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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · 3d

What we have to remember is this is class warfare. If we all wake up and realize that this war is rich vs poor using left vs right and race and religion to divide and conquer, then we can actually fix this. Because their best weapon is their propaganda and if it stops working they’re doomed.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · 3d

There is nothing ethical about AI. It’s robbing everyone of intellectualism, outsourcing and replacing our jobs, and eventually consolidate wealth into the hands of the CEOs of their parent companies because it will be way cheaper to hire it than it will be to hire us. And then how do we live? #AI

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump uses No Kings to use the Insurrection Act then he truly is evil and a spineless bitch. #firstamendment #NoKings

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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · 4d

You ever think about how many opportunities you’d have if Covid and the Clementine in Chief hadn’t happened? What money would be like right now? I’m making the same amount and yet I feel like I’m poorer every year…I wonder what my 20s would be like if we were in the other timeline? #showerthoughts

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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · 5d

I never liked Taylor in the first place now the Swifties are just hearing her the way everyone else has the whole time! Lmao 🤣 #taylorswift

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Feb 6

That moment of accidental gender affirmation:

*gets into Uber*

👨🏻‍🦳: where are we off to young man?

Me, who just had a mental breakdown: 🥹

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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Feb 6

I will literally get a tech degree so fucking fast if he does. (I have dyscalculia, coding is/would be hell for me)

Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · Feb 5

Has Justin Trudeau offered any easy way to get Canadian citizenship for medical ,science and coders yet ? If I was him I'd be targeting a brain drain.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 26

It’s times like this as a history fanatic that I wish schools would teach about the Shock Doctrine so that we could all be aware that this is a tactic that we should not fall for.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 21

I see the sex bots have already found this place…coming from a tumblr native it feels like home!

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 21

Things feel awful but for some reason I feel peaceful on the inside. I’m not quite all the way at “things are going to be fine” because we’re nowhere near there but I panicked and now I feel better.

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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 20

Anyone else getting news articles saying Elon did the Nazi salute at the inauguration???

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 20

And if he does? How then will citizenship be determined? Will current citizens be grandfathered in or is there going to be some arbitrary application process?

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 20

I hope that everyone actually stays true to their promises to not watch the inauguration. I wanna see the look on Trump’s face when he sees the viewership poll. 😈

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 20

I got a service update from TikTok but this is what happens when I try to click on it. Weird right? View More but no additional information.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 20

Has anyone else gone on #TikTok and realized all the Lives are gone? And the FYP is different somehow…algorithm is weird and some of my favorite creators videos won’t allow likes or comments even though they’re on…

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

Exactly. Agent Orange going to use this wave of “relief” from the people to excuse the mass deportations he has planned. Don’t forget that Trump started this whole thing, and that he’s an expert conman.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Jan 19

This is going to drive a LOT of people into the arms of the movement Biden calls "fascist." And it was entirely avoidable, like so many of his blunders.

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jan 19

Biden endorses the TikTok ban, Biden pressures Dem lawmakers to back the TikTok ban, Biden signs the TikTok ban into law, Biden has his administration defend the TikTok ban in court.

Liberals: Trump did this! 😭

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

I’m still lowkey on the fence about #RedNote, mostly because I do wish to go into law later in life. Some tell me what it’s like over there? The skincare girlie in me is quaking with FOMO

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

This part! Book burning and state controlled media looks different in the digital age, but this has all been done before! Do not let government propaganda take us on a field trip to 1930s Berlin.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 19

Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

I would also like a self refreshing page? Or have it be like tumblr where you scroll down and it shows you more stuff based on the stuff you liked/tags you follow.

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · Jan 19

If bsky expands the team I think we need a team on just the discover algo.

I'm all for chronological but TikTok showed that an actually good "for you" algo can be done and can be great

Right now using bsky is the opposite of tiktok, you have to work to get the content you want

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

Shou removed “CEO” from his TikTok. This does not bode well. #tiktok

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · Jan 19

Update: TikTok appears to be back to full functionality

BE VERY WARY OF THIS RESTORATION

#tiktok

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Some Random Dude @realsrd2020.bsky.social · Jan 19

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Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

TikTok is back up. Anyone noticing algorithm differences yet?

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

I bet you are, I bet you are. Too bad whatever pops up after you “fix” it won’t even be the original anymore.

Riven @r1v3n.bsky.social · Jan 19

Not the government demonizing China for the “Great Firewall” and then pulling this bullshit. Smh

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 19

Ah yes. All the angles being played by the oligarchs on this are coming into focus. How about the fact that TIKTOK isn’t allowed to operate in China? What about that?