They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.
The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.
The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.
“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
They recently started releasing viewing data for all shows in six months intervals.
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report
That sounds like the report for the first half of 2023, but also has a link to the second half.
Their exact criteria will probably change depending on a number of factors, but one could look up figures for a cancelled show to get some idea of what isn’t good enough.
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It likes bots writing to the site, for the engagement; it doesn’t like bots reading the site (for free).
They took out the “report spam” button. Presumably that’s because Google’s whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.
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Create the problem, sell the solution.
But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple
#include “ai.h”
People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.
So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.
Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.
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When you start a new language, you learn “The Rules” first, and wonder why your first language doesn’t have such immutable “Rules.”
Then when you get fluent, you realize there are just as many exceptions as your first language.
A rock with no electricity is just a rock. Meat with no electricity is just a body. Electricity is the only conscious thing there is.
It was going to be the 513, but we got an overflow error instead.
Backing this up with some history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history
In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome.
Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, and it took until March 2011 to get to version 4.0. Then by the end of 2011, they were on version 9.
Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.
That was a big talking point a few years ago. Polling companies stubbornly held on to calling landlines for too long, but the only people who had landlines were not representative of the voting population.
They try to correct for things like age, income, race, etc, by weighting the answers to match the wider population, but it’s hard to correct for things like “stubbornly old-fashioned regardless of physical age.”
Yeah, apparently I get to be mildly infuriated at nvidia for changing shit, mildly infuriated at myself for letting it, and also still a little mildly infuriated at playground games for having an ambiguous message that never clued me into what was really happening. Trifecta!
Tough to tell from a picture alone, but maybe something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/ACROPIX-16-4ft-Universal-Plastic-Optic/dp/B0C7KX1GFL