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SomeGadgetGuy

It's enraging how slow our legal system and regulators work when it comes to big tech companies.

Following the DOJ case against Google's ad and search business. The 80 year old judge presiding over the case accepted Google's $2 million dollar offer to "cover the damages" referenced in the DOJ brief. The judge ruled we won't need a jury trial.
Google brings in roughly $60 BILLION in revenue on search and ads every fiscal QUARTER.

We wouldn't have known what the damages were until we heard the DOJ's case. Sure. $2 million. That should cover it.

Now, major parts of Google's search code have been leaked on github, and it seems Google has been lying to users, ad customers, and to regulators, on how it organizes and ranks websites.
A handy video summing up the leak: youtube.com/watch?v=8mirCSvEnN

But it's unlikely this new data will be stapled on to the current DOJ case, and it's unlikely this judge would understand this data anyway.

YouTubeGoogle Has Been Lying About Their Search ResultsBy Mental Outlaw
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David Burns🌹

I just saw 's directed by Alex Garland and I'm pretty disappointed by the real lack of social or political commentary and the choice to paint war journalists as adrenaline junkies who seek sick thrills and don't care about the people and struggles they document.

Also highlighting that the movie really wants to believe that documenting atrocities doesn't matter.

Just the most dead brain liberal understanding of the dynamic of between why countries might descend into civil war and the most dead brain liberal answer of "how to stop creeping fascism/authoritarianism"

"A visually impressive exercise in saying nothing"

Absolutely no critical understanding of the political economy of the mass media.

Highly recommend "It Could Happen Here" if you want like an indepth socio-political analysis and plausible scenario of the next american civil war

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David Burns🌹

I think a major end goal of and generated content is to make the web and many web services completely unusable so we have to browse the Internet via tools like ChatGPT or Bard that tries to TL:DR through the endless mountains of bullshit these tools have spawned because clickbait and hate click vapid content are now churned out with the same intrinsic value as mining for cryptocurrency.

This race to the bottom is really fucking depressing. Guess I'll go back to reading books and listening to AM radio.

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Paris Marx

The United States might frame its proposed TikTok ban as a national security issue, but at its core it’s about defending US power.

Silicon Valley’s global dominance also increased US influence, and it doesn’t want to see China move in on its turf.

disconnect.blog/the-tiktok-ban

Disconnect · The TikTok ban is all about preserving US powerThe platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
#tech#tiktok#tiktokban
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David Burns🌹

Subtle reminder that vote shaming is bad and

It's the politicians job to motivate people to vote for them. That's the whole point. You're a citizen of your government, they should motivate you not shame you. and it's important to ask what your government is going to do for you and your countrymen, what's the point of the state if you can't afford to live anyway?

That said, you should still vote if it's all you can do in the political process.

even in the primaries maybe write in uncommitted for the presidential candidate.

Criticizing anyone that's doing organizing work for not feeling motivated to work is also really dumb and bad.

Criticizing anyone for voting is dumb and bad

Criticizing anyone for voting differently than the way you voted is dumb and bad.

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David Burns🌹

RANT:

Company leadership at all levels of industry is fundamentally incapable of understanding when they're out of their depth.

I have a hunch that this is due to toxic myth making of corporate world lottery winners by authors like Michael Lewis, Steven Dubner, Steven Levitt, Walter Issacson, Malcolm Gladwell.

High ranking executives aren't all knowing God's and it would be really helpful if they acknowledged when they are out of their area of expertise. I feel like my company would be more efficient and less headache inducing if we didn't all nod along like the emperor isn't wearing clothes.

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SomeGadgetGuy

Whoa. This is kind of a big deal. Like an IMMEDIATE follow up to the HouseFresh story I posted, now the ENGADGET label is being strip-mined.
A label that's carried a good reputation over the years, trading on that reputation to vomit out more listicles and affiliate links.

theverge.com/2024/2/22/2408021

The Verge · Yahoo lays off the leaders of EngadgetBy Mia Sato
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