One of my biggest hopes for the future is that we can develop a form of Naloxone for people who are addicted to getting yelled at

I'm actually never sure when I listen to a Kendrick song if I'm meant to believe the character he's rapping from the perspective of is meant to be him - he flickers through a collective unconscious. Yet somehow when Drake raps as the Tupac AI, it is 100% The Perspective of Mr Aubrey D. Graham™

I just realised that UMG could use this exact argument to claim that Not Like Us can't be defamatory because Kendrick raps it in that silly accent

Voters of the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces Party have legitimate concerns about failures of our system and will not be won over by extremists in our party saying their faces will get eaten or opposing sensible policies such as barbacoa face masks and zoo deregulation.

Like, it's not enough for these people for them to think MJ was innocent or that he was behaving inappropriately but not in an illegal way (a belief I consider incorrect but not to be insane), it has to be a whole fantasy where he was actually a Jesus-like hero figure, which is clearly nonsense!

It's scary how deep the stan narrative has got. I was in a thread with an uninvolved person who claimed to have "seen something about MJ protecting kids from Epstein" which is a para-narrative the stans invented to explain, like, one selfie of Epstein and MJ, something which means nothing anyway

I think my favourite manifestation of this strategy is the HUNDREDS of AI-generated R Kelly tracks on YouTube astroturfing for the military dictator of Burkina Faso

Going to put out my controversial statements now by using AI text to speech to make it come out in the voice of Solid Snake

New terrible AI use justification just dropped

😷🍽️🐆

...........did she literally just say she wanted to taser and deport Kemi Badenoch and Zack Polanski

A local tattoo artist posted a video on Instagram of him asking two blokes in hi-vis not to put up an England flag on the lamp post outside his shop. Consequence: a flood of bad Google reviews including the predictable “paedo” allegations (“he touched my daughter” etc). Truly the shittiest people.

pulled out the camera app so fast you wouldn’t even believe

It is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of Drake

I wish there was a figure like Drake who wasn't this specific guy

not looking forward to the million "is hip-hop dead" thinkpieces when Iceman does underperform, and then I come back to my sadness about being a Drake hater which is that his neutering in the beef has actually damaged the mainstream rap ecosystem a lot because he was so important for visibility

Btw Iceman will:
1) get very very negative reviews
2) be hugely successful
3) be 'sort of OK I guess' which is to say, uninteresting but he won't start rapping silly bibble noises or look any stupider in the videos than usual
4) make his fans be like "damn he's COLD"
5) just be whining and seething

Drake pushes back on UMG at appeals court, says judge improperly dismissed ‘Not Like Us’ case - Music Business Worldwide Drake’s lawyers argued that the judge committed “reversible error” by considering materials outside the complaint and drawing conclusions against the rapper.

Once again I want to know who this lawyer is in Drake's circle who just KEEPS TELLING HIM THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/drake-pushes...

Br*ntosaurus?

Been reading through "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social and one thing I really appreciate is how the beginning establishes this company never really had a clear goal, or path to viability, it had buzzwords that excited venture capitalists and a willingness to promise literally everything.

snopesdotcom • 5d & Threads CNN reported the findings of a months-long investigation into a website and chat group teaching men how to drug and sexually assault their wives and partners. However, posts inaccurately claimed that the news outlet said 62 million men "attended" what they called the "online rape academy."

• 5d • & Golly gee thanks, Snopes! That was definitely the most important part of the whole situation, wow where would we be without you???? Maybe focus on the women being drugged and raped and NOT on how some people mispoke about views vs visitors because they were blinded by rage and disgust. Way to give asshats an excuse to keep minimizing this awful shit 0220 1 з > 1

15d Phew. It was only 20000 videos with 50000 or less views each. Faith in humanity restored. eg 13 2 Show replies d Why is this news now??? We heard about this in Canada a year ago! We saw the husband on trial and get sentenced. We saw at least another 100 men in France and the EU being arrested. PLEASE ASK YOUR NEWS AGENCIES TO CATCH UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!! ↓ 1 Show replies 0 4d You're splitting hairs with this?? Really?? '43 3 Show replies Yeah.. But 20,000+ videos under eyeckeck amd passed out is what needs to be focused on. These are potentially very real crimes and victims just out there on the open web in a site under searchable tabs that failed age verification this year. 9 ▶

We don't give a fuck about "uh ackshully is was 62 million views." WE FUCKING KNOW! It's a RAPE ACADEMY. Fuck your parsing. Q4 Show replies : 5d SNOPES! No! 0 7 " > 5d Stoppppppppppppp Show replies .ai 5dl The issue isn't the number of users. 1000 or 62m, the issue is that There's a grape academy Committed by men againat their partners, men who presumably were trusted by their partners. Those are the inportant facts, not the number of men. Any number above zero is unacceptable. Anyone mad about the number being misunderstood, mis-reported has failed to comprehend what is really important in this

Like look at this reply section to a Snopes post correcting the misread of the piece. It's just people putting their fingers in their ears and screaming that facts don't matter. It's insane. www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

we all know I have no life, so:

i think a lot of this would be solved if people learned how to have normal friendships with people of the opposite sex but unfortunately i dont think the people buying into this stuff have any friends at all

it makes sense why the red pill shit gets more attention - as usual, men tend to be more outwardly destructive while women tend to be more internally destructive - but i think it ruins lives and becomes mutually reinforcing either way

i think it's just my algorithms since i interact w feminist content and this stuff often cloaks itself in that philosophy, but the fatalistic gender essentialism being fed to young women on social media rn is SO bleak

but when people point out it's wrong the people spreading the misinfo are just like "but even 1 is too many". ok so then why are you saying it's 62 million if 1000 i just as bad

it's a horrible article about a horrible thing, and it is surely a reflection of some despicable cultural attitudes about women, but repeating a fake statistic that like 1 in 3 american men were interested in this is not helpful to anyone

thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max

I am in complete and utter awe

We hoped they’d rage against machines
Instead they burned their baggy jeans
For underage homecoming queens
The day the music died