oh hey its the device adam conover was paid to shill for - ThreadSky

cargie.baby • 4 days ago

oh hey its the device adam conover was paid to shill for

🟡 SCOOP: Reddit is considering using Sam Altman's World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs, to verify that users are unique individuals while remaining anonymous on the platform.

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princessofpoof.bsky.social•4 days ago

Do not be alarmed. We are about to engage….The Nozzle….

baa.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m not letting the orb scan me so I can lurk the dc comics circlejerk and transformers meme subreddits

spelly-spark.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wow, who would have thought that marketing works? I like Adam Conover, but way to sink any reputation you had. It is clear that he was being used to appeal to a specific audience, and he either fell for it or never cared.

cargie.baby•4 days ago

he later posted some kind of apology/mea culpa but honestly, i'll never look at him the same way again

littlelucius.bsky.social•4 days ago

He has always been a milquetoast liberal so whatever principles he did have were found wanting at best tbqh

littlelucius.bsky.social•4 days ago

He has always been a slave to The Orb in his soul......

cargie.baby•4 days ago

I agreed with his points more often than not, but his methods of delivery were always so off putting to me that I never liked him.

littlelucius.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's that level of smugness you get when all your #CounterCulture views are actually just the status quo but the polite version and not actually subversive so you can get a television show or two because they're not threatening at all but just a different form of bourgeois politics.

headpatspls.bsky.social•4 days ago

i FUCKING knew it
he always put me off.

cargie.baby•4 days ago

yeah, even when I agreed with his basic points, I always found him really grating and smarmy

spelly-spark.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean, he felt right for the time he was in. You have to remember that his "character" was made when we were just starting to deal with social media separating people who took everything at face value and "nerds" who wanted to correct people and did research.

spelly-spark.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think the "character" has not aged well, but it was nice to see current projects look towards facts and a better future. Now, Adam, the person, has to do a lot of work to earn back trust he squandered because his brand was that his character was more authentic.

headpatspls.bsky.social•4 days ago

and the union stuff too. He set a great example for a long time, but he just couldn't hold himself back from being a textbook fucking sellout.

headpatspls.bsky.social•4 days ago

what a disgrace.

squeaky-succulent.bsky.social•4 days ago

it's the world's most-expensive screwdriver holster.

mangocreampanda.bsky.social•4 days ago

don't know if it's the anti-fascist in me, but i'm immediately horrified by any object that is constantly scanning facial features. because that tech can be co-opted.

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