Stating the obvious.

META was a major lobbyist for all of the state bills we’ve seen so far. There’s probably more. Or META is taking the lead because most hate them already, which provides a nice distraction from anyone else involved.

Tech and data centers want our data. What better way for a complete data set is there? I’m sure Palantir is in there somewhere.

Explain.

True. Unless you walk away from the platform, in earnest, age verification moves forward.

It’s trash. It front pages clickbait and bullshit, has no privacy, and with so many other options why bother?

I’ve dealt with booking.com. Sent pics of what was clearly a homeless flophouse and not a vacation rental.

Customer service: were denying your refund claim because the manager says what you said and the pics you sent are not true.

I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.

There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.

Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.

Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

I realize younger people probably don’t feel this so viscerally, but shorts (not all, but many) are very in tune with old TV advertising format. It’s like an endless stream of Super Bowl ads, at best. Repetitive music. Designed for the short attention span. Makes you seek a product, in this case, more of itself.

Now, look at the “upcycled” (/s) version of YouTubr content. Reused video clips with a shiny, hyper-reactive talking head in front of it. Not human expression but caricatures thereof. Millions of views. Millions of viewers. For years. Not of human faces but caricatures of human faces. This garbage won’t go away because it’s consistantly being watched.

Now, after all that priming, introduce AI into the two most popular social medias, short form and long form.

How does this fully primed crowd know the difference? How would they suddenly feel the need to leave? Not you or me, but the people who consume the ad clones and charicaturized crap daily? The same people who slide their phones out of their pockets to scroll shorts, on automatic, whenever they have 5 free minutes at work. How do they even spot the difference after years of consuming garbage?

TLDR Less human interaction + more fake, caricaturized human vid content = where we are now, with AI on social media.

The problem is they’re already making bank on ads and data. They don’t need our money.

Hey, if you can find reliable vids on fixing just about anything, it’s in. Bonus if there’s solid journalism and documentaries.

The ability to host that level of video and audio data, streaming, though.

Nebula doesn’t have hobby vids. Good in some respects, terrible in others.

In addition, it’s locked down to posting, with only a nebulous indicator as to how to get invited to post creator content.

We need an alternative with people on it.

Hey degen, I’ve got your journal in my hands right now. It’s ok though, I promise only to look at the cover and not read it. You’re cool with that right?

Who was the guy several years ago who was charged with child pornography for receiving a pic of his infant son’s rash for the doctor on his phone? Was that not iCloud via Apple scanning for questionable images?

Something I heard on the old OSINT podcast years ago.

Com’n. All loss of privacy is a foot on the door to access more.

I guess I never believed it was limited to iCloud.