
Today is National Bobblehead Day.
To celebrate, I woke up early and deleted Threads, Instagram, and Facebook from all my devices. Then, I added them to my list of blocked websites.
And I did all this before hearing one of the worldās biggest billionaire bobbleheadsāMark Zuckerbergāhad posted the too-little-too-late video above on Instagram.
How did I hear about it? On X/Xitter/Twitter, of course.
For the record, I dislike Musk tooābut at least F. Elonās always been loud and proud about being an asshat. With Zuck, itās the sneaky, polished, PR-coated manipulation that makes him an even worse human being in my opinion. Conniving and cowardly.
That, and the fact that Meta-Static has now ruined three once-useful platformsāFacebook, Instagram, and Threadsāwith its āad-friendlyā censorship, algorithmic garbage, and mental health-destroying tactics.
All to make Zuck and his minions at Meta billions and billions.
Ironically, despite his AI-inspired makeover and MMA training, Zuck still has more dollars than common sense. There are many, many things money still canāt buy.
For instance, Zuck canāt chokehold his way into having a soul. Much less an authentic human emotion. And though heād likely kick my ass in the ring, itād almost be worth it just to try smacking some sense into his ridiculously punchable face.
Iām not a fan of violence, but Iām guessing he learned how to fight because he knows how many would like to make him their personal punching bag. Just sayingā¦
WHAT THE ZUCK, ZUCK?
My disgust for Zuck goes back years. But it wasnāt until witnessed him actively banning and blocking LGBTQ accounts on Threads last year, that I truly started despising him.
And though I donāt like or trust Elon either, at least X has corn and isnāt pretending to be a sanitized utopia for ad dollars. To me, Zuck is a hypocrite: he positions Meta as a community-builder while exploiting communities for cash, clicks, and control.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Voltaire
Zuck has never cared about responsibility. He cares about optics. About placating whoever has the most money or power at the timeābe it Big Bad Daddy Drumpf, corporate advertisers, or new buddies F. Elon Musk and Dana White.
His sudden, "heartfelt" attempt to address the issues plaguing Meta is laughable. Tone-deaf, self-serving, and about as sincere as the AI avatars heās trying to push.
LESS META = MOā BETTA
I gave up on Facebook and Instagram a long time ago. But now, Threads joins my list of failed social media experiments. Zuckerbergās platforms donāt serve peopleāthey serve him and his minions. His empty apologies and vague promises of reform are as heartfelt and meaningful as a bobbleheadās head nod.
And personally, I find (most) bobbleheads more endearingā¦and human.
The Billionaire Boys ClubāZuck, Elon, Bezos, and their ilkāsee everyone as data points, products to sell, and pawns in their social media war games. They lack empathy and ethicsā¦and canāt seem to resist the urge to take advantage of those with less influence and power.
Zuck and Musk might have billions in the bank, but theyāre both bankrupt in my book.
So, Zuck Zuckā¦and that little Elon too. Iām out.
Thanks for reading and subscribing!
Clint
P.S. If youāre into social media, Iām going to keep tryingā¦on Bluesky.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Why Facebook-Parent Meta Is Willing To Lose Billions⦠(CNBC) šŗ
Why Zuckerbergās Rebrand Shouldnāt Distract Us (ColdFusion) šŗ
Zuck: A History of Bad PR (Slow Start) šŗ
ON THIS DAY
BIRTHDAYS = HIGHLIGHTS
1873 = Adolph Zukor = Hungarian-American producer and Paramount co-founder
1891 = Zora Neale Hurston = American writer and folklorist
1912 = Charles Addams = American cartoonist and The Addams Family creator
1921 = Chester Kallman = American poet, librettist, and translator š
1928 = William Peter Blatty = American author and screenwriter (The Exorcist)
1946 = Jann Wenner = American Rolling Stone co-founder š
1948 = Kenny Loggins = American singer-songwriter
1963 = Christian Louboutin = French footwear designer š
1977 = Dustin Diamond = American actor and comedian
1990 = Michael Sam = American football player š
1991 = Caster Semenya = South African runner and activist š
1991 = Michaela JaĆ© Rodriguez = American actor š
EVENTS = HIGHLIGHTS
1782 = The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1894 = Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1957 = The board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) approves a national policy statement asserting that laws against sodomy and federal restrictions on employment of lesbians and gay men are constitutional.
1973 = Jack Baker adopts his partner Mike McConnell in Minnesota for tax benefits. Baker was the president of the University of Minnesota student body. They had applied for a marriage license in 1970 but were denied.
PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY

āEvery young man fears that
He is not worth loving:
Bless you, darling, I have
Found myself in you.ā
From āHeavy Dateā by W.H. Auden (1945)
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You are correct about these issues. A bit of FYI, I started dismantling my ex acct. a few days ago. I bought a service to delete everything. Yesterday I asked for my ex file download, to hand over to the delete service. My ex should be sending that file today. After the records are cleared, I will delete me ex. I will not trust my record to my ex. But more importantly, the outrage machine is a bigger problem, imo. I once said it was the extremists on the right, but now both sides are into the outrage instead of listening and empathy. It's now also 'You are all in with me or you are the enemy' on both extremes.
Cut them off. They are ruining discourse. Skies are bluer elsewhere, but take great care in who you follow, otherwise your feed could just become as bad as the ex's.
Boy, you really stuck it to Zuck and I could not agree with you m ore heartily! In fact, with but a very few exceptions, virtually any billionaire is not worth a cent imo. None of them have hearts nor the ability to understand real people.