It was very mean of us to use a picture of Mark Zuckerberg for this post, probably. When news dropped last week that Facebook allowed a "troll farm" in St. Petersburg, Russia, to spend $100,000 Russian moneys on targeted political ads to influence American voters, it felt like the tiniest drop in a yooooge bucket. Then we learned the Russians had
When most of a person's interactions are with a screen, it becomes easy to take the human component out. This where many industries fail. These people are more vulnerable to their own arrogance because they spend so much time dealing in bits and bytes. It's not even a fair chance for them to be "normal". Automation is coming, but it's not going to look like Wall-E. they will find out then that automation is useless if the people aren't served by it. It's pretty much the plot line of all dystopian fiction.
Putin, Tillerson, Charles, and David are all completely interchangeable. They are natural born psychopaths who lie with ease and happily murder anyone they can get away with murdering.
I see Russian trollbots pushing Climate Denier propaganda cooked up by the Kochs absolutely all the time!
It wouldn't surprise me for one second if they were conspiring with one another...
what do you think is going to happen with this? I have a big child already living in Queensland and one other heading out from the uS to Oz to study Zoology/Marine Biology. Am having to counsel her on being more circumspect about her forthright political views on teh geys etc until she knows her fellow students better. She seems to think that student = more liberal thinking ( ah the delight of being 18 and loving of your fellow humans)
Meeting other depressives online has been a life saver for me and FB is pretty much how we all keep track of each other. It's a great way to find a community of people if you have a medical issue.
I hope it passes! We've had it up here in Canada for a few years now and everybody's pretty damn happy. As long as the more Nazi Conservatives aren't voted in after Trudeau's done we should be sitting pretty.
As for you and your kid, I don't really want to comment since I don't know how she was brought up, but I'd simply remind her that LGBTQs are fellow human beings and students just like she is, and most want to be treated as exactly that.
Today I posted to my FB page with a link to a story of their collaborating with Russia to fix the election: "I've always hated Facebook and I await their comeuppance with glee. And yes, using Facebook to say how much I hate them and wish for their downfall adds a delightful tang to my schadenfreude..."
I don't need a Facebook account to see clearly that those who believe what they see there are easily gulled pea-brained sub-epsilons, any more than I need to buy a keno ticket to know that casino gamblers are losers and rubes.
Facebook members post two billion items per month. That's about 45,000 posts per minute. In order for human beings to attend them at a rate of review of one minute per post, Facebook would have to employ something like 200,000 employees to do nothing else but review submissions for prior restraint. It's ridiculous to consider that Facebook provides the same category of service as The New York Times or The Washington Post. The latter may be considered to be contract carriers, with respect to their classified advertising or their publication of letters received addressed to the editor. Facebook's service amounts to common carriage, with the additional provision of self-service user tools. In this way it is comparable to a lessor of a communication channel, as are AT&T, Verizon, Sprint et al., or as a provider of infrastructure or materiel, exactly as is Georgia Pacific.
So my phone fell in the toilet last weekend (long story .... and yes, there was liquor involved) and silly me, I never backed up my contacts to my sim, or Google, or anywhere else for that matter. Luckily, most if not all of my contacts are on FB or another social media platform so I was able to find them all once I replaced my old phone, which was filled with toilet water. Moral of the story: Jack Daniel's is one helluva drink. No wait, that's not right.
yeah...your first paragraph reinforces the point that it's the perfect propaganda platform...and just as in your example of keno players, there are not only losers, but also winners...the house, the controller of the info, wins the vast majority of the time--thru manipulation/control/advanced knowledge of the odds/info
National Enquirer, National Examiner, the Globe and several others have been ensnaring slow-witted foolish people for decades, poisoning their opinions in supermarket checkout lines. In Britain, the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Record, Sunday Mail, The Sun and until recently News of the World have been even more consequential in the English speaking world. News Corp and its alien reptile overlord have had a far more malevolent effect on U.S. and world affairs - deliberately so - than has ANYTHING done (or failed to be done) by Facebook. The animus toward Facebook - as vacuous as its service unquestionably is - is misplaced. It is childish frisson, due overwhelmingly to its critics' envy of Facebook's commercial success.
