The Difference Between Fans & Followers | EP #291 – YouTube

No matter what kind of art you create, you will likely have to use social media to bring awareness about it. It is there that you will run into some of the most confusing behavior you’ve ever witnessed from people. Some are crazy and vocal about your art, while others follow you silently. In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic break down the biggest differences between fans and followers so you can move properly out here! 

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TikTok’s In-App Browser Reportedly Capable of Monitoring Anything You Type – MacRumors

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TikTok’s custom in-app browser on iOS reportedly injects JavaScript code into external websites that allows TikTok to monitor “all keyboard inputs and taps” while a user is interacting with a given website, according to security researcher Felix Krause, but TikTok has reportedly denied that the code is used for malicious reasons.

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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes | Ars Technica

Giant rolls of fiber conduit and other equipment on a truck.

Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn’t get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money.

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5 Mind-Boggling Online Image Editors to Do Photoshop Effects Without Photoshop

From removing backgrounds and objects in photos to turning small pictures into poster-sized prints, these online image editors are easier than Photoshop and completely free.

Adobe Photoshop might be the best photo-editing software out there, but it’s complicated and expensive for novices. But the effects that it does are easily replicable through other photo editors that use AI. The ones we talk about here are browser-based apps that work on desktop or mobile and don’t include any hidden costs. So who needs Photoshop, right?

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How to Host a Virtual Watch Party: 5 Different Ways

It’s easy to watch TV shows and movies simultaneously with others, without being in the same room. Here’s how to host a virtual watch party.

Movie nights have always been an excellent and super simple way to spend time with friends and family. It’s a casual way to get together, have some snacks, and dive into a flick. Nowadays, getting together with people in person is a bit more complicated, but that doesn’t mean movie nights are out of the question. Why not have a virtual watch party?

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8 Social Media Content Calendar Tools for Scheduling Posts

Automate your social media marketing….. I use buffer but I’m gonna check out the others…

If you’re active in multiple social media platforms, you must try post-scheduling calendar tools for publishing your content.

The world of social media is expanding, and hence it becomes difficult for individual users to post on all the platforms regularly at the right time. In order to manage when and what to publish on social media, you need to stay organized. To make the whole process seamless and hassle-free, check out these eight social media calendar tools for scheduling posts.

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Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show

Don’t I know about this firsthand….

Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network: an actual post featuring an image of four female Democratic lawmakers, known collectively as “The Squad.”

The poster, whose name was scrubbed out for privacy, referred to the women, two of whom are Muslim, as “swami rag heads.” A comment from another person used even more vulgar language, referring to the four women of color as “black c—s,” according to internal company documents exclusively obtained by The Washington Post.

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