**The State of Social Media: A Platform in Perpetual Flux**

There are a couple of subreddits that, in their heyday, were really amazing and now it's just a ghost town. Everybody's gone, and there's still kind of a lot of people there that are reading the content, but no one is posting content. Occasionally, there'll be a post like "what's up with this?" or "is anybody out there," and then it'll have a million replies, but no one is commenting anymore. Is it people reading the content, or is it language models reading the content that's the whole thing? It's probably a little bit of both.

In contrast, Twitter is still very much alive, despite reports of its death being greatly exaggerated. Elon Musk and his team continue to make changes, some of which are genius, while others leave us scratching our heads. One of the most recent moves has been to remove headlines from links to news articles, showing only the image instead. This move makes no sense, but it's a testament to Musk's willingness to shake things up.

On Twitter, we've also started to see some truly hilarious moments. Often, when we're scrolling through our feeds, we'll come across an ad that seems egregious or outlandish. And then, in the comments, someone will point out that this is false advertising, and it's like a little victory for common sense. Musk has even taken notice of this phenomenon, using it to his advantage by putting ads on Twitter that poke fun at themselves.

Social media algorithms are also starting to reveal their true nature. Research has shown that social media platforms can be used to manipulate people into seeing or hearing certain things. For example, an article might be written in a way that's designed to elicit a particular emotional response, and it might even contain misleading information. The pixels of social media tracking us everywhere, including on forms like the SAT score submission.

**The Dark Side of Social Media**

One of the most concerning aspects of social media is its ability to track our every move. Even when we're not logged in, those pixels are still there, following us around and collecting data about us. This can be used to make targeted ads that seem like they're tailored specifically to us, but often they're just a clever trick.

The College Board, for example, will ask you to submit your SAT scores and GPA, along with some other information, in order to determine whether or not you'll be considered for college admission. But what the Board doesn't let on is that this form also includes a tracking pixel from Facebook and Tick Tock. So even if you're not logged into those platforms, they can still collect data about your scores and use it to make targeted ads.

**The Reality of Social Media**

It's hard to escape social media, no matter how much we might want to. The pixels are everywhere, and they're always watching us. Even when we're trying to focus on something else, like a conversation with our friend, the platform is still there, whispering in our ear.

But despite all of this, it's also possible to use social media for good. We can use platforms to connect with others, share ideas and information, and even make a difference in the world. It's just that we need to be aware of the potential pitfalls, and take steps to protect ourselves from being manipulated or tracked.

**The Future of Social Media**

As social media continues to evolve, it's hard to predict exactly what the future will hold. But one thing is certain: the platforms we use will continue to shape our lives in ways both big and small. Whether we like it or not, the pixels are going to be there, watching us and tracking us every step of the way.

But maybe that's not such a bad thing. After all, as Elon Musk has shown us time and again, even the most unlikely platforms can be turned into something amazing with a little bit of creativity and determination. So who knows what the future will hold for social media? One thing is certain: it'll be interesting to watch.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to links with friends I almost said the wrong word today is business and social stories and let's do another engagement challenge which would you choose you're granted the power to make unicorns real or you're granted the power to make dragons real which would you choose but I don't know the temperament of either I feel like a unicorn would do less damage yeah if it was mean now if I could control them will they love me as their creator I don't know I can be the janitor of dragons I think I would pick just for the safety concerns and also I don't want to have to shovel dragon poop imagine that cleaning out a dragon stall yeah that's disgusting I think I would pick a unicorn we need robots to do that well let's talk about some hardware and we have some new announcements and we have some leaks but first let's talk about Intel and they are saying that from now on in the server they're going to be low power Intel says new Sierra Forest shipped to more than double power efficiency yay I'll believe it when I see it do you think they have like there's a wheel of colors on one side and then like a wheel of like Geographic things and they just throw darts at it when they pick the names for some of the stuff well for the desktop chips it's all got to be a lake oh right yeah so yeah I gotta worry though about like the monkey spot aspect of this because it's like what does this mean like power efficiency does it mean that they're adding efficiency cores like yeah the efficiency cores that we have on desktop are already way more efficient than performance cores but we want performance and efficiency at the same time until come on