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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
palin ("I stand with Biden") wrote:
Project 2025 has in its 900 pages a plan to get rid of the NOAA. The NOAA provides your weather predictions, the prediction and tracking of hurricanes, marine commerce support, other severe storm warnings, climate monitoring, and more. Unreal.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup, Lalo Alcaraz is spot on
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:
You made a what? A heat pump? You fucked up a perfectly good fridge, is what you did. Look at it, it's inside out
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
ipstenu@tech.lgbt ("Mika E.") wrote:
Twitter is suspending queer news accounts. 😬😬
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
We are so back. #Biden
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/schumer-biden-dump-donors-2024-election
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
We are so back
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/schumer-biden-dump-donors-2024-election
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Fun story.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
What's the over under on Biden stepping down? That dude is cooked.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a solution to the halting problem. If you can’t, halt.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apologies for the birdshite link, but this perfectly captures what I've been saying RSC would descend into since the moment I saw "`use server"` and `"use client"'`.
This was *obviously* the way the viral nature of `"use client"` would play out, and *of course* it sucks in practice:
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
When one designer copies, it's plagiarism.
When ten designers copy, it's a trend.
When a hundred designers copy, it's a convention.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Woke up with sharp pains in my left knee. Something wrong with my oinoncinte, or my haunthruic.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/10/if-its-not-one-thing-its-another-3/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
So if these TikTok influencers are not journalists, and they're clearly not, then they must be paid partners.
But, how could that be?
TikTok doesn't allow paid political ads on its platform.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Now, could those political influencers who have managed to maintain access to the White House just so happen to have the same exact opinions as Biden 100% of the time? Sure!
But we probably should answer whether these influencers are journalists or paid partners.
Because there's a reason why journalists adhere to a ethical code, and why they don't accept gifts from politicians.
It's because conflict of interests affect the stories they write.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
In June, @taylorlorenz interviewed a few TikTok creators who were invited to the White House and they all said the same thing:
The moment they started making content about things like Gaza, the White House, the DNC, and Biden-Affiliated PACs stopped calling. They stopped inviting them to the White House. To dinners. To hotels. And in some cases, completely removed them from email lists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/influencers-biden-tiktok-ban/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
But there's no way around the fact that these pro-Biden TikTok influencers are making content under threat that if they don't play ball they will lose access to the White House.
The White House courts influencers with free trips, hotel stays, and extraordinary amounts of access to the most powerful man in the world.
At least one unnamed influencer was offered a chance to interview Biden- so long as they don't mention Gaza.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-2024-campaign-tiktok.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Does every business relationship where one entity hires employees from the company they're doing business with imply some sort of quid pro quo?
No. Not necessarily.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Now, could it be a coincidence that ATTN Media, who has a relationship with the #Biden Team, partnered with Palette, whose owner also has a relationship with Biden, then locked a deal with TikTok folks who were, at the time, in negotiations with the Biden Administration to avoid being banned in the USA?
Sure.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Then, sometime in 2023 The White House hires a director of partnerships Morgan MacNaughton whose previous employer just so happens to be Palette Management.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-influencers-biden-campaign/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
After that meeting with the eight influencers, the White House continued to call in more influencers. According to the visitor logs and this Intercept article, most of the influencers who visited were from Palette.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-influencers-biden-campaign/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
So the White House wires 200k to Palette Management, and Daks sends 8 influencers to the White House for a little smooshing.
Now Daks maintains that those influencers were not paid anything. This article states that the money was a retainer to cover travel and hotel.
But later Daks states that the White House paid him 200k for strategic consulting services.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/tiktok-democrats-influencers-biden/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Back to Palette Management.
After a successful Covid information campaign using influencers, the White House wanted to use influencers to get pro-Biden messages onto TikTok.
So, In 2022, the White House calls Daniel Daks who they’ve been in contact with since the 2020 election.
And they asked Daks if he had any influencers around. And He was like you’re not going to believe this but I have a whole influencer company now.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
That same month President Joe Biden signs executive orders reversing Trump’s looming half-baked deal what would have Oracle and Walmart buy a big chunk of TikTok.
But that’s neither here nor there.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
And it just so happens that in 2021, ATTN landed a deal with #TikTok to run the TikTok for Good page.
https://www.axios.com/2021/04/21/attn-tiktok-social-good-videos
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
In 2018, that relationship with Biden' team lead to creating “Here’s The Deal” a limited series starring Joe Biden that “aired” on IGTV (Now Instagram Reels).
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/joe-biden-attn-political-issues-series-igtv-1202934694/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
That same year, in September 2021, Palette Management lands, what I assume would be a big partnership with ATTN Media.
ATTN is known for is its long-form political content, and has a relationship with Biden’s Team.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Let's talk about Palette Management, the agency that supplies the White House with most of its TikTok influencers.
Palette Management is owned by Daniel Daks.
In 2020, Daniel Daks helped the Biden campaign with its influencer outreach program.
Sometime in 2021, or possibly late 2020, Daks forms Palette Management, an influencer talent agency.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Now, the Biden Administration has stated on record that it does not pay influencers for content.
This is technically true (the best kind of truth).
But that doesn't mean the money isn't flowing.
Back in April, the #Biden campaign paid Village Marketing $2 million for its influencer outreach program.
The #DNC, Biden-affiliated PACs, and the White House all have paid talent agencies for access to #TikTok influencers, specifically.
After that, the money goes dark.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-2024-campaign-tiktok.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Here's a study conducted by #Mozilla that reveals partisan influencers are evading #TikTok's political ad policy.
The study has some good insight, but it doesn't get into exactly *how* it works...
"How Partisan Influencers Are Evading TikTok’s Weak Political Ad Policies"
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/tiktok-political-ads/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
It's a bit of an open secret in the political influencer community that #TikTok seems to look the other way when it comes to paid political ads on its platform.
When Tiktok gets caught, it simply removes the unmarked ads in question and apologizes.
BBC October 2020:
