You need to make the worst product that you’re still able to sell, and then make sure you sell it to the same people multiple times.
This is a lovely summary of modern capitalism. The carnival barkers would have you still believe that excellence rises to the top, but it doesn’t. What wins is the appearance of excellence, as a facade for the least effort possible, like you said.
Share markets created this perverse incentive that rewards businesses for appearing successful even if they produce fuck all. I’m thinking of Jack Welch era GE or today’s preeminent carbon credit trading firm, Tesla Motors.
It reminds me of the feedback loop engulfing the major LLMs as they consume more and more of their own content and start outputting lower and lower quality: the original goal of rewarding the best is long lost, replaced by making line go up at all costs.
It happens every other time when I try to copy an image to the clipboard to share in another messenger app. I’m not sure where the breakdown happens, if it’s Android or the other app or Voyager, but the whole phone slows and hangs for a couple of seconds and the image will either not have copied or it will fail to paste or...
ngl after Season 3 being a bit of a return to form I am very excited for this. It also seems to be dipping into season one’s cosmic horror themes which I am 100% here for.
Aaahh thank you. I was scratching my head over that one.
And I guess it makes sense that Qatar was top because they recently had to build a whole bunch of stadiums and infrastructure to a tight deadline. But that’s all cool because Messi got a medal so yay.
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. Officials say the fire, which is moving slowly, is now 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the city and could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain....
It’s very nice to see that X people liked a post/comment and Y people disliked it instead of just having a singular “goodness/badness” rating. It (literally, in a mathematical sense) adds a whole new dimension to post ratings and gives us a more nuanced understanding of people’s opinions. Plus, it feels a lot better to...
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
Honestly? And I promise I’m not being sarcastic: Reddit and Twitter are still your home. But the same goes for centre-left liberals. It’s not that you’re conservative, it’s that you’re moderate.
Many of the recent arrivals to the fediverse (myself included) are here because we’re fleeing the corporate internet. We feel strongly enough about it that we’ve thrown all our toys out of the pram, abandoning huge platforms to try build this new space. This kind of behaviour isn’t exactly “centrist”.
So this nascent lemmyverse has a wiiiiide breadth of political views but not as much in the middle because those folks are all still on the old platforms. Over here we have Nazis, hexbear and shitposts. And porn. It’s still early days.
How fucking stupid is that? Sorry, but not having a good morning. This is like when I found out you can’t set the number of rings either. Sometimes I just want to smash all my tech and go back to rocks, sticks, and leaves.
ich🤕iel (feddit.de) German
Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone....
I've been getting crashes on Android
It happens every other time when I try to copy an image to the clipboard to share in another messenger app. I’m not sure where the breakdown happens, if it’s Android or the other app or Voyager, but the whole phone slows and hangs for a couple of seconds and the image will either not have copied or it will fail to paste or...
I will have my revenge (startrek.website)
Chaos, Comedy, and 'Crying Rooms': Inside Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show' (www.rollingstone.com)
True Detective: Night Country | Official Teaser (www.youtube.com)
ngl after Season 3 being a bit of a return to form I am very excited for this. It also seems to be dipping into season one’s cosmic horror themes which I am 100% here for.
Uneven ratio of men to women around the world (i.postimg.cc)
Nerd (i.imgur.com)
I wouldn't have survived in their time (startrek.website)
AMD has been taking so many W's, they're just giving them away (pixelfed.social)
Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z. (lemm.ee)
Can you drive a manual transmission?
And where are you from? And how old? Not “do you” but just if you know how....
Found some Canadian graffiti (lemmy.ca)
Is someone declaring that virginity rocks, or have they dubbed these rocks the Virginity Rocks by the capitalized v and r?
What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
Please don't try to eat this meme either (lemmy.world)
Canada wildfire: all 20,000 Yellowknife residents evacuating (www.reuters.com)
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. Officials say the fire, which is moving slowly, is now 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the city and could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain....
It's all just a little bit of history repeating (lemmy.ml)
i just want to say how much I love having separate upvotes and downvotes.
It’s very nice to see that X people liked a post/comment and Y people disliked it instead of just having a singular “goodness/badness” rating. It (literally, in a mathematical sense) adds a whole new dimension to post ratings and gives us a more nuanced understanding of people’s opinions. Plus, it feels a lot better to...
Italy floods: Torrent of floodwater bursts through alpine town (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1473478...
go king
Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
Its that time again (lemmy.ml)
😡Just learned that blocking a caller on android doesn't block their voicemails😡
How fucking stupid is that? Sorry, but not having a good morning. This is like when I found out you can’t set the number of rings either. Sometimes I just want to smash all my tech and go back to rocks, sticks, and leaves.
Andy Ngo loses civil lawsuit against Portland activists (www.oregonlive.com)