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Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by jazzyjackson »

this_user wrote: post #20
wodenokoto wrote: post #9

> Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years. Way to upstage me, dude. I feel like there's a link to a story missing there

It's about the company's recent course change, which includes Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview from last week. IMO this has a lot to do with the younger generations. Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election, and Zuck has probably realised that he needs to align Meta with them if they want to remain a relevant player in the social media space.

I don't buy it, Gen Z hasnt swung right, but the young left has swung apathetic. Zuck has his own reasons for sucking up to Trump and it's not to stay popular with the kids, who have already moved on from Meta properties.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by ReptileMan »

isoprophlex wrote: post #18
declan_roberts wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The moment big tech senses a shift in the political magnetosphere, they don't just bend, they quantum tunnel into perfect alignment with the new paradigm. What's more, in this case it is as if they were waiting for permission to shed their liberal democratic haha rainbow flags exoskeleton and reveal their true form without even bothering with keeping up appearances Punchline being that these tech companies were never…

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Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by praptak »

morkalork wrote: post #19
jimbob45 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If an adult told you they believed Santa was real, you'd call them mentally ill and yet..

That's literally not true. Neither flat earthers nor "vaccines cause autism" folks are being called mentally ill.

The hypothetical Santanists would not be called mentally ill either.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by ClassyJacket »

sunshowers wrote: post #10
senkora wrote: post #2

This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now: > So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second. > Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.

The fact checking is the tip of the iceberg — it's what the marketing machine led with because it's the least objectionable. Far far worse is letting queer people like myself be called mentally ill, though not any other group (e.g. religious people). Yes, it's part of the common discourse, but the common discourse is objectively morally abhorrent. I worked at FB for a decade, and I now am rooting for its complete des…

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Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by morkalork »

praptak wrote: post #23
morkalork wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If an adult told you they believed Santa was real, you'd call them mentally ill and yet..

That's literally not true. Neither flat earthers nor "vaccines cause autism" folks are being called mentally ill. The hypothetical Santanists would not be called mentally ill either.

I'll help you out, flat-earthers are delusional and sick, anti-vaxxers are idiots and anyone that believes in the supernatural in this century is a cultist.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by XorNot »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #21
this_user wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's about the company's recent course change, which includes Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview from last week. IMO this has a lot to do with the younger generations. Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election, and Zuck has probably realised that he needs to align Meta with them if they want to remain a relevant player in the social media space.

I don't buy it, Gen Z hasnt swung right, but the young left has swung apathetic. Zuck has his own reasons for sucking up to Trump and it's not to stay popular with the kids, who have already moved on from Meta properties.

The hypothesis I saw proposed is that his marriage is breaking down/actually done. Basically he's going the Elon route.

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by fishstock25 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #4

Nice descriptive article. I've done this on purpose too to debug remote filesystem syncs and cryptography problems where machines are out of sync. My GPS wall clock is handy for adjusting NTP, but the time it takes to scan my eyes from the wall back to the monitor.. you really do need two stacked like she did. So I now figured to use transparrent terminals each logged into a different host and lay them over one anoth…

> watch -n1 date

Um, that's a pretty inaccurate way to notice an offset in the millisecond range, isn't it?

Re: Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

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Post by fishstock25 »

XorNot wrote: post #26
jazzyjackson wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't buy it, Gen Z hasnt swung right, but the young left has swung apathetic. Zuck has his own reasons for sucking up to Trump and it's not to stay popular with the kids, who have already moved on from Meta properties.

The hypothesis I saw proposed is that his marriage is breaking down/actually done. Basically he's going the Elon route.

This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it. Circumstances can change, but if people do the right thing for the "right reasons", then what they do won't change.

Doing sth because of somebody's spouse is a bad reason, imagine the relationship goes sour and they face a divorce, boom they change their tune.

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