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Watch Larry Dean. Just watch him. youtu.be/Fj52QM-SzTI?...

Holy forking shirtballs, it works!

Wasn't January just the longest year so far?

RW.

Thank goodness our tech oligarchs only use tech responsibly.

If a professor set up a meme coin so students could pay for better grades we all know how unethical that would be and they would be appropriately fired. But the president of the United States doing it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Zuck must be pissed!

Has anyone built a filter to mute the word TikTok on BS? The hot takes and weak jokes are flooding my timeline.

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

Food for thought.

I hate modern UX. Cars were better when you would telnet to the drive train and echo commands as root directly to '/dev/clockwise' and '/dev/uclockwise'

Seems about right

Please no!

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

The South African government has about 2.5 million hectares for agricultural production which must be released to beneficiaries with title deeds to grow the sector. mg.co.za/thought-lead...

Under Trump, cryptocurrency is set to go mainstream – but that won’t make it any safer for investors | Larisa Yarovaya

Rijks Vineyard Tulbagh, South Africa.

Remember: It’s always more important to identify actors from their previous roles than it is to watch the current movie on your screen.

This is the content we came for!

Oof! First reference to Bluesky in the U.S. Supreme Court comes from Justice Elena Kagan, who uses it as an example of how it isn't just TikTok that has "black box" algorithms, all the social media sites do. Valid argument, bad example—Bluesky's algorithms are open-source.

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

“We’re going to be the social network that lets you - encourages you - to say slurs”

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

Miller's Point. Cape Town.

Hey look, the Sequoia Partner is making up how all the fires started now and blaming it on Hispanics! Normal stuff!!!

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

Rogan interview with Zuckerberg that dropped this morning is something to behold. basically him dumping years of anger at the media, the government, social discussion clearly all pent up for years and now allowing himself to do it because of Trump coming to power www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...

What is this piece even about? It seems to act as if Meta is just a mature/good business that went bad a few years ago vs. a steady tailspin to hell based on nearly 20 years of growth-at-all-costs thinking. If we frame Meta's decline as entirely political we let Zuckerberg off the hook

I loved this photo of main dignitaries and Trump at the Carter funeral 😂

Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/10/w...

deleting my facebook and it asked WHY, I clicked "I don't feel safe" and it went HAVE YOU TRIED BEING SAFER??? DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN REPORT PEOPLE FOR BREAKING THE RULES like dawg you're changing the rules, that's the whole point

Meta tried to hide that it trained its AI on pirated books. One staff member wrote: “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues” Fantastic @knibbs.bsky.social story

the Tesla tunnel has traffic and the Lincoln tunnel doesn’t congestion pricing wins, Elon loses

A live shot of me watching #Silo S2 on normal brightness on my tv.

If you use any news source on Meta, you better know it's made up from here on in.

"Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product" on.ft.com/3W6Zx1S

Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.

Someone hasn't been raking their leaves like Uncle Donald commanded.

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

Zuckerberg has always struggled to convincingly portray someone guided by principles. In fact, the Meta CEO embodies the famous Groucho Marx quote: “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others”.

They will lose interest in Greenland when they discover it's not suitable for golf courses and luxury hotels.

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, was the first person to interview Musk after he announced his plan to buy Twitter in April 2022. On stage at the TED conference, he praised Musk's achievements and gave credence to the idea that the billionaire was saving "free speech." How far we've come.

Good morning!

Just three social media CEOs posting on their platform today.