite, assuming most of the reasoning is current battery tech can’t sustain dark periods at a massive scale, but I’m not an expert.

Also just saw you mentioned nuclear costs in another comment, I suggest you look at South Korea and China’s cost per facility compared to the US, they’re able to build and maintain facilities at about half the US does.

Relevant videos if anyone wants to see the violence for themselves. Its an absolute joke that most US media sources are framing this as a “Clash” or “Violence erupts”. This is an attack on peaceful protestors.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1785637622582309038?s=19

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1785622283161067568?s=19

https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1785664176406642996?s=19

Swapping to new phones is really dreadful because of apps installs. It seems like the whole process is great EXCEPT app installs.

If you have to ask that question you definitely don’t use Tiktok it’s far far superior algorithmically than Reels and YT Shorts which are both absolute garbage.

The article talks about why they’d prefer to shut down if you take their word it. Essentially the US is such a tiny portion of ByteDances revenue, it would be more optimal to shut down then to risk the sale of their algorithm. Assuming they’re using relatively similar algorithms on Douyin, and they don’t want whoever they sell to to turn around and sell to their Chinese competition, which is where the real money is being made for ByteDance.

Hard to pin the blame singularly on one when the other is complicit in the same system.

Are US kids’ already dwindling attention spans going to be saved from exposure to the TikTok algorithm? Yes.

You’re pinning the blame on tiktok when this also applies to YouTube (shorts and not), Instagram (Reels), Twitter. If we wanted an actual solution here we would implement actual children screen time laws, ironically similar to the under 18 gaming laws that have been implemented in China.

Tiktok is the only platform I’ve seen legitimate progressive movement on various issues and discussions centering on what that means and takes, in a way that actually fosters a great democratic progressive movement in the US.

From all I’ve read on this issue, not a single person has provided me with any insight into what or who this benefits that does not also apply to every other social media other than an entirely fabricated myth that they’re controlling the algorithms to spread anti US sentiment. Anti-US sentiment definitely exists, but it exists as a discussion around what the US is currently doing. I.e. funding Israel, and as a counterargument to that I am also fed state department interviews on my FYP.

Platforms such as TikTok operate on “pushing” content the algorithm wants instead of users “pulling” content they want to see

This is just outright wrong, like hilariously wrong and if you used the platform for more than 10 minutes you’d see that. Tiktok is the ONLY social media that feeds me content I want to see as accurately and often as I want. It will even adjust the videos I see within the same 30 minute session to feed me more of what I’m favoring within that 30 minute session.

There is not any other single social media that does this.

There is a severe misunderstanding of what this is going on in this thread. 4 years ago when regulations were introduced on shipping pollution it vastly reduced the amount of cloud trail produced off the pollution. Covid also played a role here as there were far less active ships.

That pollution mixing with the clouds is theorized to have actually been helping stave off ocean warming because of the increased cloud coverages around shipping lanes reflecting more sunlight.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/china/shipping-pollution-global-warming-climate-intl/index.html

Now there have been tests in the past 4 years to recreate the cloud coverages with sea salt in order to bring the rate of temperature increase back down to the previous levels.

Does this solve climate change no of course not. But it does fix an accidental fuckup we made that came from an ultimately good decision in standardizing emissions in 2020. And we need to do anything possible to bring the RATE OF CHANGE down.

In the same vein Bloomberg just did a great study on ChatGPT 3.5 ranking resumes and it had an extremely noticeable bias of ranking black names lower than the average and Asian/white names far higher despite similar qualifications.

Archive source: https://archive.is/MrZIm

They threatened the same with Seattle and surprise surprise they’re still here. They did pass the entire fee onto the consumer though, which sucks ass but at least gig workers are being paid.

From the Brave PR account:

Also I believe it was legally required by the EU. List is randomized.

The can very easily apply to every single social media.

For psilocybin I haven’t seen much, but I have seen a lot regarding Ketamine which has had very optimistic research as well.

This is referring to the team working on the self driving functionality.

Definitely a YMMV situation, with corporate landlords when I’ve called them out for breaking the law they usually backpedal. Mom and pop landlords in my experience always attempt to skirt around laws and just out right down respect them.

The golden experience to me has always been small businesses landlords who aren’t quite corporate yet, might own a building or two, but generally small in the grand scheme of things. They ofc eventually sell out to the corporate ownership anyways.

Honestly people hate to hear it, but voting for or against Biden won’t change anything in the US.

What can change things is a greater involvement in local politics, changing our local community and continuing upward to the state level. Then we can talk about abolishing the two party system, introducing term limits, and abolishing lobbying. These are the true plagues of American democracy imo and we’ll be stuck in this cyclical cycle of Biden vs Trump for far longer than the two will be alive for in the form of different names.

Tiktok is getting worse… for users. Not for “itself”.

The article also makes some very large assumptions about longer length tiktoks being inherently worse for its audience.

I for one would love longer length tiktoks, and as for those who don’t the algorithm is extremely efficient and will filter out that style of content for those who don’t.

This is similar to the shop discussion, tiktoks gives full control over filtering this out via the #shop hashtag and disabling the shop tab.

The article really creates artificial problems with the app to justify its own existence when really these aren’t major issues that would lead to the downfall of a company or reduction in users.

Personally I’ll be the first to stop using a platform when they spam me with ads (Instagram). But tiktok is generally very manageable, much more than most other forms of social media.

China has their own version called Douyin which is really just a clone managed in China instead.