JWcph, Radicalized By Decency"Zuck kept up his growth story with this mind control narrative for more than a decade, got caught committing a string of spectacular frauds, and then lured investors back into his stock offerings by telling the same story." - @pluralistic
Having worked with them I've met few if any investors who aren't idiots (that's why I left). We need to kill the narrative that the few idiots who got lucky are somehow geniuses.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114466651685035765 #business #tech #investors
Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Zuck's told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make ads that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything. In other words, Meta will make an AI mind-control ray and rent it out to grateful advertisers. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts 1/