Facebook...er, Meta Hatred

[Innula Zenovka]

‘Insufficient and very defensive’: how Nick Clegg became the fall guy for Facebook’s failures

After election humiliation and Brexit, the former UK deputy prime minister swapped Westminster for a £2.7m job in Silicon Valley. The catch? Serving as the public face of the crisis-hit company

www.theguardian.com

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Anyone au fait with the five grim years Clegg spent as the UK’s deputy prime minister would have had the familiar impression of someone emphasising his good intentions in almost impossible circumstances. His facial expression regularly expressed a sort of righteous exasperation; his words seemed to imply that if only his critics could grasp the facts, everything would quickly die down.

Of course, most people in the US know nothing of his history as a British politician: the brief burst of “Cleggmania” in 2010; his fate-sealing U-turn on university tuition fees; and what the time he spent in coalition with the Conservatives did to the Liberal Democrats.

It feels as if Clegg is in a similar position to the one he endured between 2010 and 2015 – facing derision and hostility, but doggedly assuring anyone who will listen that things are not nearly as bad as they think. The gargantuan salary and hot tub must help; so too the sense that, whatever he has to explain to the media, he has left Westminster behind and opened up a new chapter.

 

[bubblesort]

I was just checking facebook for the first time in like a month, and the fact checking bots backfired. Here's how: I saw a post from a friend showing two stacks of lumber: One from 2021, and one from 2018. Each cost $1000, but the one from 2021 was much smaller, of course. The caption read, "this is what inflation looks like."

Now, I know that this is not inflation as much as it is that almost every sawmill in the united states was bought by a couple of Canadian firms, who use their oligopoly power to fix prices. Interest rates being too low might have helped them build their saw mill oligopoly, but the point is that lumber value has outstripped inflation by orders of magnitude. In 2018, I would have said that in the comments. In 2021, I don't, because a bot put up a 'fact checker' notice on it.

The FB fact checkers are terrible. I trust random youtubers more than I trust them. I've read high school papers that are more well researched, and more well thought out than what they publish. So if those dummies want to poke their nose into a conversation between friends so bad, they can carry their own water. Let them come into the comments and defend their assertions, if they can. I don't care if they are right or wrong, I will never carry water for Zuckerberg's bots.

 

[Free]

Facebook is planning to rebrand with a new name

The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.

www.theverge.com

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse

 

[Archer]

This is a long series of threads, but it details quite a number of the lawsuits that are piling up against FB. Looks like they are in for a long haul legal fight.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Facebook is planning to rebrand with a new name

The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.

www.theverge.com

Facepalm has been suggested.

 

[Romana]

Facebook is planning to rebrand with a new name

The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.

www.theverge.com

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Also, I predict their metaverse will go the way of Sansar, or be received the way Windows 11 is, ie. "You want me to but a whole new tutu to run your ? Oh hell no!".

 

[Noodles]

This will end up exactly how it did for Google. Everyone will still call it Google, everyone will still say, "Nest is owned by Google" etc. No one will give a shit that on paper it's called Alphabet.

 

[Romana]

Yup. They renamed the Interboro Parkway in Brooklyn after Jackie Robinson, but people still call it Interboro. Not to diss the famous baseball player, just habit.

 

[Noodles]

Yup. They renamed the Interboro Parkway in Brooklyn after Jackie Robinson, but people still call it Interboro. Not to diss the famous baseball player, just habit.

Like calling the Sears Tower the Sears Tower.

 

[Free]

As teens left Facebook, company planned to lure 6-year-olds, documents show

Internal posts and job listings show plans were moving forward.

arstechnica.com

 

[Khamon]

I know Mary Jane Sunshine. She used to live next door to us in Olive. It was a long time ago when Olive was the only sim that experimentally tied prim usage (called land impact now I believe) to the number of square meters of land we owned.

This will end up exactly how it did for Google. Everyone will still call it Google, everyone will still say, "Nest is owned by Google" etc. No one will give a shit that on paper it's called Alphabet.