well they claim that those server chips are going to be amazing new you know like the next generation is going to change everything without power levels but on the desktop side it seems that we have a leak that shows that the next generation of desktop chips not that exciting MSI unimpressed was 14th gen Core Series oh so this is their uh training internal MSI training for sales and uh oh NDA do not share and it's been shared someone's shared but they kind of point out that there's not much exciting about this these new chips so don't focus on that when you're trying to sell things hmm a couple of 100 megahertz more I mean that that could be not terrible I really just put that in bright red on that graphic and yet here we are talking about it next time it needs to be blinking yeah when can you get a ppf and for a while the video card world has had a bit of an empty spot on the on team red in the middle of the road category or slightly above the middle of the road but finally they're filling it up AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT will go up against nvidia's 4070 and 4060 TI it's gonna be pretty exciting the reviews the actual first party reviews should be out and probably by the time you're watching this video so yeah it's uh people were not really super impressed with the 4060 TI as of today the price of the 46 GTI that Nvidia has lowered the price because everybody complained about the price and lackluster performance because it was basically a side grade from last generation and so this this can't be a can't be a coincidence I am kind of hot for uh fsr3 which is uh uh it's not an upscaling okay well you can do upscaling but it's also amd's frame generation technology which I guess will have parity for what Nvidia is doing with their frame generation technology because uh I don't know it's weird because like with frame generation the GPU is not rendering a frame it's using say odd numbered frames to come up with the even numbered frames it doesn't it feels like that's cheating somehow well well it's definitely good in the 500 range this is 1440 so do you want to do this over the 40 60 the answer is probably no Nvidia on the other hand even though the 4060 might be uh dog food they're still selling plenty of chips and desktop gpus are not really floating them anymore because they got all these AI gpus that they're shipping as fast as they can make them and they did their uh earnings call recently they're doing well they've made quite a bit of money what would you do with that money should you reinvest it in development and keep your lead Gamers could have some really nice gpus now nvidia's 25 billion buyback plan results lift stock to record high but didn't they hit a record high already this year this is their second record high they are doing well yeah 25 billion yeah they stopped caring about Gamers a long time ago and then like for as a shareholder in Nvidia I could see how a shareholder would say uh you know there's not a lot of margin in gaming products let's focus on the thirty thousand dollar gpus well as a shareholder you're definitely gonna like a buyback right because yeah it takes all the extra shares out of the market make sure that's Supply demand baby but I don't think it's good overall for the economy and apple is also really gobbling up the chips and they have decided that well you know what there's kind of a pullback people aren't buying ships as much so just give us everything oh you're gonna have to read this this is about rumors and they're tiny headlines and they're gonna buy the entire Supply of three nanometer chips this year all of them from tsmc that seems bananas apparently Intel is fumbling a little bit and they didn't have their stuff ready to be fabbed on time so Apple was just like yeah we'll take it all that's got to be an extra Kick In The Shins if you're Intel it's like we're gonna do stuff and apple comes along and yeah we're gonna work on our M3 we're just gonna go ahead and Fab because we can use an M3 chip and a laptop or a phone or a tablet it doesn't matter and so then then Apple just makes literally everything it's got to be another comfortable call between Intel and tsmc oh sorry we sold literally everything we have about that yeah I wonder if tsmc just goes to Intel and says I know it's cool we got another customer that's going to buy the capacity or if tsmc makes Intel and apple have that call among themselves directly yeah I would imagine they'd probably just say another client but who else would it be really well I mean if if uh Mac Rumors found out hopefully Intel's corporate Espionage knew before then right they just see it on the Mac Rumors website and then they're like they they get their intern over they're like I can't read these tiny headlines tell me what it says and uh go ahead pull up your outlook or whatever calendar apps that you're using right now September 12th just set an all-day out of office because you're going to be standing in line and waiting right Apple says please please go back to doing that we loved it when you did that Apple announces the iPhone 15 launch event there's cake in the conference room it is amazing like whenever you have to email an ad agency or something on one of these Apple days like you're just you're not gonna get a reply it's like the whole office is doing the doing an Apple event okay sounds good I wish I could be that excited about anything ever well maybe you'll be that excited about this because apparently according to Apple there is some huge excitement about their new product Apple's Vision Pro labs are drawing audible gasps from developers says Company the company being Apple this sounds like