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“I must consult with my court” says the king. In the empty court is a great machine, and about it many masks. He asks a question of his war counselor, and the machine assumes one mask. He asks the advice of his treasurer, and the machine assumes another. In every voice, it lies. He does not notice.
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It’s the same thing as companies making climate promises of “net zero by 2035” and the like. Let’s report once these people and companies actually do the thing! Not when they make a verbal promise they can abandon tomorrow
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Same, also wish I had any info about when to expect these. This is the only accessory I’m going to buy and it would suck to not be able to even play my switch with a group because they sell out
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Do you have sources on this? I’d love to read more
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Is this severance?
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I certainly don’t say this to mean that language policing didn’t have major political impact. The tides of the culture war were total changed by people being turned off by language policing, among other things. However I don’t think almost any of these people were actually really impacted by it
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I could detail multiple incidences of him making a total fool of himself, but my favorite was when he spent an entire day angrily arguing with employees in the comments section of the internal version of Facebook, all to defend a blatantly false claim the company made about a benefits cut
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Andrew Bosworth (Boz), longtime head of Meta’s AR/VR division (reality labs) was well known inside the company while I was there to be a joke of a leader. Without a doubt the only reason he is where he is is because he was Zuck’s TA in college.
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What I mean to say is that it’s totally a real thing that exists in spaces like oberlin. But only in spaces like oberlin, where no one who would be upset about it would ever choose to be
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I went to oberlin (2017-2021) and encountered it tons. There were definitely social consequences to not adhering to continually developing language standards. Pretty much everyone (we all signed up to go to Oberlin lol) was either fully on board or tolerated it with varying levels of disgruntlement
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Staking the company’s finances and reputation on any project led by Andrew Bosworth, let alone the metaverse, was a laughable decision by Zuck
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To be fair he was referring to Husseini’s ability to be in the room in the first place as the “testament to democracy”, not him being dragged out. The “cringeworthy heckling” part was absolutely appalling though
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The shoplifting panic did loads to lead the Chesa Boudin (San Francisco DA) recall campaign to success. I expect the same dynamic played out in other local elections across the country as libs joined their conservative counterparts in capitulating to “tough on crime” ideology
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God what a horrible song. Can’t believe this garbage is what springboarded Martin garrix’s career. Anyways, my best wishes to the people of Syria as they embark on a hopefully brighter future.
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Facebook/meta is a scummy company to its core and I agree they totally would defraud advertisers. And they can do that in a hundred ways simpler ways. I just intend to highlight the specific (also nefarious) purpose of these gen AI accounts, which is for something else.
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I don’t think their intention is to defraud advertisers with fake clicks. I believe their intention is to be able to generate the platform’s content themselves so they can avoid the pesky problem of attracting and retaining the human content creators whose work they currently need to profit off of.
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This site isn’t affiliated with the NYT. But yes it’s over!