Not really just short form, it's more of a take on video feeds rather than just the limited length quickcontent Vine was famous about.
Obviously the focus is still on short(ish) content format, but I see more and more people transition to longer videos to deliver content. On YT/Facebook most videos I see nowadays are 10min or above.
Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.
Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.
The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.
When he said he could shoot a man in the middle of Fifth Ave, he wasn't joking.
Many thought he was, that there's a justice system that would convict him... But I think it's finally dawning on these idiots too that indeed the orange shitstain was dead serious, and also correct.
At this point not even terabytes of video evidence would waver his fans. You could literally play a video of him raping an infant on every screen of Times Square, and the MAGAts would be doing Olympic gold level mental gymnastics to explain, excuse and justify the video. It's AI, he only did it because he was undercover FBI to take down the pedo rings, but what about XY of the Democrats who dared to have a dickpic on his personal laptop, and so on.
And these don't even tank top ten in the "worst shit committed by 'men of god' in the Bible". Hell it doesn't even make top 10 in the Old Testament.
That pretty much happens every time any government tries to introduce an "economy kickstart benefit".
See for example, Hungary. The government introduced "CSOK" a few years back, which was basically a "start your family" free money kit - if you marry and have X kids within Y years of taking part in this program, you get to keep the money for free, no need to pay it back, otherwise it turns into a loan (with sub-market rates mind you so it's worth taking even if you don't want kids).
The amount per family was fixed, at IIRC 20 million HUF, or around $60k USD.
Guess what happened?
Property prices shot up, practically overnight, by that amount.
Shit do be like that at times
Fedisniper strikes again. When will this terror end?
Nobody mention the tissues or the suspicious white spots on their shirts!
Why do you presume that all AI advancement is purely by technofascists?
Okay so admission time, that's not really why we broke up. The cadence of the story was just better that way.
In reality, we "broke up" (reduced the number of dates we had) because we were in a poly relationship and things were becoming more serious (as in, thinking about children and getting married) with her primary, which I fully support.
The books were after her recommendation, by the way, they did unlock a few new kinks (and reinforced plenty existing ones), and the sentence "I can barely recognise you (in bed)" was indeed muttered a few times, so I was mostly truthful, but you can see why the cadence came out better in the original comment.
I feel incredibly split on ads.
On one hand the incessant need to market things can be actually positive, offsetting service expenses, allowing things to be cheaper. Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don't seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure, not to mention keeping the apps maintained and bugfixed etc., and then we haven't even talked about things like content licencing fees, residuals, and so on. Residuals alone mean that a single user can stream enough in just one month to "spend" their whole annual subscription fee on a single actor's residuals (this is technically unlikely, as one would need to stream a singular TV show or movie 24/7 for 30 days, but still possible).
And obviously people want to pay less. The least possible, that is. Netflix at $5.99 was a steal. Disrupting cable, globally. But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix, which allowed them to pay for the service mostly from that money, and keep prices low to acquire more users. The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up, as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine. Which is the point of capitalism, isn't it? Take an ide and make profit/revenue off it.
So how do you offset these increases? By involving a third party who's willing to pay you, in return for inserting their service into yours, essentially providing your userbase to them. This would mostly be... Advertisers. Marketing.
The problem is that advertising is a cutthroat business, with intense (and incredibly dumb) KPIs to fulfill. For which they need targeting, for which they need data. And this constant crusade for absolutely pinpointed ads that result in the most sales is what's making it such a disgusting business. It's not enough to shove ads in your face, those ads HAVE to be perfectly tailored to you, and for that, every smidge of information will be utilised against you.
And this is where I'm torn. On one hand, taking these fuckers' money to make services we do want, more affordable, is great. On the other hand, them wanting to know literally everything about us, and weaponising it against us, is fucking disgusting.