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They were seduced by the prospect of being able to run paid ads on the screens, although nobody actually did that as far as I can determine. It's like those little TVs at gas station pumps, same deal, added expense just to annoy you, drive prices up, and serve you ads, capitalism at its finest.
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't like the "put your items on the circular thingy then insert your money" checkouts that a lot of convenience stores are putting in around me. It doesn't save any time at all, even if you do it right, and that's not even accounting for the old people and what have you who always need help with it. Not sure what problem it's designed to solve, really. There's still the same amount of cashiers there's always been. I guess one could argue that it eliminates cashiers loving up and giving you the wrong change or freeing up time to clean and stock shelves but...like half the people that shop in gas stations need some tobacco/vape/blunt papers from behind the counter or are buying beer and need to be ID'd anyway For now, anyway. It's always been about reducing labor costs. Unless you've got a store that's only ever got exactly 1 cashier, in which case there's still potentially reduced lines which might result in reduced lost sales. Kagrenak posted:Come to think of it most of them around here have been pulled out of the stores as well. These were the worst, just an insane waste of money. How did they even get stores to buy them, why wasn't everyone just like "glass is already clear and your products advertise themselves by being on the shelves, idiot" You don't get a bonus for being the guy to say "know what? These doors are fine, actually."
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404 Media posted:Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders  WARNING: Some of these pics are really gross. https://www.404media.co/ai-images-of-dying-drowning-mutilated-children-go-viral-on-facebook/
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May 2, 2024 07:48
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Oh hey, the daily reminder a lot of people on the internet are loving awful, cool.
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May 2, 2024 08:11
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What really grinds my gears is that during the migrant crisis they screamed FAKE when confronted with actual photos that look like this. "Ooh this is staged, the dead child is too clean". But pixel predictor output is perfectly fine
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May 2, 2024 08:23
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The AI recommendation system would explain why so many people are complaining their Facebook feeds have recently turned into a stream of unsolicited hot garbage. Facebook had a working product, but they had to Zuck with it.
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May 2, 2024 08:48
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I've seen an uptick in AI generated garbage on both facebook and youtube, it's not really that interesting after you've seen about 5 seconds of it once. Shoddy weird looking AI remakes of movies to pretend they are from 1950 or something.
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May 2, 2024 09:09
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The only good use of AI was to make really loving bizarre poo poo, probably while high because you might not care that someone's face just morphed into a pizza and vice-versa.
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May 2, 2024 09:34
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Remembering how Nineteen Eighty-Four described machines writing books and TV shows of content slurry to sate the masses, it’s really inspiring how close we are to fully realising Orwell’s vision 
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May 2, 2024 11:44
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We should all quit social media. It's cancer. I find Instagram the least obnoxious, but I'm thinking of quitting even it.
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May 2, 2024 11:50
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Drowning in meaningless slurry is more of a Brave New World thing, no? Minus the orgies, sadly.
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May 2, 2024 11:50
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Hahahah The Rabbit R1 AI Assistant device has been cracked and its just an Android APK and works on rooted phones with some mods.
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May 2, 2024 11:55
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Jesus III posted:We should all quit social media. It's cancer. I find Instagram the least obnoxious, but I'm thinking of quitting even it. Instagram is ok if you like sharing pictures and seeing other people’s photos, what is bad about it is how much they control what people see on their feeds There are friends whose posts I’ll never see if I don’t remember to go look on their profiles, and than there’s tons of posts from people I don’t follow that’s gets shoved in my feed Just yesterday my mom was complaining she never sees my photos unless she goes to my profile too I just want an instagram-like with a simple chronological feed where we see the posts from who we follow, but we just cant have that anymore edit: I’m not even complaining about seeing 2 repetitive ads for every 2 posts, I could live with that if they just had gave us a simple chronological feed by default again Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 12:12 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 12:04
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The AI recommendation system would explain why so many people are complaining their Facebook feeds have recently turned into a stream of unsolicited hot garbage. Facebook had a working product, but they had to Zuck with it. Sure, but it has been a stream of unsolicited hot garbage for a decade.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Instagram is ok if you like sharing pictures and seeing other people’s photos, what is bad about it is how much they control what people see on their feeds Insta is literally one of the worse for young people thanks to 'influencers'. It shoulda been taken down long before TikTok
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Elias_Maluco posted:Instagram is ok if you like sharing pictures and seeing other people’s photos, what is bad about it is how much they control what people see on their feeds Yes, that, with no ability to comment. Emojis are fine.
