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And this week's recession indicator is that it was reported that at least half of the users online are bots at this point.

So before they used to say that they used to hire out like like farming labs to do

like clicks and stuff like in India. But now, you know, the billionaires can't even afford that.

So they're just using bots to make their sites look like they're getting a lot of visits or in the case of Twitter,

like there's a lot of engagement. But if you've been on Twitter in the last few years

since Musk took over, then you can kind of tell like that, like the quality of engagement

has declined exponentially and that there's a lot of like checkmarks

accounts of like people you've never heard of and just farming like engagement oftentimes just

talking to themselves and that's because the billionaire class and these techies want their sites to look like

they're very visited.

And that leads me to one of our topics this week about like basically essentially like gaming

the system, the internet, and making it, uh, you know, do your bidding. Uh, recently,

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