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While Dana White is a Neanderthal who doesn’t belong on any corporate board, I have some sympathy here for FB. How many companies would let you post derogatory (albeit perhaps true) comments about a board member on the break room cork board?

What WOULD be a problem would be if they were censoring that content from non-employees on their public site.

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Let's hope that FB has lots of whistleblowers who keep us informed. Because regulations certainly aren't doing that.

Amazon too. Twitter too. Reddit. All of them. I dream of living in a world where people care more about the substance of a thing than how it makes them feel. Because people stay on those platforms for the feels & dopamine hits. But it's all dishonest. It will take you to a dark place every time.

@josephcox i know full well that ethical employment under capitalism is very hard, especially in tech, but some of these employee comments have serious "are we the baddies?" vibes. i gotta wonder why this the breaking point for them when Cambridge Analytica and Myanmar were not

@josephcox @GossiTheDog I'm increasingly convinced that Mullenweg needs to be punted from Wordpress.org and he can do what he wants in Automattic.

@josephcox sincerely? I think he lost his mind.

@josephcox How do these guys not understand that anyone who does anything like that is automattically the villain? 🤡 🤦

@josephcox All mushrooms can be eaten once.

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Asked about three years ago, what would happen if there plopping thousands of new mAIshrooms articles in Wikipedia.

@josephcox in all fairness: Using google to determine what mushrooms are edible is a stupid and risky move in general.
It's better to directly use proper sources than just googling stuff.

@josephcox Colour me shocked …

@josephcox @404mediaco @404media amy plans to share said data with #journalists, #privacyAdvocates, #lawyers and / or #regulators?

If not, why??

@josephcox I'd say even one more reason for #decentralization and #selfhosting, but such an incident shouldn't even surprise anyone anymore by now.

@josephcox It does seem that AI has really revolutionized the scam and fraud industry.

@josephcox Critical thinking is now vitally important to survival, as vital as fire or water or food.

@josephcox Yeah, I don't buy Google's excuses for a second, considering their history of covertly irritating users into switching to Chrome (i.e. death by 1000 cuts).

In general, people would be able to tolerate ads if they were properly vetted, were less numerous, and were less intrusive. But since doing that doesn't make the line go up, this will never happen unless companies are essentially forced to.

@josephcox It's impressive to me how eager companies have been lately to make their product worse and less useable in order to "make money". They're REALLY banking on being absolutely irreplacable.

@josephcox ah, so it’s not my computers. Assholes.