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   jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:40 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406

   Canon behavior from meta, tbh

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:36 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     So this was clear from the very start, that structurally the business model relies on making the web an incomprehensible mess to force chatbot usage as the only remaining viable source of information. But now that we're in the "agentic" swing of things, that language is just becoming more or less text in the ad copy: "get your agent to go out there in the wasteland of the former web and get you answers" (not mentioning who made the web into a wasteland)

     Steve's Place and Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:36 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     Love how all this is being subsidized by the federal government resulting in a negative effective tax rate for some of the largest companies on earth.

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:37 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     "The last digital capital revolution was targeted ads. The next digital capital revolution is to rent a robot to look at the ads"

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:38 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     Zuck, 2026 Q1 earnings call: "our plan is to make an AI that's really good at shopping"

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:38 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     Context there was contrasting meta's plans which it describes as making consumer AI that helps people with daily things, and for some people those daily things are curing disease, and for others its shopping. But the answer was in response to an investor asking about shopping because uh that's the thing that makes money. This strategy sorta makes sense given their consumer surfaces, but at the end of the line of reasoning where you plug the surge protector back into itself, you gotta wonder how many people are going to find renting a shopping bot from the ad company to shop in the ad company's store based on the ad companies ads a little cyclical.

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 05:42:39 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     I don't care of both of the numbers might be undercounts and all the double spending isn't unfurled on that site. Meta would always have shown up as "boondoggle" on the graph. The only thing it knows how to do is boondoggles.

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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:17:18 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     • Jack :telecommuter:

     @jackperkins

     prettygood likes this.
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     jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:17:19 JST jonny (nonvenomous)

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     • Jack :telecommuter:

     @jackperkins
     "There's openAI and anthropic, google is still in the race, and good lord what in the fuck is going on over there at meta"

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     Jack :telecommuter: (jackperkins@post.lurk.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:17:20 JST Jack :telecommuter:

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     @jonny among all the other dumb bullshit in this wave the meta being completely unable to get anything together bit is one of the funniest. they dont even know how to sell hype of vague promises, its just him stumbling for words to say out loud