Apple's press I wanted us to cover this article if for no other reason than to Lampoon it like this is this is this is Apple the company gets this kind of a headline where doomed is a species I mean it could be really cool but what the company that made it says that you kind of have to take it with a huge grain of salt and there's even more of a caveat they say they don't get those responses until these people build their own apps and then they see their own apps in VR that's when you get the audible gasp I like when you spoot it up it kind of sounds like everyone's a little bit narcissistic yeah who's using it like it's really it's okay but when you load up my app it's incredible I would expect an audible gasp if you had a machine that you know shunts you know a pleasure sensor directly into your cerebellum and it's just like oh there's an audible cast and it's like yeah I hit the happy button and then I was happy and they're happy now the the salesperson who's like demoing it to you observing that they got a little taser and as soon as you put it on it's like blasted with it and they're like audible gas write that down they're so happy and uh to to call this uh an about face is an understatement this is someone who's losing and was like oh you know what this is what I wanted all along we're winning Apple formerly endorses right to repair legislation after spending Millions fighting it uh this is from the company that has the phone chipper shredders to prevent people for this from the company that's still locking laptops that are turning them into E-Waste when they're otherwise usable that voids your warranty then if you crack your screen and replace it they've always wanted this ignore your memory we've always supported this so somebody reach out to Apple real quick and see it's like so how do I unlock this phone this laptop that I bought at corporate Surplus I've got this I've got a receipt here from where I bought this laptop in corporate Surplus it's still locked to Timmy icloud.com how do I unlock this laptop and they were oddly quiet and didn't respond to that I wonder why now that is a win for right to repair and uh last week oh did we talk about the maybe we're going to talk about it later I don't even know anymore yeah I'm lost we read the stories last week and we didn't talk about them but uh the Massachusetts automobile right to repair was a big win and now it seems that these repair terrorists are trying to get their hands in everything I fix it tears down McDonald's McFlurry machine petitions government for a right to hack them this one being rejoicing everywhere because the McFlurry machines always seem like they're broken right that's a good reason this is going to be amazing if apple apple if uh I fix it actually manages to pull this off because it's going to set a legal precedent and it's going to be great so we've learned that Taylor the company that makes these machines has some sort of draconian uh contract with McDonald's and no one is allowed to even like diagnose these things when it breaks the Taylor people have to come and fix it and it turns out that they break almost constantly I mean empirically if you ever try to get ice cream from McDonald's you've probably experience so iFixit says that they have obtained one here you can see this Fella's got one they have 20 depart and they have learned some of the problems that it has and they think that they can fix it but in the past other companies who have offered these fixes have been sued into Oblivion by Taylor so you actually have to get permission from the government not that the absurdity I I just want a McFlurry so we'll see I don't know I don't predict that the government will be friendly to them it'd be cool if they were but yeah cool uh oh yeah outside yeah okay so literally I read this one recently but this was from uh oh yeah this was this week as well automakers now have to comply with Massachusetts right to repair law finally dab on them I don't think people have anymore this is the one where they said that stalkers would be able to find you no matter where you are which of course was a lie and they did carve out a little bit of a caveat for that it's only going to be short range wireless communication long-range wireless communication is still blocked for repair people for that reason but uh now this is only in Massachusetts but because of the California type stuff automakers are not going to make cars just for Massachusetts so this should be Global or at least it'll probably start to be maybe in another year or two it would be wonderful I think they're going to give them a year to start doing it we'll take the California privacy losses like no you have to come it's like well we don't we're not in California it's like it doesn't matter you're gonna have to do this because the person using the website might be in California and the Chip War has had some winners and losers Nvidia obviously a big winner arm tried to take advantage of it by selling themselves off and they were slapped down so what do you do then shift company arm files for Nasdaq listing and IPO anticipated to be this year's biggest and they've gotten really nasty so arm the company and then there's arm the architecture and so people have written books about arm the architecture and armed the company is going after people that have written books about arm stuff for having arm in the name of the book which is a level of insane that is just unfathomable but arm the company is actually just Venture Capital Money yeah so there's just a lawyer just billing time a lawyer is like what can I do to make it seem useful I know I'll harass good people working in the arm