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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Here’s what would happen in capitalist America: entities would own those machines and use them as a means of personal enrichment, it’d displace a ton of human workers, the taxes generated from profits generated wouldn’t offset the economic impacts, and then half of the lawmakers would introduce bills that would provide lucrative incentives to those entities if they maintain a certain ratio of human workers and they’d staple a bunch of regressive crap onto it like abortion or whatever, it wouldn’t pass because the other half of lawmakers would want to tax the hell out of profits made with those machines, government would shut down 4 times a year, Jeff Bezos builds a vacation home on the moon








  • I feel the same way but they probably aren’t targeting people like us. If 95% of people think this change is dumb and don’t download the app, there’s still 5% of people who’d consider downloading the app and it’d be a pretty significant number of people. It’s just my hunch that they removed the original gold subscriptions in order to remove the ability to go ad-free, brought it back as a mobile app-only thing to get more people on the app. IPO is coming up, any padding of the numbers will help, that kind of thing, even if it’s only a couple percent


  • I’m not gonna google the whole ‘GDP’ franchise/entity for hopefully obvious reasons but the ‘GDP’ franchise very well could be a verified account that creates content through exploitation and that being a very real possibility punches a hole in the effectiveness of attempting to moderate content by only allowing content derived from verified accounts. The article notes that the actual people reviewing flagged content can’t handle the sheer amount of flagged content so it’s likely they can’t handle verifying that content created by verified accounts isn’t content created through exploitation, so it’s probable once an account is verified it can just start sliding in all sorts of stuff that will go unchecked (as it apparently did in this case and others).