Author Topic: #latestagecapitalism (Read 411891 times)

Nintex · « **Reply #3841 on:** September 05, 2022, 01:11:23 PM »

https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1566748685341425664

what the fuck

Tasty · « **Reply #3842 on:** September 06, 2022, 12:13:39 PM »

Binance Will Transform Users' Stablecoins to Its Own Brand of Coin, and They're Not Asking First

Nintex · « **Reply #3843 on:** September 06, 2022, 01:00:00 PM »

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1567168243000901635

benjipwns · « **Reply #3844 on:** September 06, 2022, 10:56:42 PM »

stost strikes again:

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1566867841407655937

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But upgrading dozens of aging treatment facilities could cost $14 billion, which would double or triple ratepayers’ water bills, White said in an interview.

“It’s a multibillion-dollar Bay Area issue due to stost that needs to be thought through very carefully, taking the science into effect,” she said. “There’s all of sorts of different treatments, and none of them are cheap.”

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3845 on:** September 07, 2022, 09:04:04 AM »

https://twitter.com/syacvg/status/1567355741329047552

No need to program NPCs when you can just hire a poor Filipino man for 25 cents a day to walk back and forth and tell fishing stories for 24 hours a day.

BIONIC · « **Reply #3846 on:** September 07, 2022, 09:18:20 AM »

Hiring a poor Filipino man to be an NPC

Hiring a poor Filipino man to like all your posts

thetylerrob · « **Reply #3847 on:** September 07, 2022, 10:48:14 AM »

trickle down gamer economics

Nintex · « **Reply #3848 on:** September 07, 2022, 04:15:20 PM »

https://twitter.com/Silvia_Amaro/status/1566943592236560384

"I have a moral duty to my consumer"

benjipwns · « **Reply #3849 on:** September 07, 2022, 05:15:06 PM »

Polident Hive · « **Reply #3850 on:** September 09, 2022, 08:11:19 PM »

Went to Whole Foods yesterday (shut up) and Lord of the Rings ads were all over. Got a parcel from Amazon today, it’s Lord of the Rings themed. My Ring doorbell saw me leaving so my Roomba zoomed over and blocked the door. Alexa played the “you shall not pass!” sound clip and turned on my Fire TV. Tried to cheat it by reading my kindle, but a message popped up telling me to look at the TV. All in all, not bad. Alexa is currently playing the audible audiobook of LOTR and won’t let me turn it off. But at least my AirPods are blocking the noise. Only gotta deal with See season 3 ads pumped in every half hour.

Tasty · « **Reply #3851 on:** September 14, 2022, 05:24:50 PM »

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-and-the-fall-of-a-cheerleading

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“If something as naturally decentralized as cheerleading can be monopolized so easily, it really demolishes so many Chicago School premises.” - Harvard Law professor Einer Elhauge

Nintex · « **Reply #3852 on:** September 15, 2022, 12:43:26 PM »

It's belt-tightening time!

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1570382703366905864

benjipwns · « **Reply #3853 on:** September 15, 2022, 03:32:36 PM »

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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benjipwns · « **Reply #3854 on:** September 15, 2022, 03:41:44 PM »

https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1567839340469821440

benjipwns · « **Reply #3855 on:** September 16, 2022, 03:08:51 AM »

https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/status/1569687051070734339

benjipwns · « **Reply #3856 on:** September 21, 2022, 03:47:59 PM »

https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1571977998059847680

Tasty · « **Reply #3857 on:** September 21, 2022, 04:09:37 PM »

The world wouldn't be able to handle that man on coke.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #3858 on:** September 22, 2022, 06:24:03 AM »

Its a very passionate documentary actually.

benjipwns · « **Reply #3859 on:** September 23, 2022, 10:29:59 PM »

https://twitter.com/kelsaywhat/status/1573055526174429184

benjipwns · « **Reply #3860 on:** September 25, 2022, 09:57:28 PM »

https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1573018283162337284

benjipwns · « **Reply #3861 on:** September 25, 2022, 10:11:42 PM »

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #3862 on:** September 26, 2022, 03:37:40 PM »

imagine posting in the right thread

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3863 on:** September 27, 2022, 04:01:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/WalmartInc/status/1574400510806859777

Woah, how did they get a photorealistic Mark Zuckerberg in there!?

Nintex · « **Reply #3864 on:** September 30, 2022, 08:07:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1575926184147226625

Tasty · « **Reply #3865 on:** September 30, 2022, 10:48:25 PM »

THE HEADLINE I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR:

Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop

Potato · « **Reply #3866 on:** September 30, 2022, 10:59:08 PM »

Quote from: Tasty on September 30, 2022, 10:48:25 PM

THE HEADLINE I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR:

Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop

No wonder, Facebook advertising is just shit now.

