dougiec3 (@dougiec3@libretooth.gr)
An expensive horn for Trump to toot about himself.
" After soaring shortly before Trump’s re-election in November 2024, stock in(Truth Social) plunged 67%, wiping out more than $6 billion in investor wealth.
Since it went public two years ago, Trump Media has lost more than $1.1 billion. Nunes got total compensation of $47 million in 2024, the last year for which figures are available."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-truth-social-nunes-ceo-don-jr-f528dc294683c7f132c063b4a21dd68e?user_email=0f339865febfccb883fa2ea8eb117221bc0f2b7472e97297228346986ba3a229&utm_medium=Morning_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=Morning%20Wire%20Wednesday%2C%20Apr%2022%2C%202026&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers
#SocialMedia #TruthSocial #Economics #Propaganda
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blog (@blog@analyticsblog.blinkfire.com)
Blinkfire and ScorePlay: The Integrated AI Solution for Sports Organizations
We are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with ScorePlay, the leading AI-powered media asset management platform designed for the sports industry.
Creating great content is only half the battle. The real challenge is quantifying its impact once it’s published. By integrating Blinkfire’s industry-leading analytics, AI, and computer vision tech with ScorePlay’s robust Media Asset Management (MAM) system, we are giving sports organizations a “full stack” view of their content performance, from the first frame captured to the final post published.
The Challenge
Most sports teams and leagues face a common pain point: they produce incredible photos and videos but can lose sight of where those assets actually land.
- Who is posting our highlights?
- Which teams, influencers, or athletes are driving the most reach?
- What is the true ROI for our partners?
The Solution
This partnership eliminates the guesswork. We built a seamless bridge that allows Blinkfire to identify specific assets programmatically.
Key features of this integration include:
- Automated Asset Identification: Blinkfire identifies the specific images and videos originating from the ScorePlay library as they appear across social platforms.
- Quantified Reach: No more guess work with engagement and valuation. We provide data on where posts were published and the total reach and valuation of the specific assets.
- Full View of Performance: Understand which content, from locker room BTS to match-day highlights, is actually performing for your brand and your sponsors.
From our Leadership:
“By partnering with ScorePlay, we are closing the loop on the content lifecycle. It’s no longer enough to just manage your assets; you need to know exactly how they perform,” said Alexis Prousis, Blinkfire’s CMO. “This integration allows our users to find their ScorePlay content anywhere it’s posted and quantify its value instantly.”
“Sports organizations invest heavily in creating world-class content, but understanding how that content performs once it leaves their platforms has always been a blind spot,” said Josh Krakowsky, Head of Partnerships at ScorePlay. “Our integration with Blinkfire closes that loop entirely. Teams and leagues can not only manage their assets efficiently through ScorePlay but also track exactly where they appear and what value they’re driving for sponsors and partners. This is the full-stack solution the industry has been waiting for.”
About Blinkfire
Blinkfire is the leading AI-powered business intelligence and marketing analytics platform used by the world’s largest rights holders, players, and brands to quantify the value of sports, media, and entertainment sponsorships. By leveraging proprietary computer vision technology, Blinkfire tracks and evaluates content across social media, digital, broadcast, streaming, and ticketing providing real-time data to drive smarter commercial decisions. For more information, visit www.blinkfire.com. Interested in Blinkfire’s Partner Program. Read about it here.
About ScorePlay
ScorePlay is a best-in-class media solution that provides automated architecture to centralise, distribute, and classify your digital assets, whether photos, videos, or live broadcasts. We are transforming sports organizations, automating their creative processes and growing their brands and unlocking new revenue. ScorePlay is a bridge to the future of sports storytelling, from content capture to fan consumption. Automate. Grow. Unlock. For more information, visit scoreplay.com. Interested in ScorePlay’s Partner Connect program? Read about it here.
#AI #assetManagement #influencers #scoreplay #socialMedia
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JazzyKindaFella (@JazzyKindaFella@zirk.us)
🔴 IRGC Navy: Two violating ships, "MSC-FRANCESCA" (linked to the Zionist regime) & "EPAMINODES," which endangered maritime security by operating without the necessary permits and tampering with navigation systems, were seized by the #IRGC Navy & directed to the coast of Iran.
https://x.com/PressTV/status/2046893021258760530
#StraitOfHormuz #Iran #news #resistance #freepalestine #trade #economy #MiddleEast #politics #socialmedia #sanctions #Lebanon #justice #protest #humanrights #war #activism #bds #Gaza #stopgenocide
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h4ckernews (@h4ckernews@mastodon.social)
The best time to post on Hacker News
https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news
#HackerNews #besttimeposting #hackernews #socialmedia #tips #techblog
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reazonozaer (@reazonozaer@social.vivaldi.net)
Cognitive warfare operations promote and stimulate aversive emotions, thoughts, and moods, which can escalate to high levels of intensity
https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2026-04-22/cognitive-warfare-or-hacking-human-beings
#CognitiveWarfare #AI #SocialMedia
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
社交なきソーシャルメディア
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/ai/5594
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2026 (@2026@enthusiasticallydawn.com)
On Scroll Aversion & Avoidance
I have been intentionally inactive on specific social media platforms for the past few years. I can’t remember exactly the date I signed off, but I can remember how I began to breathe easier. I still enjoy the ample extra room in my mindsphere (not sure this is an official word, but the space between my ears where thinking and everything else mostly originates). I used to be one who justified my social media use…but I am going to tell you something you might need to hear. Peace is a river not found in an algorithm, or on any platform at all.
