@SomeGadgetGuy they seek validation from each other and from their brand thought leaders.
It's gross, it's an exclusive club that I don't want to be a part of and telling them that doesn't matter.
The club prevents them from the introspection.
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Professional Dumpster Fire and weird pinko commie, I guess? I generally try to be kind but I am unfortunately imperfect.
@SomeGadgetGuy it's a cult,
but also idk maybe people who spend all their time writing hot take replies aren't able to do any introspection or self evaluation.
Maybe social media isn't a good platform for self development lol.
They'll never see a post like this and think, yeah okay maybe I should take some time off from social media.
If we wanted to spend all our time bullying I don't think I'd ever be a fulfilled person.
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It's enraging how slow our legal system and regulators work when it comes to big tech companies.
Following the DOJ case against Google's ad and search business. The 80 year old judge presiding over the case accepted Google's $2 million dollar offer to "cover the damages" referenced in the DOJ brief. The judge ruled we won't need a jury trial.
Google brings in roughly $60 BILLION in revenue on search and ads every fiscal QUARTER.
We wouldn't have known what the damages were until we heard the DOJ's case. Sure. $2 million. That should cover it.
Now, major parts of Google's search code have been leaked on github, and it seems Google has been lying to users, ad customers, and to regulators, on how it organizes and ranks websites.
A handy video summing up the leak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mirCSvEnN0
But it's unlikely this new data will be stapled on to the current DOJ case, and it's unlikely this judge would understand this data anyway.
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HERE WE GO! DaVinci Resolve 19 Beta is here for ARM powered Windows PCs!
@SomeGadgetGuy thank you!!!
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@DaefByrns that's a bummer.
I finally just got to watch Late Night With the Devil and it was a delicious fresh twist on found footage / mockumentary.
Maybe a palate cleanser for you?
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Tag yourself; I’m Hogby
@SomeGadgetGuy beautiful while vapid. Toothless would imply the movie has a mouth but id go so far as it has no mouth because it says nothing.
Amazing and effective cinematography, phenomenal acting, lacks any meaningful analysis and the closest we get to visual metaphor falls so flat on its face I'm almost offended I tried giving it meaning.
Hint: Jesse Plemons' character; it's not subtle and was a waste of a perfectly good setup.
I just saw #a24's #civilwar directed by Alex Garland and I'm pretty disappointed by the real lack of social or political commentary and the choice to paint war journalists as adrenaline junkies who seek sick thrills and don't care about the people and struggles they document.
Also highlighting that the movie really wants to believe that documenting atrocities doesn't matter.
Just the most dead brain liberal understanding of the dynamic of between why countries might descend into civil war and the most dead brain liberal answer of "how to stop creeping fascism/authoritarianism"
"A visually impressive exercise in saying nothing"
Absolutely no critical understanding of the political economy of the mass media.
Highly recommend "It Could Happen Here" if you want like an indepth socio-political analysis and plausible scenario of the next american civil war
HAPPY #SGGQA!!!
See everyone at 12:00
https://www.twitch.tv/somegadgetguy/schedule?seriesID=c115dec2-2c7c-4c08-80b6-4d51407323a5
I think a major end goal of #LLM #chatbots and #machinelearning generated content is to make the web and many web services completely unusable so we have to browse the Internet via tools like ChatGPT or Bard that tries to TL:DR through the endless mountains of bullshit these tools have spawned because clickbait and hate click vapid content are now churned out with the same intrinsic value as mining for cryptocurrency.
This race to the bottom is really fucking depressing. Guess I'll go back to reading books and listening to AM radio.
Genuinely curious to see how they handle advertising and the relationship that reddit has with adult content going forward.
If you're not aware reddit's advertising works by advertising to people that belong to certain subreddits (brands buy ad space to serve ads to sub reddit subscribers, a really good way to serve ads IMO) so I could advertise to people who subscribe to r/android to advertise my app or maybe phone cases and while users who are subbed to r/android would also get my ads browsing any NSFW subreddit.
I'm sure given their track record of understanding how much people 'love' their app they can figure this out quickly.
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I tried to just cover the "news" on this one, but I'm still too emotionally invested in how these social media services keep getting worse. https://somegadgetguy.com/2024/03/15/reddits-ipo-i-hope-it-fails/
I hope Reddit's IPO fails. It probably won't though...
#tech #technology #business #socialmedia #bbtg #reddit #ipo #technews #businessnews
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Which phone cameras took these images?
Hint: the Phone Was Launched at #MWC24 #MWC2024
#ShotOnSnapdragon #android #Snapdragon #TechTrends #bbtg
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The United States might frame its proposed TikTok ban as a national security issue, but at its core it’s about defending US power.
Silicon Valley’s global dominance also increased US influence, and it doesn’t want to see China move in on its turf.
https://disconnect.blog/the-tiktok-ban-is-all-about-preserving-us-power/
#voting #Politics #us #election2024
Subtle reminder that vote shaming is bad and
It's the politicians job to motivate people to vote for them. That's the whole point. You're a citizen of your government, they should motivate you not shame you. and it's important to ask what your government is going to do for you and your countrymen, what's the point of the state if you can't afford to live anyway?
That said, you should still vote if it's all you can do in the political process.
even in the primaries maybe write in uncommitted for the presidential candidate.
Criticizing anyone that's doing organizing work for not feeling motivated to work is also really dumb and bad.
Criticizing anyone for voting is dumb and bad
Criticizing anyone for voting differently than the way you voted is dumb and bad.
RANT:
Company leadership at all levels of industry is fundamentally incapable of understanding when they're out of their depth.
I have a hunch that this is due to toxic myth making of corporate world lottery winners by authors like Michael Lewis, Steven Dubner, Steven Levitt, Walter Issacson, Malcolm Gladwell.
High ranking executives aren't all knowing God's and it would be really helpful if they acknowledged when they are out of their area of expertise. I feel like my company would be more efficient and less headache inducing if we didn't all nod along like the emperor isn't wearing clothes.
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Through the fog this morning. 😊
#photo #photography #fog #foggy #landscape #oneplus #oneplus12 #android #androidography #bbtg
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Microsoft engineer Shane Jones writes to the FTC and Microsoft's board warning Copilot Designer creates violent and sexual images, ignores copyrights, and more (Hayden Field/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/microsoft-ai-engineer-says-copilot-designer-creates-disturbing-images.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240306/p19#a240306p19
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