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Power Rangers is such a weird title because it was produced by one of the greediest, most horrible people on the planet, but also features the hardwork of genius directors (Sakamoto) and a cast of underpaid actors learning and shooting fight choreography in a single day.
![📸 Meta’s private Instagram tax exposed. On day two of the Meta antitrust trial, with Mark Zuckerberg on the stand, Lever reporter Luke Goldstein found that government prosecutors presented explosive documents demonstrating what we all experience: Meta makes your social media experience worse by loading it up with advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission argues that Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 to “neutralize” a nascent competitor, and that post-acquisition, Meta artificially constrained Instagram’s growth to protect Facebook in a textbook case of monopoly power — making products worse without worrying about competition.
Zuckerberg wrote to executives in 2018 demanding they jack up ad volumes on Instagram, which he called a “tax,” to drive engagement over to Facebook (because even Meta knows users hate ads). “There’s absolutely no reason why [Instagram] ad load should be lower than [Facebook] at a time where we’re having engagement issues in [Facebook],” he wrote.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreihckf4iq3ifgc6psx2nht74qeaksjpjv7gufa5mibp4v36nxyf5km)
![Hoda Kotb in a 2012 interview for NBC News, telling Dr. Johanna Olsen-Kennedy "To me, it seems ridiculous to have a [trans] kis at age 12, 13, 14 deciding whether they want to have biological children when they're 20, 30, or 40."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ig6rogc4wmmw5dzfl2ryzlq4/bafkreigwlk5rsalxabv7ul3ov4ogfmxac23cgzso7ss7ggtwwqtmsjkeru)
