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Old 4th April 2021, 10:05     #321
wazza
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That's fucked

1/16th of the global population doxed

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
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Old 28th April 2021, 16:54     #322
Ab
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...ping/100097590

Facebook approves alcohol, vaping, gambling and dating ads targeting teens
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Old 16th May 2021, 20:28     #323
Ab
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https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status...41248049303555

Unconfirmed: Twitter to launch a premium service with a monthly fee

if true, I will pay for this on Day One.
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Old 15th June 2021, 00:13     #324
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Roger Waters response to Zuckerberg asking to use Brick in the Wall to promote Instagram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLJeyBk9kIY
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Old 15th June 2021, 01:12     #325
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Oh my lolz, how out of touch do you have to be? Thank goodness Waters still controls the IP!

The video is great, seeing how people respond. One guy almost fell off his seat.
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Old 15th June 2021, 11:04     #326
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Quote:
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https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status...41248049303555

Unconfirmed: Twitter to launch a premium service with a monthly fee

if true, I will pay for this on Day One.
As with all potential cool product developments at Twitter, this did not happen - or at least, not in a way that was significant at all.
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Old 15th June 2021, 11:06     #327
Ab
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Quote:
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Roger Waters response to Zuckerberg asking to use Brick in the Wall to promote Instagram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLJeyBk9kIY
Oh dear.
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Old 26th July 2021, 13:47     #328
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What could possibly go wrong

Facebook Wants You to Connect With God. On Facebook.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/facebook-w...143958483.html

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[Facebook] has been cultivating partnerships with a wide range of faith communities over the past few years, from individual congregations to large denominations, like the Assemblies of God and the Church of God in Christ. Now, after the coronavirus pandemic pushed religious groups to explore new ways to operate, Facebook sees even greater strategic opportunity to draw highly engaged users onto its platform.

Last month Facebook held a summit "which resembled a religious service," the Times reports, at which Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said churches were a natural fit for Facebook "because fundamentally both are about connection."

But the article also notes the 6-million member Church of God in Christ "received early access to several of Facebook's monetization features," testing paid subscriptions for exclusive church content, as well as real-time donations during services.
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Old 26th July 2021, 14:00     #329
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These buggers will drown in their own corruption.
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Old 26th July 2021, 19:21     #330
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These buggers will drown in their own corruption.
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The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.'
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Old 26th July 2021, 20:24     #331
Ab
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Facebook's a great racket when you think about it. Like, drive people crazy with anger and fear to make them better fodder for advertising, then when those crazy fearful people turn to - surprise! - religion for their tribal support fix, sell the churches Facebook products in order to sell more ads.
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Old 1st August 2021, 13:13     #332
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https://twitter.com/samrireports/sta...929217024?s=21

Taliban on Clubhouse... obviously Taliban on social media is less harmful than Alex Jones.
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Old 5th August 2021, 12:16     #333
Ab
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Facebook kickbans data scientists studying misinformation on Facebook

https://apnews.com/article/technolog...c3af158b128d18
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Old 17th September 2021, 14:36     #334
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Social media is the tobacco industry of our generation:

Facebook keeps researching its own harms — and burying the findings
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Old 16th October 2021, 09:43     #335
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Stuff
 
The grip that Facebook has on connecting old acquaintances needs to be removed. One way to achieve that would start with Google and Apple offering better inter-platform communication. That way you can drop FB as you've still got that ol mate you enjoy the yearly catch up with as a saved contact.
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Old 16th October 2021, 12:09     #336
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You think Google is any better, really?
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Old 16th October 2021, 20:31     #337
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I'm finding facebook much better after running the unfollow everything extension. Went thru and followed active friends again, and now I just see their posts and a few ads. If nobody posts there's nothing new to see. Feels like fb 2006/7.
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Old 18th October 2021, 08:01     #338
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I'd like to see people shift from the large monoliths to smaller < 10 self hosted federated communities. Does require nerd setup and maintenance. Fit for purpose until it isn't. Can be self contained like nzgames, or connect to other instances. Not for everyone or the next big thing.

For example I'm running a pleroma instance which I'm using to connect to people running Mastodon,Pixelfed,Writeas, which is cool in a geeky way, but not super important. Pluses, no ads or tracking, chronological posts. Not good for connecting to everyone on the planet.

