Toby Howell

Maybe is it more annoying than just having, you know, TikTok be this Chinese owned entity that you could always kind of say, oh, they have security issues.

Now the buck stops with Oracle.

I really do think it comes down to does feed behavior change?

Do creator incentives change?

Do monetization mechanics change under US ownership?

Those things have proven pretty sticky despite maybe some cultural headwinds shifting more towards the Instagram and YouTubes of the world.

TikTok is a very sticky app.

Like everyone has gone down these doom scrolling rabbit holes.

Like its algorithm is something that is extremely powerful for attention.

If something messes with that, then I turn into a TikTok bear.

for sure but if they continue to have this incredible attention uh like vacuuming algorithm it's not going to go away anytime soon again though if algorithm shifts do happen then it could be a pretty precipitous decline honestly it could go down very quickly if people aren't getting the same sort of you know dopamine fix that they were getting in the past

My winner of the weekend is Alex Honnold because, well, he's still alive and that's sort of the ultimate win when scaling a 1,667 foot skyscraper with no ropes or harnesses.

Honnold's urban free solo attempt of the Taipei 101 skyscraper went down Saturday night and was broadcasted semi-live on Netflix with a slight 10 second delay.

He made the climb look easy.

Even the middle 64 floors, which featured bamboo boxes that required eight floors of overhanging climbing before balconies provided a reprieve.

Viewing, however, was not so easy.

Seeing Honnold up there with the wind buffeting him around led to instantly sweaty palms.

At one point, he tried to high-five some kids through the glass, but they were too focused on their phones, prompting him to say, kids these days, live, before continuing his ascent.

He took a break to wave to his wife, too, who was watching indoors on the 60th floor.

What makes the whole climb even more baffling was how little he was