[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Libra-now-Diem, yeah. it was a full-on attempt to take the reins of value transmission and storage ("be the economy, be the bank"), beyond just coin

(also written about by david (which I haven't read (yet?) because handwave all my usual things on fire))

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

sidebar: I definitely wouldn’t be surprised if it comes to this overall being a case of “a shop optimised by tuning, and then it suddenly turns out the entire industry has never tried to tune a thing ever”

because why try hard when the money taps are open and flowing free? velocity over everything! this is the bayfucker way.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

opinion: the AWB is too afrikaans for it to be likely that that is where he picked up his nazi shit. then-era ZA still had a lot of AF/EN animosity, and in a couple of biographies of the loon you hear things like "he hated life in ZA as a kid because .... {bullying}", and a non-zero amount of that may have stemmed from AF bullying EN

(icbw, it's definitely not something I've studied the history of the loon's tendencies, but can speak to (at least part[0]) of the ZA attitude)

(([0] - I wasn't alive at the time it would've mattered to him, but other bits of the cultural attitudes lasted well into my youth))

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I recall seeing something of this sort happening on goog for about 12~18mo - every so often a researcher post does the rounds where someone finds Yet Another way goog is fucking it up

the advertising dept has completely captured all mindshare and it is (demonstrably) the only part that goog-the-business cares about

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Don't know how much this fits the community, as you use a lot of terms I'm not inherently familiar with (is there a "welcome guide" of some sort somewhere I missed)

first impression: your post is entirely on topic, welcome to the stubsack

techtakes is a sister sub to sneerclub (also on this instance, previously on reddit) and that one has a bit of an explanation. generally any (classy) sneerful critique of bullshit and wankery goes, modulo making space for chuds/nazis/debatelords/etc (those get shown the exit)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

from this article

Amazon asked Chun to dismiss the case in December, saying the FTC had raised no evidence of harm to consumers.

ah yes, the company that's massively monopolized nearly all markets, destroyed choice, constantly ships bad products (whose existence is incentivised by programs of its own devising), and that has directly invested in enhanced price exploitation technologies? that one? yeah, totes no harm to consumers there

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

what on earth kind of post is this

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Good god it’s a hydra

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

do you see why I take the shortcut?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

last references I saw were that chatgpt et al were $1m/day, and those numbers were pre-sora.

I wish I could cheer for it unambiguously ("yes! burn that money! go ahead! make yourself poorer! woooooo!") but unfortunately the fucking side effects still exist too -_-

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

was this said in sarcasm or support?

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