ecosystem that'll definitely be good for customer Goodwill I don't even think they think about the customers they're just looking to Pump It Up and you know sell it off probably and this is probably going to be the last time we cover this unless there's a you know a big settlement or something but I think the debate is over these are trash send this extreme ssds are worthless multiple lawsuits against WD say you can maybe get it replaced but that's about it maybe more worthless stuff yeah they have several people have gotten them replaced with another one and those I think one of the reporters did that right and the replacement failed in like a week yeah uh the article lists four terabyte two terabyte and one terabyte models uh from Mostly SanDisk Extreme but there is one Western Digital My Passport model on there but uh you know Western Digital is saying that these are the only models affected but anecdotally in the comments it seems like there are others I don't know there's a lot of customers that have the Torches and pitchforks out here which is you know perhaps deservedly so I think this could they could stand to have a few pitchforks they might have earned it I mean after you know the the when the reporters had experienced it they weren't the first there were people who were just being ignored and in the EU a big win for the government over the big tech companies they have decided that enough is enough and they want teams out Microsoft unbundled teams from Office seeks to avert EU Anti-Trust fine okay there's already two versions of teams the regular version and then like the corporate version which is annoying and stupid and so this just you know it's not a big deal to unbundle this but I mean come on and these days we often get these small rollouts where they'll do like one percent of the user base and we'll test and they'll they'll float that balloon just to see how much we'll tolerate float that pop-up and uh yeah luckily everybody has turned against this one as they had to expect but we're the frogs in the milk so the Microsoft do you think malware like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google and these are like you might be thinking oh it's probably just like a little corner pop-up but they are pretty large there's some screenshots here it's not the messaging center it's a new yeah it's executable and it pops up over games you can be in game yeah and it harasses you this is again just an extension of the trash to the start menu is doing why yeah just it's like oh just use Linux and it's like no there's Microsoft's still holding you hostage here a little bit this shouldn't be legal well this showed too that if you look at Chrome yeah it'll please pull up you don't want this you're obviously stupid why are you doing this oh thanks thanks big uh what a world and while they're spending all their time working on those pop-ups they seem to be avoiding as usual testing new Windows updates cause unsupported processor blue screen this turns out it's a bias setting it's related to some other board makers uh doing some stuff in their bios to subtly change the way that the processor is reported in order to get better control over like to have the bias control boost behavior and some other stuff like that and yeah just Microsoft didn't really test it well and so when you boot up it's like oh I don't know what this processor is and it just stops did you see the smiley face on the the blue screen they showed is like messed up too yeah spooky kill me evil spirits huh and Google is finding new ways to take all this data that's being stolen from us and stored forever and search it Google launches bigquery Studio a new way to work with data that'll be some graveyard in three two one this is another article where I thought you know from the Ad Agency aspect is is uh you got something like snow plow collecting a whole bunch of data Google bigquery you just talk to it it's like hey can you tell me of all the people that bought the widget you know what was their history on the site and this thing could turn through and do that basically which doesn't seem like a terrible way of dealing with it for people that are less than computer literate do we want those people to be able to more easily exploit our data well I mean Google's going to get the meta they're playing the metagame of getting the data on the people that are mining the data so they know how to better mind the data well epic I guess uh fortnite is still going strong huh popular on mobile because they still have plenty of money to throw around and try to push out their competitors they fix a new program lets developers keep their revenue in exchange for exclusivity sort of kind of you get six months yeah of 100 percent the first six months you get 100 Revenue if you're only on Epic all you can have your own launcher which is going to push more and more game companies to have their own launcher I don't want a launcher I know I'm never like yes thank goodness they have a launcher because I couldn't change the settings elsewhere said the suffering is endless and uh more bad news because so many people they just weren't willing to stand up for their rights even when they were kicked in the teeth and urinated on they were like you know what I need this drug I'll do whatever you say Netflix added 2.6 million U.S subscribers in July continuing advertising momentum amid password sharing crackdowns that he finds I finally got it it finally popped up and was like hi there's too many households using this account like you need to re-verify or something I was like oh and you clicked cancel account well it's not mine there's like 10 people not that I would