Tengrain (@Tengrain@mastodon.social)
RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115358895565134132
So cool that 94-year old Rupert Murdoch, 81-year old Larry Ellison, and 79-year old Grandpa Sundowner are going to be controlling #TikTok, the preferred Social Media of the Yutes of Today.
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tsyum (@tsyum@thepit.social)
To answer their question, NO - it is unacceptable. I’m more concerned that American oligarchs might have access to my data than I was when they suggested that China did.
https://unionrayo.com/en/tiktok-usa-users-data-store-oracle-server/
Any of you figure out how long we have til ownership changes hands? I’m leaning toward a full deletion of my data before this happens. Link to a source if you aren’t one, pls.
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geri123 (@geri123@mastodon.social)
Buchvorstellung (TikTok): Das Morgan-Komplott https://tiktok.com/@gerisbuchvorstellung/video/7560445963060448534
#buch #ebook #taschenbuch #paperback #belletristik #sciencefiction #wirtschaft #lesen #video #tiktok
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AnnaAnthro (@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social)
Barron #Trump tipped for top job at #TikTok after his dad tells users they ‘owe’ him for saving platform
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Caramba1 (@Caramba1@mastodon.social)
Sora 2 ist da und die versprochenen Schutzmechanismen wie Wasserzeichen sind schon wirkungslos. Das Ergebnis: Politische Fakes und virale Streiche, die reale Polizeieinsätze provozieren. Das Vertrauen in visuelle Medien sinkt dadurch spürbar. Ist es vertretbar, derart mächtige Tools ohne robuste Kontrollmechanismen zu veröffentlichen, oder liegt die Verantwortung allein bei den Nutzern? #Sora #OpenAI #TikTok
https://www.all-ai.de/news/topbeitraege/sora2-polizei-propaganda
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frenchhope (@frenchhope@piaille.fr)
Cadeaux virtuels, pression sociale, gamification : les TikTok Lives, des machines à capter l’attention et l’argent des ados https://theconversation.com/cadeaux-virtuels-pression-sociale-gamification-les-tiktok-lives-des-machines-a-capter-lattention-et-largent-des-ados-265208 #tiktok #réseaux_sociaux #attention #adolescence #économie_de_l_attention #économiedel_attention #réseauxsociaux #jeunesse #économie
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japan (@japan@wakoka.com)
https://www.wacoca.com/2058003/ 横浜流星の生き様、マジでやばすぎた件。#shorts #YouTube #生い立ち#芸能人 #TikTok #横浜流星 #Male #RyuseiYokohama #shorts #tiktok #YokohamaRyusei #YouTube #横浜流星
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2025 (@2025@markcarrigan.net)
Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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polyinnovator (@polyinnovator@mastodon.social)
It looks like not only is #Youtube doing clips, but so is #Tiktok.
https://www.tiktok.com/tiktokstudio/tool/smartsplit
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soldier1375 (@soldier1375@mastodon.social)
Let's try some #kural on Oct 12 Sunday 2025
#retiredstudent #soldier #soldier1375 #lonesoldier #freegames #frankquotes #shorts #reels #tiktok #game #gaming #gameplay #console #consolegaming #ps #playstation #xbox #nintendo #nes #gameboy #retro #pc #pcgamer
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dc (@dc@vive.im)
Mum’s outrage at M&S Christmas food as she’s left ‘jaw dropped’ by one thing
A mum has been left outraged after looking through the 2025 M…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Christmas #christmas #ChristmasAppetizes #christmasdesserts #christmasdinner #christmasdinnerrecipes #christmasfood #christmasrecipes #christmasshopping #christmassides #Foodanddrink #marksspencer #shopping; #tiktok
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2328479/mums-outrage-at-ms-christmas-food-as-shes-left-jaw-dropped-by-one-thing/
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huffpost_es (@huffpost_es@mastodon.world)
🔥 ■ Una española que ha vivido en la India enseña cómo preparar "el auténtico té chai" ■ "Os prometo que esto es gloria".
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/una-espanola-vivido-india-ensena-como-preparar-el-autentico-te-chai.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD
#recetas #india #bebidas #espanolesporelmundo #tiktok #virales
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