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Infinitum posted:Imagine the sort of poo poo you could buy for $44 billion I can't. It's an unfathomable amount of money. All of it wasted on a lovely program run by an idiot
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Jul 7, 2023 02:47
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I forgot that Isaacson is doing Musk’s biography, it should be hilarious.
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Jul 7, 2023 02:50
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AARP LARPer posted:omg i watched this last night and holy gently caress about those posts where teachers showed it to their class lmao show me those posts
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Jul 7, 2023 02:50
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PhazonLink posted:but he does do drug too. He's so bad at it though. Remember when he made weed look uncool?
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Jul 7, 2023 02:51
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kazil posted:
 ?" begs musk on day 4,576 of his pursuit of kings affection
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Jul 7, 2023 02:53
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also most people should do less phone/scrreen time. the fact that timed locked boxes for phones are thing is pretty damning for humanity.
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Jul 7, 2023 02:54
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Lol Twitter added a note to that tweet to verify the screenshot. The feature meant to defang fake news is now weaponizes for billionaire feuds.
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Jul 7, 2023 03:08
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Propaganda Hour posted:I can't. It's an unfathomable amount of money. E: or just own yum brands and boom you control KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. WithoutTheFezOn fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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Jul 7, 2023 03:13
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kazil posted:
Spent $44 billion to post variations on "I know you are but what am I?"
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Jul 7, 2023 03:14
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Back before Musky boy immanentized the enshittaton, he promised a bunch of new feature poo poo -- did any of that pan out? I know it didn't, but anybody remember what those were?
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Jul 7, 2023 03:25
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Infinitum posted:Man.. most people just get addicted to drugs Two chicks at the same time....
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Jul 7, 2023 03:25
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he's such a loving loser lol I can sometimes imagine having that much money, or being as much of a loser, but both at the same time just turns me into the joker everytime I think about it
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Jul 7, 2023 03:26
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kru posted:Can wait for him to mortal Kombat Elon in the ring - spine removal animation and everything Impossible, he does not have a spine to rip
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Jul 7, 2023 03:30
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Back before Musky boy immanentized the enshittaton, he promised a bunch of new feature poo poo -- did any of that pan out? I know it didn't, but anybody remember what those were? He managed to deliver on longer tweets, that's about it. I know he promised creators would get money from ads that show on their tweet threads, and then announced that it had started, and then a four months later said in a few weeks. It hasn't happened yet, half a year after he said it had started. (Also total lol that across the entire Twitter platform, half a year's worth of ad sharing revenue only amounts to $5 million.)
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Jul 7, 2023 03:36
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Vegetable posted:Lol Twitter added a note to that tweet to verify the screenshot. The feature meant to defang fake news is now weaponizes for billionaire feuds.
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Jul 7, 2023 03:39
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zuck should pin the story about elon's engineering degree being fake as retaliation, this war needs escalation
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Jul 7, 2023 03:40
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InsertPotPun posted:"which one are YOU Pretty sure king has never once responded to any of his comments. True king poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2023 03:40
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MiracleFlare posted:Also apparently if you decide later you don't like Threads and wanna close your account, you have to delete your Instagram account too. Might be just a temporary thing, but still lol In response to a lot of posts about this, the Instagram head guy posted that you can deactivate your Threads account, which hides the account and everything you've ever posted, but you can't full-on delete it and keep Instagram because right now they're literally just the same account. But they're working on a way to make it so you can individually delete the Threads account if you want. Some things about Threads are kind of half-baked right now because it wasn't supposed to launch until late this month but Zuckerberg saw Twitter completely poo poo the bed over the weekend and said "gently caress it, ship it"
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Jul 7, 2023 03:44
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StarkRavingMad posted:In response to a lot of posts about this, the Instagram head guy posted that you can deactivate your Threads account, which hides the account and everything you've ever posted, but you can't full-on delete it and keep Instagram because right now they're literally just the same account. But they're working on a way to make it so you can individually delete the Threads account if you want. The head of Instagram also mentioned upcoming features: "And there are tons of basics that are missing: search, hashtags, a following feed, graph syncing, fedeverse support, messaging maybe…" So, basically the rest of Twitter.
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Jul 7, 2023 03:57
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sticksy posted:About that.... Always some guy named Baron
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Jul 7, 2023 04:04
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biznatchio posted:He managed to deliver on longer tweets, that's about it. Yeah that isn't going to keep me on a platform that will only advertise work algorithmically if I'm a nazi.
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Jul 7, 2023 04:05
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Vegetable posted:Lol Twitter added a note to that tweet to verify the screenshot. The feature meant to defang fake news is now weaponizes for billionaire feuds. "Community Note: the screenshot is real, showing zuck being a jackass at age 19. elon is currently being a jackass at age... christ, is he in his fifties?"
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Jul 7, 2023 04:23
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greatBigJerk posted:Judging by how fast adoption is, that was probably a smart move. i'm kind of surprised someone like microsoft hasn't thrown up some barely functional clone or slightly modified phpbb or something these past few months and tried to make themselves the new thing
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Jul 7, 2023 04:27
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Waffle House posted:lol Elon Musk committed public suicide 
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Jul 7, 2023 04:28
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he's not that skinny or pale enough?