ever do that or condone it but if I were I wouldn't pay for it well listen there's never been a there's never been a better time to self-host your own netflix-like service because the options for doing that are better than ever oh yeah so 2.6 million subscribers we don't know how many of those were upsells on the sharing but we can guess that more than a few yeah I just I can't believe that people are it's like Netflix has gone downhill a lot in the last couple of years Netflix has basically just been my play Arrested Development without having to put the DVD in and now it's like well I guess I'll just watch the DVD well another big uh media Empire that I don't quite understand is Roblox but it is a juggernaut and when that happens small cottage industries pop up around it in this case of course gambling Roblox facilitates illegal gambling for minors according to new lawsuit it does look like a gambling now this is not Roblox doing this but you can what they do is they you can buy and sell items for Robux so they do kind of like what the Counter-Strike people used to do you buy a fake item to move your Robux to the gambling site then you do your gambling then you can do the same process and move it back and then you can convert your Roblox into Roblox subscription time I think right am I understanding that correctly maybe kind of like Eve online uh here's the thing though every time you make one of those transactions Roblox gets 30 percent so this is not a problem that they necessarily want to solve it's the Amazon problem uh but these are kids getting addicted to gambling probably not the best and uh you know if you're someone who likes to buy Bridges or other intangible things let me give you a little uh heads up here WordPress won't exist in 100 years I guarantee it you should spend your money on a patreon subscription to us WordPress now is a 100 Year domain registration option they're they're selling points on this was like you you can have your thing on the internet from now until the end of time but it's 380 a year which is ridiculous yeah and and I'm like you say like WordPress and PHP as they exist today are not going to exist so if I make the world's most amazing WordPress site and I throw it up there and then you're telling me that I can forget about it for 100 years I've got some news for you it's not going to survive it's probably not going to make it a year it might not make it three months think about those people in Australia signed up for the ISP email addresses and those made it what like 30 40 years at the most probably more like 20 I think is what that article said you really think WordPress is going to survive longer than that also this is 38 000. yeah 380 a year which is robbery for uh for domain and hosting yeah it's well I theoretically if like okay you're gonna do the most amazing site and you're paying somebody from now until the end of time to maintain that maybe but I guarantee that's not what's going to happen here well uh some more bad news some more economic collapse Malwarebytes lays off 100 employees ahead of business split I think we have we have a series of these right we usually put them at the front uh you know switch it up sometimes they are going to split into a corporate and a personal version they're gonna like break the company up this was mostly corporate employees though how many Engineers does malwarebox really have it's just the one and then everyone else's HR and marketing and I hate to see this kind of thing because malwarebytes for a for a while there the people that worked at Malwarebytes like the like the leadership the executive leadership they seem to realize that how how badly things were stagnating in terms of like the malware game and how to secure machines without you know having horrible bloatware on them and blah blah blah and they had a really viable business product and it seems like they they got in a situation where it's oh man we're making a lot of money and we're really successful we should bring in like one of the conventional business management people and now they're running it like a normal business and the whole thing that made them successful to begin with was the fact that they were not a normal business and they were doing things way out of the box and now they're just you know they're just an also rain that's a tale as all this boy meets girl I mean every small successful tech company goes through there how many have survived it steam yeah that's the only one well that's only because Gabe never let go he was like this is the vision this is what we're gonna do as soon as he dies and I don't think he's in the best of health maybe he is you it's going to be terrible what happens there he's lost a lot of weight I mean he got bit by a tick he looked like he was doing really good I've not seen him in a while well one company that decidedly did not go that direction is Nintendo and they just keep going further and further than further further down the dark side path genevo security is now on switch including new tech to block PC switch emulation dark this is really really dark and sad that was uh I actually went down a rabbit hole doing like when I read this and when when crackers are cracking this kind of thing on PC they look at how de Nuvo has obfuscated a function and with a disassembler and then a sort of de-obfuscated and there's probably going to be more of that kind of thing so this will slow down I guess emulation on PC but it's probably not going to stop it at all and it also is probably gonna make the game Run badly which is fabulous that's the other thing and the press release de Nuvo and they do this every time they're like oh