(But yes fair, it doesn’t directly say that, and also worth pointing out that source is not an official financial document)

It says Bytedance generated 30B profit. They have other products but they’re mostly just tiktok. TikTok also has virtually no expenses besides hosting, they pay even enormous influencers peanuts. Social media is /extremely/ profitable.

I think this one is inaccurate Ed. ByteDance is opaque but seems like TikTok was printing money for them. They generated $33B in profit in 2024.

(Oracle is still fucked lol)

I don’t think we need to praise him but what he’s doing is good and we don’t need to pretend it’s not

I’m sure your piece is going to touch on this but I’m particularly concerned about the domino effects here. How many random US towns have staked their entire economic growth for the next 10 years on a new data center and associated projects?.. what happens when those projects go bust

Time to admit these orgs never believed any of this shit once something truly horrific happened in America, it was all an act

They also are not GDPR compliant, and their whole shtick is based on this weird AI manifesto where in the future everyone gets their own personal filter bubble. Unfortunately what other alternatives are there really? DuckDuckGo I guess?

(Video is from february 2025, before Trump really attacked the fed nor fed independence in any real way)

I don't think that matches reality. Almost a year ago Jerome Powell testified before congress about how attacks on DEI and bureaucratic independence would be devastating. He's consistently had more of a spine than I think anyone else near power this administration.

(there should be no singular)