“this is normal workplace stuff tho right gais? We all do this jeez.”

It wasn’t automatic. Not sure where you got that idea. But you had to get the app and then sign in using your Instagram account to set up the thread profile. They had “shadow copies” of your Instagram profiles on threads so for example you could sub to someone’s profile and when they’d join threads you’d get their activities. But no it wasn’t automatic.

Pumping all my fun money into trane stock…

Bard is so absurdly bad at generating anything interesting creatively. ChatGPT used to be king, then Claude+, now I think sadly even after the GPT4 downgrade, it’s still the one that makes the least tropey and most interesting story.