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Is this why Twitter exclusively advertises creepy big titty anime AI companions to me? I am only interested in part of that concept, and it's not the creepy bits!!
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The Perfect Element posted:Is this why Twitter exclusively advertises creepy big titty anime AI companions to me? It's because you lingered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kS96aS4R4&t=124s
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happyhippy posted:I think that was in Private Eye. That's for the A-level results. If you went by newspaper photos, in earlier times, only slim, white girls with wide child-bearing hips and long straight hair pass A-levels. Boys and large girls with more "rubinesque" figures or with a 'funny tinge' don't pass A-levels. I think it's changed a bit in the past few years. Also in marketing using totty photos: Several billion moons ago I did a unit at uni on marketing. The research at the time showed that you could use 'beautiful women' to market to both male & female potential customers because it was perceived differently. Apparently men were attracted by the woman as someone they might want to 'befriend' while women would imagine themselves to BE the alluring woman in the photo. In the 80s one of the women's magazines (Honey) experimented with using natural models instead of slim beautiful models and sales plunged. Again, things seem to have changed a little in the last few years. I find myself wondering how the change came about, what has been done differently? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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One of the unfortunate things is hate-clicking. You see something that causes revulsion that you're absolutely going to forward to your ingroup to prove that society is a cesspit full of "halal cats for eating" or whatever and engage with it, and the algorithm clocks that engagement and then people get an entire feed full of similar bullshit.
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Private Eye sounds right. I'm sure there was a front cover to go with this, maybe I just wanted there to be 
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Yeah the moment you mentioned an onion-or-similar article I remembered "fruity girls" because it's the kind of phrase you would only associate with perverts at the Mail or Sun.
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Guavanaut posted:One of the unfortunate things is hate-clicking. You see something that causes revulsion that you're absolutely going to forward to your ingroup to prove that society is a cesspit full of "halal cats for eating" or whatever and engage with it, and the algorithm clocks that engagement and then people get an entire feed full of similar bullshit. It's bad enough when it's twitter bellends, worse when its professional media contrarians getting invited on everything for 'balance.'
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The handpicked cunts that Elon is paying for tweets only get it based on the number of *other blue ticks* that look at their tweets and replies, so those of us who aren't stupid enough to have done that don't need to worry about it. You're right about hate engagement though.
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smellmycheese posted:Holy lol. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read in a long time, and I read a lot of incredibly dumb poo poo I mean, it's phrased weirdly, but "don't go to spain cos you'll die of heatstroke and you can get the weather you used to ask for in the UK instead" does seem like it would be, in practice, good green policy, as you're cutting down on air travel. Honestly if I was drafting better labour legislation I would include a right to short notice holidays so people can bunk off when it's a nice day during summer. We do get them, it's just they're unpredictable.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah the moment you mentioned an onion-or-similar article I remembered "fruity girls" because it's the kind of phrase you would only associate with perverts at the Mail or Sun. I remember an article by a guy who used to take these photos and how he'd have the more prominent private schools phoning him up around exam time, basically marketing their teenage girls to him and how deeply weird it all was, looking back on it.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I remember an article by a guy who used to take these photos and how he'd have the more prominent private schools phoning him up around exam time, basically marketing their teenage girls to him and how deeply weird it all was, looking back on it. I suppose coming to the realisation that you've been providing softcore porn to paedophiles would feel weird.
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well i've blocked all images from bbc and tightened up my ublock filters, i'll try and keep in mind to do this for news and other websites that gently caress with me from now on. except youtube that's okay, i go on there with fuckery at the front of my mind and i blocked all their worst stuff already.
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you can't stop the websites knowing you're horny they all know
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In other UK news. Rishi Sunak criticises EU after it signs deal using Falklands’ Argentine name https://jrnl.ie/6123873 I think the best comment on this was from the EU. quote:An EU official told the Financial Times: “The UK is not part of the EU. They are upset by the use of the word Malvinas. If they were in the EU perhaps they would have pushed back against it.” Dang, actions have consequences. Whom knew?
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It's going to be a bad day for the stock photo industry once sites start generating on-the-fly AI images targeted at your specific level of horniness.
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roomtone posted:ahahah, remember how I was complaining BBC news puts pretty women next to every horrible or unrelated story to get you to click Mate
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Someone who is good at the arc of history please tell me if this is good or bad https://twitter.com/oteghauwagba/status/1681986879548280834
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All my algorithm recommendations are computer hardware. I need to step up my game.
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The BBC or whatever site isn't necessarily building up that personalised a profile for you. It might not be "this perv always clicks on the A level results stories with teen girls in the main photo", it might just be "our profile shows that this user is a British male aged 18-35" and assumes the rest.
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Something has told the algorithm I’m about 30 years older than I really am because all I get advertised is those dumb t-shirts about being a GRUMPY OLD MAN who LOVES HIS GRANDKIDS and ONLY DRINKS ON DAYS ENDING IN Y while DRIVING HIS FORKLIFT or whatever the gently caress.
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keep punching joe posted:All my algorithm recommendations are computer hardware. I need to step up my game. site owner's alt account spotted
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The only place the algorithm has any chance to hawk me stuff is on youtube on my phone and it mostly offers domino's pizza, which I never eat, and period products, which I have no use for. Nice to know they think I'm a dominos eating AFAB.
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I have adblock and you should too. gently caress the data leeching scum. also lol at returning to even more serfdom, gently caress this country aeternus et umquam
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Amazon thought I might be interested in a Geiger counter yesterday
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Well Russia is doing really badly.
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We live in a capitalist society and for us to collectively thrive it's our individual duty to view and respond to adverts.
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I am not immune to advertising, it's just most things advertised are either too expensive for me or something I already have.
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I hope it doesn't turn out to be like that story about the pregnancy coupons where two weeks from now I'm going to sheepishly realise that I was actually irradiated all along. (yes I know that story has been called into question in recent years)
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I get adverts for pick&mix sweets sold by the kilo, which is an increasingly attractive prospect
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big scary monsters posted:The BBC or whatever site isn't necessarily building up that personalised a profile for you. It might not be "this perv always clicks on the A level results stories with teen girls in the main photo", it might just be "our profile shows that this user is a British male aged 18-35" and assumes the rest. clicks on torygraph article algorithm whirrs into life, adjusting “show 21-25 year old females” down by three years.
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Tesseraction posted:Someone who is good at the arc of history please tell me if this is good or bad https://twitter.com/oteghauwagba/status/1681986879548280834 Tired: reporting on landlords exploiting women by getting sex for rent discounts Wired: check out this cool app disrupting the rental market
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The couple caught smuggling the Ukraine rocket launcher probably had better ideas on lowering rents than the Vassl app people.Reveilled posted:Amazon thought I might be interested in a Geiger counter yesterday 
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Reveilled posted:Amazon thought I might be interested in a Geiger counter yesterday it knows radon and posting from your mothers basement is a risky combo
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You should get a geiger counter with a concealed rheostat in it so you can wave it at people and freak them out by turning it up.
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"Have you seen Chernobyl on HBO? Yeah, you're hosed."
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One thing I found with that old unit is that modern D cells are far too good at being batteries for the kind of potash slop torch batteries it was designed to be fitted with, so I ended up running it off of AAs inside of big plastic fake D cell holders. I think that also means that in the aftermath of an actual nuclear event you could run it off of 4x potatoes.
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I think I have an old mining lamp from one of my distant relatives somewhere, it's basically the front off a small torch with half a car battery slung under it. Unfortunately it also turned into an unidentifiable mess of corrosion over time.
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https://twitter.com/skwawkbox/status/1681805372510593025
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They really are just Tories with red rosettes.
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