spudwart

The fediverse is a Social Network not Social Media.

Television is shit

YouTube is shit

Everytime I hear this I increasingly wish to get further away from people.

More than I usually do.

They aren't sustainable because they are de-orbiting but they're also supposed to be low-cost and high speed.

If the prices aren't low-cost, and the speeds continue to decrease, it's entire purpose is defeated.

Good news: This will result in more average-user understanding of the fediverse, getting past the consistent issue of people not understanding it. It will increase the Fediverse's usershare by a considerable amount. And to top it all off, it will probably cause a snowball which will make the Fediverse as a whole eclipse twitter.

Bad news: This is being done by facebook, willingly. Any company that is taking action like this is doing so for their own benefit and no one elses. This may be detrimental to the Fediverse in the long run if users opt to all just jump on to Threads because of some obnoxious 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' tactic they may or may not pull in the future.

Reminder that Starlink is the internet equivalent to the Hyperloop.

There are untold billions that the government gave out as subsidies to increase internet speeds across the nation and bring internet to everyone across the U.S. Which mysteriously vanished.

All the while now Elon has been promising vaporware and bullshit, as he usually does while Tech Bros, billionaires and the media gobble it up.

Okay, but that's the Recycle Bin tho.

And honestly, that's more accurate to reddit than Xitter anyway.

I swear reality forked in 2020 and this is the bad ending timeline.

That's not your Coworker, that's a young Peter Griffin.

I know the article is seemingly hopeful. But that's 30% of the time they don't need an employee.

In its most recent cost-cutting measures in November, the company laid off roughly 17% of its global full-time employees as well as reducing its monthly expenditures.

AI is not a revolution for the working class, and it never will be. I'm tired of having this argument that 'I don't understand AI' or that 'It's good for humanity.'

It's good for capitalists and that's fucking it. Cheap and compliant labor is all they fucking want. If they can replace you with a bot that will do the work basically for free, they will.

This isn't rocket science, nor is it unprecedented. This idea that "AI will save us" is about as true as "Arbeit Macht Frei".

AI will be used to undervalue your labor, and push you to beg to deregulate just to be able to survive.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Union Edition