I mean the classic is that you must be "really good at computers" like I'm okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I haven't fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.

I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.

I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It's not just the raw text that's valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of ~~users~~ people.

Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.

I've could imagine a sort of "script" running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.

I mean this tech exists now, but it's fairly "dumb." But it's not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.

These cannot be the comments of real people.

“We’ve replaced some pieces of that political machine—specifically, we have parallel media now with Elon’s Twitter, or X,” crowed Tan during a presentation at the 2023 Network State Conference. “Getting a parallel media was a key piece, and it wasn’t through voting. It was done by building.… [...]

Got it so parallel means privatised. He's a privatisation hawk.

What a tool. A cat would not even sit on his lap.

CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

It breaks their little heads that they can have all this money and power, and yet still a random poor person has the legal right to say "no" to them.

They don't understand why the state doesn't work 100% just for them.

Oh boy wait until you hear about breathing.

I feel bad for people who have never licked a Himalayan Salt Lamp.

There's really zero reason for Europeans to be smug about this.

So I can see that you don't really understand the European mindset

The so-called "job creators," everyone

Wine nine you say? 🧐

Read the entire error message very carefully before asking for help, or even searching for a solution.

For folks in tech this means reading and understanding the stack trace, too.

I just don't do either anymore. Feels really good