From "Never Forgive Them" by Edward Zitron
"Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.
Tim Cook is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, slowly allowing the rot to seep into Apple’s products, slowly adding bothersome subscription products and useless AI features to chip away at the user experience. Apple’s app store and its repeated support of exploitative microtransaction-laden mobile games built to create gambling-like addiction in adults and children alike, making it billions of dollars a year. Because Apple’s products are less shitty, it gets a much easier time.
Sundar Pichai is the Henry Kissinger of technology — a glossy executive that escapes blame despite having caused harm on a global scale. The destruction of Google Search at the hands of Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan should be written about like a war crime, and those responsible treated as such.
Satya Nadella has aggressively expanded Microsoft’s various monopolies, the most egregious of which is the Microsoft 365 suite — a monopoly over business software that everybody kind of hates that Microsoft prices to undercut the competition, effectively setting the conditions of most business software as either “cheaper than Microsoft” or “slightly better than Microsoft.” Nadella has overseen layoffs of tens of thousands of people in the last three years alone, and despite his bullshit “growth mindset” culture treats his employees and customers as equally disposable.
Mark Zuckerberg is a putrid ghoul that has overseen the growth and proliferation of some of the single-most abusive and manipulative software in the world. Meta has grown to a market cap of $1.5 trillion dollars by intentionally making the experience on Instagram and Facebook worse, intentionally frustrating and harming billions of people.
Holding these people to a higher standard at scale is what brings about change. Be the wrench in the machine.
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck.
Be the person to explain who Prabhakar Raghavan is and what his role was in making Google Search worse.
Be the person who tells people that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works because he's desperate for power.
Every time you do this, you destabilise them.
Never let their names be spoken without disgust. Be the sandpaper in their veins and the graffiti on their legacies."
#Technology #Enshittification #Microsoft #Google #Facebook #Fecesbook #AI #Apple #Business #Tech
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
‘The work damaged me’: ex-Facebook moderators describe effect of horrific content | Facebook | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/18/ex-facebook-moderators-describe-effect-of-horrific-content
Nach Recherchen der #BBC hat #Facebook die #Reichweiten der #Nachrichtenagenturen von #Palästinenser|n, während des Krieges zwischen #Israel & #Gaza stark eingeschränkt.
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo
#Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M #EU #Facebook users
→ OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund
https://apnews.com/article/sam-altman-donald-trump-openai-3b7a87037f3718eb3edc73e94be8a61a
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund […].”
“The announcement comes one day after Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it donated $1 million to the same fund.”
“Amazon also said it plans to donate $1 million.”
#OpenAI #Altman #Trump #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Amazon #million
#Meta to set up $50M #privacy payment scheme to settle Australian proceeding
#Australia #Facebook #CambridgeAnalytica
#Amazon verkauft nur noch überteuerten China Trash.
#Facebook und #instagram sind nutzlose und langweilige Netzwerke geworden. #Musk ist ein gefährlicher Spinner. #Amerika wird man in 4 Jahren nicht mehr wiedererkennen.
#Ireland #Facebook #privacy #gov
'An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users' accounts hacked.'
https://www.courthousenews.com/ireland-fines-meta-263-million-over-facebook-hacks/
AFP: Ireland fines Meta $263 million over Facebook hacks. “An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users’ accounts hacked.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/18/afp-ireland-fines-meta-263-million-over-facebook-hacks/
‘The work damaged me’: ex-Facebook moderators describe effect of horrific content https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/18/ex-facebook-moderators-describe-effect-of-horrific-content #Internetsafety #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Outsourcing #Technology #Worldnews #Facebook #Africa #Meta
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of severe PTSD https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd #Socialnetworking #Digitalmedia #Mentalhealth #Onlineabuse #Technology #Instagram #Worldnews #Facebook #Africa #Kenya #Media #Meta