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Jul 7, 2023 04:32
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Polygynous posted:i'm kind of surprised someone like microsoft hasn't thrown up some barely functional clone or slightly modified phpbb or something these past few months and tried to make themselves the new thing at this point the cia should just openly fund a twitter replacement through a shell company and promise no ads or monetization ever apparently nobody cares about being spied on where they post memes and look at porn, so there's no need for all the backdoor cloak and dagger poo poo that snowden exiled himself over they can just tap into the data directly and the world would willingly give it to them if the content and ui are good would cost a couple billion per year, peanuts to the intelligence community
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Jul 7, 2023 04:33
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Bad Purchase posted:at this point the cia should just openly fund a twitter replacement through a shell company and promise no ads or monetization ever
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Jul 7, 2023 04:35
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temple posted:why set up their own when private businesses do it for them? (taps temple) i'm sure there are some limitations to their backdoors, and they probably pay the social media companies money for access and support anyway cut out the middlemen and get full access forever also, the more the american companies keep shooting themselves in the foot, the more people migrate to tiktok where they won't have access. we can't allow a social media gap.
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Jul 7, 2023 04:37
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Here is a story I’ve been telling people I know who are thinking of making a Threads account. About a month, month and a half ago, I was using Facebook messenger to talk to an old friend. I’d had a Facebook account from maybe 2008-2020, and then killed it. I started a new one early this year mainly to be able to see pics and posts by my family, who live a few thousand miles away. I hadn’t really done much on Facebook besides look at those posts, and join a couple of Star Trek/SW nerd groups, and post some funny dog/cat videos. Anyway, I was talking to this friend of mine and we’d been talking about life, marriage, kids, etc. I mentioned that my wife had been pre-menopausal for a while and was going through some poo poo with it. My friend, who is a woman, said “Oh yeah, me too. My doctor wanted to put me on an estrogen therapy drug, but I didn’t want to do it, because there is an increased risk of cancer associated with taking some of this stuff.” Anyway it was late, she signed off, I switched over to FB and started scrolling, and for the first time ever, I was served with an ad meant to appeal to menopausal women. I continued scrolling down and more and more of these ads appeared, about various drugs meant to lessen the stuff women go through with menopause. Some of them specifically stated “this product doesn’t use xxxx which is known to increase risks of cancer, rather it uses this other substance yyyy, which is not associated with any increased risk of cancer” It was 100% clear, that an AI had been reading the things my friend and I had been talking about minutes before, and FB began feeding me ads related to the exact things she and I had said. And I mean, it was immediate. The moment I closed FB messenger and switched over to FB, these ads were there, where I’d never seen a single one on this FB account previously. If this is what FB and its messenger app do, imagine what Threads does. MrMojok fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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MrMojok posted:Here is a story I’ve been telling people I know who are thinking of making a Threads account. yeah idgaf about getting tailored ads. ship sailed a long time ago
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Bad Purchase posted:we can't allow a social media gap.  everything's just going to keep getting dumber, isn't it
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CharlestheHammer posted:Is Twitter meant to interact in any real way Emo Phillips said it best:  Still can't believe how poo poo the Threads roll out has been. Literally all they had to do was add a feed option where it's just people you follow. It's hard to imagine a more off-putting feed of posts that is SWF. If you want to be 'the next Twitter' bewildering that you wouldn't at least make the initial experience a good one and crank the ads/influencer bullshit later once people are using your app.
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Jul 7, 2023 04:57
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Bad Purchase posted:i'm sure there are some limitations to their backdoors, and they probably pay the social media companies money for access and support anyway absolutely not, government agencies overpaying middlemen grotesque amounts for basic rear end poo poo in the name of "defense" is a proud american tradition. if you cut out the middlemen, who are we even defending?
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Jul 7, 2023 05:02
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/twitter-meta-lawsuit-threads-app-musk-zuckerberg?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OtherThe Guardian posted:
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There's a post-script to this story, which is that it would have gotten the same information about you if your friend was just talking about a conversation they had with you. Actually being part of the conversation makes it easier for them to manage, but to be truly out of the algorithm it's not just a question of not participating. You have to also never be mentioned by anyone else that is. It's like those "Check your ancestry" programs that the cops use to check DNA. It's not just a question of you not doing it. Did anyone related to you do it? You are now a potential data point. They can't directly match to you, but they can match to someone who is clearly a cousin of yours and then go "So what cousins do they have?" to find you.
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Jul 7, 2023 05:04
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Cool Dad posted:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/twitter-meta-lawsuit-threads-app-musk-zuckerberg?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Hmm yes I'm sure that will go well in Discovery.
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MrMojok posted:Here is a story I’ve been telling people I know who are thinking of making a Threads account. Did you just wake up in 2023?
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Jul 7, 2023 05:05
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MrMojok posted:If this is what FB and its messenger app do, imagine what Threads does. Exactly the same thing?
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Jul 7, 2023 05:09
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yeah that kind of poo poo has been around for years and its everywhere, hardly limited to fb or even to the internet, since your phone and tv etc. are also listening to everything you say. while im certainly not planning to use threads, there's not really any avoiding that ad poo poo unless you go fully off the grid
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Propaganda Hour posted:Did you just wake up in 2023? Nah, and I’d seen the algo work on FB in the past. I don’t think I’d ever experienced it watching what I typed in messenger and immediately react based on that, but that may be because I don’t think I used messenger very much before? 
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