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It proves he thinks everyone will follow along anyway
It proves Apple’s data labels and growing awareness digital ads drive little business, which proved Facebook is a non-contributor to the economy in a real way
Zuck is just looking to keep his good times rolling as interest fades. This isn’t courage, this is “the writing is on the wall, let’s try something sooner than later.”
There’s no real obligation to view Zuckerberg as a success at anything.
Behavioral economics of the preceding decades trained people to sit and stare.
His success is due to a shared idea lots of money = positive contributor
I’d consider human spiritual realms the precursor to meta verses we can actually implement.
Tons of visualization through art, and ways and means defined through story.
Of course tend to need to be very literal about these things.
Frankly a computer meta verse isn’t that interesting
I’d rather figure out how to grow neuron structures that let me believe or have skills in anything and just babysit this stupid fleshy husk literally
So it’s etherium?
It’s all wrapping my electrons in a database in firewall rules. The database outputs are pegged to one social meme or another?
Mirror neurons.
My kids are being raised on a diet of learn to compute and be kind, not a conqueror.
Rather than stories of Davids and Goliath, or it has to work this way because it did work this way.
Mirror neurons can start blinking on and off to less specific story, constrained to build and tend kingdom or flock.
The toughness humanity has rewarded belongs to conquerors of others. The toughness we need is conquering self.
I don’t owe billionaires validation, or politicians allegiance. They can tough out having their figurative identity suffocated.
To the flames…
We say employees when we mean people, who have a history of self organizing around human need
It’s mesmerizing to me how so many think office life is a necessity for data entry work
Nevermind open source developers building the software world we rely on via email for decades.
I use a pin code or thumbprint to unlock my iPad and login to Apples store
I can root it and install alternative store
What alternative software can I run on Occulus?
That and all the extra engineering for managing users for business reasons not technical wastes real resources to prop up a technology company that isn’t interested in novel discovery, but servicing contemporary business obligations
If they’re so smart and capable of pulling useful metadata off unstructured data, why do they need me to maintain a specific profile?
Really kind of feels like they rely on having concrete data and the meta part is marketing
I’m fine with people rotating on and re-training
We do it through college then stop. Think of it like term limits.
How much of this is really actually technical work and just data entry, sexed up for cashiers that got older?
Isn’t this what automation and division of labor are meant to do?
Good job, we achieved the goals. Go do something else.
This could be made into a problem for corporations too.
Stop going to work.
Switch to open source projects.
Let social media crash.
K8s clusters with Kilo hosted on laptops, desktops.
We have the tools to blackout the web and bring a whole huge part of the economy down.
Zuckerberg could be Pauperberg if the internet gathered round chanting “this is the new way”.
I mean you know DC has no clue how anything works beyond quid pro quo.
I’d like to see a UI that abstracts Wireguard behind contact management UX
If I’m connecting to someone via that app it’s over a Wireguard tunnel. On desktop, let me drag files over, append to a synced message thread (stored in SQLite or something simple)
Open source design focused on beating desktop operating systems when it’s strength was always networking.
All the attention is on building tech for corporations to satisfy political memes. It doesn’t have to be if software people built different software
Older companies tend to be run by pre-internet leadership, with deep and wide political connections and awareness.
They tend to do better with PR slight of hand. Maybe because they get it’s all a political boondoggle and SV companies are run by finance wonks.
Worked for Xfinity
Behind every big corp is a well armed government and police apparatus
Given how many Fortune 500 companies have died even in prosperous times since the list started, I’m gonna file this away as “manufacturing consent to maintain the status quo.”
Corporations are not literal machines or organisms. They’re a social acquiescence given the reality of biological need at scale. The logistics are necessary; the behavior is necessary; the ownership angle is propaganda.
There is no root node to the universe
People playing mind games does not anchor reality to them
This isn’t so shocking as history alone makes it clear society operates on aristocrats legalizing externalizing effort.
They own everything and role play as if making investment choices is work but… they own everything so the monopoly outcomes are guaranteed.
Figuratively the class warfare was fought and won, and effort to fight for the public was deflected back as selfishness.
