TWeaK

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

They still use twitter.com. Frankly, I think everyone should refer to them by the URL, rather than this "X, formally known as twitter" bullshit. "So and so posted on twitter.com" is a perfectly valid way of describing any tweet on "X".

I get that technically it's x now, but they still use the same URL. They do this to maintain digital footfall on the URL, that way, when the current business inevitably dies, whoever buys up the domain and URL and whatever other assets will adopt something that many people still have bookmarked and find familiar.

Twitter's death was sealed the moment the purchase was structured. Everything since then has been a mummer's farce.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

CNN has a pro-Trump bias.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago

After they introduced reddit gold, they made enough money to finance the service beyond anyone's lifetime. Now, all that money is gone.

Reddit has been mismanaged, just like almost every silicon valley or venture capitalist driven business. The goal isn't to make a business profitable, let alone one that is sustainable or serves society, the goal is to meet a certain arbitrary metric that only serves shareholders at the expense of anything and everyone else.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The moderators who run much of the site are not paid directly, but they're definitely in league.

Powermods took over reddit a long time ago. Hell, I'd go so far as to say reddit secretly promoted r/the_donald and other extremist subreddits, and had a direct hand in getting him elected.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's cool, but that doesn't stop wild misinterpretation of the study and its conclusions.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

points to toilet and this is where the magic happens.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Why don't labs sponsor the PC modding community to make their shit work better? I mean, they already know how to work with liquid nitrogen..

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crimes require proof beyond reasonable doubt, unfortunately all we have here is a balance of probabilities. In other words, it is more likely he did it than not, but it isn't certain.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago

Tax dollars at work.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 126 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One is unconstitutional to ban, while the other is treason.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but I've heard theories and read studies in the past that suggest the differences in sexuality change over time, also. Like, studies have documented that women can go back and forth from being gay and straight, while men might go gay later in life but never change back. Supposedly there is some mental rewiring that goes on alongside this, however not as something that has been quantifiably measured, only qualitatively observed.

I think this AI processing could be a useful tool in further analysis against this and other hypotheses, but I worry that given the emotionally charged discussions around transgender nature the results will be far too easily misconstrued.

Height is pretty consistent. You grow until adolescence, then maybe you shrink a bit later in life. Men are generally taller than women, but only on average. That doesn't really have anything to do with neurology.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Class actions need to be made. Not just against AI, but Facebook, Google, Microsoft, banks... Basically anyone who collects data for profit while slipping it in as a secondary transaction in the terms and conditions, without providing any consideration.

The data brokerage industry is a $400bn industry, yet there are only 8bn people in the world. Even if we assume everyone is online and everyone's data is of equal value (both are far from true), that means an individual's data is worth at least $50 per year on the market. These are just people buying and selling data, and does not include companies that keep proprietary datasets and only sell advertising, or the value of peoples' written works online (which is likely of even greater value). Businesses are now selling off our copyrighted work for far less than its worth, all the while not paying the creator their rightful dues.

It simply isn't the case that data is traded for access to the website or service. That isn't how the transaction is presented. Front and centre, the services are offered free of charge (or sometimes, eg with Microsoft, you already pay for the service) and then a second transaction is buried in the fine print in obscure language. The entire purpose of this is deception, so the user does not understand the value they are giving up, and so as to deny them a fair opportunity to assess any supposed value exchange - because it isn't an exchange, you're giving it up for free, just like they give you access for free. It's two separate transactions deceptively run parallel.

You can't build a car without paying for the nuts and bolts. They steal the nuts and bolts we produce and then sell them on as their own products.

Edit: weird formatting issues from posting with low signal.

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