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Happy New Year! It’s a couple hours away, but preemptively speaking, "Happy New Year!"

My New Year’s Resolution is to not die. Yeah, anybody with any semblance of realism is aware that the next few years are going to be pretty shitty. It’s like, when a Democrat gets in charge, it’s same old same old, but when a Republican gets in charge it’s chaos and misery and years worth of economic clownery.

So like, dudes:

  • Don’t give into the FOMO and take up gambling or cryptocurrency.
  • Try to eat nutritious and tasty meals, likely cooked at home because it’s cheaper.
  • Wear a mask and wash your hands so you don’t catch COVID, the flu, or norovirus.
  • Don’t go into debt buying a handbag that will be out of style next year.
  • Get a good winter coat and some warm jackets.
  • Don’t drink raw milk.
  • Wear sunblock even when it’s "not sunny."
  • Moisturize your skin, and not just on your face.
  • Wash your bedding and your pet’s bedding.
  • Drink enough water.

And above all: Don’t give into despair.

The news of the world is terrible because news companies make money by only sharing terrible things. There was a whole deal where the Zuck’s company was sued for purposefully overloading people with negative content because it resulted in more hits. And their reply to people being angry was to shrug, like "We’re not a news organization even though a large portion of the population trusts us to be their daily news source. Don’t blame us. We’re just a little company uwu."

So no matter how bad things seem, we are still alive, and as long as we live there is hope. May the future be brighter than the present and more hopeful than the past.

Anyways, Happy New Year!

I hope to keep being here for you, and I hope that you continue to be there for me to be there for.

Much love,

~Harper Kingsley

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I feel like if someone is a human turd sandwich, there is some moral obligation to disinvite them from social media platforms. At the very least, stop recommending them to people.

"But that would be tampering with The Algorithm!"–My dudes, you tamper with The Algorithm on the regular. That’s why that POS is able to pay you money and end up on everyone’s For You feed. Don’t bullshit me.

If the algorithm was really fair, Those People would not be popping up on everyone’s feed in the first place. People would be able to give a Dislike, and your algorithm wouldn’t take all that loathing and use it to boost that POS rather than giving them a negative rating.

The Algorithm boosts garbage, people are recommended that garbage so they glance at it, and then The Algorithm boosts the garbage more because so many people looked at it. Your algorithm is broken. You need to fix your filters.

Like, YouTube: I wanted to know what movies were coming in the future, so I watched some upcoming trailers.

Then SOMEHOW The Algorithm started suggesting trailers for movies THAT AREN’T REAL.

Trailers created with AI for "upcoming movies" that are never going to be made. And I get that there’s satire and fair use and all other kinds of reasons why it’s okay to use real actors’ names and faces and voices without their permission for fake movies… But when I’m on the YouTube home page I can’t read the video descriptions on my TV. All I get are the titles and the thumbnails.

So I watched like four trailers for fake movies and I was getting ANGRY that all the upcoming movies suck so bad.

Fix your algorithms, people.

~Harper Kingsley

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