I wonder if the $1.50 drop today had anything to do with this.
I’m confused. Why would he need to return to FB when he has the bigliest, most popular social media platform of all time? People come up to him all the time, tears in their eyes, and say “Sir! We cannot imagine life without Truth Social!”
Part of this was just a return to normality, the real question is why did it suddenly jump by 1.5 points between 3:30 and 4:00 last Friday.
The researching of which incidentally led me to this article.
an article that exemplifies the danger of letting computers write your news stories for you. Sarah Baker please proceed to conference room seven for your annual Turing test.
The stock rose vividly? I got to get in on that action!
At least it didn’t rise tumescently.
Though that might be a good or a bad thing depending on one’s orientation.
Writing like this is so shitty, we have to know it was done by an actual human, not AI.
I’m holding out. I only invest in stocks that rise effervescently.
Like the South Sea Bubble?
It’s like an inverse Turing test.
What’s wrong with Albert doing it?
We’re so sorry Uncle Albert
But we haven’t done a bloody thing all day
We’re so sorry Uncle Albert
But the kettle’s on the boil
And we’re so easily called away
Now that you bring it up, I’m surprised that “Heads Across the Sky” hasn’t been used as the name of some social media platform.
Interesting NYT article about the advertising on Truth Social. (Apologies for paywall).
The gist of it is: “Ads from major brands aren onexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times.”
Apparently, while it is somewhat active, it’s the same small group with a demographic that skews older. “Truth Social has a relatively small user base and many older users, who are less desirable for the brands.”
And, my favorite quote from the piece: "Can you not vet the ads on Truth?” asked one user in a post directed at Mr. Trump. “I’ve been scammed more than once.” Bless your heart, you fucking idiot. Who could have quessed a platform branded by a con man would attract conmen.
And they love you for it!
There was a Law and Order episode where a guy was killed, who was (as we found out) pretending to be tracking down and recovering money for victims of an investment scam. Of course, he was just taking their money, because, hey, they’ve got a proven track record as suckers.
Some days, I think it should be legal to separate the stupid from their money.
“You send me $100 bucks and I’ll give you the secret to avoid being scammed.”
[hands over C note] “Now what?”
“You’re not paying attention. Send another hundred.”
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…won’t get fooled again.”
- President G W Bush
There is a well-known view of this demographic as being prime pickings for scammers, so it surprises me not at all that the grifters are clustering on Truth Social like bluebottles on cow pies. And the fact that this guy has been scammed “more than once” by his own admission (not counting his likely support for Trump and his decision to sign up to TS in the first place) suggests that they’re doing very well indeed by advertising there.
My Trumpy coworker was showing us her gold foil dollar notes yesterday.
She’s been crypto-scammed before. She thought she was buying crypto, but they just drained her bank account. She insisted our employer had done it because they are “the only people who have access to her account [for direct deposit]”
Do you mean the Goldback? Those are legitimate, but I can see how someone not all that up on certain technologies could conflate them with something else.
Did you ask your magater coworker why she’s still working there if she believes the company stole all her cash or even what she’s been doing to get the money back?
“Deep down, I know my company did not scam me, but I would rather make up a fanciful story about my company [accidentally draining my bank account, deliberately stealing, whatever] than ever admitting I was dumb enough to fall for an obvious scam”
She didn’t think the company itself stole her money actually, just that it was an inside job by someone in Payroll or HR or something.
She took a medical leave of absence soon after 1/6/2021 after posting non stop about both election fraud and vaccines on our department’s Slack channel. She was being counseled for it and then suddenly poof, she was gone. We thought she was gone for good but she came back three months later. She hasn’t posted any political stuff, but since we returned to the office on a hybrid arrangement she’s ranted about stuff in person.
We have no history or practice of discussing politics, religion, etc in the workplace. Then the company sponsored some BLM “Difficult Conversations” sessions in Summer 2020, after which the right wing nuts have felt the need to drag their deplorable shit into everything even tenuously related to what they see as social engineering. DEI initiatives, anti-shoplifting measures, opening stores in food deserts, pricing in urban vs suburban stores, energy conservation, plastic reduction. A number of them have left for redder pastures.
In this case it seems I was not up to speed. I’m reading up on Goldbacks, but I’m still not convinced it’s “legitimate”.