she/her - hammer/sickle - state/revolution
Migrating to lemm.ee
Are you worried about your rising cost of living, decreasing living standards, wages and the total global catastrophe that is climate change?
Don’t worry about that prole, worry about aliens and tiktok!
Making google better is not google’s goal. Growth is their goal.
A human being that is uncertain slows down and drives more cautiously until understanding what they’re dealing with. This thing does not.
Lmao car can’t tell the difference between a green light facing the other road and the red light facing it.
Meta has already been hit with antitrust by the EU. Even if they later get around the fact they’re breaking GDPR by datasharing all the instagram accounts (which is where the inflated number of users comes from) they can not get around the Digital Markets Act coming into effect next year which carries a fine of 10% of all global revenue for actions like this.
Threads will kill nothing for as long as it remains unavailable in Europe due to breaking GDPR.
Bluesky is more likely, particularly given its Twitter’s former ceo building it.
Where could they be?
Israel got their shit from somewhere and have not done live testing as far as we know. So I’m willing to bet these “disappearances” are a lot like supply “disappearances” that conveniently end up in the hands of various far right militias they support. Or the “accounting errors” that conveniently result in people they support getting shit loads of funding without any need for congressional decisions.
The ones at the bottom of the ocean are almost certainly still there, or were eventually retrieved by military diving teams but without mention to the press because why would they?
This would be a useful additional feature, I think the shock value of the method I’m suggesting would have potential to interest at least some press outlets (probably not the major ones who would recognise it as damaging to the people they represent though). You need some novelty in this kind of thing to get it to spread.
That’s kinda the point. Being able to see just how few people own literally everything and thus are influencing opinion through means that people currently completely overlook is powerful. Advertising is literally propaganda. Consumer culture is propaganda. When you cut through that and make people conscious of it on a constant minute to minute basis you will see rapid radicalisation occur. Our society relies on a system of carefully designed barriers that create separation between the people and the ruling class in a way that is unnoticeable to the average person without prompting.
Think of it like pulling back the curtain in the wizard of oz for people.
I’ve always believed it would be useful to have a thing like this but for brand logos.
But instead of blurring or blocking the brand logo like an adblocker what it does instead is show you the face of the top shareholder in that brand. Remove the brands and show the assholes that own them. Where it’s not a single person you replace that brand with the name of the hedgefund or bank that owns the investment.
It would bring people’s attention away from brand consumerism and to a constant consciousness of the ruling class looming over them in everything.
It wasn’t just a Reddit sentiment.
You’re right, it was also a 4chan and far right sentiment.
What you’re missing here is just how significant the right wing narratives are on reddit.
Lmao if the US military gets phished by a domain typo they deserve it.
Practical and usable? lol
The only thing they’re succeeding at doing is getting bazinga brained CEOs to sack half their staff in favour of exceptionally poor quality machine learning systems being pushed on people under the investment buzzphrase “AI”.
90% of these companies will disappear completely when the bubble bursts. All the “real practical usable” systems will disappear because there’s no market for them outside of convincing bazinga brained idiots with too much money to part with their cash.
The entire thing is not driven by any sustainable business models. None of these companies make profit. All of them will cease to exist when the bubble bursts and they can no longer sustain themselves on investment bazinga brains. The only sustainable business model I have seen that uses AI (machine learning) is the replacement of online moderation with it, which the social media companies reddit, facebook and tiktok among others are all actually paying a fortune for while laying off all human moderation. Ironically it has a roughly 50% error rate which is garbage and just allows fascist shit to run rampant online but hey ho I’ve almost given up entirely on the idea that fascism won’t take over the west.
AI has come and gone 4 times in the past. Every single time they have been investment bubbles that followed the same cycle and this one is no different. The investment money dries up and then everyone stops talking about it until the next time.
It’s like people have absolutely no memory. This exact same shit happened in the 1980s and at the turn of the millenium.
The second that investors get burned with it the money dries up. The “if you think it’s going anywhere” shit is the same nonsense that gets said in every investment bubble, the most recent amusing one was esports people enthusiastically believing that esports wasn’t going to shrink the moment investors got bored.
All this shit relies on investment and as soon as they move on it drops off a cliff. The only ai content worth paying attention to is the government funded work because it will survive when the bubble pops.
Good riddance to the new fad. AI comes back as an investment boom every few decades, then the fad dies and they move onto something else while all the ai companies die without the investor interest. Same will happen again, thankfully.
“Haha best I can do is lower wages and more homelessness”
Interesting. Last I tried Cinny it was behind Element. I’ll give it a look again. Haven’t tried Fluffy. Linux and mobile only?
Mostly true although I’d caution on the use of “profit” here. Profit isn’t the problem that causes this. Growth is. Almost all of these companies grow using investor money operating at a loss, radically cut costs then sell, netting their investors a packet.
It’s when the growth slows that the enshittification occurs (via radically cutting costs).
The only “profit” that matters is at the point of sale for the various company owners that invested.
Cgtn can be pretty alright to be fair. Especially if you want a more dry approach to science news instead of sensationalised shit. It’s much less entertaining though, which I guess is what you should expect from something that isn’t running for the sake of clicks/views.