Amanda Unvarnished

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Sen. Marco Rubio just wrote this editorial regarding a potential TikTok ban.

It's apparent to me that his gripe isn't with TikTok's surveillance or algorithms or data collection per se.

It's that a Chinese company is doing it.

Apparently, if TikTok were American, they would be peachy keen.

But Chinese? That's bad!

I don't like TikTok, and I believe it's generally an evil corporation. Yet I also dislike how Sen. Rubio is pushing yellow peril.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tiktok-other-social-media-controlled-enemies-must-banned-now-we-cant-wait-longer

Another day where the two tracking apps on my phone are over a mile and a half apart in their estimates of the distance I walked. Probably gonna hold off on getting in a driverless cars for at least the next 40-50 years.

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America wakes up to another tragedy. Some can’t accept that festivals like Lunar Year and Diwali are now mainstream in America. Fuck them.

“Media discovers tech entrepreneur widely proclaimed for years to be smarter than Einstein, kinder than Jesus, and wiser than Solomon actually isn’t”.

No questions then get asked as to who made said proclamations and no lessons are then learned as to why it might be a good idea to approach widely hyped technology with weary skepticism, as is pretty common among technologists actually working at the coalface.

People who say, "The Fediverse doesn't allow search" are literally making that up.

And it's easy to refute.

Do a search for your username on Google or DuckDuckGo, and you'll find so many of your posts.

In your Mastodon account preferences, you can also set how indexable you want to be.

If Fediverse search was impossible, why is so much of the Fediverse indexable by Google?