Improbable Lobster posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/michael_deforge/status/996497006641197058

Phoenixan posted:

isn't microsoft already the battle royale of employment?

Fiedler posted:

Not for like 5 years, no.

Gazpacho posted:

An ambitious author in the field of new media has to confront the shelf-life problem, the possibility, if not probability, that their theoretical insights might be overlooked as the currency of their objects, almost inevitably, expire. One way to address this problem is to consider how old mythic past futures feed into the present, figured in Benjaminian terms as a kind of state of somnambulism. It is in this light that we might appreciate the current renaissance of post-scarcity thought within the field of new media. These debates, often referred to in terms of Accelerationism, contemplate how new media might be able to solve the famed socialist calculation problem —the critique of which formed the basis for neoliberal orthodoxy (Hayek) — such that the aspirations of Soviet cyberneticians might, for example, appear as homologous with those of Google (Bratton). Accelerationist thought thus seeks to reimagine the logistical networks of neoliberal capitalism, such that Wal-Mart — known, for instance, for their innovations in supply chain logistics — can thus come to represent “the shape of a Utopian future looming through the mist” (Jameson). It is at the forefront of these speculative and provocative debates that one should position Benjamin Bratton’s book “The Stack: on Software and Sovereignty”, which claims to offer “a portrait of the system we have but perhaps do not recognize, and an antecedent of a future territory,” “a larval geopolitical architecture” that may serve as a “metaplatform of an alternative counterindustrialization”

Bratton approaches media theory as if it were a design brief — he even writes in first-person plural as if speaking on behalf of a lab. His approach is, in turns, diagnostic and normative, but above all it is subjunctive, in that, it offers ideas in terms of McLuhanesque probes. At the core of this design brief, then, is his notion of “The Stack”, a hermeneutic for interconnecting debates across fields extending from software studies to architecture theory to international relations theory, which imagines the stack architecture of network protocols like TCP/IP as a kind of “armature of the social itself.” Bratton’s 6-tier Stack model (User, Interface, Address, City, Cloud, Earth) is intended to include all technological systems as part of a singular planetary-scale computer, a kind of Spaceship Earth 2.0, updated to reflect the demands of the Anthropocene era. As with Jameson’s famous concept of cognitive mapping, one of the central preoccupations of Bratton’s 500 page book — particularly in its middle section — is the Kantian question of how the individual relates to the sublime totality. What complicates this familiar narrative, however, are the many ways that The Stack redefines agency and, in the process, undermines the Kantian project. He speculates, for example, on how technological innovations, such as the near infinite address space proposed by the Internet protocol version 6, suggests the Latourian prospect of extending agency to a proliferation of non-human forms of software-sorted sovereign citizens in what he deems an Internet of Haecceities.

SeaborneClink posted:

Praying at the idol of the DAU God.

Say how is porn prodigy Snapchat doing these days, still working on v3 of their camera goggles?

Dodoman posted:

lol htc is making a "blockchain phone"

Tokamak posted:

https://twitter.com/ReutersUS/status/996716974112739328

meatpotato posted:

who?

oh, (((grimes’s boyfriend’s accountant)))

hobbesmaster posted:

Endless Mike posted:

motherfucker never sent me my protest checks

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/996605838625095682

500 million fake accounts out of 2.1 billion “active users”

800 million spams detected

lmao

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/996605838625095682

500 million fake accounts out of 2.1 billion “active users”

800 million spams detected

lmao

Krankenstyle posted:

Those tools worked particularly well for content such as fake accounts and spam: the company said it managed to use the tools to find 98.5% of the fake accounts it shut down, and “nearly 100%” of the spam.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/996605838625095682

500 million fake accounts out of 2.1 billion “active users”

800 million spams detected

lmao

KidDynamite posted:

my fiancé works for a company that does social media ad buys and I constantly ask her why the gently caress any of her clients still want Facebook or Twitter ads. Her answer is they’re real dumb.

qirex posted:

the youths don't watch tv so they're desperate to reach them any way they can, the whole "influencer" industry is based on the fact that we now have kids mostly immune to traditional advertising content

hobbesmaster posted:

thats why you need to bribe youtubers, twitch streamers and podcasters?

haveblue posted:

yeah, that's where all the attention is going. any traditional ads the kids aren't already blocking with technological measures like dvrs and adblock they just ignore in favor of their phone or mentally discard by reflex

Mr. Nice! posted:

and anytime youtube or something forces an ad on me I change tabs/mute my computer and just wait for it to be done.

haveblue posted:

yeah, that's where all the attention is going. any traditional ads the kids aren't already blocking with technological measures like dvrs and adblock they just ignore in favor of their phone or mentally discard by reflex

Sagebrush posted:

a while back i saw some eye-tracking heatmaps made while people browsed a news website covered in ads, and it's unbelievable how good people are at ignoring anything but the content. like they don't even have to glance at the ads to recognize what they are -- just automatically filtered out as they scan down the page.

i think it's probably a repurposing of evolved abilities that aren't greatly needed any more. like, there's some bit of your brain that evolved to scan over a field of grass and ignore everything that isn't tiger-shaped, but now in the absence of tigers it's what lets you unconsciously skip over web ads and instantly recognize a police car lurking a mile down the road

haveblue posted:

yeah, that's where all the attention is going. any traditional ads the kids aren't already blocking with technological measures like dvrs and adblock they just ignore in favor of their phone or mentally discard by reflex

Mr. Nice! posted:

its not just kids. i'm a single guy in his mid 30s relatively flush with cash and i do as much as possible to avoid all direct-advertisements. i don't listen to radio, i have adblock on my phone/computer, i pay for hulu no-ads, and anytime youtube or something forces an ad on me I change tabs/mute my computer and just wait for it to be done.

Munkeymon posted:

"the kids" being anyone under ~40 IME

qirex posted:

yeah but you have brand preferences already, the 13-24 is so valuable because if you get someone buying gilette razors or downy fabric softener or general motors cars when they're 20 there's a good chance they'll keep doing it for 50 years

if you're over 35 your only ad value is financial services, medical/pharma and home improvement

Mr. Nice! posted:

its fun to see the different commercials on cable depending on the time of day and what's being shown.

Sagebrush posted:

11am on a weekday is the most depressing ads you can imagine

Sagebrush posted:

11am on a weekday is the most depressing ads you can imagine

hobbesmaster posted:

now i have the jg wentworth jingle stuck in my head, thanks