Meta
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- A Model for the People … going to want to do it, and hell, did you read how much Meta is dangling in front of people to poach them for its superintelligence group? My …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … started, belatedly, with the Digital Markets Act, that’s trying to reign in Meta, X, and Apple and so on?” What exactly does data sovereignty mean? If this …
- Decide What’s Important; Tacit Admission … In which case, would it be true that Meta would likely make more money by deciding itself where to allocate more compute for better quality encoding (presuming better …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … Threads, owned by Meta/Facebook, bootstrapped from Instagram, and with hundreds of millions of users Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social network built on an open protocol called …
- Kill Your Gods … 1.1.2 Meta AI The second bit of background is that Meta have been gradually rolling out “AI” features across its products and platforms (which, you know …
- Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc... … It is an advertising platform for Meta. That much has been clear. It is doing things that are open in as much as they make sense to Meta …
- The Great Social Network Heist … You need to make sure Meta follows through on integrating with the Fediverse. You need to understand the incentives and disincentives and tweak them to get Meta to …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … While Twitter continues to implode, Bluesky and Mastodon are busy carving out their niches and Meta storms ahead with Threads, let’s talk about ways people might improve …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … With so many companies now wanting to speedrun content moderation, plus the rise in usage of protocols like ActivityPub, and then on top of that Meta’s roadmap …
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually … Recently -- especially on Threads, the strangely lacking-in-affordances-for-threaded-conversations short-form text social network launched by Meta off the back of Instagram -- there’s been …
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … In the meantime, you should read Erin Kissane's Meta in Myanmar series, because a) it's a stunning piece of readable in-depth analysis that's important …
- Marks on Flat Planes … Sure it's bigger, but it's not different enough? I mean, I have a Meta Quest and played with it and I get that this is a …
- Concept Art … what? More leisure time to play and watch and also, well, consume AI-assisted/generated media? You know, if I were Meta or whomever, I'd be interested …
- Universal Basic Compute … Even recently! Again! (Take, for example, my characterization of the current OpenStreetMaps kerfuffle with the Amazon/Linux Foundation/Meta/Microsoft initiated Overture Maps Foundation). So what internet services …
- What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person … that would let people check the Microsoft stock price just as right now Meta employees may be despairing at what their RSUs are, or are not, worth. I …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … What'd be really interesting would be to see how those eyeball-attention-minutes compare to, say, Meta's Quest videogames. Or all of Meta Quest in general …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … Twitter, But Angrier And In VR So I have a Meta Quest 2 now and it's pretty good, in that it's good-enough technically (my wife …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … Second Life, PlayStation Home, and now Meta's Horizon, which has the saddest Accenture office ever, complete with little Accenture people with no legs. When people talk about …
- Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs … On with the show! 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Form factors So I guess the embargo dropped on the $1,500 Meta Quest Pro [1 …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … So maybe you come up with a standalone PS VR headset, which means you're up against Apple and Meta, and you're playing a slightly different game …
- Be not careless with your users' data … Anyway, that thing happens where Instagram from Meta née Facebook suggests new contacts or accounts for me to follow and of course this time one of the accounts …
- Lights … now you live in a storage unit in Los Angeles creating content for Meta, how's that working out? Oh it's working out great, I'm also …
- Actually, It's About... … So many fun axes upon which to be humans doing human things to each other! So on the one hand, you have a company like Meta going around …
- I Learned It From You … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 I Learned It From You Arthur Holland Michel [1] did a Twitter thread writeup [2] of Meta (née …