Notices by Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)

@evan TikTok is as much about the video tools as the algo. Neither of which are here.

Saying goodbye to TikTok.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FCEyDQ/

Helly is FAKING. She’s not severed anymore.

They'll boil the oceans for the promise of free labor. That's what's driving all the AI bullshit: a bunch of rich assholes who don't want to pay workers.
https://gizmodo.com/41-of-employers-worldwide-say-theyll-reduce-staff-by-2030-due-to-ai-2000548131

As a Jew, I am so tired of neo-nazis using "antisemitism" as an excuse to enable fascism.

If that was too complicated a sentence, let me put it this way: Fuck the Heritage Foundation. Long live the free encyclopedia!

https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

Now that's a good headline.

"Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook"

https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-meta-announcement-hate-speech

Delete your Instagram account before they make AI slop with your face on it.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-begins-randomly-showing-users-ai-generated-images-of-themselves/

Meta has been horrible for years so I don’t know why today’s shit is the bridge too far, but it is. I deactivated my Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Fuck Meta entirely.

I love being right.
https://www.techspot.com/news/106170-apple-may-have-ended-production-vision-pro-headset.html

If you look at every investment in “AI” as the ruling ownership class trying to find a way to make profit without having to pay actual people, all of their enthusiasm begins to make sense.

Lemme translate this for you. When they say that the definition of an “AGI” is that it will generate “$100 billion in profits,” what they really mean is that they want “AGI” in order to avoid paying $100 billion to employees.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339

Elon is a nazi and Twitter is the new Stormfront.

To everyone who called me crazy when I said Elon was a nazi: I was right, you were wrong.
https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-endorses-germanys-far-right/

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https://milkbarn.farm

@annaleen Please tell me "stop talking about filter bubbles" also includes why "echo chamber" is just a pejorative way to say "community."

@annaleen Yup. Abuser logic.

If you're also giving Bluesky a try, I'm over there, too. Come say hi.

https://bsky.app/profile/fraying.bsky.social

I crosspost sometimes, but I'm finding it interesting to see what's different about here vs there. I feel like I can be more real here, esp in followers-only posts. There seems more newsy because of all the journalists and quote posts. And honestly? Fewer reply guys there.

(Please don't have here vs there arguments in my comments. Loyalty is for friends, not social networks.)

So far, my biggest complaint about Bluesky is how everyone says it's great because it "has no algorithm" which is a bananas thing to say because it has tens of thousands of algorithms called Feeds that you can choose from.

And before anyone here gets preachy because Masto has "no algos," yes, it does, it's just called Explore.

Algos aren't the problem and never have been. Loss of control is the problem.

Don't get me started.

This explains a lot.

Source: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion

@phaedral You’re talking about my family did you know that? So shut the fuck up