Firebrand

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by Firebrand 6y ago
Reliance Jio is rumored to be purchasing TikTok’s operations in India as well. Seems even more complicated given Facebook and Google’s investments.
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Motion Smoothing Is an Abomination(thebulwark.com)
2 points by Firebrand 6y ago|2 comments
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A TikTok Ban Is Overdue(nytimes.com)
5 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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TikTok: The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet(tiktokus.info)
3 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>“While the news about Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok was a huge relief for its American users, it was received poorly on the Chinese internet, with many calling Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder and CEO, a ‘spineless traito
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Why push axing it back until November 12th? Is it more likely someone lobbied President Trump for more negotiation time or is this an election play?
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>But Apple — just as Sweeney seemed to expect — fell right into Epic's trap. It now has to find its own way out. Weird framing. Like Apple doesn't have sources on the periphery of Epic or Cravath? People talk.
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Pinterest Accused of Gender Bias in Suit by Former No. 2 Executive(nytimes.com)
23 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
TikTok has been skating by the issue of sexualizing young girls because it’s operated by a foreign company. Once an American company like Microsoft owns it...I think the nation will have another moral panic leading to protections that will
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by Firebrand 6y ago
TikTok has become too top heavy with its current creators. Its most popular stars not only live together but have conglomerated to form their own talent agency as well. You may not see it on your feed, but millions of middle schoolers seem
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Is this an attempt by ByteDance to retain control of the company?
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Was this necessary? If it was really a national security threat he would have made the ban effective much sooner. Now it just looks like it’s part of a shakedown to give Microsoft or some other interested party more leverage.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
How is Epic able to attract great talent when they’re headquartered in a small town in the middle of North Carolina? It’s a beautiful area with plenty of activities to enjoy outside of work but it seems pretty isolated from the rest of the
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Reels’ inclusion in Instagram makes the UI confusing for me. Right now it only feeds me three or four videos that are peppered in my discover feed when I scroll down so I have to swipe up to refresh for more videos: https://imgur
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by Firebrand 6y ago
This gives a general idea of how the algorithm works: https://www.veed.io/grow/reverse-engineering-how-tiktok-algo...
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by Firebrand 6y ago
>At the time Musical.ly got renamed TikTok, it was still dominated by teen girls doing lip synch videos. Many U.S. teens at the time described TikTok as “cringey,” usually a kiss of death for networks looking to expand among youths, fick
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by Firebrand 6y ago
One wonders how much wealthier Bezos would be if he had the same procedures done.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
> Under ByteDance's new proposal, Microsoft, which also owns professional social media network LinkedIn, will be in charge of protecting all of TikTok's U.S. user data, the sources said. The plan allows for a U.S. company other
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory is wholly owned by Tesla.
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by Firebrand 6y ago
The same reason why they bought Minecraft and tried Mixer: to acquire the next generation of technology consumers.
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Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack(wfla.com)
382 points by Firebrand 6y ago|659 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Apparently Microsoft is in talks to purchase TikTok: https://twitter.com/cgasparino/status/1289254703705075722
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by Firebrand 6y ago
Maybe not a major flop, but Facebook’s original TikTok competitor, Lasso, was shut down. They tried to go after the Musical.ly half of TikTok’s user base that likes dancing to music. https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/
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by Firebrand 6y ago
It’s been reported Facebook has been offering exclusivity contracts to some of TikTok’s most followed personalities for its new competitor, Reels. It reminds me of Microsoft’s streaming platform giving millions to Ninja and Shroud only to c
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TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work(axios.com)
94 points by Firebrand 6y ago|123 comments
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Tesla’s insane stock price makes sense in a market gone mad(latimes.com)
10 points by Firebrand 6y ago|0 comments
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The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf](inthepublicinterest.org)
365 points by Firebrand 6y ago|542 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
What’s the appeal of eating sugar free Haribo if they give you gas and diarrhea?
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U.S. House of Representatives votes to ban TikTok on federal devices(politico.com)
8 points by Firebrand 6y ago|2 comments
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by Firebrand 6y ago
So either this Kirk worked at Twitter and went insane or he’s lying and gained access through a third party. Should be easy for the FBI to track him from Discord.

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