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“Twitter’s capacity to spread false information is more than canceled out by its savage self-correction”? Please. Spare me your Internet Panlgossism. Bad data sticks around, particularly if it reinforces already-held biases and presumptions, and that’s especially true in the eternal-cascade world of Twitter.
Mr. MacFarlane is best known as the creator of “Family Guy,” an animated television series that has hung around in the company of “The Simpsons” and “South Park” like an annoying younger cousin, bullying and whining its way into a measure of public acceptance.
And btw I miss the 80s/90s! Twitter free. Kris’s Kross would not be fighting Al B Sure over Teena Marie. SMh
@boonepickens just stunted on me heavy.
Via Gizmodo:
There has never before been a point in history when a young black guy rich off of Canadian soap operas and luxury super-rap could exchange words with a quasi-eccentric super-rich octogenarian who loves wind power. Now they can—in public. And that, simply, is awesome.
Twitter: where world’s collide, and that’s a good thing.
early leader in the clubhouse for “troll of the year”
what a wonderful time it is to be alive if you are a well-heeled male
Hey why did nobody tell me that the title track off the Justice record was their attempt to pay tribute to Lush?
and — in the show’s most potentially controversial nomination – Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator’s “Yonkers.
— fuuuu—
i really don’t get why EMAIL COUPONING PLUS POORLY EMPLOYED PSEUDOSURREALISTIC HUMOR is being seen as a business model that’s worth loads of money. eventually someone gets left holding the bag. is this supposed to be some sort of giant metaphor where the businesses who ill-advisedly sign up to participate in groupon deals (and have to deal with various financial/customer service headaches at deal’s end) symbolize the people who ill-advisedly buy groupon stock high (and are stuck with worthless shares once this idiotic bubble inevitably pops)?
