Same. I stopped “Watching” the T**** administration thread for quite a while, but I picked it back up just because there is so much I miss otherwise. I rarely add new notifications even for some threads I contribute to. It just gets to be too much.
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yt shows me lotsa headlines both from MSNBC, PBS, and the big network news channels, and those individuals* on yt I like who do heavy research & know what they’re talkin’ about. I don’t click on many of them these days, and when I do, I gen’ly don’t can’t watch alla way thru. When I see stories in the recommends I do not want to see over and over again in that feed, I tell yt I’m not interested, that I’ve already watched it.
When I need a video palate cleanser/amuse bouche of sorts for my head, I watch funny animal vids, esp from Rufus the Couch Kangaroo, and Cooper the Naked Bubble-Killer Cat at Sphynxnille, and SaveAFox; old cartoons, esp Tex Avery and old the B&Ws; Big Clive; Backyard Racing and the like (wonderful, complicated AF Hot Wheels tracks in backyards); Ozzie bat vids from Megabattie, Batzilla the Bat, and Baby Bats and Buddies - and a few others. They do help.
*Supertanskii (UK), Maximilien Robespierre (UK), David Pakman, Brian Tyler Cohen, Raw News and Politics, Belle of the Ranch and Farron Balanced are the ones I’m thinking of right now!
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I had to mute BTC. He’s way to clickbaity.
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Understandable. When he’s good, he’s very, very good.
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I find Occupy Democrats to be annoying, although Vincent Gallo often makes good points.
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100% agreed.
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I never noticed any of this.
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Yeah, but when that’s less than 5% of his content and 95% is rage-bait or just misleading, it’s not worth grubbing for the good stuff.
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It was quite a few years ago, six or seven I think? 
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Oh. Perhaps I forgot about it.
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Now I think about it, his are the ones I most often can’t get thru, and sometimes feel more angry than after watching others’ vids. I’ll unsub.
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He has a secondary channel which has less sensational headlines. Same content otherwise. For example:
Main Channel:
Nancy Mace LOSES IT with UNHINGED public meltdown
Secondary channel:
Nancy Mace records herself verbally accosting constituent
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eyyyy! sorry for the belated login. it’s been a very busy year so far.
re: the big traffic spike, this would have been around the time of OpenAI, Facebook, and Perplexity’s Big Fuckin’ Crawl, the very last time they scraped every website indiscriminately when building their large language models. these days, crawls are… more selective. (and who needs crawls when you can just… pirate every single book ever put to archive?)
we’re not big but we’re small! everything here’s a bit of a do-ocracy! i haven’t uh been doing much around the place (i still have perms back from when we were moving fast and weaving culture) since 2020, which is when I posted my last syndicated blogs to squinter and [scratches head] the joint blog the kinjaverse created. not this one. no, not that one. not that one, either. yeah, that’s the one. deadsplinter. i think.
what can i say? life happens.
lotta wild stuff a person can do with discourse threads, i think? it’s possible for users to make their own post a wiki, which could act as a homepage if they so wanted? while bumping the old contents of the main post to a reply. i do get the desire for simplicity and for a… curated experience. big-ass internet and sometimes it feels like the board is just as big and fast-moving.
well, here’s a little bit of curation. a curiosity. a wonder:
would you believe this isn’t the only currently ongoing post-humous art performance by human cells removed from their host?
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Hello, fellow former kinjateer. I was active on Jez, GroupThink that was (and now is, that you linked to), BalkTalk (also reconstituted on Blogger), i09 and Observation Deck.
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I hung out a lot on Io9, Jezebel, and the AVClub… or I used to, before the Herb wrecked the place. I never got out of the Grays (n00b commenter mode) on Kinja, their commenting system, whuch had to be one of the worst examples of web comment software (??) I’ve ever seen in my decades of surfing the web. Seriously, BBCode was better than Kinja, and Discourse is a huge step above BBCode.
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Oh yes, all the kinja malfunction gifs;
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I went to a concert by Alvin Lucier in college. The piece I remember most was a pure sound beating in the room, and him moving a small microphone back and forth to demonstrate the peaks and valleys of interference. To us engineers it was pretty cool.
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