DigitalCharityLab

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[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

pedophile goggle maker does “good deed” that costs them almost nothing and feeds the story to various press outlets so you forget they make pedophile goggles

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

The transformation of Wired into a genuinely invaluable source of journalism on contemporary techno-fascism is one of the great enduring achievements of "Woke 1.0"

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.

Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for mass layoffs.

https://t.co/iMKXjhkzV1

[Jeff Fabre @Jeff_like_Feff]

As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.

[boto @TsarinaBomba]

Few companies are innovating like Snapchat. They started as a child/revenge porn platform, but then they became the worst ads company in the history of the world, and now they’re doing nonconsensual data collection. Very excited to see where they go next

[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

If you come from the future you can apply

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Once again, a pox on the person at Gmail who decided that a 'emoji reaction to emails' feature was either good or necessary

[Luke @Interlukein4]

I'm tired of tech companies treating my storage like it's infinite. Optimize your damn apps

[Gilly @profesh_baby]

Hi hello, stop using AI

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

@digitaladguide @Meta It's genuinely wild how bad it is

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is wild—and likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. https://t.co/5sb1cFlBQO

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Going through some old screenshots and found this gem 😆

[miumiu🐈‍⬛✨ @miwooyork]

the reality of AI ads in nyc

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Does anyone have any insights into why Google search now ranks random blogs above newspapers, when you search for a book or film review?

[Ross Hendricks @Ross__Hendricks]

This has all the familiar hallmarks of the peak of an investment bubble

Stage 1: An influx of investor capital (i.e. dumb VCs with money burning a hole in their pocket) gives rise to fundamentally unprofitable business models (AI Labs)

Stage 2: This sends false price signals throughout the economy (i.e. selling compute at negative margins), causing massive misallocation of capital (businesses and employee workflows built around artificially cheap compute) .

Stage 3 (you are here): The false price signals inevitably clash with economic reality. In a race to show less horrific cash burn ahead of their IPOs, OpenAI and Anthropic have switched to consumption-based pricing models, and now we're suddenly finding out that companies like Uber and WalMart are cutting back on consumption

Stage 4 (coming to a stonk near you): Lots of paper wealth gets vaporized

[Pop Detective @PopDetective]

“AI is not going anywhere” is a PR line from a gen AI company press release that’s trying to make their bad broken technology seem inevitable. It’s bullshit. Please stop repeating it.

[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

Aside from, you know, killing the planet, you know why I hate AI flyers? They have so much filler disguised as information.

Because the people making them have no background in marketing or design! I HATE IT.