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He didn’t launch a competitor, but Zuckerberg approved the blocking of Vine’s API access to find Facebook friends a few days after it launched.

TikTok must have paid a pretty penny to have access to it today.

Columbia also has the School of General Studies for non-traditional undergraduate students. Tuition is $58,440 an academic year, not including their estimated $26,010 cost of living, and they don’t offer much financial aid.

My biggest issue with Twitter these days is that my curated social garden keeps being invaded by engagement farmers who use the thread feature to post obnoxious listicles. I’m constantly being recommended tweets like these in my feed:

“I hunted, killed, and ate a wild baboon (brains and all)…Here are the 13 things I learned about human health along the way.”

“I read all 40,000 words from Jeff Bezos' Amazon shareholder letters. Here are 9 lessons worth your time:”

“We keep seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is a feature of the system, not a bug. Time for a thread”

They remind me of Buzzfeed articles back in the early 2010s and there’s no way to turn it off besides muting the word thread and its emoji.

I had the pleasure of being a test subject for my local hospital’s new 7T last week. They strapped my head down to the table and I was only able to listen to the intermittent “DO-DO-DO-DO” of the machine, while a mirrored television played 15 minute aerial footage of Norway’s fjords on repeat for an hour. Reminded me a little of the brainwashing scene from A Clockwork Orange.

The radiology report said, “No significant incidental findings identified,” so that’s good at least.

Apple’s continued promotion of TikTok is bizarre to me considering all their problems with Facebook. Craig Federighi promoted it last WWDC too.

Here Apple says look at what this new iPad camera can do on TikTok and then they move on to look at how much we care about your privacy in the same event.

Even if TikTok got banned, we still have Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snap Spotlight, and whatever Reddit is planning on doing to fill the void. Pandora’s Box has already opened—short video is here to stay.