Hope it can be improved even further :)
Prismo achieves a carbon rating of A!
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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906
Ready for another joke? 🥁
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡
"I don’t think people understood quite that there’d be somebody on a desk in a random state, looking at your [social media] profile, using it to generate AI data."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology
,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨⚖️👨⚖️
OK: here's a question that I don't expect anyone to really answer, but:
How is it that #Instagram (AKA #Facebook, AKA #Meta -- which I have not logged into in probably eight years) is sending me legit emails (I can and do check the full headers for the chain of authority) telling me that one of the #Twitch streamers I follow has just posted a new "story" to Instagram?
I have not ever been associated with that person on Insta / Facebook / or any other Meta property in any way
Is Dan Clancy (Twitch) / Jeff Bezos (Amazon -- Twitch owner) selling off email lists to #Zuckerberg / Instagram?
Wowzers...
No place is safe...
And not by any means the first time this has happened, either...
Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
🙄 FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.
6/27真令人感傷的日子啊
去年的今天，我的Facebook 二支帳號被鎖，申訴沒多久主帳就直接永久停權，小帳進到了身份驗證，到七月初成功解封。
或許這是一個轉折點，改變我社群使用習慣的轉折點。
If you work for Meta, your mouse and keyboard activity data will be used to train AI agents to replicate how people interact with computers.
PCMag has the details:
I stopped using #Google and any other #bigtech products a long, long time ago (2015-ish? maybe earlier). It's time for everyone else to move away too, and this includes #Apple, Microslop (#Microsoft), #Meta, #Amazon and many others.
ONLY use #openSource products:
- use #linux
- use degoogled Android ROMs like @GrapheneOS, and many others for any Android phone
- use @fdroidorg as your store
- use #OpenStreetMap clients (like @organicmaps)
- music: @powerampache
Reply here or DM me for guidance
Federation hashtags test #news #socialmedia #mastodon #wch #meta #space #ufo #twitter #music #photography
I’ve been wearing Ray-Ban Wayfarers for decades. Did #Meta just ruin ANOTHER thing I like? (The others being democracy and human civilization).
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-ray-ban-smart-pervert-glasses
There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!"
" #Meta Platforms is facing a federal #lawsuit in the #UnitedStates after 26 current and former #employees alleged that the company used #AI-assisted tools during a major round of #layoffs in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, #disabilities, or those on protected medical or #familyLeave"
"Meta on Wednesday reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to its products over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms.
In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating federal child privacy and states’ consumer protection laws, the states announced."
It's a start!
#news #TechNews #meta #facebook #SocialMedia #SocialMediaLawsuit #SocialMediaTrial
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Last week, Meta reached a settlement with nearly every US state over claims that it knowingly harmed children with its addictive apps. But what does that mean for Meta users in Europe?
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/will-metas-american-makeover-come-to-europe
A Brazilian court has blocked #Meta from implementing its new terms of service that allow for the mass scraping of websites.
The court has set a daily fine of $1m reais ($182K) for non-compliance
https://www.anj.org.br/justica-proibe-meta-de-usar-conteudo-jornalistico-sem-autorizacao-apos-acao-de-anj-abert-e-aner/
ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
https://www.wired.me/story/meta-smart-glasses-detector-app-zuckoff
https://www.europesays.com/3265295/ Google faces €403 million fine for violating EU location data regulations #android #DataProtectionCommission #dublin #EUPrivacyRegulations #Europe #GDPR #google #GrahamDoyle #investigation #ireland #LocationAccuracy #LocationData #LocationHistory #Meta #MobileDevices #TikTok #Web&AppActivity
https://www.europesays.com/3265787/ Goldman Says AI Agents Face a Crucial Test: Making Money #AIAgent #AISoftware #america #behalf #business #CompleteTask #EricSheridan #GoldmanSachs #Meta #money #muse #PlatformLayer #RecentLaunch #subscription #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #user #web
AI Stocks: 3 Winners and 3 Losers in the AI Agent Economy https://www.byteseu.com/2389095/ #AiAgentEconomy #BretKenwell #BusinessInsider #chipmaker #company #CustomerService #economy #industry #Investor #JoseTorres #loser #Meta #sector #StockMarket #winner #year
#Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to #feminism
The theatre was told that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out.
To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism.
Companies betting artificial intelligence devices will usher in a post-smartphone era are fueling privacy fears around the globe that could slow adoption of the emerging technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/23/tech/smart-glasses-ai-privacy-tech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #privacy #personalinformation #tech #openai #anthropic #samsung #meta #rayban #samaltman
Mass. AG’s Meta settlement is key step forward for youth health https://www.byteseu.com/2390631/ #adolescent #changes #child #Children #effects #Health #MentalHealth #Meta #Michigan #SocialMedia #users
What an amazing campaign video about #Meta #SpyGlasses from @bitsoffreedom ❣️
Filmed in front of the Meta offices in #Amsterdam featuring real Meta employees. :)
