Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??
Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??
People will be laid off
Spoils will be enjoyed
This great economy… it will endure
The working class will survive!
I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It’s not just the raw text that’s valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of users people.
Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.
I’ve could imagine a sort of “script” running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.
I mean this tech exists now, but it’s fairly “dumb.” But it’s not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.
Man I’d be so mad if I’d built up a sweet severance, only to have to quit for better work
Hell yeah. I think it was Spyro – anyway, some psx game – that had to literally go through the source code and declare integers like i
outside of loops, so they could be reused. All so the game would fit on disc.
Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands
I’d probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though
And they’re sticking with that name? … huh
This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.
It also makes nice things work too, ofc.
Same. It’s like a tic, I’m compelled to mutter “fewer” in my mind, or else I can’t keep paying attention
Most of the time we don’t think about it, because anything medical often comes with its own stress, so just thinking about that is front of mind.
It’s only after the dust settles and we’re all back home and safe that we might say something like “whew glad that’s over! Can you imagine if we had to worry about money on top of that?”
Truly once you’re used to single payer, the American alternative seems like lunacy. I cannot imagine the stress of combining some if life’s biggest medical decisions with financial considerations
I’d go on but my socials timer is about to go
Let’s do both! I welcome our imperfect solarpunk future with open arms
Damn that sounds like a fun read.
Maybe your awareness splits with each copy, so you go from an “I” to a “we.” No such thing as a “master” copy then, just different organs of the same meta entity
Would you be able to live with yourself?
I love that there are still kids learning this hard lesson in the year 2024.
I mean I hadn’t seen this until now, so thank you
Parallel means poopie
Me too, smeg
“We’ve replaced some pieces of that political machine—specifically, we have parallel media now with Elon’s Twitter, or X,” crowed Tan during a presentation at the 2023 Network State Conference. “Getting a parallel media was a key piece, and it wasn’t through voting. It was done by building.… […]
Got it so parallel means privatised. He’s a privatisation hawk.
What a tool. A cat would not even sit on his lap.
My dad has been that guy! We sure ate a lottt of Silver Wok during that time 😋