How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

Bird site: *goes full Nazi*
everyone: *this is fine*

Bird site: *rate limiting*
everyone: *OMG IT"S THE END OF TWITTER*
me: it's about time.

With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts

F.B.I. counterintelligence agents raided a suspected Chinese police outpost operating in New York’s Chinatown, escalating a global dispute over more than a hundred suspected off-the-books police centers.

Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/world/europe/china-outpost-new-york.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesworld

Consent, a quick guide for tech bros:

Opt-out: I just stuck my ice cream cone in your mouth, you can remove it if you don’t like it.

Opt-in: Would you like some ice cream?

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