Zuckeberg has been an unethical asshole since he started Facebook. Most of us know it started as a chauvinistic project to evaluate his female peers in the university nowadays.
From there as he gained tons of money and the power that comes with it his social restraints snapped and here we are. Just like Musk shamelessly did the nazi salute twice in a live event, Zuckeberg has grown used to the shielding that being a billionaire brings from law and everything else that could hold him accountable.
I do hope this is starting to change.
I know there are some timid efforts in this direction and it's comforting to see they are ramping up even if there's already plenty of damage done. I'm really hoping the No Kings protests this weekend and the deaths of US citizens by the hands of ICE terrorists spark even more resistance and action. I'm very pessimistic in my posts but I do believe there are a ton of good people in the US who don't deserve this and I do believe they will turn the tables eventually.
If nobody is willing to push for the removal of RFK "Disease-Joe" Jr from his position for all his blatant and well documented crimes against public health, endangering not only USians but the rest of the world then he could just nominate Morbillivirus hominis to the position of CDC director for added debauchery ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not, Dems are way, way better. It's just that they are spineless. It's not that they will destroy anything or do anything remotely as bad as this administration. It's just that they lack the spine to do what it takes to fix the damage and close the institutional holes. It's obvious that both sides are not even remotely similar, R's are a cancer.
I know a bunch of people with a crazy visceral hate of the US (for all the good reasons mind you) and they are loving this Trump administration because it's not only ruining the US now, it's destroying their future for decades. I'd argue beyond any chance of reversing or fixing it.
Craziness put aside, if I were China I'd be helping the orange baboon and his friends to consolidate power and destroy more and faster. Sooner or later they won't be able to keep up with their wars as well.
So yeah, make america great again I guess?
(mind you as much as I understand a lot of the hatred - and believe there's plenty of wrongdoing from the US towards the world historically - I don't think all USians should suffer for what their economic elite built and I'd rather those lunatics in US executive right now didn't have a ton of nuclear power at their fingertips)
My thoughts. It's a well written comment with very interesting counter arguments. And these design choices got more glaring when I switched to Bluesky. It's much less demanding psychologically speaking.
I'm not sure I agree here. I mean, there are measures that Meta and other companies can adopt to make their products more or less addicting (ie: infinite scroll). They can demonetize content involving children exploitation, they can even use automation successfully here while providing objective and useful ways for those who are wrongfully filtered out. There are plenty of ways platforms can make things better and they actively choose to go the other way.
So I don't think it's that much of a catastrophe. Sure we need to be very careful with regulations and legal tools but the platforms have shown many, many times they cannot be trusted to generally abide by good practices. So we have to start somewhere. I'm willing to see where this will lead. Because inaction has already produced very bad results.
Are there Democrats questioning this besides the listed Republicans? I mean the D party has shown to be composed mostly by spineless, gutless leeches who couldn't care less but there are some with some spine. Hopefully?
I like your optimism. And I hope you are right.
But I honestly don't see how to avoid big companies from capturing everything to themselves in a big "Buy 'n Large" (reference: Wall-E). That's what's been happening for a good while now and seems to be accelerating. Because those who make the rules are those who already own everything and have the money to buy everything.
Or maybe we are in yet another tipping point and we'll bounce back to a virtuous cycle. Who knows.
Good argumentation. I do think death threats are not acceptable.
But what do we do when billionaires are threatening billions with death with their actions and ways of thinking? When they adopt ideologies that clearly and unequivocally advocate for the death of those deemed unfit, different? Musk has clearly shown he's a nazi, supremacist asshole. The other billionaires mostly joined the fascist bandwagon. JK Rowling uses her money in a crusade against trans people. Plenty of examples of super rich being assholes and using their money to effectively write or modify laws to screw people directly or indirectly.
I don't think love and flowers will stop these people.
As long as it's opt in they can do whatever they want. That's the problem. Gemini/Copilot at all were more or less optional at some point. It's getting harder and harder to get rid of that shit.
From my perspective it's a "slopfication" technology that, like all slop generators, uses too much power to produce mediocre results at best (for general purposes, there are very nice uses for LLMs and other generative "AI" in specific workloads). Maybe it will be better with more iterations/optimizations? Maybe. But I don't see any benefits from needing another 5090 to produce demonstrably worse results.
Make the people who introduced such system liable for such failures. Make them pay the fines owed to the State and the children/parents involved. Make public servants, hired or elected, pay for their bad choices. One thing is to err, another is to keep erring or to actively ignore warns that something will go wrong. There are plenty already concerning tech, ai and data profiling.
I already cancelled Amazon when they first introduced this fee to avoid ads on top of a lot of content being charged extra to be watched (some sort of 24h rental). And for me 4k is not worth it. Not to mention how shitty is the interface. Going without stuff is remarkably easy.
“Mr. Foreman doesn’t get to wrap himself in the American flag and say you can’t touch me, I can say what I want, no matter how untrue it is, no matter how much pain it causes people, because I have freedom of speech. He can’t do that.”
Funny thing, the deputies think they can use the courts to do just that with those who are pointing their wrongdoing and they dislike. Much like the orange Epstein buddy up in the chain.
Even if Trump is ejected from the executive, the congress and senate swing back to sane, democrat majority (with spines, hopefully) the SCOTUS is completely compromised. And if memory serves their terms end when they retire which may take quite long. How will the US address this cursed legacy from Trump is something that eludes me considering the country succumbed to Trump so easily.
