Scary Gary

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

I’ve posted this before, but for those who haven’t seen it, here’s a map of the Kid’s journey through the American Southwest of BLOOD MERIDIAN.

[Incel Odo @trashmanrising]

"He never sleeps, the Judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."

[Alta @404Alta]

Deers didn't like the roles being reversed

[Scary Gary @stareroids]

@nikgeneburn Da

[Lukas (computer) (In SF) 🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Wow, a video of a woman talking in her car. I wonder what she could be saying. I'd better un-mute it!

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

This man is an American hero.

[Sam Hyde 🇺🇸 @wigger]

Signal boost this pls.. the squadron need your help.. Friday on my channel we go hot zone hormuz... PSC subathon and reveal a SHOCKING NEW SHOW that will make you shit yourself

Elon boost this

[Big Mayo @Big_Mayo_]

I'm so glad they updated this for the modern audience

[Caulin @caulin001]

Gwok, explain this pls.
@grok

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Twenty years ago, this would have been a multimillion dollar cross promotional advertisement or something airing during the Super Bowl, worked on for months by extremely talented VFX artists.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn.

Every time you log in, we search your computer.

Not metaphorically.

We run code that scans your installed software.

Every browser extension.

Every application.

We catalog it.

We transmit it to our servers.

We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of.

The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide.

We hid it off-screen.

You never consented.

We never asked.

Our privacy policy doesn't mention it.

That's networking.

We call the program Project Handshake internally.

The Slack channel is handshake-telem.

In 2024 we scanned for 461 products.

By February this year we scan for over 6,000.

I don't know what all of them are.

Nobody does.

Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims.

Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users.

Someone added 509 job search tools.

That last one is my favorite.

We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs.

On the platform where their current boss checks their profile.

That's networking.

We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools.

Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo.

We know each user's real name, employer, and job title.

We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products.

We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers.

Without anyone knowing.

Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught.

The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools.

We published two restricted APIs.

They handle 0.07 calls per second.

Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second.

In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times.

That's networking.

I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter.

The conference room is called The Fishbowl.

Glass walls.

Appropriate.

There's a plaque on the wall.

Q3 Competitive Landscape Award.

I won it for the extension scanning initiative.

Someone asked if users had a way to opt out.

I said they can close their browser.

The room laughed.

I wasn't sure why.

I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions.

Most of the team does.

The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit.

We know your name.

We know your employer.

We know your religion.

Your disabilities.

Your politics.

Whether you're looking to leave.

That's networking.

The system works exactly as designed.

I designed it.

[u m a m i @u_m_a_m_i]

Finally an LLM researcher who lives in reality. Funny how it comes from Alphabet and not one of the pre-ipo LLMs.

[Charls Carroll @goodcharls]

Tell me about a complicated basketball dicksucker. Rap to me Muse of the drum of the bounce and the squeek of the shoes and of all the downlow brothers dusting off the shinebox. Sing to me about gay locker rooms and asses being sold all sports are gay and fans deserve the chamber

[Dudley Newright @NewRightPoast]

No shade to our wonderful AI-assisted animators (seriously) but watching a cartoon that was done the old fashioned way, with every frame intentionally plotted out with artistic vision, is like drinking an ice cold Miller High Life after a year of O'Doul's.

[Forbidden HQ 🐇 @WearForbidden]

New followers, welcome. This is what we do here. Goy Story by Forbidden Clothes.

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that his first instinct upon seeing it, was to pet it.

[Scary Gary @stareroids]

@atakaindustries If I win, the one on the right please 🌞