Amazing for motivation:
“Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” an Instagram employee told WIRED”
That is just where we want Meta ;)
Looking at how much conflict natural resource-rich countries (oil, gold, diamonds..) seem to attract, I wonder whether such wealth is more a curse than a blessing.
Many regions with scarce natural resources, adapted & perform very well. Some of the richest are examples (Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore..)
Looks to me like the greed for them attracts conflicts: civil wars, invasions etc. Cultural, ethnic, religious reasons often just seem to be used to cover it.
Plus all the environmental destruction / pollution that come with the extraction & processing.
Screenshots of a THE Donald Trump post & the Bluesky Logo.
New York Times Guest Essay Opinion
Copy of this post in our Lemmy community: https://lemmy.world/post/46656969
Just found this post on Mastodon and thought it's something for Y'all: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/116511753802210926
It's ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children.
It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries are trying to implement this wider internet control at the same time.
Feels like a major push toward authoritarianism to me.
It's messed up how the people always have to fight to wrest any rights from those in power, and then fight even harder to keep them!
It's ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children.
It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries are trying to implement this wider internet control at the same time.
Feels like a major push toward authoritarianism to me.
It's messed up how the people always have to fight to wrest any rights from those in power, and then fight even harder to keep them!
The government has big plans for Mark Zuckerberg’s pervert glasses!
What is a company like Meta to do when it notices that 10% of it's income comes from advertising scams, illegal gambling & products?
ENCOURAGE IT & RAISE THE PRICES FOR THE CRIMINALS - OF COURSE!
Sadly the good times eventually had to end:
The Consumer Federation of America is going after Meta for it now!
The plan is genius, when you want to get rid of around 20% of your employees, just make them quit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeInDex/comments/1ssgwdm/meta_installing_software_on_employee_computers_to
🤖 Honestly you can't make this up:
Human Robot Zuckerberg is gonna put an AI based smart keylogger on his employees computers.
Nothing says we don't trust you and don't appreciate you like a regular screenshot of your work screen.
No more NSFW!
Welcome to the future baby!
Guess them employees are gonna get a taste of their own medicine for once.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-track-everything-workers-type-click-train-ai
Seems like everything is going according to plan:
Use the employees data to train MaiRK,
so Meta can finally become a synonym for MaiRK.
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116402482806274908
Eventually we will only see his superintelligence controlling everything.
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/115871208581092120
Narcissism 2026 version 😋
🌊 We must stop eating wild ocean animals, including open‑pen "farmed" saltwater fish such as salmon.
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/exploring-underbelly-chiles-salmon-farming-industry
If you’re not urgently dependent on seafood for survival, simply switch to other options such as land / closed‑system aquaculture or plant based solutions.
I'm not saying everybody needs to become a vegan/vegetarian right now, that is up to each individual, but we should avoid the worst of the worst.
That is, if we want to at least keep a few of the giants of the seas alive.
🦈🐳🦑🐠🐟🐡🐬🦑🪸🦐
🇺🇸 "Law that has allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to collect... overseas communications without needing search warrants is set to expire"
Here is a completely wild thought: instead of changing or renewing it, how about the USA stops ignoring people's basic rights worldwide? 🤪
Only found them by coincidence ;)
1️⃣ In "/settings/preferences/appearance" under "Advanced settings" you can find the option to "Warn me before posting media without alt text"
You can see the error message I see whenever I forget alt text in the second image hehe
2️⃣ When you post an image with text in it, you can simply use the magic AI feature "Add text from image". It usually works very well!
Alt text image 1
Screenshot of the advanced settings in /settings/preferences/appearance. The setting "Warn me before posting media without alt text" is checked and circled in red.
Alt text image 2
Screenshot of the warning you get with the warning for missing alt enabled. "Add alt text? Your post contains media without alt text. Adding descriptions helps make your content accessible to more people." Below it are 3 buttons "Cancel" "Post anyway" and "Add alt text".
Alt text image 3
This is how that "AI" option described the text of the image I posted: "Describe this for people with visual impairments. 1500 Add text from image"
I've been thinking a lot about the Fediverse ALT issue.
Some people are annoyed by posts without Alttext, & others get reminded¹ to add it.
The core question is: How can we improve accessibility?
Proposal:
☑️ Add a user filter to hide media posts without AltTag
☑️ Reduced engagement on hidden posts would encourage adding Alt text
☑️ People who need accessibility wouldn't have to encounter unlabeled media
If this gets traction, I'll open a Mastodon GitHub issue (maybe on others too?).
¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113996311493021102
Alt text for image: "Screenshot of Mastodon "Preferences" > "Filters" > "Add new filter". The "Add new filters" page is open, under "Filter controls" a new red checkbox labeled “NO ALT” is added."
"Other recent departures have included global head of creators, Kim Farrell, who left earlier this year after almost six years, and Blake Chandlee, who departed in 2025 after leading advertising and marketing for six years.
Michael Beckerman, a public policy executive who helped lead TikTok’s fight against a U.S. ban, also exited last year, as did music chief Ole Obermann. And Erich Andersen, who served as U.S.-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., left that role in 2024."
Did they get laid off / quit or did they DeTikTok? ;)