Retention and clickthrough rates have cratered hardcore as people are becoming significantly more jaded and poor, there’s a lot of fear in the advertising industry now as they actively watch the decoupling from spending and result with metrics we don’t have access to, and are hoping their clients don’t catch on.
Google was caught trying to fake these numbers several times and lost (in some cases temporarily) several big advertisers from the disclosure.
It doesn’t though, and trust me when I say that between my career and interests, I probably use google more than 98% of the population and this is the first time it has ever happened.
It used to be a quick trick to find good forum responses but since google doesn’t care about any forums but reddit anymore it doesn’t really work like it used to.
Yeah, this time was pure frustration, especially due to all the top and AI responses being from before microsoft dropped their display.cpl.
Literally zero answers across google, bing, yahoo, and ddg, just google was the only search engine shitty enough to block be for it.
We need a massive reformation to clean the conservative disease from Christianity.
When you punish the homeless, the needy, and the foreigner in your lands, you are doing the OPPOSITE of what Jesus commanded, and should lose the right to call yourself his follower.
I like this post because it goes a long way to proving that highly technical jobs have depths of nuance that your average laymen will never even consider.
Like when you see ‘hacking’ in movies, as an IT guy it makes me hardcringe every time.
Another example of this is how Hollywood portrays ‘poor’ families as having houses 3x larger than anything you could ever afford and two cars but they are just making sad faces all the time.
Because that’s what struggling is to hollywood writers, they lack the nuance to understand what being poor really means.
The problem is that these media images being made are MORE compelling to people who don’t understand the nuance. That tray of utensils looks fine to me as a knowlessman and I would feel that whatever content was hosting it was medically reliable.
You as a professional know it is ridiculous only because you have the practical experience that the artist lacked.
The real danger is when people start believing the artist more because of how much more aesthetically pleasing they can make their misunderstandings, and trust me it is a real danger.
Stock photos can create a strange reality if you take them on face value, women ridiculously excited at a forkful of salad, groups of people over 5 have token representation, periods are blue for some reason, No one in the bar actually drinks and just keeps raising their glasses in generic joy and celebration.
for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.
That too is changing. For the last few months, most technical posts I search on reddit are starting to get filled with [Deleted] for all the actual answers as reddit’s current push to ban left leaning users has removed all the people who actually were interested in giving answers in the past.
I mean yeah, there was always a few [Deleted]s in every old thread but in the last half year it has become the majority of them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end....
Humanity is not, by default, rational. It takes a lot of effort and introspection to get there. A lot of people don’t bother.
Humanity is still, biologically, a tribal creature incapable of meaningful connection past around 100 people and prone to hyper aggressive behavior to outgroups.
Humanity also has to pretend to be more than the club wielding stone age tribesman we still biologically are otherwise society breaks down into angry fighting tribes.
Like it is now.
We pretend that humanity in general is rational, capable of understanding truth, and interested in expanding their understanding of the world.
This is false.
around 40% of humanity are still angry little tribesmen, and those angry tribesmen HATE anything that even smells of intellectualism.
I used to volunteer at a homeless rehab mission and almost none of the people we took in were the stereotypical ‘television homeless’ image.
Most were, as you say, normal and in some cases propsperous people who ran into medical issues or suffered long term untreated mental illness.
Even things like one guy had a messy divorce. His wife cheated on him and mentally manipulated his son into hating him. She got nearly everything as well as hefty child support payments. He was a plumber with two crew working for him, making good money at the time.
The child support payments and the cost of having to rebuild his life zeroed him out and he turned to drink to soothe his hell. Eight months later he was on the streets and panhandling.
From a productive member of the community with a family to a homeless man sliding into addiction and mental illness.
Meanwhile his shitstain wife lived high on the hog in the house he paid for, all while badmouthing him to his own blood.
A new Biden administration rule released Wednesday aims to streamline the prior authorization process used by insurers to approve medical procedures and treatments....
No I’m serious, and I understand you mean well but I can’t have this discussion meaningfully with you without writing 8 paragraphs of context.
There’s a lot of what Pratchett called ‘lies to children’ when it comes to non-university anthropology, things we learned in school that were kind of outdated already and gross oversimplifications.
We were told that agriculture allowed the free time to specialize and was the beginning of culture but the truth is that all that hunter-gatherer man needed to hunt to feed himself and 3 other people was about 6 hours of actual work a week. And specialization already existed with stone knapping and pottery.
There’s a lot more to it but I don’t really have the patience to keep writing this.
One other thing to point out is that agriculture allowed for large mobile armies.
For hunter gatherers it wasn’t easy to stockpile enough long term storage portable food to take to war, nor could you predict periods of bounty (which is why so many ancient cultures had prohibitions to making war during winter that almost no one broke) to plan long term campaigns. This style of sustenance also kept nomadic band population low as following the herds and the reduction of ease of hunting and complications in moving gave significant advantage to smaller social units.
We see a radical increase in social group size with the advent of agriculture, eventually leading to more permanent town and eventually city living instead of nomadic bands as you generally needed to be in one place to keep others from taking your crops and tending them year round.
I fully understand that there are a lot of luxuries and even just basic life improvements that wouldn’t be available to us if we had kept as small hunter gatherer bands, and maybe a lot of people alive now couldn’t survive or thrive in that kind of environment, it would be a very, very different world than what we know today but one thing I do know is that of we had never discovered agriculture we would never have eventually become a species that could kill off 95% of the life on the planet with the press of a button.
A look back at Ubisoft’s failed attempt to sell NFTs to gamers in “Ghost Recon Breakpoint”, while Ubisoft is now ramping up its efforts to jump on the AI hype train.
Edit and Full Disclosure: I own approx. nine dollars and twenty five cents of Gods Unchained cards in NFT format. I have never bought a profile picture or spent more than ten bucks on NFTs. I do not speculate on or day trade any form of NFT.
The way the world thinks of NFTs right now as just stupid profile pictures is like a boomer teacher using chalk on a smartboard.
Everyone is so blinded by the conmen that no one is allowed to talk about the useful functions.
Everyone just jumps on the ‘NFT BAD’ bandwagon.
Gods Unchained proved this. It’s a trading card game where all the cards are blockchain NFTs meaning:
The owners of Gods Unchained do not control the trade market, and don’t take a cut. FINALLY a digital card game where people can actually trade cards with each other like IRL.
If the game vanishes tomorrow, I still have my cards, and other game designers can create programs that use them.
Impossible to counterfeit or cheat add cards
There are so many excellent cases for the capabilities NFTs:
A) Streamers protecting and controlling their content, taking that power out of the hands of the platforms so the platform cannot reuse the streamer’s content without a transaction.
B) Creator contracts can be embedded in the NFT, making an unalterable, publicly viewable record and preventing platform caused creator abuse. Additionally compensation can be automated and made fully transparent to all.
C) Allows creators to package their premium content in a platform agnostic way meaning you don’t have to rely on users syncing up their platform, patreon, and funding source, allowing the same premium content made available to the purchaser on whatever platform they choose to use. This is extra helpful now that so many streamers use twitch and youtube at the same time.
D) Time gated content that doesn’t run the risk of early leaks, automated content release as well (say when kickstarter stretch goals are met)
E) Any digital function on any platform with an API can be triggered programattically by code embedded in the NFT.
Most people who have heard the word ‘NFT’ thinks they’re all stupid links to a picture archive somewhere, but they can be SO MUCH MORE.
Unfortunately, everyone being funny has chased away all the gifted devs so this technology is going to just stagnate and fade away like the Tassimo and 3dtvs and other technologies the world just wasn’t ready for.
Current blockchains are inefficient, proof of work is not the only way to process blocks. Do you have any idea how inefficient internal combustion engines were only a decade after they were invented?
It’s not about ‘need’, blockchains simply do public, highly tamper resistant and frictionless asset transfer ledgers better than any other proprietary system in existence.
You don’t ‘need’ to light your barbecue with a match because we invented much safer and better high tech ways to start your grill. Blockchain is that.
Your arguments are literally the same thing tens of thousands of people a month say with zero original thought or evidence that you actually researched what you parroted.
one of the main reasons will be that there are plenty of ways to do what NFTs were supposed to do, but in more efficient and economic ways.
Incorrect. Current NFT technology would make a nearly foolproof copyright enforcement system that would allow streaming and recorded content creators a way to fight back against malicious DCMA takedowns.
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Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused (truthout.org)
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Shocked Pikachu face meme.
Netanyahu publicly rejects US push for Palestinian state (www.bbc.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end....
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New Biden rule cracks down on insurers’ use of prior authorization (thehill.com)
A new Biden administration rule released Wednesday aims to streamline the prior authorization process used by insurers to approve medical procedures and treatments....
Trump Signals Plans to Go After Intelligence Community in Document Case (www.nytimes.com)
Court papers filed by his lawyers, formally a request for discovery evidence, sounded at times more like political talking points....
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A look back at Ubisoft’s failed attempt to sell NFTs to gamers in “Ghost Recon Breakpoint”, while Ubisoft is now ramping up its efforts to jump on the AI hype train.
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Fox News Has Kicked My Pillow Out Of Its Advertising Bed (www.rollingstone.com)
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell said the network has canceled its advertising deals with the company amid his ongoing legal and financial troubles...
What do you like to do in your free time?