Notices by Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)

This is embarrassing… been running my business for nearly 3 years and I just figured out our value proposition an hour ago.

@chrismessina have you figured out how we can test this?

HELP: looking for sources on fascist aesthetics. Why fascists (Nazi Germany, other fascist countries, and current fascist movements) like minimalism, Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, and “elegant” beauty.

And why they banned the kinds of art they banned.

(PLEASE BOOST FOR REACH)

#research #AskFedi #AskMastodon #history #art #artHistory

@philip @liztai no

@liztai you sure? 👁️ 👁️

#Google began blocking third-party #cookies today, the same week as #Facebook rolled out “Link History" with its own history tracking for users...

2024 is already shaping up a very interesting year for #marketing and the #internet. I have long thought that the status quo for #advertising online has to change. I'm excited that we are finally watching some of that play out

Here is an article explaining Google's cookie update: https://gizmodo.com/google-just-disabled-cookies-for-30-million-chrome-user-1851137998

#Google #cookies #Facebook #marketing #internet #advertising

And here's one on Meta's new link history: https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

#Google #cookies #Facebook #marketing #internet #advertising

“Accept the reality that AI will destroy creative careers” sounds an awful lot like “accept the reality that crypto and NFTs are the future of commerce”

In both cases we see:
- Hype driven by companies and investors with vested interest in said technology
- Grand predictions of the future and comparisons to disruptions like the internet
- Obscure, complex tech that most people don’t use
- Extreme resource consumption for tech to function
- Fear and panic from media

Look, nihilism is a way to control you.

If you give up on changing the “unstoppable tide” of whatever technological or social change someone claims is inevitable…. Then yeah. You won’t do anything to change it. And they will get what they want - no resistance.

@thomasfuchs how have I never heard that before this is amazing

Celebrate #Caturday by taking a mid-afternoon nap with your cat. Highly recommend

Sorry, deleted some earlier posts. Will find a better way to communicate that message sometime later.

@seachanger yeah… it’s such a tough pill to swallow. I’m in the services business because I’m a chronic people pleaser 😅

PSA: it’s never okay to treat other people’s time as less important than yours.

@oliphant same

@seachanger @oliphant and I’m very glad that the narrative is being proven wrong. Yeah, of course we’re jaded after how other social platforms collapsed… but if we accept that “nobody listens and nothing will change” then we’ve given up before we tried.

“The ads are a window into a blatantly illegal underground economy that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but is actively profiting from and injecting into users’ feeds.”

404 Media has been off to an incredible debut. Been reading everything they’ve published so far and this is just great, comprehensive, and important investigative #journalism.

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-illegal-content-drugs-guns-hackers/

Oh boy. Strapping in for quite a read here https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

#Musk #Ukraine #Russia #News

“Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,”

Ugh.