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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:10:41 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Pēteris Krišjānis
   • Hannu Ikonen MD

   @peteriskrisjanis @hannu_ikonen @maxleibman@mastodon.social How do you ruin a surveillance capitalist?

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     Pēteris Krišjānis (peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:10:43 JST Pēteris Krišjānis

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     • Max Leibman

     @maxleibman there is no AI, there is very expensive and wasteful code using LLM which apparently board is pushing down all engineer throats. So it is not even Google ruined Google. Board of directors of Google ruined Google.

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     Max Leibman (maxleibman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:10:44 JST Max Leibman

     AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

     Elledeeay repeated this.
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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 11:28:40 JST Nicole Parsons

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     • Max Leibman

     @maxleibman

     Twitter was ruined by its investors.
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
     https://fortune.com/2023/06/02/elon-musk-twitter-deal-valuation-investors/

     Like Twitter, Google's investors ruined Google.
     https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
     https://observer.com/2023/06/google-saudi-arabia-data-center-protest/

     Like Google, Apple's investors ruined Apple.
     https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

     Beginning to see a trend here...