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May 2, 2024 12:13
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Humphreys posted:Insta is literally one of the worse for young people thanks to 'influencers'. It shoulda been taken down long before TikTok I suppose it’s true, but i’m 43 and I never got into “influencer “ culture and so instagram for me is still for it’s original purpose: photography But yeah, even I get a lot of that poo poo in my feed nowadays even thought I never followed a single influencer or anything like that edit: vvvv I also get a lot of animals and nature photography, which are my interests there, but than I also get a lot of poo poo I never wanted. But what is worst is that I don’t see posts from a lot of people I follow and they often don’t see my posts either Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 12:22 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 12:14
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My Instagram feed is cooking recipes, cats, plants, and tattoos. It works for me 
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Jesus III posted:We should all quit social media. It's cancer. I find Instagram the least obnoxious, but I'm thinking of quitting even it. Instagram was the first thing I quit because I hate using a mobile phone and instagram is so mobile focused it didn't work properly on a desktop. So I just stopped using it.
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Elias_Maluco posted:I suppose it’s true, but i’m 43 and I never got into “influencer “ culture and so instagram for me is still for it’s original purpose: photography I don't know if it helps or if it's proper/ethical but I report every suggested ad or account that I don't want to ever show up again as some kind of sexual abuse I figured that's the ultimate "remove this from my account" flag.
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https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/favorites-and-following
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NEW! - The way it worked before we started loving with it
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I am confused by the difference between "accounts you follow" and "accounts you care about"; is the latter actually "the accounts our heuristics think you may want to see?"
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Im aware of that but you have to manually switch to it every time you open the drat thing and also most people don't use it or even know if exists, so it don't really solves the problem
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OddObserver posted:I am confused by the difference between "accounts you follow" and "accounts you care about"; is the latter actually "the accounts our heuristics think you may want to see?" mostly for celebrities and time-sensitive things i'm assuming
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Volmarias posted:Sure, but it has been a stream of unsolicited hot garbage for a decade. It used to depend on how much your friends sucked. Then a few months ago there was a massive uptick in pure algorithmic pig feed, like:
I found a menu option to "filter low quality content," which improved things a bit, but now the garbage is taking over again.
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lol that there needs to be a literal menu option for "filter low quality content", and that it doesn't even work. That's your 10 year late message to delete your Facebook account by the way.
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There's an option to see a feed that's just what your friends post in chronological order. It's hidden under the "feeds" tab and there's no way to make it your normal homepage, but you can bookmark it for easy access if you still know people who actually post on Facebook. At this point for me it's just a random assortment of aunts and cousins I barely know because nobody else uses it.
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TACD posted:Remembering how Nineteen Eighty-Four described machines writing books and TV shows of content slurry to sate the masses, it’s really inspiring how close we are to fully realising Orwell’s vision We did it, we built the torment nexus
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TACD posted:Remembering how Nineteen Eighty-Four described machines writing books and TV shows of content slurry to sate the masses, it’s really inspiring how close we are to fully realising Orwell’s vision Omnipresent surveillance devices, and cameras in my TV? loving lmao. Okay, bro, whatever. 