At first I missed it, I did…but after a year or so, social media became as a distant landscape. One I know longer desire to return to, nor navigate this side of eternity, but only cautiously, and extremely minimally. Let me tell you why, and this might be a ramble more than an essay, so grab something yummy to sip and perhaps, go pull on your patience pants and slip away from the propensity to skim read. I’ll wait.
The reason I want to bring this into the light is because I have been off two of the biggest time...no scratch that-two of the biggest LIFE wasters, and time sucks created by mankind: Instagram, and Facebook for long enough to have a distanced perspective, a sense of objectivity. I find it interesting that when social media use is brought up, it’s the same thing as bringing up diet and exercise…which only reveals how insidious the power to captivate is in these mediums. Though I am only naming two, there are multitudes as you know. We have a plethora of poisons to pick from these days. Please supplement in your thinking for this ride whichever drives you…repeatedly back, or should I say draws you?
When I worked for 30 or so years in the field of fitness, as a personal trainer, and exercise instructor, never would one hear such incredible inaccurate versions of individual’s behavior regarding food and exercise than when the trainer was present. The same excuses were heard, and the same justification for choices were prevalent. As a trainer you learn to home in on where the inconsistencies lie to help the client overcome and adjust to hopefully work towards being healthier however they define it.
People are so good at deceiving themselves.
I only go on (social media of choice), because I have to to keep up with my friends.
I only cheat on my diet the weekends.
I have to do it or else I can’t share my (add whatever it is you need to share for whatever reason you believe).
I ONLY eat healthy foods.
I just use (whatever platform you use) to share the gospel and uplifting content.
I never miss a day at the gym. I never skip cardio. I never snack between meals. I always, I never, I only. Oh, what a tangled web of words.
I only use social media for business, to keep up with the so and so, I follow this great whatever person, the news- so I can pray…etc.
With the social media – I get it. I get all of it. I lived it. But the fact is unless you are incredibly self-disciplined, and also supernaturally empowered, there are forces working to manipulate you to make you do things in ways you cannot begin to comprehend. Do not be deceived.
The reality is every social media platform that exists exists to profit. The end. Of course this is just good business. But the insidious, under the surface delivery, and deliberate evil algorithms are something you can choose to avoid. But it will cost you. You will lose something.
A verse: For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life? Matthew 6:16 (CSB).
From where I am standing on the other side of the river, I see a lot of people chasing after the world on social media. They need to know all the things. Everywhere. All the time. Oh, they have such good reasons. The reasons are varied and many. But distracted souls aren’t always tuned in with God the way they think they are. And consumerism is a subtle deceptive wolf that comes in sheep’s clothing, wearing a suitably humble grin. It’s dangerous and not pretty. Content creation is where we are at in this brave new world…but I can’t help but wonder with all these lesser gods, what the One True Living God thinks. The ultimate Content Creator. Who created everything. Meanwhile all of his people, oh ever wayward we are…peering endlessly at our multi-shaped screens in all their glorious forms.
And I see Jesus, far off, watching, having none of this self-worship. Idolatry we see in Israel, and blind to its beautiful algorithm are we.
Did Eve recognize the snake before it struck her with his venomous lies?
Intoxicated we have become with the wine of this world. We keep drinking and drinking and thinking there are not consequences. We think we can handle our little idols. We think we have control. All the while, time is slipping away. The dash grows smaller for us to be present to the mist of life entrusted to us.
I have wondered, where is God in this. OH- I know, I can hear the staunch Christians justifying, always rationalizing. But I can tell you this…I don’t miss what I don’t know. There is beauty, freedom and peace in choosing to come away from all of it, and sitting instead, undistractedly, at last, and again and again with the One who offers eternity, and life abundant, not gross distortion and illusion. We are becoming blind to what is truly beautiful in our desire to know more, be more, see more, do more, have more.
God wants HIs people to be free and they are less so now than ever before. We look back and call Israel blind! Oh, friend, get that phone shaped log out of your eye. We are slaves to whatever masters us, whatever consumes our attention. Whatever we lust after and refuse to sacrifice to the savior’s hand. Oh, Lord forgive us our pride. Our blindness, our insensitivity. Our willingness to be complicit in such a great apostacy, and unable to even confess it to one another.
OK, so where does this leave us? You are thinking I’ve gone all judgy on you, but can you deny that you do not feel a twinge of anything stirring up truth within?
