It’s not that special is the thing. Any tech company can replicate what tik-tok is doing it’s just that they don’t have inertia that tik-tok does.

Not sure but giving your own products preferential placement on what you present to the public as an open marketplace is an anti-competitive behavior that they have been caught doing.

As opposed to what, exactly?

ITT: People describing the core component of human consciousness, pattern recognition, as not a big deal because it’s code and not a brain.

Just go eat a bunch of psilocybin and report back OP

I’ve reported some fucked up shit yet somehow it never violates their standards.

The Patriot act expired.

I don’t really like it (not that I dislike it). It just makes sense to be here for the work and the public transportation in case I don’t have a car for any length of time

No doubt. Instead of slowly making it shittier bit by bit so that we didn’t noticed, they had to go mask off an remind us that we are the product.

Higher interest rates, less vc money, have to actually start being profitable