Number of family members using :0. They're old and entrenched.
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Old 19th October 2021, 11:44     #339
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To those news organizations who would like to move beyond an orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign, we are ready to engage on the substance. - John Pinette, VP Communications


Massive doc dump, Facebook doing a CYA and coming across as utterly unaware of how bad the CYA attempt makes them look.
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Old 20th October 2021, 22:19     #340
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Teen girls are developing tics: Doctors say TikTok could be a factor

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Caroline Olvera, a movement-disorders fellow, noticed that numerous teens were saying the word “beans,” often in a British accent. Even patients who didn’t speak English were saying it. Some patients mentioned they had seen TikTok videos of others with tics.

Dr. Olvera created a TikTok account and started watching videos of teens and adults who said they had Tourette syndrome. She discovered that one top Tourette influencer was a Brit who often blurted out the word “beans.”
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Old 21st October 2021, 09:27     #341
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Google the Alexandra Limp.
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Old 21st October 2021, 15:41     #342
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That's a huge correlation v causation jump if I do say so.

A lot of girls are on tiktok. Some girls have tourettes. Girl presents with tourettes, and uses tiktok. Therefore, Tiktok caused Tourettes?

That being said, when my son was 2, he sometimes spoke with a British accent, which I could only put down to far too much Peppa Pig.
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Old 29th October 2021, 23:26     #343
Ab
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Meta

Fuck you Zuckerberg, fuck you Sandberg, fuck you Clegg, fuck Facebook and everything it owns and everyone who has ever worked there. Fuck you all. Die in a fucking fire.
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Old 30th October 2021, 09:20     #344
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Sweeping generalisation, but a relevent reminder that if you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.
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Old 30th October 2021, 12:22     #345
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Ready Player One, but with crippling lag and server issues. And if you fail a fact check you get deleted in real life.

On the plus side, Facebook just declared war against Ethereum's metaverse. Now everyone is learning about metaverses.

Brilliant announcement campaign though. Ripe for memes. This announcement will spread itself far and wide.
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Old 30th October 2021, 14:53     #346
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My guess is in the Ethereum ecosystem you'll eventually get to pick the algorithms that generate the content feeds you engage with. Everyone will pretty much have their own personal platforms.

You'll have public data, obfuscated data, private data. Public/private key systems that enable your data to be collected and blocked as required.

There's so much potential, it makes sense Zuckerberg is going in this direction.

It's very exciting really.
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Old 30th October 2021, 15:34     #347
Lightspeed
 
Laugh

Or perhaps we'll get this.

GINK
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Old 30th October 2021, 19:52     #348
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Quote:
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Or perhaps we'll get this.

GINK
Nice!
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Old 8th December 2021, 01:15     #349
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Meta sued in excess of $150 billion for its role in Rohingya genocide
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Old 8th December 2021, 09:18     #350
Nich
 
Inciting genocide now has a price tag. Now we just need a price for false flags, inciting totalitarianism and many others so Twitter, Meta, Youtube can budget accordingly.
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Old 8th December 2021, 09:57     #351
Ab
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Oh yes.
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Old 4th February 2022, 07:52     #352
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
Oof

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Old 4th February 2022, 11:34     #353
Ab
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Facebook's crash sets record for largest one-day value drop in stock market history




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Old 4th February 2022, 11:40     #354
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
Zuck to staff: "Um, let's pivot to video"

Zuckerberg appeared red-eyed and wore glasses, the person said. He said he might tear up because he’d scratched his eye—not because of the topics up for discussion.
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Old 15th April 2022, 00:46     #355
Lightspeed
 
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion, so it can be ‘transformed as private company’

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Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, saying the social media company needs to be transformed privately, a little over a week after first revealing a 9.2% stake in the company. Musk’s offer values Twitter at about $43 billion.
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Old 15th April 2022, 01:47     #356
Ab
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Trollabatonies!
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Old 15th April 2022, 12:34     #357
Lightspeed
 
It seems like it will be terrible if Musk succeeds. But then again, there's a good change he'll kill the platform which will leave him... well not broke, but much less wealthy. And us free of Twitter.
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Old 18th April 2022, 04:56     #358
Ab
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I just looked on twitter for the first time in ages and one of the first things I saw was a comment that Elon Musk would be the first African American to own a social media company and now I want to stab myself in the face
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Old 18th April 2022, 07:58     #359
StN
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If I can be a Pacific Islander then he can be an African American...
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Old 19th April 2022, 10:52     #360
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Quote:
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If I can be a Pacific Islander then he can be an African American...
Well, he is from (South) Africa...
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