It’s so absurd, the website’s appeal lies entirely in the user driven experience created by volunteer moderators and user submitted content. Yet the path of profit growth for them lies in company placed ads, and LLM bots spamming comment sections to astroturf. The more they push for profit, the less appeal to users the site has.
He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.
Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.
The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?
I think Netflix has brought on some management people straight from Hollywood who have implemented the worst ‘data driven’ strategies.
Netflix’s earlier success never came from getting involved with content production, as the article says, their biggest hits came from giving skilled teams blank checks, or buying up already good stuff. They wanted to convince people that they could produce as good stuff as any studio or cable network, become the hot new thing that would get people to sign up.
But now, Netflix is trying to maximize viewer retention, prevent people from canceling subscriptions at the end of the month after they’ve seen what they wanted. They’re looking at what factors keep people watching for a long time, watching regularly, and then interfering with production till they get stuff that matches those metrics. They want Netflix to be a daily fixture in people’s lives so they won’t consider canceling it at the end of the month, and thus are making slop content to try and get that.
Their monetary losses are insubstantial compared to the gains in power they will receive from further weakening the influence and power of the average person.
If there is anything to be learned from the past few weeks, it’s that federal employees can just ignore these kinds of emails, the courts have repeatedly put holds on such orders
The problem is that the AI branded software doesn’t run easily on old devices, unless you just stream it from one of their server farms. But they’re losing money every time they run one of these services for you, and the vast majority of people aren’t going to pay them a subscription for that.
They’re trying to justify selling new devices with software now, not giving out software that can run on old devices. You gotta replace your 2017 laptop to run windows 11. Gotta get a new computer with an NPU to run AI models locally. But it’s happening again, users are not embracing these new AI features, let alone buying new devices just so they can use them.
Much like wearables and VR headsets, the interest for these things is largely limited to enthusiasts spaces and isn’t translating to mass adoption. The average person doesn’t care about having their computer writing their email in to a limerick, they just want their email client to not freeze up and crash because they got an email with a weirdly formatted picture.
I think making the stock market crash might be kind of the point of a lot of trumps actions, if prices fall then rise due to playing terrif peekaboo, than him and his handlers can repeatedly buy low sell high.
They know when he’s going to re-announce or delay terifs, so they can buy and sell at just the right times.
That they’re admitting they fucked up in any way other than “ we should have run a primary” or the BS excuse of “we weren’t mean enough to trans people” is news in it’s own right.
Zelenskyy has pulled off an incredible diplomatic move. He’s illustrating to the public both at home and abroad, that Ukraine is an independent country and he’s calling trump’s bluff.
Trump has been bluffing this whole time. Leaning on this idea that he can just pull the plug on aid to Ukraine, on this idea of the unitary executive. The thing is, Ukraine is still a popular cause in America, both with in government institutions and the public, despite the efforts of so many. Trump’s bully pulpit is not so strong as to change that with a stroke of a pen.
Now, trump can attempt to unilaterally revoke aid, but that will run in to real legal road blocks and create bipartisan public dissent, thus undermining the fiction of the unitary executive. Or he can change his tone, real fucking fast, and claim he always had the intention to support Ukraine, his supporters will buy it, like every other random shift he’s pulled, and everyone else will shrug and say “I guess a broken clock is right twice a day”.
He’s put trump in a position where the only winning option is to support Ukraine, and the losing options earns him both another public opinion and institutional battle. The question is, what threatens trump more? That bad outcome or what ever the pro-russia people have on him?
Oh ok, so you want to lose the fucking mid terms, got it, because like… no amount of voter manipulation or dis info will help you when you fuck with the boomers health care and money.
Perhaps there is a better term and I should be more clear, but people know, roughly speaking, what “new” does, even “active” is fairly straight forward. They are literally algorithms but not what people are talking about when they complain about “algorithms”.
When people complain about the “algorithm”, in the colloquial sense, they’re talking about some nebulous unknowable method of sorting that only the people at meta and alphabet are privy to the details of, not the literal definition of the word.
I should have chosen my words more carefully but I think the point stands, there is a marked difference between a system where it is clear to the user how things get sorted, and the home, discovery or “for you” systems of major social media sites.
Depending on how you browse, it was not algorithmically recommended. Even if you’re using “active” to filter, it’s barely an algorithm. Certainly not a personalized one, unless you’re just looking at the subscribed feed, in which case the personalization was done by you, not the formula.
That’s kind of the appeal of this kind of website, when there is automatic sorting it’s very straight forward and user mailable.
There is this interesting push and pull with algorithms, they need to show content users will engage with, but, their main value to the companies is that it allows them to easily manipulate what is seen.
They push people to hard they stop using the algorithm, but if they just let the algorithm act purely one what people engage with, then they can’t monetize it.
There is a third access of preventing people from going down self destructive rabbit holes, but they don’t care about that until people start talking about regulating them or start moving away.
It’s so absurd, the website’s appeal lies entirely in the user driven experience created by volunteer moderators and user submitted content. Yet the path of profit growth for them lies in company placed ads, and LLM bots spamming comment sections to astroturf. The more they push for profit, the less appeal to users the site has.