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

and who’ll supply the model and training and updates and data curation, dom? is it as manna from heaven? do you merely step upon the path and receive the divine wisdom of fresh llm updates?

fucking hell

yt short

may shorts forever die writhing (along with the people that made it happen)

such a fucking abysmal format, coming along only because ~~twitter~~ ~~periscope~~ ~~facebook-lying-to-everyone~~ ~~quibi~~ "tiktok" popularity made every bigtech shitlord feel product fomo and decide they had to do it ritenao just in case they miss the next big thing, despite afterward still sitting on the exact same extractivist bullshit as their source of money as before

hackers and builders (both in the a16z definition of) are some of the fucking worst things out there today

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

yeah I read that and started thinking of the various ways it's dependency-inducing

stopped after the first 4~5 big ones because that already really hurt to think about

I saw this over the weekend and the title itself is rather lovely, but even more hilariously it's from the atlantic

evidence of wider continued rising of the tide against saltman's bullshit grows

lol, poor helpless joanne just can’t help but run headlong into the wall

saw something drift by that she’d also deleted a bunch of tweets in the quiet time, so her coming out swinging is doubly funny

the esteemed poster huffed and puffed at least twice more on their local, which we blessedly don't have to see

such a hilariously pathetic bit of darvo, too. fuckin dipshits.

feels like it’s lining up to be the WinME of this decade

2008 called, it wants the pedantry back

Good god it’s a hydra