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I'm always amazed at the way real life imitates Dick Tracy (the movie)
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Good article I read that belongs here talking about how tech makes most of us basically on call all the time https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/02/opinions/right-to-disconnect-laws-schulte/index.html quote:“Right to disconnect” laws are forcing us to confront the right questions: Why are we working all the time, or feel that we should be? Why does work-life balance feel so elusive? These are exactly the conversations we need to be having. I've basically refused to engage with work poo poo on my off hours and haven't suffered consequences so far but, honestly, I think it even extends beyond work.
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Yeah it's bosses that make people be on call all the time, you can always turn off notifications
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BiggerBoat posted:Good article I read that belongs here talking about how tech makes most of us basically on call all the time Plenty of places in Europe have pretty strict laws/labour rights to prevent exactly this, its a very American idea that workers need to respond to their bosses outside of work hours.
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Ruffian Price posted:Yeah it's bosses that make people be on call all the time, you can always turn off notifications Well, sure, but I know first hand that this can cost certain people their jobs and that they are expected to basically be on call. Seems pretty clear to me?
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Ruffian Price posted:Yeah it's bosses that make people be on call all the time, you can always turn off notifications Yes, it's bosses, not employees. There's always the lingering thought of "If I don't respond tonight, will that come back to bite me come review time? Will this affect my raise?" You can blame it on a company's culture in general, sure, but in this instance it comes from the top.
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Is the percentage of workers with high pressure desk jobs really so high? Maybe it's just me, but professionally most of the members of my family work/have worked in retail, service, or service adjacent positions. The issue of "technostress" has literally never come up, except in the general "Can you come in to work today?" kind of way, and because of this it was common practice to let all calls go to voicemail while off the clock, and then pretend that you didn't receive the message until after it was too late to be acted upon. Everybody, including management, knew what was up, but it seemed to be commonly agreed that "extra work is EXTRA". The problem sounds a bit overstated, but it could just be that I'm blind to the issue. "Where you stand on an issue often depends on where you sit" and such. Zerbin7 fucked around with this message at 14:28 on May 3, 2024 |
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Ruffian Price posted:Yeah it's bosses that make people be on call all the time, you can always turn off notifications Blut posted:Plenty of places in Europe have pretty strict laws/labour rights to prevent exactly this, its a very American idea that workers need to respond to their bosses outside of work hours. Not just America, significant parts of East Asia work the same way. At-will employment creates an environment where exploitation of employees comes with no consequences. In contrast, in large parts of Europe, labour union lawyers will indeed take you to the cleaners if you fire someone for not responding to your emails on Sunday, unless explicitly agreed upon.
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Zerbin7 posted:Is the percentage of workers with high pressure desk jobs really so high? I would put the pressure as very synthetic. The labor laws let horrible people be horrible. Like, say, an organization will have people work over the holidays if there is something very important with it. A shithead boss will then try to make their projects look important by having people work on it over the holidays.
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BiggerBoat posted:Good article I read that belongs here talking about how tech makes most of us basically on call all the time I think "most of us" is overselling it a fair bit. What you're describing here largely concerns office workers and people who already work at home. Which covers a significant portion of the American workforce, sure, but not anywhere near all of it. Indeed, the article calls that out extensively, to the point where I think maybe you might have missed the actual point of the article. quote:But here’s what doesn’t work: Most right to disconnect laws, including the California proposal, are typically aimed at “knowledge” workers — people who typically hold high-paying desk jobs in front of computers. The hourly, service and low-wage workers who, as of 2020, make up 44% of the workforce may appreciate not having to answer a text from the boss, but their real struggle is with low pay, too few hours, chaotic schedules and the expectation of unlimited availability. They often have no control over their time. quote:Yes, we workers need to learn to set better boundaries with our technology. Honestly, I kind of feel like the point the article is really getting at is that office workers should have some labor solidarity and worry about the problems of low-wage workers in fields like customer service or manual labor, rather than laser-focusing specifically on the problems that affect them personally. It's talking about right to disconnect as a lead-in, pretending to be focused on the problems of office workers in order to convince the office workers that they should fight for general labor reforms for everyone and not just "right to disconnect" laws that only benefit themselves.
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