PierceTheBubble

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious how big-tech platforms, actively moderating every user action on their platform (for advertiser-friendliness), while often involved with codeveloping the world’s leading AI models, are somehow unable to moderate advertisement content. Certainly no conflict of interest there…

  I do wonder what downstream consequences this might entail: if YouTube starts baking advertisements right into videos, would they still classify as advertisements? And what would this in turn mean for content-creators’ sponsored content (often constituting a significant portion of their income)?

  As much as I passionately hate advertisements (leading me to mercilessly block every single one of them), I rather have platforms using advertisements for monetization, than doubling down on selling user-data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who care deeply about important events they have no impact on are abnormal, most people just go about their day without giving a shit.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apathy might not be a conscious decision, but rather a result of: preoccupation (work, finance, health, entertainment, etc.), hopelessly negative news feeds, consumption of news rather than active digestion of it, political tribalism (as repeating after the filter-bubble, requires less energy than forming your own opinion; alongside protecting one’s ego), etc. Briefly put: many working-class citizens might lack the overhead, required to give a shit (about problems not directly affecting their personal lives; despite often guaranteed to come bite them long-term).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite impressive, but not necessarily in a positive way. I especially get uneasy with the robot having 360 degree vision, turning its head 180 degrees, walking backwards towards me, and in the process rotating the rest of its body. I do appreciate them not trying to make it look like a human, nor treating it as one. Seeing the renders of groups of these clankers, especially with the knowledge of them being able to share their “intelligence”, is frankly horrifying to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re on an entirely different plane of reality mate, my brain just can’t fathom such concept

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When some of them have the audacity, to arrogantly correct non-English speakers’ language, when it isn’t even their first language; hell it isn’t even my second, it’s my third. How’s your Dutch motherfucker? It guess this isn’t exactly restricted to Americans, but still…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And the next patent will be about a controller, not actually being plugged into the console, but merely giving gamers the illusion of affecting the gameplay…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Politicians are already hellbent on “age”-verifying social-media, but Elon seems believe there to be a lack of urgency in this regard… Please regulate social-media harder daddy! Please, we’ve had the resources to comply with these perverse regulations for a while now. I didn’t hijack this platform, just for the lefties to be able to speak their mind on alternative platforms…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  An AI gooner Aquapet… “what a time to be alive”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So Amazon is basically trying to overtake Google Shopping? To ultimately be able to see what consumers are interested in, beyond the products offered by Amazon. This would allow them to anticipate for tending products, make their own knockoff of it, and list it prominently on their own platform. And if the original vendors want to appear higher (still below Amazon’s mind you), they’d have to pay for advertisements: which is where the money is at. Beautiful dark patterns… :)