#Facebook technology

[political-us]

[destielmemenews]

"The timing of the tool’s shutdown, months ahead of a major US presidential election, has drawn concern from groups that relied on CrowdTangle to track the flow of information on social media, including viral falsehoods that have led to real-world harm.

Using CrowdTangle, journalists and researchers could show how many users engaged with a piece of content, which groups supercharged the spread of a post and just how often political and medical misinformation went viral on Facebook and Instagram."

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[warakami-vaporwave]

Windows 2004

[leporinelou]

late thirties harringrove who meet back up in the early aughts is so fun because billy’s got a nokia that max got for him for his birthday because he, quote, ‘never picks up the damn phone’ (though he refuses to use that most of the time too) and steve’s got a company issued blackberry. and they are sexting

[dionyrtal]

i haven't been able to articulate my thoughts ever since i read the atlantic's article on how meta scrapped millions of books from libgen to train its AI (read it here without the paywall).

my book has been fed into a machine controlled by people who do not value humans or their art. i don't know if my anger surpasses the terror i'm filled with. they can steal and if you're an indie author like me, your chances of fighting back is very low.

it's not a system built to protect the emotional and physical labor of artists. the greed of people creating and running these machines has no bounds, it is very real and it will destroy us.

[monetizeme]

[thepersonalwords]

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[kiraleighart]

What exactly do we do about an internet that isn't a tool we use, but a tool power uses to use us? I don't have an answer.

I mean, I do, but the answer is something many folks just can't accept...

[political-us]

Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives’ salaries a week after laying off 3,600 employees

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Today, the world’s economy no longer runs on oil, but data.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/the-evolution-of-the-militarized-data-broker

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[recursive360]

~DIGITAL ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE~

[axishr8]

[marigoldbaker]

am begging fandom at large to adopt my niche but ultimately extremely correct take that giles would have been immediately tech literate had jenny lived. HE WAS HOLDING A PROGRAMMING BOOK WHEN HE TRIED TO ASK HER OUT. man was doing his HOMEWORK. he loves her so much & his reticence re: computers would have eroded just the same way he stayed at that monster truck rally. it would have been full of passive aggressive comments in places but he would still be taking notes on every single thing she has to say.

[megayogiposts]

How to Address Non-Refund Issues with Facebook India

Grievance Status for registration number : DCOYA/E/2024/0007285Grievance Concerns ToName Of ComplainantYogi M. P. SinghDate of Receipt02/12/2024Received By Ministry/DepartmentCorporate AffairsGrievance DescriptionCorporate Affairs >> Investors Greivance >> Non-Refund of application money Complete and Correct name of the company : Facebook IndiaCIN : 06AABCF5150G1ZZState : ROC Delhi———————–Most…

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

so...does twitter just not...work anymore?

i mean, i know why it's garbage now, and that's the same reason i no longer use it regularly. but very occasionally when i want to reach out to a writer of some article i read, or somebody i heard on a podcast, to tell them i enjoyed the thing--twitter is still the only way to find them.

so i was still doing that. and today, when i posted for the first time in in a while, to thank a writer for an article, i got this popup that i've never seen before.

it informed me that until they are sure i'm a human, they may limit my use/access to others, and the only way for me to fix that (aka a problem they created, cuz i've been a human for all the years my account has visibly existed and already been used, which i'm sure they can see cuz it's their website lol) is for me to 'help them learn by spending time engaging with my timeline and connecting with others.'

in other words, if i want to have a twitter account that functions properly, i am now required to 'engage' with the toxic mess twitter has become until the site thinks i've done enough to show how active and happy everything still is under a new ruler prove my loyalty, rather than being allowed to treat it like a freaking social media site where i would engage when i want to and enjoy doing so, and not any more often than that.

but no, that isn't how things work anymore, not in the dystopian hell of one gross billionaire who is literally holding user accounts hostage because the world didn't rejoice and love twitter more when it became all about him, so now we can't even have formerly-nice things.

'when we’re able to observe more usage of your account, you’ll be unlocked to be able to be seen by, and have direct access to, more people' it says. i don't know if that's why my post tagging the author is shown under 'replies' on my profile and not 'posts' or if that's just evidence of another way the site is broken now?

but as somebody who's heard a lot about twitter being overrun by nazis and cutting all the most useful employees and just generally not working as well or being as pleasant...i still hadn't experienced much of what it's actually like these days. and even just trying to briefly stop by definitely made me feel like yeah, this is really not a place where i belong. or want to be.

good to know, but also weirdly sad. turns out i don't have to be deeply attached to something, to hate when it gets taken over by somebody hostile to what i thought the thing was all about.