yeah we're happy to offer all of this security with no impact on game performance that is one of the most proven lies in technology but if we keep saying it maybe it'll be true they're gonna keep saying it and if you work for Microsoft uh the your compensation this year is probably not going to make you happy but don't whatever you do don't blame it on the company it's your fault leaked Microsoft memos tells managers not to use budget cuts as an explainer for the lack of pay Rises reinforce that every year offers unique opportunity for impact Where's My Money how did they post record profits this year yeah but we can't afford to pay you a little extra or give you a bonus so because you suck it's not because we're doing poorly it's like we're we're not doing poorly but there are there are other companies that are doing poorly in this economy therefore it's just like oh guys come on and Amazon is also being anti-employee again who could have guessed but this one uh definitely Falls a little flat considering what the rest of the mainstream media is squawking right now and the fact that Wendell is sitting at home Amazon CEO says it's probably not going to work out for employees who defile return to work policy return to office let's say it what does that mean it means they're gonna that's why I said it in a mocking tone it means they're gonna break up gotta gotta make fun of these people now this is for the corporate staff obviously if you're working in a warehouse you can't work from home but the corporate staff they're going to say they want you three days a week and if not well I didn't say explicitly what's going to happen but I mean he's not really tiptoeing around at that hard is he no there are some some of these jobs for you it's a little more cerebral working from home is nice yeah you're not getting interrupted all the time but they have less control I hate that and here's some bad news for everybody uh because this always gets passed along to the consumer you will be paying more for things Visa Mastercard plan to hike credit card fees rip with all the consolidation they were supposed to lower the costs didn't say it was mostly like online shopping kind of stuff in this article that's any time even point of sale I think will be impacted here anytime you use a card there are a lot of companies again like I complain about T-Mobile already but I'm gonna do it again uh if you are paying by credit card on auto pay they charge you extra on top of whatever your wireless beat is because they want lower fees so they want you to do a direct Bank draft or a debit card but T-Mobile's track record for security is abysmal I'm not going to trust them with anything the life hack here is if you've got good credit you get a cash back card and your cash back will always be higher than the fees the extra charge you can never carry balance right it's it's ten dollars a month T-Mobile is charging you an extra ten dollars per month per line if you pay with a credit card on time before your your bill is due let's talk that is that is that is I'm all for government intervention in this scenario good Lord what is the problem they'll get to it in like 10 years so just wait it out well they just allowed the merger and remember during the merger talk weren't we promised yeah that this nonsense was never gonna happen oh and there it is now we do have some uh self-empowerment coming out of the entertainment industry it seems that everyone has been emboldened by this strike so we found out that the Marvel visual effects people uh I guess they're a different special inside Disney because they're not the overall Disney workers but those people have followed suit Disney VFX workers file for Union election this VFX is one of the few areas of Hollywood where there's not already some kind of union or label labor protection so this is probably a good thing yeah definitely I you know I'm like a pretty anti-union for the most part I think they're corrupt but if I had to deal with Disney yeah I mean pick your poison the Lesser one is the interesting is the higher evil there the greater evil and uh the isps though would probably be everybody's choice for the worst company that we have to deal with if I can't count the federal government my ISP is my most hated business relationship and this poor old lady just didn't have what it takes to fight him CenturyLink left 86 year old woman with no internet service for a month and the only reason they eventually got there I think was because there was media outrage obviously since we're covering it on the media she was trapped in this hell of can't talk to a human so she would schedule and then someone would just go behind her and it would get automatically canceled over and over and over it's amazing and uh a blast from the past they kept trying to come back they thought for sure that someday people would remember how great they were but it seems like the game is over private equity for in veritas makes takeover offer for Blackberry Source says I had to check the date article Blackberry there is a name that I've not heard in an age who has a Blackberry in 2023 it turns out they have killed off the phone part of the business entirely they're doing some other stuff now I don't even remember what it is yeah I read it and was just like I'm never gonna need this because it's info about blackberry and then I just shut it out of my brain yeah probably won't be hearing for them very much anymore it said I really think Blackberry could have reinvented itself as a software company you know imagine running a bunch of virtual machines in your Android or you can pick from a personal profile and a work profile and a