[U, X2: 404 Now.] A Trivial [Social] Sciences Experiment…

Updated: Before midnight Eastern US time, the App has disappeared from the App Store, and the one I secured this afternoon won’t launch. It is now DOA / 404. Thud -- end of update; and end, experiment. Out.

Pretty trivial, but for the first time ever, I just downloaded TikTok from the App Store.

I won't sign in, and I won't open it. . . But I will wait to see what happens come Sunday Saturday night.

[Let us be clear, though -- the law as written (at subsecton (g)(6)) only allows the preznit to certify that a "solution" by divestiture -- to non-China entities -- has been completed. There is no provision for his supposed 90-day "extension". The bipartisan Congress did not grant him that power. Full stop.]

Will it vanish? Or will it continue?

Updated, X2: Tangerine 2.0 says he may sign an executive order to re-instate TikTok. The only plausibly lawful way that works (as we indicated above, and in this Friday post). . . is if he certifies, after a multi-agency review, that there has been "substantial progress" on a deal to divest the US operations, to non-state-enemy controlled forces.

How exactly might a multi-agency review occur in under three elapsed days? Over King Weekend 2025? Color me... skeptical.

We shall see. Onward.

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