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Boaty McBoatface was over a decade ago, and some people have basically learned nothing about how The Internet works since then. As a friend of mine once said:

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The Internet of Beefs remains one of the very best pieces of writing to understand why The Internet is Like This…

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Translated interview with DeepSeek’s CEO #AI #DeepSeek

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No, Wall Street doesn’t hate good economic news. It fears the strong jobs report overstates current momentum and will prompt bond yields and Fed to get tighter than the economy ultimately can handle. New column, on a 2025 tape that’s tougher to please, easier to rattle. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/11/b...

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smashmouth was so right, the years really do start coming and they don’t stop coming

submitted 59 days ago • 13 comments

People who are/were bearish $NFLX because the demand to watch the Tyson-Paul fight was so large that it crashed parts of the internet... uh, I think y'all have it backwards. 108 million viewers globally. I mean, wow. Welcome back, monoculture.

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See, now threads like this are why people are leaving the other site for this one. You used to see this stuff on #FinTwit all the time from, say, 2010-2018 or so…

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I was skeptical of the “X is slowly cooking your brain” discourse because I don’t think my ideological worldview has shifted much, but having now experienced both Bluesky and X I think the big difference is I got used to fighting/provocation as the standard “tone” of posting without realizing it.

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It’s kind of crazy that the narrative on the other site is “lulz liberals running to @bsky.app for a safe space” and not, like, there’s too many bots, too much random pr0n, and we can’t have conversations with the folks we got to know fifteen years ago — so people decided to fix that.

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Zaslav gonna live his dream of one media company to rule them all, isn’t he? $CMCSA $WBD

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Great chat about the housing market

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Are cashtags working here yet? Let's give it a shot. $IAC at Truist said the following: "There WAS a strong focus this year from [Barry on] down of looking at new M&A. And Joey mentioned in the last letter that Barry DIDN'T want us [buying] the stock versus new M&A."

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