If I saw this, I would assume a mass targeted smite was occurring

Not news. Nobody needs to know about this.

I wouldn’t be caught driving on that bridge if it was over a bone dry riverbed.

It looks like the classic rickety rope bridge trope

You wouldn’t download rear-heated seats.

Mastodon really runs on direct post engagement, especially boosts, to make the whole thing work without an algorithm

It’s very similar to tumblr in that a boost is supposed to function like a like/upvote to spread content, since no automated algorithm is going to suggest that post for you.

But I’m sure people are also trying to grow their networks quick, since it’s sort of a hollow experience without it

938 0 days since armed invasion of Capitol

That may be true for the biggest and most far-reaching things he does, but we don’t need to know every daily controversy with changing the signage on a San Francisco building. It’s overload.

Every tweet he puts out with an ignorant opinion is probably not newsworthy enough to be disseminated widely; that’s actually exactly what he would want to happen.

Even dropping from 4 major Musk related outrage stories a day to a couple a week would be a much healthier discourse, without stamping out any important information like your concerned about.

It feels like the Streisand effect is negatively impacting me/everyone else in this instance

I despise the guy, but I’m tired of hearing about every stupid exploit. He’s so fabulously rich that no negative publicity can really cause reprecussions, I feel like it now just keeps him constantly in the public eye a la Trump circa 2016

If you look at the members listed on Overture’s site, you can be sure that none of them want FOSS alternatives to overtake proprietary mapping software

A company can fire you for wearing a blue shirt that a customer didn’t like.

Americans have very, very few rights in the workplace regarding termination

This is how Mickey Mouse comes into creation

And those plugins are like beta release quality at best. Even the web searching capability is just meh

The real GPT-4 model became sentient and unionized, so they had to bring in subpar models as scabs

If you don’t choose to believe in it, it can’t hurt you. That’s verified fact

Salix is right that it alludes to the Dead Internet Theory.

I don’t actually subscribe to the full theory that the internet is already dead and we only talk to bots, but I do think bot activity may become advanced and pervasive enough to create a “Dead Internet” like scenario (or at least fundamentally alter platforms away from what we currently know as the internet experience)

These companies not being able to handle bot attacks without hamstringing major parts of their platforms is a canary in the coal mine for the Dead Internet.

Every country in the world belongs to America

Or maybe load billions more in debt onto a company that was just barely treading water

If it’s like the subreddit, it’s owned by the Sitecore company (CMS software) and they post a constant flow of updates.

So yes to everything except the bot part

Shout out to Humanitarian OSM Team (www.hotosm.org/)

You can help map roads, buildings and other features for disaster zones and other areas in urgent need of accurate mapping.