they live glasses but for tech industry comment pieces šŸ˜Ž
@Mojeek ā€œencourage innovationā€
ChatGPT, write me an essay detailing how everyone and their VC firm’s aunt pivoting to AI while tossing their employees away constitutes ā€œencouraging innovationā€.
@Mojeek
This is just one of those think tanks that will also have articles promoting lowering wages below the poverty line because it stimulates workers to perform better.
@Mojeek Look like standard-issue "They live"-glasses to me!

@Mojeek "We'll use the word 'fetishizing' to make it seem wrong to want privacy!"

They're not the least but discreet about it 🤔

@Mojeek … and we’re all out of bubblegum.
@jeffzugale truly a movie that gives gives gives - lines, themes, everything
@Mojeek who are the advertisers puppets who wrote that?
Heidi Messer - Wikipedia

@liquor_american @Mojeek they obey the advertisers and the advertisers can cut the strings and let them in the floor so she and her compaby are just a puppets of the ads

@hashraydamon @Mojeek

By a co-founder of Enterprise Al to optimize how people do business, written back in May of 2019.

Surprised how well this advert is working till this day.

@Mojeek its gotten out of hand. I've had dozens of cases in recent months where I'm shown ads online which I cant help but conclude are based on spying on my private life in some way. I've had to wrack my brains to theorize how they do it at times. serious abuse of telemetry and passive surveillance and de-anonymizing algos is going on

@Mojeek "The companies also provide income to millions of non-employees, including Airbnb hosts, Instagram influencers, eBay sellers, and Uber and Lyft drivers. If we constrict their fuel — data — we may hurt not only the quality, cost and speed of their services, but also the drivers of growth for the world’s economy. "

Dear god šŸ˜‚

@willhopkins
Maybe I could also make more money with my product if there weren't these regulations about no poison in its material. Or with new foods.
All this testing for it inhibits progress!
@Mojeek
@willhopkins @Mojeek
Strong "won't somebody think of the shareholders" vibes
@willhopkins @Mojeek
Can they please stop providing income to Instagram influencers? 🄺
@Mojeek oh my god that byline has powerful "but think of the banks uwu" energy jfc
@Mojeek It's no surprise that the author's entrepreneurial ventures were related to affiliate marketing and analytics. 🤔
@Mojeek Spot on. And in case else is wondering, the author of that opinion is indeed an entrepreneur and investor in the "digital marketing" space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Messer
Heidi Messer - Wikipedia

@Mojeek ok, I suggest the author goes first and publishes their search history and medical data online
@Mojeek a fantastic film, more relevant today than ever before

@bergerode_cyber gets a rewatch at least once a year šŸ˜‰

they live for halloween and halloween for xmas

@Mojeek
Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Workplace Safety

Big mining companies create jobs, encourage innovation, and provide valuable resources. Why would we want to break them up by restricting child labor in coal mines?

@Mojeek which is why we should start AIs shoveling fake data at them. in 3 months it will all be worthless forever.

@Mojeek We need to be naming and shaming the authors of propaganda. In this case it's Heidi Messer, a marketing CEO whose business model very much does depend on us giving up our privacy.

Once again, shame on the NYT for platfoming such trash, but that's kind of what they exist for in this moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Messer

Heidi Messer - Wikipedia

@Mojeek, the reality is that most people will never pay for email accounts, browsers, messengers, note apps, etc. Why would any company provide these services for free without making money by selling customer data?

@pistach1o contextual ads (such as duckduckgo) are not user data sinks and we make our money off our api

Other models exist

@Mojeek @nytpu The very first sentence is largely bullshit too.

"Big tech companies create jobs" by... preventing competition by hundreds of other smaller companies by leaning on the patent & copyright systems (which should be abolished) to prevent reverse-engineering & direct competition?

Right... You'll have a tough time selling that one, "buddy".
@Mojeek
"fetishizing" privacy?
people corperations will say anything
@asbestos_chan noone is fett ishh eye zing it Heidi, doesn't your door have a lock? smh
@Mojeek I actually checked the second title before my brain kicked in, and my deepest, most sincere apologies to the entire fediverse šŸ˜‚
@harmonygritz it is all a ok if you get it eventually (even with assistance) 😃
@Mojeek Well done, top of the trending items today!
@jackyan everyone's putting the glasses on today!
@Mojeek that movie is a classic! And the message is approved šŸ‘
@Painter_Local john carpenter make a bad movie challenge IMPOSSIBLE (obviously they exist but I kind of like Ghosts...)

@Mojeek
"And I wear my sunglasses at night / So I can, so I can / See the light that’s right before my eyes."

TIL Corey Hart's Sunglasses At Night was released in 1984.

@Mojeek we need a page using this meme to "translate" journalism
@sharan @Mojeek Is the world ready for Artificial Cynicism? šŸ¤”
@Mojeek This would make a great site. Drop in a headline and crowdsource what they really mean.
@soviut you're not the first to suggest it 😃
@Mojeek the original summary reads like a threat. It's funny how business always reminds the working class of the employment and goods/services costs metaphorical guns being held to or heads whenever the former feels threatened.
@Mojeek book on why privacy is bad by someone who worked at the FBIs surveillance department
@Cycrev damn, that's some well-bound toilet paper!

@Mojeek Kudos for the well-written alt text that includes an explanation of how the glasses work so that even people who haven't seen the movie can still understand the meaning of the meme!

(I *have* seen it... but I'm way overdue for a rewatch!)

@kagan off the back of the love this got I'm going to be doing my annual rewatch earlier than normal! Might be two in a year this time round

Also thanks a bundle for the alt text comment (if it encourages watches or rewatches then it's a bonus on top of helping those who need the ALT)

@Mojeek At least the aliens in They Live wanted people to have 8 hours of leisure a day and only 40 hour work weeks.

That's right. The alien invaders/overlords from The Live? Better for the average worker than the Republican party.

Also they approved of sex work.

@Mojeek Babe, wake up. A new fetish dropped.
@tonytins milk just came out of my nose šŸ˜†

@Mojeek

"Data protection is theft of corporate property."

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