THEY HAD PLENTY OF HELP FROM ACADEMIA, BUT YEAH: TikTok made Gen Z pro-Palestine.

I’m a student in one of Britain’s largest high schools and know no one who supports Israel over Palestine. Some readers might find that shocking. Consider, though, how my generation gets its news. TikTok is today by far the preferred source of news for teenagers; YouTube is next, Instagram third. Studies show the average teen spends two hours every day glued to their screens. Few my age buy or read a newspaper, or would ever think of doing so. Even the idea of sitting down to watch TV news seems alien to us. We view the world through smartphones; we understand current affairs through video snippets.

In theory, the videos TikTok shows you relate to what you have previously watched: if the algorithm sees that you like something, it gives you more. It’s designed to be addictive. One survey found that just over half of teenagers who go on TikTok use it for news. There are almost no checks and balances to make sure that what TikTokkers see is fair, balanced or accurate.

I have come across many videos about the war on my TikTok “for you” page and I can confidently say that I’ve only seen pro-Palestinian ones. If such material were all assembled in a newspaper or a TV channel, it would look like pretty hardcore propaganda.

CTRL-F “China” or “CCP,” brings back zero results, even though: TikTok May Be A Chinese Superweapon.

THE BEE IS STILL BARELY STAYING AHEAD OF REALITY HERE: Ireland Declares Asking An Immigrant To Stop Stabbing You A Hate Crime. “‘We will not tolerate racist slurs such as, “Please, stop stabbing me, I’m dying”. That sort of hate has no home here in Ireland,'” said Varadkar. ‘The vile, xenophobic backlash against people stabbing people ends today.'”

PROFILES IN MALARKEY: Biden Gets Roasted After Insisting He Kept the Promise to Be a President For Everyone in All States.

Which is odd, because last week: Biden Calls for Unity as his White House Released Thanksgiving Guide on ‘Crazy MAGA Nonsense.’

Your handy guide for responding to crazy MAGA nonsense this Thanksgiving

A thread pic.twitter.com/rf0hFRXa80

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 23, 2023

The year before there was of course, to paraphrase Tom Wolfe, that party at Leni’s:

From the previous year: White House Christmas message to unvaccinated: You’re looking at a winter of death for yourselves and your families:

And even earlier, before Joe’s brains had congealed into apple sauce: Joe Biden called Tea Party members “terrorists” in 2011.

WILL IT ARRIVE IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION? New Swine Flu Strain Discovered in a Human in The UK For The First Time.

STAY TUNED: The Covid Governors’ Debate. Except possibly for the Great Depression, the response to Covid was the worst domestic-policy fiasco of the past 150 years. Most Democrats and their acolytes in the mainstream media want to “move on” from the pandemic. But unless Sean Hannity, the moderator, lets Gavin Newsom, the nation’s most zealous Covid authoritarian, off the hook in the debate with Ron DeSantis on Fox News Thursday evening, this is a a golden opportunity chance for 2024 voters to contemplate how the two governors — and Donald Trump and Joe Biden –responded to the greatest test of leadership of their careers. (Spoiler: Most of them flunked.)

WHY IS MADURO STILL ALIVE?

Need some land that they haven't screwed up yet.

— Maggie Leber (@MaggieL) November 29, 2023

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: 58% Of Prospective Law Students Want To Attend A School With Classmates Of The Same Political Views.

WELL, DEADSPIN:

You just can’t make this up… the kid that @Deadspin and @carronJphillips tried to smear for his costume and “black face” is actually Native American.

He should sue them into oblivion. https://t.co/XAyenORfQ6 pic.twitter.com/NAmzS2ykK4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 29, 2023

ONE OF MY FORMER STUDENTS IS BRINGING THIS LAWSUIT: Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta. “The suits alleged that Kroger essentially ‘planted a bug’ on its website, which includes an online pharmacy, and was ‘looking over the shoulder of each visitor for the entire duration of their Website interaction.’ That “bug” refers to the Meta Pixel and the other trackers Kroger used on its website. The Nov. 10 suit claimed that as a result, Kroger leaked details of which medications and dosages a patient sought or purchased from Kroger’s pharmacy, which then allowed ‘third parties to reasonably infer that a specific patient was being treated for a specific type of medical condition such as cancer, pregnancy, HIV, mental health conditions, and an array of other symptoms or conditions.'”

OOPS: The 3-year cruise is canceled, leaving guests out hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, but now it’s not happening. Life at Sea Cruises says it had to cancel its three-year inaugural cruise because it doesn’t have a ship. The voyage was originally due to depart from Istanbul on Nov. 1. After being postponed twice – and relocated to Amsterdam – the cruise is officially off. Passengers are now out hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

THE “GENOCIDE” CANARD AGAINST ISRAEL: It’s actually the opposite of the truth. And that matters.

ONLY SOME LIVES ARE ALLOWED TO MATTER: PSNI treating Belfast ‘Irish lives matter’ graffiti as ‘hate incident.’

I thought we were supposed to support the rights of indigenous people. Aren’t the Irish the indigenous people of Ireland?

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PRACTICE: The Double & 1 Drill: 10 Rounds Is All You Need.

BECAUSE EVERYTHING THE LEFT DOES HURTS PEOPLE: Whitney Cummings: ‘The Left Wants to Silence People.’

OH, THAT’LL FIX EVERYTHING: Just the News reporting that “After receiving criticism from experts and climate activists over President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris skipping the global United Nations summit in Dubai, the White House has now decided to send Harris.”

Well, she’s done such a fabulous job as the Border Czar, so why not?

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A BILLION-DOLLAR SWING AND A MISS: Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership.

The tech giant recently sent a proposal to Goldman to exit from the contract in the next roughly 12 to 15 months, according to people briefed on the matter. The exit would cover their entire consumer partnership, including the credit card the companies launched in 2019 and the savings account rolled out this year.

It couldn’t be learned whether Apple has already lined up a new issuer for the card.

The move would mark a swift about-face for a program that just over a year ago was extended through 2029 and was intended to serve as a pillar of Goldman’s main-street ambitions.

The retreat began around the end of last year after Goldman lost billions of dollars trying to build out a full-service consumer operation.

By early this year, Goldman had told Apple that it would be looking to offload the partnership. Typically the merchant—in this case Apple—plays a controlling role in such partnerships.

The customer satisfaction rate is high but Goldman’s acquisition costs were reportedly astronomical — something like $350 per cardholder.

JUST VIBRATE THE SUN IN MORSE CODE: Scientists want to use the sun’s gravity to communicate between stars.

WARGAMING 2024: How and When Could Democrats Dump Biden Before the Election?

DISPATCHES FROM THE HAMAS WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

BREAKING: George Washington University students occupy entrance of Elliot School of International Affairs to #FreePalestine & have GWU “divest from genocide”.

Pics taken thru window as MPD will not anyone into building who is not a GWU student #FreePalestineFromIsraeINow pic.twitter.com/jlglTZsx0I

— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) November 29, 2023

PROGRESSIVES DO NEED NEW BRAINS: Progressive Brain Tissue Replacement Jean Hebert.

HOW CAN THIS BE, WHEN ANYONE OR ANYTHING THAT CHOOSES TO IDENTIFY AS FEMALE IS FEMALE? Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMER AMERICA: Trans-Identifying Professor Will Teach Course On Taylor Swift At Harvard.

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