No time stamps or provenance trails on tiktok is some next level atemporality Wonder if it’s an inevitable evolution of social media or more media with Chinese temporal characteristics
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One of those things about tiktok that strikes me as distinctively authoritarian—timestamps, provenance, etc, are all means with which users can examine power. Flip side—offering downloads, rather than bookmarks, acknowledges the service can’t guarantee content will stick about.
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Yeah, turning off time cues is characteristic of two scary situations: PoW confinement/torture and casinos
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Replying to @ctbeiser
Or is it perhaps a sinofuturist matrix/Chinese accelerationism? I just learned about those concepts
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