something else profile where everything is sandboxed from everything else I'll run it I would run a a profile just for social media for like Twitter and stuff so that I could do the Twitter stuff in its own little sandbox just to protect data a little better now most of us when we pull up to the gas pump we're pumping gas in our cars and it's playing ads we think to ourselves I hate this is a dystopia I just want this to stop whereas Elon Musk being the the Visionary that he is he sees that he says Ah business opportunity Tesla wins permit approval for diner and drive-in movie supercharger in La did you look at the picture on this article so scroll up so you can see it better oh you might not be in the window of the diner you can see there's little Elon Musk figures oh there are we've probably got it scaled down too small yeah but you could see it you're looking at it at 4K that's horrifying I mean I guess this makes sense it's like I can't drive my car for a couple hours while it's being charged gecko watch a movie and have have some food I guess that makes sense but here's the thing about it you're not gonna watch a movie they said it's going to be movie clips so it's gonna turn into ads it's gonna be out you know there's gonna be like yeah I had at least one ad per clip right also on the roof of this thing I guess not shown that's you can see an umbrella up there there's going to be a roof dining experience so you park your car and you go up on the roof and you know you can go up there with the other EV owners and smell each other's farts this is the worst space buckies I've ever been to you know the prices are going to be yeah just insane is that a hint of cilantro oh yes I had salsa earlier and here's your opportunity Wendell to to do your rant T-Mobile to lay out 5 000 employees yeah yeah they didn't hire anybody for security either oh my gosh just it's like ah we need your back details or it's gonna cost 10 extra dollars a month meanwhile our security is awful and I know I've distinctly remembered they promised they weren't going to do this during the merger yeah it wasn't going to cost jobs doesn't have anything to do with the merger this is the economic downturn yes of course and uh well I don't understand how anybody can afford to get food delivery and this inflationary climate certainly not as often as some people's claim that they do you know I saw a statistic uh one in seven Americans eat fast food for every meal could you imagine that and if you're getting it delivered I just don't understand how you can do it but apparently that's not the only Pitfall from doordash a hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers foreign yes for dates fun times and other favors if only the system that we live in weren't such that you're forced to give somebody your phone number like if we could there's no technological reason somebody couldn't have 50 different phone numbers and it's like I'm going to have a disposable phone number that I use for my uh fast food delivery technology the issues that they have to have your address to deliver it right so then you're giving well but it's not necessarily they don't do it at the door what they do is they keep your oh they keep your contact detail and then they you know they hit you up on some other service because you know it's all connected hey girl I know where you live what a great pickup line and uh this is uh really really sad and this just shows you that this is a drug and people will continue to take watered-down drugs doesn't matter how much you step on it it's an addiction and people will keep going back exclusive metis Canada news band fails to Dent Facebook usage I would maybe counteract that no one uses Facebook for news and that's why it doesn't matter well they did point out that based on the statistics they're looking at people who used to look at news now just look at whatever Facebook shows them like ads they did click on the news but now that the news is not there they just click on whatever's there you use Facebook for Marketplace and to see your friend's kids and that's it I don't know if the Canadians are the same they only watch advertisements they actually enjoy that up there and uh perhaps a little late yeah perhaps a little desperate to get more users but now if you don't if you avoid apps like I do you can still participate here Mattis threads website is now live for everyone before you can only read it I think yeah it's like you gotta you need the app and it's like no yeah I was like no I don't no I don't think I do you need the app no no I don't want your app I never never in a million years will I want your app well they're still hemorrhaging users uh they're not doing great compared to the other social media apps the early success has fallen off it just can't keep their hand out of their cookie jar it feels uh you know how like sometimes interactions people just feel off and it's like their timing and the inflection is like something ain't right it's that's what happens when you use threads it's like oh it's asking me stuff but it's really just searching my phone in the background for anything interesting isn't it well if you're going to join the VR Revolution if you want that audible gasp you're gonna have to deal with not being able to type on your keyboard right because you got this thing mounted over your face but don't worry meta has a solution meta is researching turning any flat surface into a virtual keyboard I watched this and I had that moment of like is that actually happening or is that just like a fancy video demo where they edit it so it looked like it was like how awful this keyboard they're using like a tiny