Class aristocrat:
def todolist: While breathing: leverage wealth to buy more useful property to extract wealth selling disposable property
Source: me, an aristocrat with a patent who earns a few cents for every gadget sold in the US due to some math I wrote down to receive a masters degree. My work did not give rise to the physical phenomenon, nor does it really have anything to do with designing or selling gadgets. It just states an objective mathematical truth. Thanks to everyone’s political belief for enabling my retiring before 40.
Websites can and many do gather various types of location data to have an idea you’ve moved around.
Don’t try to equivocate this away. The technology to enable it is software; software is everywhere. We can use WiFi to echo locate people in buildings. We know what we’re doing in technology.
HUMANS are paranoid by default in order to survive. We’ve seen again and again in history; new technology goes straight into agency control militarization. Don’t be naive.
We’re all doing it because we all watch each other normalize it. Mirror neurons and social obligations; sign up, sign in, consume and let us collect your metrics.
Just adding tapping on it does the same in Firefox on iOS
Something like an auto-select of the code that makes up the entire scope for the line in question.
Gonna have to see if I can get vim to do that.
To what end though?
Ownership aside isn’t big tech something of an expert workers council?
If there’s literal logistics value to these systems we’ll build them anyway.
Political labels like cartel help politicians sell us on big ownership.
Let’s do novel things literally and ditch figurative political tradition. No more political tradition, no more big corp.
Obviously it can’t happen over night. We could invoke old politics or let big tech takeover the world and let workers takeover big tech as they forget about politics
Bio-electrics are starting to look at biology the way you describe.
Michael Levin and team at Tufts are instigating regenerative healing by “boot strapping” the process through manipulation of electric fields surrounding cells.
Understanding the extent of network effects will be a big idea in the future. Proving our statistics are probable causes versus mathematical object identification and social debate over the effects.
We’re moving beyond mere taxonomy and catalog of reality into seriously weird science.
Yeah was reading about this the other day locally.
The inflated cost of traveling nurses is used in negotiating new contracts.
Frankly if American workers want better, they need to realize supply and demand applies to labor.
There’s no reason a surgeon should have a Ferrari while the nursing staff that supports them makes $70k year.
It’s highly skilled labor but also, imo, artificially constrained by our educational funding choices.
All of which is politically babysat to be just so according to well paid economists who are trotted out to tell us inequality is normal because that’s how it’s always been.
Americans made kings and robber barons again and just changed the words. Meanwhile petty crime is high treason.
Human society as we know it was set on this path by forever lifers. The end game is the end times. They don’t care if anyone survives, no one will be around to complain.
Drop the worker euphemisms and call everyone people. This arbitrary taxonomy to satisfy political sorting is inhuman.
I’ve worked with CUE in production.
It’s a very friendly Googler’s fever dream.
It’s HCL without a Terraform command.
You will be invested in the workflow and toolchain building.
Barely anyone uses it, so have fun training up new hires.
Some folks just straight up left the company rather than get sucked into a new DSL
Frankly, the AWS SDK works great. The documentation includes working examples, is available in familiar syntax, I avoid CF’s opinions, and state is stored in the release branch.
I can successfully rebuild any version of our infra by checking out a git hash.
Meanwhile month old Terraform and cue break because a middleman had a brilliant idea at 1AM or some reason.
IMO devops as an idea jumped the shark almost immediately. Folks decided developer habits were to be added to ops habits, but on the ground it just meant “use source control”. No other wisdom, like don’t repeat yourself and write less code, came along.
I think SRE was meant to fix that but the same people and perspectives just took that over with DSL hell too
I’m don’t burn out on tech work. I burn out on tech worker bullshit
Patents, trademark, and copyright pretty clearly serve to empower the aristocrats.
A good idea will win on its merits or fail.
Legal ownership of ideas just tether us to paying Disney and Google’s of the world in perpetuity as they buy everything up.
We basically live in a state sanctioned system of quota and expropriation of effort. It’s not violent like the USSR, so we look beyond it.
And we spend a lot of energy policing it all.