Meta is now a defense contractor
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Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something...
I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.
All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I've never subscribed to.
I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that's it these days.
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This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.
You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.
Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".
I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.
It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.
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I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.
I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.
Do you mean it's ads or something else? I have a few ads too but mostly it's stuff I've followed.
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No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like... your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it's like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I'm including any social network where "me" is the main focus.
Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.
I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It's just more natural. Instead of a feed, it's a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.
And if I don't like a server, I can just... leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.
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All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I've never subscribed to.
I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that's it these days.
Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.
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How have they failed? they have the best value for $ headset.
I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can't be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn't mine.
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Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.
Those sound even worse than the AI gen car memes I get lol
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Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".
I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.
It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.
Autonomous warplanes
heyyyyyy... i've seen this before...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Gosh, they're burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Meta heavy industries very soon
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Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".
I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.
It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.
Seems more like Horizon Zero Dawn to me. I wonder what tech billionaire will play the role of Ted Faro and destroy everything!
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Gosh, they're burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR...
Most of the smart people who came with Oculus left and it shows.
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I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.
Ooo can I join orcas.enjoying.yachts?
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Ooo can I join orcas.enjoying.yachts?
Yes! I’ll keep an eye out for the registration.
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Seems more like Horizon Zero Dawn to me. I wonder what tech billionaire will play the role of Ted Faro and destroy everything!
That thing which runs Tesla seems like just the megalomaniac that would let that happen. I have a dark future prediction that he'll repurpose the gigafactories for drone production.
Unless something stops him I don't see a future where one of his businesses isn't rededicated to war manufacturing in some way.Also: I felt thick as hell when I connected Faro and Pharoh.
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Autonomous warplanes
heyyyyyy... i've seen this before...
As another person replied, sounds like the Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Faro Plague
The Faro Plague, also referred to as the Faro Swarm, was the name given to the rogue swarm of Chariot war machines that caused the extinction of all life on Earth in Horizon Zero Dawn in the mid 21st century. It was known as the Time of Ashes by the people of the 31st century. The Chariot line...
Horizon Wiki (horizon.fandom.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Pork giveaway from your taxes
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having been on facebook since ~2009 it was undeniably hard to quit, but finally deleting it (not 'deactivating') last year was one of the best things i've ever done for my mental health
Browsing Marketplace and chatting with my friends doesn't really affect my mental health, tbh.
My point here is to curate your own shit instead of relying on corporate soc-med to do it for you and you'll be much better off.
All the political bullshit on Lemmy affects me much more than Facebook ever has. lol -
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Why aren't the "fiscal conservatives" in arms over this?
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How have they failed? they have the best value for $ headset.
By sinking ludicrous amounts of money into the „metaverse“, which turned out to be an utter flop.
