sirdorius
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- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 days ago:
It’s a funny story because Ford was suspecting them of building a rival car company so he wasn’t doing it entirely out of altruistic pursuits. He wanted to them to get lower profits from their Ford investments. Whenever you think capitalists have reached the peak of greed, they truly innovate.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 days ago:
This only strikes us plebes when we find out about it. It is common knowledge in economist circles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits: a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
This has only been recently challenged as a PR attempt to rebrand it into “stakeholder capitalism”
Also, not related but equally horrifying: in macroeconomics there is a target of unemployment of around 5%, aka full employment is to be avoided: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU
- Comment on rust foundation is now on mastodon 1 month ago:
Client side is completely out of the question here. You can’t just send millions of posts to every client hoping that they will order it themselves. Bluesky has a well thought out architecture that does that through server side feed gens, that can be decoupled from the App itself.
- Comment on rust foundation is now on mastodon 1 month ago:
Discovery is just the worst, lemmy has a problem with it as well but it’s somehow just amplified on Mastodon
Totally agree. Mastodon is absolutely terrible at discovering new things. This is the initial reason for the invention of “The Algorithm” on social feeds, before it got sabotaged to push content with an agenda.
- Comment on rust foundation is now on mastodon 1 month ago:
