‘Investor tolerance for extravagant corporate spending on artificial intelligence is showing signs of fatigue. #Meta shareholders were willing to back Mark #Zuckerberg’s #AI ambitions when the company’s digital advertising business was humming, costs elsewhere were coming down and cash was being handed back. They are more circumspect now that revenue growth is slowing and costs are rising.’ https://www.ft.com/content/698c79e0-0b0b-401d-8132-99a42f236b92
A prominent Russian academic has suggested his county should aim to "capture" the one U.S. state that is not covered by NATO's Article 5 collective security guarantee, in an apparent reference to Hawaii.
Andrey #Sidorov, dean of world politics at Moscow State University, made the comment during an appearance on the primetime 'Evening with Vladimir #Solovyov' show on the state-owned Russia-1 on Wednesday.
Buona Pasqua. Intanto l’algoritmo diabolico di #zuckerberg censura #RadioMaria. Ma la cosa più interessante è leggere i commenti dei follower increduli, i quali pensavano che Facebook fosse soggetta alle leggi di Dio
Wie man #Threads mit der #Mastodon -App komplett blockiert: 1) Zuckerbergs Profil aufrufen. (@zuck) 2) Rechts oben die eingekreisten Punkte anklicken 3) dann threads.net blockieren anklicken 4) Freuen, dass man Zuckerbergs Datenkrake und Tummelplatz für Radikale aus seinem Leben verbannt hat und zeitgleich enttäuscht darüber sein, dass nicht alle Admins von Mastodon bereit sind, das Netzwerk gut zu schützen. #Zuckerberg#Fediverse#Datenschutz#Privacy#Threadsblock#Threadsout
My instance may only have 8 MAU and zero income but on the plus side:
Running cost (electricity) ~ net loss is 40 Kw/year - say £13/$10.
Net asset value (hardware) ~ £150/$120
Runs Mastodon 4.2.8 not an insecure Mastodon 3.1 fork.
This must make it a better, safer bet than Truth Social. Come on Zuck, if TS is worth $9 billion, you can afford $10 billion without a cagefight. At that price I could be tempted to accept the oppribium of the entire Fediverse :-)
Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.
But what’s done is done. And I’ve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.
So this is the last you’ll hear about it from me. When, eventually, you’re writing your “what went wrong?” articles, feel free to look up what I’d written on the issue back when.
Neither #Zuckerberg nor #Gargron has bothered to explain what this little House-of-Mirrors game they're playing is all about, but it is not#Federation or any thing like it