I recently started boosting some video posts for a campaign I'm running and noticed how shit the reach is unless you start pumping some actual budget into it. It's been about 5 years since I did it last and holy shit have they nerfed it. You used to be able to sling a few dollars at a post and get some good results, now it's just dead.

benjipwns · « **Reply #3867 on:** September 30, 2022, 11:06:12 PM »

Headline: "users flee"

Article:

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The number of daily active users in the U.S. and Canada has fallen in the past two years, from 198 million in mid-2020 to 197 million in the second quarter of this year. Globally, user numbers are up about 10% over that stretch and are expected to increase 3% a year through 2024, according to FactSet estimates.

Tasty · « **Reply #3868 on:** September 30, 2022, 11:14:27 PM »

Global numbers are always going to go up, but US numbers are where the prestige is and what Wall Street pays attention to. US numbers are the canary in the coal mine, or so the thinking goes. Same for Netflix's woes, they're trying to offset US declines with global expansion, which looks nice on paper (or in hasty PR statements explaining why things are Just Fine, Promise) but US users will always be far, far more valuable to stockholders and also advertisers (even advertisers outside the US).

The Facebook Monster has finally stopped growing, it's the turn of the tide. Now we just need MySpace Tom to return like Gandalf the White.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3869 on:** October 01, 2022, 03:07:03 AM »

Users are leaving Facebook in droves

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3870 on:** October 01, 2022, 03:05:20 PM »

Users are leaving Facebook in dune buggies, personal planes, and on rollerblades.

who is ted danson? · « **Reply #3871 on:** October 02, 2022, 02:29:10 PM »

Mostima · « **Reply #3872 on:** October 02, 2022, 09:09:27 PM »

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/hellofresh-delivery-delayed/

Potato · « **Reply #3873 on:** October 02, 2022, 09:28:30 PM »

Late stage capitalism or late stage stupidity?

Nintex · « **Reply #3874 on:** October 06, 2022, 01:53:12 PM »

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1577988705742213120

genius

Nintex · « **Reply #3875 on:** October 08, 2022, 09:48:37 AM »

https://twitter.com/LockheedMartin/status/1578395439791050752

Nintex · « **Reply #3876 on:** October 12, 2022, 06:50:26 PM »

$1.2 billion Metaverse

30 users

https://twitter.com/Lum_/status/1580325993423642624

Uncle · « **Reply #3877 on:** October 12, 2022, 07:11:51 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on October 12, 2022, 06:50:26 PM

$1.2 billion Metaverse

30 users

https://twitter.com/Lum_/status/1580325993423642624

alright you made me curious I'm playing it right now

this is a really shitty second life clone, endless miles of random trash people have thrown down onto plots, weird billboards and "under construction" abstract cubes, without another user anywhere in sight

Potato · « **Reply #3878 on:** October 12, 2022, 10:23:14 PM »

We tried this with Second Life. It didn't work then because people who have time for this shit have no life in the real world and transfer that energy to the virtual world. Then the corporates tried to muscle in and anyone doing anything interesting left. The same thing is happening here.

tiesto · « **Reply #3879 on:** October 13, 2022, 01:07:48 AM »

Is that running off an original Wii?

benjipwns · « **Reply #3880 on:** October 13, 2022, 08:32:03 AM »

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1577690192080736256

Tasty · « **Reply #3881 on:** October 13, 2022, 11:46:04 AM »

Quote from: Potato on October 12, 2022, 10:23:14 PM

We tried this with Second Life. It didn't work then because people who have time for this shit have no life in the real world and transfer that energy to the virtual world. Then the corporates tried to muscle in and anyone doing anything interesting left. The same thing is happening here.

If anything Second Life and its spiritual successor VR Chat seem stronger than ever. This is just a classic case of people not being down with The Man.

Uncle · « **Reply #3882 on:** October 13, 2022, 12:17:58 PM »

yeah second life is still trucking along just fine, even though they monetized it from the start and some people became shitty land barons it wasn't that exploitative

I liked the idea of a game you're playing where you can edit and code your own objects within the game, with whatever assets attached that you want, like a live always-on collaborative game maker (when others were willing to use it like that)

Potato · « **Reply #3883 on:** October 13, 2022, 03:17:07 PM »

Second Life was supposed to revolutionise everything from professional training to dating to work meetings and more. It didn't. This metaverse shit won't either.