When most of a person's interactions are with a screen, it becomes easy to take the human component out. This where many industries fail. These people are more vulnerable to their own arrogance because they spend so much time dealing in bits and bytes. It's not even a fair chance for them to be "normal". Automation is coming, but it's not going to look like Wall-E. they will find out then that automation is useless if the people aren't served by it. It's pretty much the plot line of all dystopian fiction.
And THIS is among the many reasons I miss MySpace.
Putin, Tillerson, Charles, and David are all completely interchangeable. They are natural born psychopaths who lie with ease and happily murder anyone they can get away with murdering.
I see Russian trollbots pushing Climate Denier propaganda cooked up by the Kochs absolutely all the time!
It wouldn't surprise me for one second if they were conspiring with one another...
Same thing happened to me. Up to and including them asking for a photo ID.Never liked FB, but now I think they are creepy.
what do you think is going to happen with this? I have a big child already living in Queensland and one other heading out from the uS to Oz to study Zoology/Marine Biology. Am having to counsel her on being more circumspect about her forthright political views on teh geys etc until she knows her fellow students better. She seems to think that student = more liberal thinking ( ah the delight of being 18 and loving of your fellow humans)
Meeting other depressives online has been a life saver for me and FB is pretty much how we all keep track of each other. It's a great way to find a community of people if you have a medical issue.
You're welcome. Any time.
I hope it passes! We've had it up here in Canada for a few years now and everybody's pretty damn happy. As long as the more Nazi Conservatives aren't voted in after Trudeau's done we should be sitting pretty.
As for you and your kid, I don't really want to comment since I don't know how she was brought up, but I'd simply remind her that LGBTQs are fellow human beings and students just like she is, and most want to be treated as exactly that.
Today I posted to my FB page with a link to a story of their collaborating with Russia to fix the election: "I've always hated Facebook and I await their comeuppance with glee. And yes, using Facebook to say how much I hate them and wish for their downfall adds a delightful tang to my schadenfreude..."
You own Facebook? Can I be one of your asshole friends?
I went home with the waitressThe way I always doHow was I to knowShe liked Russian dressing too?
I don't need a Facebook account to see clearly that those who believe what they see there are easily gulled pea-brained sub-epsilons, any more than I need to buy a keno ticket to know that casino gamblers are losers and rubes.
Facebook members post two billion items per month. That's about 45,000 posts per minute. In order for human beings to attend them at a rate of review of one minute per post, Facebook would have to employ something like 200,000 employees to do nothing else but review submissions for prior restraint. It's ridiculous to consider that Facebook provides the same category of service as The New York Times or The Washington Post. The latter may be considered to be contract carriers, with respect to their classified advertising or their publication of letters received addressed to the editor. Facebook's service amounts to common carriage, with the additional provision of self-service user tools. In this way it is comparable to a lessor of a communication channel, as are AT&T, Verizon, Sprint et al., or as a provider of infrastructure or materiel, exactly as is Georgia Pacific.
So my phone fell in the toilet last weekend (long story .... and yes, there was liquor involved) and silly me, I never backed up my contacts to my sim, or Google, or anywhere else for that matter. Luckily, most if not all of my contacts are on FB or another social media platform so I was able to find them all once I replaced my old phone, which was filled with toilet water. Moral of the story: Jack Daniel's is one helluva drink. No wait, that's not right.
What the hell were we talking about again?
The social experiment, er, manipulation of FB just got even more creepy than it already is.
yeah...your first paragraph reinforces the point that it's the perfect propaganda platform...and just as in your example of keno players, there are not only losers, but also winners...the house, the controller of the info, wins the vast majority of the time--thru manipulation/control/advanced knowledge of the odds/info
National Enquirer, National Examiner, the Globe and several others have been ensnaring slow-witted foolish people for decades, poisoning their opinions in supermarket checkout lines. In Britain, the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Record, Sunday Mail, The Sun and until recently News of the World have been even more consequential in the English speaking world. News Corp and its alien reptile overlord have had a far more malevolent effect on U.S. and world affairs - deliberately so - than has ANYTHING done (or failed to be done) by Facebook. The animus toward Facebook - as vacuous as its service unquestionably is - is misplaced. It is childish frisson, due overwhelmingly to its critics' envy of Facebook's commercial success.