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  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    did they hit 100 million by tricking existing FB users into signing up?

    last week i too would have said Zucc and Musk are the same, but it seems like Zuccs wife and kids still love him so I guess Zucc wins, just barely.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      but it seems like Zuccs wife and kids still love him

      Oooo I get to spread this gossip twice in one day? Lucky me

      There's a credible rumor that Zuccs wife likes sleeping with younger East Asian men and at Silicon Valley parties she's commonly seen and pictured talking to said men

      source is like everybody on tech worker forums (hackernews, Blind) and my personal acquaintances who have taken photos of her doing so. (I've also seen photos of Sergey Brin at a crypto millionaire's mansion Halloween party last year hanging out and leaving with 2 teenage looking girls. He's been known to be a sex pest even in the early days of Google where he harassed the massage therapists)

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          1 year ago
          CW: cult that likes to sexual assault

          Have you heard of the cult at Google Developer Studios?

          This guy whistleblew about it here

          A bunch of cultists from a group that traffics children and rapes members controlled an entire division at Google


          There's also an "official" Falun Gong group at Google but there's only about a dozen members and it's been inactive (afaik) for a few years

    • Aceivan [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      yeah instagram users but basically. I assume all the content farmers and bots are jumping on it, plus some fraction of the 1.6 billion instagram users, since the accounts are inextricably linked for now it does make it easy to sign up anyhow.

    • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I feel like these numbers are just CIA playing hardball with Musk. One interpretation is that the more drastic changes like rate-limiting are pleas for backdoor money from the Pentagon, like look how much less useful I can make this shit. Twitter is a pretty big propaganda outlet and source of data, it would make sense to try to get himself out of this mess the same way he has at every other scam he's affiliated with. But looks like it may well have been cheaper/easier to just have Zucc clone it.

      Getting their media pals to do a PR blitz for their boy, about 100M user is going to get some downloads from people who wouldn't have otherwise. Who cares about a few days or weeks to actually hit that number, they'll get there eventually.

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Hanlon's Razor is a psyop so that people like you can handwave away psyops

          • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            You're fully right that Hanlon's Razor often gets used to handwave away psyops, but come on, just look at him literally forgetting to pay the leases for offices. He fired two thirds of the staff. Look at his atrocious memes. I really think the only threat he poses is the amount of money he has and not how good he is at using it, with maybe a couple exceptions, like influencing transit policy by lying about boring tunnels and hyperloops.