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Good point. No, I haven't seen any independent confirmations yet.
Yes, independently vetted.
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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
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> What would trying to sell billions in stock at once Let them pay their taxes with stocks. Problem solved.
Exactly -- or with a piece of their real estate! Just take a chainsaw, cut a bedroom and bathroom out, and the government gets that piece.
In the proposal, people whose assets are mostly illiquid are excluded from this tax.
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There is actually a reasonable way to fix this as currently implemented. Engage with the platform in some popular areas that have their own targeted advertising. My feed is filled with STEM projects and gardening with a spritz of actual content from friends. When the product is used as intended, it does a lot better than with zero engagement passively. The product is very tuned to people actually using it, which the…
At least for me, this is even worse. I would rather have a clear separation between the content being foisted on me and the content I'm there to actually see.
If you give no signals, you get the lowest denominator content... boobies and click/ragebait.
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Zuck Vs Elon on the 2028 presidential ticket would be.... something
Elon was born in Africa and is not eligible to be president.
More specifically, he was born in Africa and neither one of his parents was a US citizen. While all past presidents were born in the USA, it hasn't yet been definitively ruled that you must be born on US soil to be a "natural born Citizen", and my understanding is that you likely don't, you just need to have been a US citizen at birth rather than naturalized later.
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#695Does this mean that Facebook's internal analysis predicts a Trump victory? That's how I read it.
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How about a choice for which social circle you'd like to view at one time. We could call it "Circles".
that would be so wildly popular we could see a Diaspora
Maybe it could have page customization features that let you upload html. Have it be a really custom space of your own.
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#697When the platforms starting censoring during the pandemic and last election cycle I remember saying they better get it right 100% of the time because the moment they get it wrong their credibility is shot. Hear we are. Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.
I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct, but shouldn't we allow people to question science? Our government can do what it does because the people embolden them.
I will never, ever forgive or forget the absolute amount of censorship and tolerance for punishing “wrongthink” during the lockdown years. Ever. It completely shattered my faith in the government and “Science”.
God forbid anybody show any intellectual curiosity if it went against the doomer dogma.
And the worst part is the people with the “wrong think” were right. Covid didn’t have a “4% kill rate”. It almost certainly came from a lab. The vaccine was not always safe and definitely wasn’t effective. Lockdowns didn’t work and neither did masks. Closing school for two years and keeping kids locked inside on iPads will fuck them up for the rest of their lives.
And saying any of that resulted in being banned, accused of “dangerous thought”, and being yelled at by society.
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I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct, but shouldn't we allow people to question science? Our government can do what it does because the people embolden them.
I didn't see a lot of people banned for questioning . Most people were banned for authoritatively affirming things. (But then, that "a lot" is there for a reason. There has been some bad behavior from the platform too.)
You clearly were not on “the other side” of the mainstream Covid narrative. There absolutely was plenty of banning going on.
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Don't worry, soon someone here will build an "HDMI-hole" that uses AI to directly filter unwanted content from a HDMI signal.
I'd rather expect a HDMI cables that will display ads if you don't pay a subscription will come first. Pretty sure we had a thread on this not so long ago.
I’m waiting on Panasonic (Panasonic, was it?) to act on their trademark to have interactive ads on their TVs. You have to yell a product name or marketing keyword (McDonalds! PlayStation!) out loud if you want the ad to stop. It stays if you can’t or don’t yell :)
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Agree, Zuck has zero integrity and I think he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November and is trying to say he was bullied into making alot of disastrous decisions that he and he only ordered for an administration/party that he personally donated $400M+ to.
He donated 400m to funding election infrastructure. How is that donating to Democrats?
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