The fact that Facebook are allowing spam pages into this is wild.

"malding" 💀

The short answer is that they don't believe any of the things OP said, or they can overlook them because they believe worse things about Biden/the democrats.

How many EVs will it take for fuel prices to start decreasing? Or do prices only react to increased demand 🙃

Other economic systems don't incentivise companies to produce trash products that break quickly to keep the customer coming back, or to use non-recyclable materials because they cost 3 cents less.

Capitalism =/= money.

too late bucko

Get em Chuck. Adam Silver clearly wasn't expecting that question but his answer was pretty good (after some initial stumbling from being caught off guard).

I can't see how this would give google any more data than they already get from ChromeOS?

No, it means the AI is unable to actually think. It can't recognise when it's saying things it shouldn't, because it can't reason like we can. The AI developers have to put a bunch of gaurd rails on it to hopefully catch people breaking the system but they'll never catch them all with such a manual system.

I think Elon is trying to say they're stealing IP because lots of the Twitter employees he fired went to work on Threads. This is probably where the fediverse stuff comes in clutch, as they're just implementing ActivityPub, so it's not like it's industry secrets or anything.

The stuff about recording your camera/tracking eyes/recording mic are all bullshit (ish). That stuff is all possible, and does happen, but not from popular apps. You don't really need to worry about that unless you're going to really dodgy websites (and giving them access to your camera/mic), OR if you're a high profile figure who may be targeted by far more sophisticated attacks. These privacy invasions are uncommon in popular websites and apps because it's very easy for users to discover that kind of data/processing usage, and the blow to their reputation is far more expensive than the profits they'd get from recording you (not even sure what the commercial incentive would be for that). There are thousands of nerds like me in the cyber security industry who monitor websites network activity for this kind of shady shit, so they wouldn't get away with it.

Location is a far cheaper (and less conspicuous, data-usage-wise) process, so far more apps will be recording that. Google, Facebook, Apple, and likely dozens more companies know exactly where you've been throughout the day, whether by GPS or by wifi (maps of the locations of different wifi networks exist).

As for targeted advertising - any app or website that has a share button for Facebook or other apps is most likely sharing your usage habits with those apps. This is a symbiotic relationship for the apps/websites, because letting Facebook know you've been searching their site for X means Facebook will start showing you ads for X, and you might go and purchase from them after seeing that ad. Many believe their phones are listening to them because their targeted advertising is so specific, but the reality is they don't need to listen to you. They get far better info from your searches and browsing history.

Sorry no sources at the moment because I'm at the gym, but I guess my source is that I graduated with a bachelor's in cyber security in February lol.