This is lining up like one of those classic whipsaw legal situations where one court will rule sanely, the next will rule in favor of executive power, and then it’ll go to the Supreme Court and we’ll all learn if that compromised group of black robes will just hand more destructive power over to Trump in ignoring a law it doesn’t like, in this case the APA.
Zuckeberg has been an unethical asshole since he started Facebook. Most of us know it started as a chauvinistic project to evaluate his female peers in the university nowadays. From there as he gained tons of money and the power that comes with it his social restraints snapped and here we are. Just like Musk shamelessly did the nazi salute twice in a live event, Zuckeberg has grown used to the shielding that being a billionaire brings from law and everything else that could hold him accountable. I do hope this is starting to change.
I know there are some timid efforts in this direction and it's comforting to see they are ramping up even if there's already plenty of damage done. I'm really hoping the No Kings protests this weekend and the deaths of US citizens by the hands of ICE terrorists spark even more resistance and action. I'm very pessimistic in my posts but I do believe there are a ton of good people in the US who don't deserve this and I do believe they will turn the tables eventually.
If nobody is willing to push for the removal of RFK "Disease-Joe" Jr from his position for all his blatant and well documented crimes against public health, endangering not only USians but the rest of the world then he could just nominate Morbillivirus hominis to the position of CDC director for added debauchery ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not, Dems are way, way better. It's just that they are spineless. It's not that they will destroy anything or do anything remotely as bad as this administration. It's just that they lack the spine to do what it takes to fix the damage and close the institutional holes. It's obvious that both sides are not even remotely similar, R's are a cancer.
oh damn it, I thought the link was some article... owned by AI spam lol
Also, Democrats are mostly a bunch of sold, spineless cowards. Another reason this won't be fixed any time i the next decades.
I know a bunch of people with a crazy visceral hate of the US (for all the good reasons mind you) and they are loving this Trump administration because it's not only ruining the US now, it's destroying their future for decades. I'd argue beyond any chance of reversing or fixing it. Craziness put aside, if I were China I'd be helping the orange baboon and his friends to consolidate power and destroy more and faster. Sooner or later they won't be able to keep up with their wars as well. So yeah, make america great again I guess? (mind you as much as I understand a lot of the hatred - and believe there's plenty of wrongdoing from the US towards the world historically - I don't think all USians should suffer for what their economic elite built and I'd rather those lunatics in US executive right now didn't have a ton of nuclear power at their fingertips)
Then you sue them. In this specific case the design choices affect what the users see already so it is already a speech problem.
My thoughts. It's a well written comment with very interesting counter arguments. And these design choices got more glaring when I switched to Bluesky. It's much less demanding psychologically speaking.
I'm not sure I agree here. I mean, there are measures that Meta and other companies can adopt to make their products more or less addicting (ie: infinite scroll). They can demonetize content involving children exploitation, they can even use automation successfully here while providing objective and useful ways for those who are wrongfully filtered out. There are plenty of ways platforms can make things better and they actively choose to go the other way. So I don't think it's that much of a catastrophe. Sure we need to be very careful with regulations and legal tools but the platforms have shown many, many times they cannot be trusted to generally abide by good practices. So we have to start somewhere. I'm willing to see where this will lead. Because inaction has already produced very bad results.
Are there Democrats questioning this besides the listed Republicans? I mean the D party has shown to be composed mostly by spineless, gutless leeches who couldn't care less but there are some with some spine. Hopefully?
I like your optimism. And I hope you are right. But I honestly don't see how to avoid big companies from capturing everything to themselves in a big "Buy 'n Large" (reference: Wall-E). That's what's been happening for a good while now and seems to be accelerating. Because those who make the rules are those who already own everything and have the money to buy everything. Or maybe we are in yet another tipping point and we'll bounce back to a virtuous cycle. Who knows.
I should add that forcing stuff users don't want onto them is just a symptom of this larger problem.
Good argumentation. I do think death threats are not acceptable. But what do we do when billionaires are threatening billions with death with their actions and ways of thinking? When they adopt ideologies that clearly and unequivocally advocate for the death of those deemed unfit, different? Musk has clearly shown he's a nazi, supremacist asshole. The other billionaires mostly joined the fascist bandwagon. JK Rowling uses her money in a crusade against trans people. Plenty of examples of super rich being assholes and using their money to effectively write or modify laws to screw people directly or indirectly. I don't think love and flowers will stop these people.
As long as it's opt in they can do whatever they want. That's the problem. Gemini/Copilot at all were more or less optional at some point. It's getting harder and harder to get rid of that shit. From my perspective it's a "slopfication" technology that, like all slop generators, uses too much power to produce mediocre results at best (for general purposes, there are very nice uses for LLMs and other generative "AI" in specific workloads). Maybe it will be better with more iterations/optimizations? Maybe. But I don't see any benefits from needing another 5090 to produce demonstrably worse results.
Make the people who introduced such system liable for such failures. Make them pay the fines owed to the State and the children/parents involved. Make public servants, hired or elected, pay for their bad choices. One thing is to err, another is to keep erring or to actively ignore warns that something will go wrong. There are plenty already concerning tech, ai and data profiling.
I already cancelled Amazon when they first introduced this fee to avoid ads on top of a lot of content being charged extra to be watched (some sort of 24h rental). And for me 4k is not worth it. Not to mention how shitty is the interface. Going without stuff is remarkably easy.
Even if Trump is ejected from the executive, the congress and senate swing back to sane, democrat majority (with spines, hopefully) the SCOTUS is completely compromised. And if memory serves their terms end when they retire which may take quite long. How will the US address this cursed legacy from Trump is something that eludes me considering the country succumbed to Trump so easily.
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