• Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp/Oculus
• Amazon
• Apple
• OpenAI
• Google

I am surprised myself, but making progress of not using their products. For example did not buy any gift via Amazon this Christmas.

Thanks!

I’m unfamiliar with this topic, which politicians/countries changed their laws?

No! Only cold dogs.

Oh, c’mon, who’s going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

Fun fact: the founders threw out musk, before it became PayPal, he actually wanted it to be called X, he was hoarding that domain since then.

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That’s true. They already evolved and most of us didn’t even realize. News feeds were added and gradually evolved to use information they know about is to push our buttons and affect our behavior and beliefs.

They still needed content, but with generative AI that’s no longer necessary, this is why social media companies are so invested in it.

Social media is no longer social it became a platform to manipulate people. It is much worse than traditional ways of propaganda, because each person gets their customized feed tuned to issues that are more likely to influence them.

Is at least the California’s net neutrality law in effect?

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431970-fb-clean-my-feeds-5-02 makes you realize how empty the Facebook actually is.

I use clean my feeds grease monkey script to hide it and only show my friends and groups I subscribed to and it makes it so easy to see how much of things that it shows is just their stuff and how dead the Facebook really is.

People are still think social media is social. They think that when they post something, all their friends will see it.

In reality what each person sees is determined by the feed algorithm. They can use all the things they know about you and present you content that will press your buttons and change your opinion about topics.

The biggest issue though is to have a proper content. This is where generative AI comes in and this is why owners of social media are so much invested in it.

They basically have platform like the old MSM, except all content is specifically tuned to every person.

Everyone is skeptical about this, and in the end they could be right, but we can’t deny that they are really trying.

I really hope that against all odds they somehow succeed.

I was ok with crypto and nft because it was up to me to decide if I want to get involved in it or not.

AI does seem to have impact at jobs, at least employers are trying to use it and see if it actually will allow them to hire less staff, I see that for SWE. I don’t think AI will do much there though.

But, but, but they want to sell as much of it as they can before the bubble bursts.

That’s even more tame, currently he was banning MAGA people for not agreeing with his stance on H1B.

I think putin just showed him that he can do what happened in Russia in 1990 and 2000 and get richer from stealing from the country.

I think it was more that he didn’t have the means. Propaganda was much harder before the Internet and social media.

Exactly, and we’re need to be extra careful when talking about any deal: https://youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw