Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at @Techcrunch. #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #AI #Copyright #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/mSO6-8
I was reminded today that Meta/Facebook's data center project is called Hyperion. Here are some facts about that name that may or may not be of interest.
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
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Die weiterentwicklung von #GalyxOS stagniert
wohl erstmal...)
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請問有沒有熟悉Facebook的人，我遇到一件奇怪的事，想尋求相關經驗和可能的原因：
我近一個月離開原本住的地方到外縣市受訓，學的課程是無人機操作。今天臨時起意登入FB、之後滑了一下動態，起初都是正常顯示我原本就有追蹤的專頁、加入的社團貼文，但之後它卻開始顯示出一些「無人機粉絲專頁」、「無人機二手交易社團」的貼文...
但是
(1)在這之前我完全沒有和無人機主題的東西互動過
(2)我已經一段時間沒有使用FB或任何Meta的社交平台，不僅沒有瀏覽、按讚、留言，甚至連登入都沒有登入過(至少到外縣市之後都沒有)
(3)手機中也沒有安裝FB或任何Meta的App，若要使用我都是用瀏覽器登入網頁版，而我的瀏覽器昨晚才剛清過瀏覽記錄、Cookie等，應是完全空白的狀態
綜上所述，我實在想不到為什麼會這樣，以前我讀過有案例可能是透過麥克風收音監控，但我連App都沒安裝，這到底是怎麼做到的，這真的是太誇張了
Following the success (sarcasm!) of my previous post "Battle of IMs", I decided it's time to write another post where I try to articulate in a technical but snarky way my view on the wonderful world of social media, and which one is best among the mainstream and non-mainstream ones. This is a long post, reviewing 14 different "socials".
https://gagliardoni.net/#20250818_battle_of_socials
#socialmedia #social #privacy #selfsovereignty #security #digitalsovereignty #mastodon #nostr #bluesky #ssb #securescuttlebutt #facebook #meta #tiktok #threads #x #twitter #diaspora #friendica #linkedin #xing #instagram
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
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Meine IT Sicherheits-Privatsphäre Übersicht für alle :-)
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Meine IT Sicherheits-Privatsphäre Übersicht für alle :-)
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Edited 1y ago
W tej rozmowie możecie posłuchać mecenaski @agnieszka z @icd specjalistki od RODO, która przygotowała politykę prywatności na społeczny portal Brwinowa.
Czy analizowaliście kiedyś dokładnie linki do różnego rodzaju materiałów w Internecie, które są publikowane np. na portalu Facebook lub linki do materiałów na portalu YouTube, które udostępniacie znajomym? Czy wiecie, że takim udostępnieniem linku możecie nieświadomie „sprezentować” Waszym znajomym śledzenie ich aktywności przez podmioty zewnętrzne, a tym samym prowadzić do naruszenia ich prywatności?
To dlatego m.in. dla Was uwalniamy treści z Facebooka, którą to platformę niestety preferują osoby pełniące funkcje publiczne: jak burmistrz czy radni, oraz organizacje samorządowe takiej jak urząd, czy dom kultury. Jest to kontrowersyjna praktyka z punktu widzenia jednakowo prywatności, informacji publicznej oraz bezpieczeństwa.
[admin]
https://video.internet-czas-dzialac.pl/w/gbg1RV5T55gxM2bQGgs2gL
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[repost Aborcyjny Dream Team] W światowy Dzień Bezpiecznej Aborcji, meta zablokowała nam konto Przychodni ABOTAK. Pozostaje nam prosić was o trzy rzeczy:
💞 follow dla @abotak.back_up
https://www.instagram.com/abotak.back_up/
💞 pomoc w nagłośnieniu tej sprawy
💞wsparcie finansowe dla naszych działań na https://patronite.pl/abotak
Każda, nawet najmniejsza wpłata to czyjaś bezpieczna aborcja🙏🏼
Kiedy zarówno państwo, jak i wielkie korporacje technologiczne są przeciwko nam, pomagajmy sobie w aborcjach, bo mamy tylko siebie nawzajem.
Dziękujemy ❤️
#aborcja #abotak #facebook #meta #insta #instagram #socialmedia @aborcja @panoptykon
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Als ich die Konzernmedien #Facebook , #Instagram & #TwitterX verließ, verzichtete ich auf große #Reichweite. Doch es war mir wichtiger, unsere Abhängigkeit von #Konzernmedien aus den #USA & #China zu verringern. Ich wollte & will ein europäisches #Fediversum ohne #Neurohacking - Algorithmen.
Deswegen bin ich glücklich, dass nun erstmals 1 #Zeitung meine #Mastodon - Posts zu #JimmyKimmel & #Disney aufgriff. #Medien #Deutschland https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.disney-auf-schlingerkurs-kimmel-macht-sich-bei-rueckkehr-auch-ueber-disney-konzern-lustig.7d5ae1d6-06d0-409a-ae0c-bfd8ac52588d.html
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( Transparenz:
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Edited 320d ago
Meine IT sicherheitsListe Oktober 2025
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#Fediverse
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#YouTube
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#UnplugTrump
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#TikTok
Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the #Fediverse to the new Threads.com
Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖
On a side note: If #Meta wants a product to be "cool", @zuck should not wear it! 😎
❌ #Demeta now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta
#threads #ai #facebook #it #humor #mastodon #markzuckerberg #profile #joke #threadsnet #threadscom #tech #socialmedia #domain #online #internet #it #update #funny #superintelligence #zuck #artificialintelligence #ki
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Edited 1y ago
Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle 2026 !!
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The Big Tech Lobby Playbook
How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally
https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/
Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.
Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.
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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial
I was introduced to a person the other day. When she found out I was in tech she told me her son worked at Meta. I was unable to stop my face from deadpanning. She saw it and asked. I decided there was no sense pretending it didn't happen so I told her I work in #infosec and see the damage #facebook does and allows to happen to people all in the interest of hoarding wealth. I went on to say the only thing as sociopathic as #Meta is US banks.
I'm sure she thinks I'm an ass, as will her son when she inevitably tells him, but fuck them. Working for Meta is not something to be proud of.
I'm sure she thinks I'm an ass, as will her son when she inevitably tells him, but fuck them. Working for Meta is not something to be proud of.
Local #Seattle artist Light Guerrilla projected “TAX THE RICH” on the side of Mark #Zuckerberg 's stupid boat while it was docked in Lake Union. The boat is now anchored in the middle of Elliott Bay several miles away.
Today I posted a farewell message of sorts on #Facebook (feel free to plagiarize as you see fit):
"Hello, world! 👋 From now on, Mastodon is my preferred social media channel. It's an open source, decentralized platform – not controlled by tech giants. Search for me in there, to follow: @gtsadmin . I will very occasionally be checking this account, and you can trust I'll *never* be posting here - unless some extremely extenuating, unforeseen reason arises. The Facebook Marketplace, alas, is still a resource I can't *quite* close the door on, at this time (but want to). Should you see any further Facebook posts from me, sooner should you assume it's Meta impersonating me, using their new AI patent: https://cybernews.com/ai-news/digital-eternal-life-meta-patents-ai-that-can-post-after-you-die/
Please look in my Facebook profile links for other ways to contact me if necessary."
META’S REAL AI WAS HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT. 💎
I watched a video this morning called 'The (Overdue) Collapse of Meta,' expecting another story about a giant technology company finally coming unstuck.
BUT THAT REALLY WASN'T THE STORY.
Meta is still making extraordinary amounts of money.
The metaverse was a spectacular failure. Zuckerberg renamed the company around it, talked about a billion people eventually inhabiting virtual worlds, and poured tens of billions of dollars into trying to make it happen.
PEOPLE MOSTLY DIDN'T COME.
But while everyone was laughing at cartoon legs and expensive headsets, something else inside Meta was working extraordinarily well.
THE ADVERTISING MACHINE
For more than a decade, Meta has been using AI to learn from the tiny signals produced by billions of human brains. What we stop to look at. What we click. What we ignore. What keeps us scrolling?
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO BUY
And increasingly, what we might be about to do. That system became astonishingly good at turning human behaviour into advertising revenue. Which changes the story rather dramatically.
META DIDN'T FAIL TO BUILD POWERFUL AI.
It was built years ago. It just wasn't sitting there chatting pleasantly to us. It was behind Facebook and Instagram, watching behaviour and learning how to predict it.
And the enormous advertising business generated by that machinery is now helping to finance Meta's next gigantic gamble: superintelligence, data centres, researchers, and infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.
There is something almost perfect about that. The metaverse failed because people didn't particularly want what Meta was selling. The advertising machine succeeded because we WERE what Meta was selling. And perhaps that is the part worth paying attention to.
Because sometimes the most important question about technology isn't:
DID IT WORK?
It is:
WHAT DID IT LEARN TO DO TO US?
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Privacy #Technology #DigitalRights #people #humans #brain
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#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #archived 0UTC Wednesday (20 minutes from right now.).
https://toobnix.org/w/hKAtV8fWXy6LiQHT79joy6
- #climateCrisis finally entering public dialog as oil investors kill thousands of Europeans and Americans, vowing "This is just the beginning".
- Notable historical (financial) successes of #perceptrons and #facebook's new #LLM #ai is *not* a small language model #SLM - we need #lisp #thoughtLeadership
- #lambdaMOO ! Notes on running https://github.com/wrog/lambdamoo #MUD
Edited 93d ago
,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨⚖️👨⚖️