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Meta is now a defense contractor (www.theregister.com)

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Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

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[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 117 points 4 months ago

I'm tired

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 70 points 4 months ago

I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Ooo can I join orcas.enjoying.yachts?

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 4 months ago

Yes! I’ll keep an eye out for the registration.

[+] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 68 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago

No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like... your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it's like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I'm including any social network where "me" is the main focus.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly.

That's exactly what it feels like. I installed Social Fixer on my browser(s) to make FB at least usable for the few times I have to touch it for event coordination. People ask me what that's like and I simply say: "Oh, it's boring now. I only look at status updates for a few minutes and go do something else." The pull to go back is just... gone. It's as dull as LiveJournal ever was, and frankly, it's better this way.

What did I strip out of the feed? Everything that wasn't generated directly by someone on my friends list. That's all it took. All the "engagement" is either artificially injected into your feed, or clickbait people pass along because their feed isn't filtered.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It's just more natural. Instead of a feed, it's a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

And if I don't like a server, I can just... leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

What do people do there that is so harmful to their mental health? I just follow what relatives are up to and read the latest hobby/town gossip

[-] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Do you mean it's ads or something else? I have a few ads too but mostly it's stuff I've followed.

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[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people's lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that's depressing.

Nowadays I think it's all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That's about it.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something...

I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I've never subscribed to.

I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that's it these days.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Those sound even worse than the AI gen car memes I get lol

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

pretty much that

[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn't exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They "do their own research", of course.

So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

that's only a small part of it. the bigger issue is that people are just generally assholes on the internet, even your not crazy relatives. so for me the less digital socialization the better. lemmy is the only social media i do now (not having a profit motive helps some), but i have dialed it back like 99% since peak reddit.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder if people have shittier relatives or live in a shittier town hah

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Browsing Marketplace and chatting with my friends doesn't really affect my mental health, tbh.

My point here is to curate your own shit instead of relying on corporate soc-med to do it for you and you'll be much better off.
All the political bullshit on Lemmy affects me much more than Facebook ever has. lol

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 30 points 4 months ago

Man fuck that company to death. Fuck them so hard. We need the people to see this for what it is and do something. CEO’s aren’t bulletproof.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago

They failed making VR, so now they're a defense contractor for AR. Wonderful.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

All military personnel will require Facebook accounts to use Meta AR goggles.

[-] darkkite@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

How have they failed? they have the best value for $ headset.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Metas failed game(s?) are legendary. Plus, you know, account requirements.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can't be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn't mine.

[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

By sinking ludicrous amounts of money into the „metaverse“, which turned out to be an utter flop.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.

You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".

I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.

It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Autonomous warplanes

heyyyyyy... i've seen this before...

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

As another person replied, sounds like the Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn.

https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Faro_Plague

[-] ansiz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Seems more like Horizon Zero Dawn to me. I wonder what tech billionaire will play the role of Ted Faro and destroy everything!

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

That thing which runs Tesla seems like just the megalomaniac that would let that happen. I have a dark future prediction that he'll repurpose the gigafactories for drone production. Unless something stops him I don't see a future where one of his businesses isn't rededicated to war manufacturing in some way.

Also: I felt thick as hell when I connected Faro and Pharoh.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile the top comment

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Gosh, they're burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR...

[-] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Most of the smart people who came with Oculus left and it shows.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Lol? Lmao, even?

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

I'm just surprised they weren't before.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

Meta heavy industries very soon

[-] sommerset@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 months ago

Pork giveaway from your taxes

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Why aren't the "fiscal conservatives" in arms over this?

[-] Flemmy@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Pyro goggles with Disney filter.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Best decision ever for a company.
The US gov pisses away billions of their taxpayers money and buys all the low quality crap from the MIL without questions.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

so meta

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