Omnibus Social media dystopia mega thread
Scape @ Tue Sep 06, 2022 2:29 pm
This will be the dumping ground for all things Facebook/Twitter and other online social media.
Starting off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cgozFL ... WL&index=3
DrCaleb @ Fri Sep 09, 2022 6:27 am
Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever
Scape @ Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:19 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szA6Rc3 ... gg&index=3
Scape @ Thu Sep 15, 2022 1:34 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sR3s5x9JSE
Thanos @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:46 pm
Well, isn't this special. Social media gets people to cook chicken soaked in NyQuil cold medicine....
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/do-not-cook ... ine-trend/
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CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen shared on Monday some advice one hopes would never actually be necessary: “Do not cook your chicken in NyQuil.”
The seemingly obvious culinary tip was proffered in response to an actual warning released by the FDA — yes, this is a real thing on the FDA’s website right now, because we are in fact living in the dumbest and weirdest timeline — titled “A Recipe for Danger: Social Media Challenges Involving Medicines.”
“A recent social media video challenge encourages people to cook chicken in NyQuil (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and doxylamine) or another similar OTC cough and cold medication, presumably to eat,” the FDA statement says, calling the challenge “silly and unappetizing” but one that “could also be very unsafe,” and offering this explanation:
CNN Newsroom anchor Ana Cabrera brought on Cohen to discuss the social media trend. “What should parents know?” asked Cabrera.
“Did you ever think you would say that phrase, Ana — cooking chicken in NyQuil?” Cohen said with a laugh.
“I don’t get it!” replied Cabrera.
“It’s apparently all the rage among some kids,” said Cohen, but is “a terrible idea.”
The seemingly obvious culinary tip was proffered in response to an actual warning released by the FDA — yes, this is a real thing on the FDA’s website right now, because we are in fact living in the dumbest and weirdest timeline — titled “A Recipe for Danger: Social Media Challenges Involving Medicines.”
“A recent social media video challenge encourages people to cook chicken in NyQuil (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and doxylamine) or another similar OTC cough and cold medication, presumably to eat,” the FDA statement says, calling the challenge “silly and unappetizing” but one that “could also be very unsafe,” and offering this explanation:
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Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs. Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.
CNN Newsroom anchor Ana Cabrera brought on Cohen to discuss the social media trend. “What should parents know?” asked Cabrera.
“Did you ever think you would say that phrase, Ana — cooking chicken in NyQuil?” Cohen said with a laugh.
“I don’t get it!” replied Cabrera.
“It’s apparently all the rage among some kids,” said Cohen, but is “a terrible idea.”
Words fail. Probably the brainchild of those who somehow (and unfortunately) survived the Tide Pod and bleach-drinking challenges.
DrCaleb @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:08 pm
Might as well just go snort cinnamon. It'll kill you faster, without the slow death liver failure brings.
Thanos @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:47 pm
I wouldn't even blame something as dumb MAGA for this. These things are done by people so stupid that they don't even know what an election is, which is a good thing because the ones with the truly smooth-lobed brains shouldn't be encouraged to vote anyway. "But you should see all the clicks I got when I snorted some ground-up guinea pig shit on my livestream!". This is what we've come to as a species, at least in North America anyway.
Strutz @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:38 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Well, isn't this special. Social media gets people to cook chicken soaked in NyQuil cold medicine....
Words fail. Probably the brainchild of those who somehow (and unfortunately) survived the Tide Pod and bleach-drinking challenges.
Words fail. Probably the brainchild of those who somehow (and unfortunately) survived the Tide Pod and bleach-drinking challenges.
Wow. I really hope this was just a joke and that no one has actually tried to do this.
Thanos @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:46 pm
I'm kind of looking forward though to the eventually "college student loses pancreas in NyQuil Chicken challenge contest on TikTok - "don't do what I did, brah", says stricken frat-bro dumb fuck" sort of news items though. Good entertainment to watch as our big existential faulty rocket of a society re-enters the atmosphere at about 100 km up and bursts into flames for the long ride down.
raydan @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:47 pm
Do you remember when challenges were just people getting ice water dumped on their heads?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Thanos @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:52 pm
The wretched wetbrain-drunk sideshow geeks in the old-timey scummy travelling carnivals could easily be talked into biting the head off of a chicken or snake in exchange for a bottle of rotgut whiskey per performance. They were still probably smart and lucid enough not to partake in any of these social media challenges though.
DrCaleb @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:39 pm
Like Bill Engvall says, "Here is your sign".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjelRDKHUk
llama66 @ Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:38 pm
raydan raydan:
Do you remember when challenges were just people getting ice water dumped on their heads?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Pepperidge Farm remembers
That was for a cause. ALS.
Scape @ Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:17 pm
The takedown of harassment site Kiwi Farms
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Notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms has been hacked and taken offline again, less than a month after the website security and hosting provider Cloudflare dropped it, citing an "unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life."
Kiwi Farms had risen to prominence after Canadian trans activist and Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti was swatted in her London, Ont. home this past summer. Sorrenti organized a pressure campaign to remove Kiwi Farms from the internet, calling it "a matter of public safety for every single person online."
Today, Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic explains how Kiwi Farms was able to operate for so long, and outlines the efforts to keep it offline.
Kiwi Farms had risen to prominence after Canadian trans activist and Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti was swatted in her London, Ont. home this past summer. Sorrenti organized a pressure campaign to remove Kiwi Farms from the internet, calling it "a matter of public safety for every single person online."
Today, Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic explains how Kiwi Farms was able to operate for so long, and outlines the efforts to keep it offline.
Scape @ Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:31 pm
Council For Responsible Social Media
TDPS: Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris Discusses Council For Responsible Social Media