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Feb 4, 2022·edited Feb 4, 2022Liked by James Hennessy

Re There Is No Spoon:

To anyone interested in simulation hypothesis and in particular the impact that the idea we are all living in a simulation is having on society, I recommend Rodney Ascher's documentary A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX from last year. Mainly consists of interviews with different people who've had their brains broken by simulation theory in all sorts of strange ways.

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8eT79WUJ0

Re Hit After Hit:

That Facebook commenter is mistaken. You don't need any special relationship with Spotify to gain API access. Anyone can sign up for a developer account and get access in a few days. For example, I have API access and I'm just some dickhead who likes toying around with companies APIs.

He seems to be insinuating that Spotify are somehow involved, which you can't infer just from him having API access. Anyone with a few weeks of python under their belt could have snapped together the underlying tech that ran this NFT scam but I suspect no one did because, as human fly points out, the idea doesn't pass the "thinking about it for more than 2 seconds" test.

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Feb 4, 2022Liked by James Hennessy

I feel like you/your readers might be able to answer this question: Why is Facebook increasingly such a shit app to use? The web version has been busted for a while, which I assumed was to push people towards the mobile app. But even the mobile app is buggy and terrible now. Have Meta just decided it’s not worth it? Compare it to Instagram, which runs very smoothly - is that where the money is and therefore where their resource allocation goes?

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