yeah cramped tin keyless layout why would you choose that keyboard it's uh it's also going to give you carpal tunnel really bad because your fingers just encountering an immovable object is sort of hard on the biological Machinery there the the editing of this video like the constant zooms and pads and it's like it's so extreme it's just typing on a fake keyboard oh you know what here's a level one uh products opportunity we'll have like a keyboard sized foam mat that you can roll up oh take with you so that you don't suffering we already sell mouse pads so that like we could just seamlessly transition over to that this is your tendon saver it's a thin rubber pad it's like isn't this a mouse pad no no don't call it that we'll sue you and Reddit uh they've won the dark side has won they're in control and they continue to further alter the conditions of the deal Reddit launches moderator Rewards program amid site-wide discontent this is the most like let them eat cake except you can't eat this yeah it's literally they're just like you can have some awards if you're a good moderator and it's like I don't who wants that it's virtual cake yeah there are a couple of subreddits that in their Heyday were really amazing and now it's just a ghost town everybody's gone there's still kind of a lot of people there that are reading the content but no one is posting content and you know occasionally there'll be a post like what how is it is anybody out there and then it'll have like a million replies but no one is no one is comments anymore is it people reading the content or is it language models reading the content that's the whole yeah it's gonna be that probably a little Calamine a little call me well more so-called B people are still on Twitter all the the reports of Twitter's death were greatly exaggerated and musk and his Brilliance continues to remove features it makes it a little bit worse every time let's be real Elon musk's ex plans to remove headlines from links to news articles it'll just show the image so that makes no sense to me I know and well they thought maybe in this article they said maybe he's going to make it like a paid feature to see the title and I was like what why would you ever do that makes no sense I don't understand although my favorite thing to come out of the Twitter thing is that like one one place that is funny but also kind of like you know because we're on the platforms that we've chosen a lot of the time we don't say things but then there's an ad for something that plays from the platform for something that's really egregious you know what I'm saying whereas on Twitter I was no there was an ad for one of the mobile games that's offered to sponsor us uh I think it was Envoy or maybe raid Shadow Legends I think it's Envoy and the the ad the caption like the user caption was the game is not at all like the ad this is false advertising and it was like wow that's uh you know you gotta give it give your props Mr musk that's pretty cool you can put that on ads at least for now and meanwhile ads on Google's platform is a is a a swill of nightmarish proportions well nightmarish is certainly I can describe social media and the more that we study it the more that darkness is teased out social media algorithms work how people learn from each other research shows did you find this article to be weirdly written yeah this was uh this was must be a large language model well the guy keeps saying like me and my friends found or like me and my colleagues found that I'm like I don't know who you are like it felt too personal for what they were talking about well he says he is a social psychologist so you know wouldn't you just put like our groups I don't know it was strangely written but yeah not surprising I regret my education and I will never be out of debt it's another way of saying that and we continue to have our whole lives invaded by social media and you might think to yourself no that's not true I don't participate well you can't really opt out can you because the pixels are everywhere the College Board tells Tick Tock and Facebook gpas and details about SAT scores this is this is this is a little misleading in there when you set up one of those uh like tracking pixels on something it will track something and so this is just a tracking pixel attracts everything so it's Facebook gpas and SAT scores and literally everything so well anything that's on the form yeah we'll go to the social media so this form is hey maybe you're a bit of a dumb dumb maybe you got some low scores but put your scores in here your GPA and your SAT score and blah blah blah and we'll tell you if we think that a college will even consider you right but when you do that if you're logged into Facebook or Tick Tock that pixel is going to join even if you're not logged in let's be realistic it's going to join your scores with your user and that's going to go in your advertising profile you were getting ads for like State schools and then it was all sentence all trade schools it's like Community College what happened and this is the Like official Government College Board website right it's not like some third party right so it's not like you could put whatever GPA or anything you wanted in there like it doesn't know necessarily that it's like yours yours but you're probably not going to put it you want to get hired to your advertising you go and fake it out yeah anyway all right that time was only 46 minutes Wendell's screen oh no is he gone uh-oh oh no oh he might have got a phone call all right anyway well we're driving for the episode he was just talking he was yeah we'll we'll go find where Wendell went uh goodbye thank you\n"