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@503bartley @cstross It’s number 2 as of 30 seconds ago, for me at least 😝
@UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross Congratulations, it's #1 now. For both "Melania" and "Melania Trump". We did it!
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross "White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles... Lickspittles!
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross
this is the opposite of the hooker with a heart of gold trope, i''m guessing -
I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622
The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
@JdeBP Reviewers. Because the only people turning up for this are *paid* to be there
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@cstross
reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_searchGet in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results
This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop.
But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller novel Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. {MORE}@503bartley @cstross done. It showed as 1st in Canada.
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@cstross
reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_searchGet in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results
This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop.
But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller novel Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. {MORE}@503bartley @cstross It was the second result for "melania" when I searched. I'd be shocked if Amazon doesn't have a "force as top result" bit for their in-house items, but I'd be happy to be wrong!
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@richrockster @503bartley @cstross
1st in kindle results for me!
@CurlyParakeet @richrockster @503bartley @cstross @jwz searching from an account that hasn’t looked at it, it comes up second in a search on Amazon for Melania when I checked just now.
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross It can’t be a documentary if it’s propaganda. The two categories are mutually exclusive.
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They're not far off, either.
I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer.
So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/
Amusing coincidence: Kimberley Bond also writes features for Cosmo.
@GetCarter
#Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro@JdeBP @cstross @GetCarter not paid enough, just like the human reviewers Big Tech hires to monitor for CSAM in poor countries like the Philippines and who experience PTSD as a result.
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OUCH! "It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest@cstross Whew, thanks for the heads up.
LOL. I wasn't going to see it.
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The book is perfect: It's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money.
redditors have already pushed the book high: It's currently the 15th result when you search "Melania Trump." That's crazy. 2 days ago it wasn't even on the first page. With a little more push, we can keep this moving up the charts. We just need people to:
"Buy" the book (it's free)
Share this post and get other people to buy the book. {MORE}@503bartley @cstross Done! I absolutely love this idea. Use Amazon against itself.
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@UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross For me too. #2 for both "Melania" and "Melania Trump".
It's rising on Amazon Germany too. #3 for "Melania" and #4 for "Melania Trump".
@Corax42 @UweHalfHand @503bartley @cstross
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I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622
The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
@JdeBP @arrrg@kolektiva.social @cstross (surprisingly, many reviewers do not sit through a whole performance. make of that what you will.)
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Ok, Monsterdon fans, are you willing to allow a spyware visible search on Amazon for a novel titled *’Melania: Devourer of Men’* in the interest of the greater good?
It’s currently selling for $6.53 on Amazon.ca if you really want a paperback copy but the ebook download is free.
Reddit has proposed an effort to get this trending.
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross So how does this work, we just go to Amazon and search for "Melania: Devourer of Men" and that's it?
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross So how does this work, we just go to Amazon and search for "Melania: Devourer of Men" and that's it?
Searching helps it move up in search results but downloading the free ebook would help even more.
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Searching helps it move up in search results but downloading the free ebook would help even more.
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross This would be my first Kindle ebook ever lol
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross This would be my first Kindle ebook ever lol
@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross omgwtfbbq 😂
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That did not come up in my ‘other people viewed’ earlier this evening.
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That did not come up in my ‘other people viewed’ earlier this evening.
@AlsoPaisleyCat @503bartley @cstross Somebody out there is taking one for the team
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Thanks.
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Headed toward an ecophagy?
Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of SaltIt disturbingly reminds me of The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 2008 sci-fi movie starring Keanu Reeves, where the robot GORT transforms into a swarm of winged insect-like self-replicating nano-machines, consuming everything on their path.
What can go wrong?
https://monodes.com/predaelli/2026/02/02/headed-toward-an-ecophagy/
#Ethics
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Mi hanno segnalato anche questo video di @antirez con una critica al documento
Grazie a Vinnie per la segnalazione (https://t.me/ppComunicazione/26423)
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Depuratore del garda: “manifestazione il 15 marzo. no allo scarico nel fiume chiese”
@anarchia
Ora la condotta sublacuale non è più pericolosa? Con il nuovo progetto per il depuratore del Garda nel territorio del comune di Lonato ora ci danno ragione, commenta Gianluca Bordiga presidente della Federazione delle Associazioni che amano il fiume Chiese...
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@informapirata certo, i famosi 5 messaggi (o 10, non ricordo). Ma in moltissime situazioni sono del tutto insufficienti, ergo…
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@informapirata @informatica chat private quelle di whatsapp? Per fortuna non sono più su meta (facebook) e uso WA solo per comunicazioni spicce con persone poco tecnologiche. Ma guarda caso anni fa ogni volta che partecipavo a una podistica, arrivavano sempre su meta pubblicità di attrezzature per la corsa. Secondo te da dove le pigliavano visto che su facebook non ho praticamente mai condiviso cosa come dove quando di sport? Mi sono risposta da sola pensando a whatsapp.
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Grazie @alsivx!!!
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@Madmonkey la questione delle segnalazioni però è diversa: in quel caso è il destinatario del messaggio che fornisce una copia del messaggio allo staff di WhatsApp. Qui Non c'entra la crittografia end-to-end, perché è proprio il destinatario che invia in chiaro il messaggio ricevuto