Some of us still call it "The Facebook" now get off my post!

 

[Romana]

Meta tried to tweet at H-E-B. Fans of the grocery store weren't having it.

Whether collab is happening or not, people weren't all too excited.

www.mysanantonio.com

 

[Free]

Meta tried to tweet at H-E-B. Fans of the grocery store weren't having it.

Whether collab is happening or not, people weren't all too excited.

www.mysanantonio.com

I'm usually annoyed when I meet people I know in a grocery store IN REAL LIFE. Why would I want it to happen in the metasphere?

 

[WolfEyes]

I know Mary Jane Sunshine. She used to live next door to us in Olive. It was a long time ago when Olive was the only sim that experimentally tied prim usage (called land impact now I believe) to the number of square meters of land we owned.



Some of us still call it "The Facebook" now get off my post!

/me snags Khamon's post from Noodles then sits on it, grinning at Khamon

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I would love to visit Snow Crash's metaverse, but it's not going to happen any time soon simply because nobody uses the web the way they use a physical space. The Metaverse was created when Compuserve was big and it was all 80x24 dumb terminal program terminal single session no windows. People were still buying 8 bit computers, new from manufacturer not some retro hipster thing, when Snow Crash hit the shelves.

 

[bubblesort]

Facebook politely asks the LAPD to stop using fake accounts on their platform.

Note: They aren't deleting the fake LAPD accounts, like they did to academics who were collecting data on how Facebook actually operates. I mean, the LAPD is always doing a bad thing, but it's not like they are making Facebook look bad, like academics do.

Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts

Meta said using third party firms to collect data on Facebook users for surveillance was prohibited.

www.bbc.com

 

[Ashiri]

I would love to visit Snow Crash's metaverse, but it's not going to happen any time soon simply because nobody uses the web the way they use a physical space. The Metaverse was created when Compuserve was big and it was all 80x24 dumb terminal program terminal single session no windows. People were still buying 8 bit computers, new from manufacturer not some retro hipster thing, when Snow Crash hit the shelves.

I can't remember when I read Snow Crash but it was well before I encountered SL and I was reminded of Neuromancer in how the computer technology was used with regard the plot. Interestingly I had read the same book that Stephenson has said was a major influence, which made the more esoteric aspects of the novel make sense to me plot-wise.
It's clear that some tech-bros only latched onto the virtual world part of the story.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Oh yeh, the real story of Snow Crash was the linguistic hacking that harked back to Julian Jaynes' bicameral model of mesopotamian civilization. The metaverse was background worldbuilding, like YT's smartwheels or the Deliverator's van.

Neuromancer didn't have the avatar thing, or I guess it did but your avatar was styled as a fighter jet or attack helicopter or whatever metaphor your console was using, but the interface was still single-instance and a physical metaphor by default. The only time a second viewpoint was presented it was to rent some time on another computer to look at where there intrusion software was instantiated and not seeing it. Like it took extra effort to be invisible to the matrix.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘I’m happy to lose £10m by quitting Facebook,’ says Lush boss

Losing 10m followers on sites such as Instagram is a price worth paying for co-founder of ethical beauty empire

www.theguardian.com

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“We’ve tightened up over the Covid period, it won’t destroy us,” says Constantine of the financial fallout from the decision. He was disturbed by leaked Facebook research that suggested its Instagram app made body image issues worse for teenage girls. “I just thought ‘That’s their own research and they’re ignoring it and we are attracting people to their platform.’ We had no choice whatsoever. Lush attracts an awful lot of girls of that age.”

 

[bubblesort]

‘I’m happy to lose £10m by quitting Facebook,’ says Lush boss

Losing 10m followers on sites such as Instagram is a price worth paying for co-founder of ethical beauty empire

www.theguardian.com

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LOL, I love the headline. I don't know the first thing about makeup, so when I saw "lush boss" I thought it meant drunk boss. I was like... yeah, my boss has said weird stuff when he's drunk sometimes, but this doesn't seem that weird. Maybe he was just so addicted to the platform he had to get drunk to quit?