Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”

For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies

“Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”

Epic says to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”

It will become an Olympic event where you have to get from the shelf to the till before the price changes!

schadenfreudilicious!

Google isn’t blocking one of the biggest adblockers. It’s killing chrome!

Those who aren’t using an adblock won’t notice any difference but everyone else will just migrate to a non chromium browser

And don’t come to me with the “but shares are not money”.

WTF are you on about? Where did I even alude to even suggesting that? Sounds like you’re really desperate to simp for him.

His companies are notoriously overvalued (so his shares in a practical sense are worth shit) and he is massively over leveraged so those who devise those wealth chart tables are chatting shit.

The real wealthy are incredibly private about their worth whereas boastful egotists like musk are all show no substance

I don’t think musk does have that much money though. He’s leveraged to the eyeballs & his businesses (Tesla & Space X) are not profitable without govt subsidies while starlink had repeatedly failed to meet targets & has competitors about to cut into it’s market.

I have my suspicions that Peter Thiel is assisting him to a degree as Twitter serves his purpose.

The vast majority of his wealth is wrapped up in stock of a massively overvalued car company and the loans he needed to buy twitter have huge interest payments and he doesn’t have the cash to pay them

The thing Elon fails to understand is that someone didn’t just write Twitter on one go and gift it on to the world.

He did actually say at once point about scraping all the code base & starting from scratch!

Unless Apple drops the price of their devices by at least a third, it’s not really going to happen.

Another thing to consider is that Jamf will certainly not be dominating the Apple MDM management solution arena in a decade either.

Companies with a mostly win estate with win infra, aren’t happy with paying another $40 per user, per year for Jamf and Intune will be making up a lot of ground for a one shop solution, even if management is not as featured or complex as what Jamf offers.

Reddit AMAs pretty much died after they sacked Victoria.

But it’s not about replicating what Reddit was about, then or now. It’s about getting back to what we had before the centralisation of the net but with the lessons learnt. To build a more egalitarian platform without the necessity to drive engagement at whatever cost.

We don’t need to, nor should look to set up tooling with what we learnt from Reddits failures. We’re building a new, better experience of the web and we definitely shouldn’t be looking to just migrate the user base from one site to a bunch of federated servers. We need people to definitely experience a cultural cleanse. Not to just have an exodus from there with all the bad habits and aggressions. We know where that path leads.

We are on the cusp of a potential paradigm shift of the internet and we can shape what it becomes!

Exciting times!

All of that didn’t happen overnight. It took literally years for all that to get baked.

It was at least 2 years before Imgur was created & then after that stuff like RES & mobile apps

It’s going to be the same when people bailed Digg.

They all complained about the interface and lack of features but then spent all their time pasting ascii images comments and starting pun threads.

I would rather there be a slow decline in Twitter & Reddit than a mass exodus. An immediate consequence is the loss of signal to noise ratio and that would be too much to take for a second time!

[Apologies for the double post - liftoff indicated that it had failed to post both times]

Will, he did start on one to go into caves in Thailand but got distracted with calling the real hero a paedo!

Its not just the ads but the algorithm pushes young men down the alt right pipeline.

I presume because it’s split up into a million loosely connected pieces, we should be largely insulated from corporate invasion and interference.

Pretty much

Aral Balkan has been posting about surveillance capitalism/centralised networks and corpotate landgrabs for years and said this the other day

It sounds like its typical of what they would do: offer money to bigger instances and the admins might be tempted to help pay for server costs, etc then spurn smaller instances to break their morale.

Its a land grab basically and the response should be that any instance that takes a penny from them is instantly defederated.

Saw this elsewhere

oh, here’s some JUICY rumored details about meta’s plans for the fediverse

tl;dr “Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners.”

can’t entirely verify their validity but it’s still worth posting just in case