The biggest reason of all I stopped indulging in social media activity is because I believed and still do, that it makes hearing God harder for me. He becomes static in my ears, less clear. I am not willing to settle for static. I have a God, in Jesus Christ, who is willing to come near, by His Spirit. I am not willing to tell Him- one second, Lord- I’m making this excellent post on Instagram to glorify you. I am not willing to pause God to gain the whole world of knowledge available at my fingertips and lose out on the presence of my Lord. Not on your life.
I’d rather sit at His feet and look at the birds.
Selah.
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Thank you for reading this rant. I haven’t got it all figured out. But I am staring straight into the beautiful gaze of my Lord. My eyes are fixed on Him. May He keep them. May He keep you too, my friend.
Enthusiastically, Dawn
#Apathy #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #SocialMediaFast #spiritualBlindness
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tagesschau (@tagesschau@ard.social)
Wie wurde Kultregisseur Werner Herzog zum Social-Media-Star?
Werner Herzog ist Kult: In Deutschland für Cineasten, in den USA für alle. Dort spielt er in Serien mit und ist in den großen Late Night Shows zu Gast. Seine Social-Media-Videos sehen Millionen - dabei hat er nicht mal ein Handy. Von Nils Dampz.
#WernerHerzog #Film #Regisseur #SocialMedia #Influencer #Regie #Podcast
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Strangphotography (@Strangphotography@mastodon.social)
https://youtu.be/0XaYiSl0ztA?si=OorpwpAXcN_gQqbi
Faces of Thailand in Black and White | Street Portraits, Bar Culture & Real Life Moments
This video is made for people who appreciate honest photography, street portraits, Thailand culture and the beauty of unplanned moments.
If you understand Thailand beyond tourism, you will recognise a lot here.
#Photography #travelphotography #socialmedia #Thailand #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #photooftheday
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2026 (@2026@tanukicorner.com)
Blog: I’m Suspicious About Age Verification Tech Online…
For a few years now, questions about how to verify the age of various people on the internet have been flying around, especially as it pertains to keeping pornography out of kids’ hands. Most of the time, the verification works on an honor system, where a popup appears, asks if you’re XYZ age, and you can click yes or no. Obviously, however, this isn’t a good system as people will inevitably lie about their age to access whatever they’re trying to access. It’s the same with social media sites where often, you can just lie about your age when it asks for your birthday as you’re making your account.
Thus, because of the obvious flaws with this system, tech companies, often when faced with mounting legal pressure to do so, have started looking into new, more accurate ways of figuring out the age of their users…and the way it’s going is quite invasive. Now, quite a few companies such as YouTube, Discord, Roblox, and others are demanding that users submit a government issued ID or allow the app to scan their face so AI can guess their age. If you don’t, either the app will restrict what features you can use or it will be almost completely unusable.
While on the surface, this seems like a good idea so these tech companies can prevent children from seeing adult content or being groomed, there is a big issue with allowing them to have your ID or to scan your face: where is it being stored? And how safe is your info?
Though many of these companies will say that the image of your ID will be promptly deleted and that the scan of your face is processed on your phone so it’s not being stored by a third party, we’ve found over the years that those assurances sometimes turn out to be lies. For example, in September of last year, Discord experienced a massive data breach, in which the hackers managed to access the third-party customer support services, stealing people’s IDs, names, emails, usernames, billing info, etc. And just think about how many times you get alerts that such-and-such social media site has experienced a data breach. A lot of your info is already out there – do you really want them having access to more of it, especially if your kids’ info is involved?
Additionally, when Roblox rolled their age verification system a few months ago, it soon proved to be incredibly easy to sneak around. People figured out that you could use AI platforms such as Sora to get past the facial age estimation. Pedophiles on the platform, not wanting to lose access to kids, also started buying and trading age verified accounts for whatever age bracket they wanted to prey on.
Speaking about the age verification, this method is also flawed due to the fact that AI is incapable of telling the actual age of a person. It can estimate it, but some people look younger than they are while others look much older, making these estimates inaccurate. In fact, some people have complained that the age verification on Discord thought they were teenagers when they’re adults and made it almost unusable by putting them on the teen setting.
But besides the obvious issues regarding submitting your ID to random tech companies who profit off of selling your data, or doing a face scan, we need to ask if we’re really comfortable with trading extremely sensitive information about ourselves in exchange for being able to chat with friends or play a game. Do I support the idea that certain websites should require an ID to access (i.e. porn sites.) Yes? But when it comes to other websites such as social media, then I have to question if it’s really worth it. Do they not have a better way of keeping people safe without invading our privacy?
Until next time,
M.J.
#AgeEstimation #AgeVerification #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #Blog #Cybersecurity #Discord #internet #OpinionPeice #Roblox #SocialMedia #technology #Writing #YouTube
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Kapow! Batman, Robin, and the template of moral panic - part 1 www.linkedin.com/pulse/kapow-ba… #history #MoralPanics #SocialMedia
Kapow! Batman, Robin, and the ...
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