2k20, what's the worst enormous tech company?

Facebook will no longer take down posts claiming that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Wednesday, a move that acknowledges the renewed debate about the virus’ origins.

how tone deaf is this social media team? this is dystopian, nightmare shit

Amazon's Leila Brown used her background in sports medicine and her passion in alternative therapies to create a space where our employees could focus on their mental well-being. https://t.co/bvk2bw9Lke pic.twitter.com/cEQhsTH0Od

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) May 26, 2021

very good thank you. im jacking off in one of these right now while playing the knight rider theme on my phone https://t.co/AlFIVlttVR

— wint (@dril) May 27, 2021

https://i.imgur.com/1aHabVf.jpg

I'm sure plenty of people have already thought of this but what came to mind:

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/suicide_booth_futurama.gif

Hi we’re the portal of record for all information, also we think this is not humiliatingly badly done pic.twitter.com/GGUlZ1pbJd

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) June 8, 2021

Regulators told Amazon that its ruthless quotas were injuring workers.

Amazon just said it won't be changing anything.

Its plan instead: a donation and a task force!https://t.co/4eD667Tl1j

— Andy Donohue (@add) June 11, 2021

The new Apple Watch commercial featuring real 911 calls might’ve landed a bit better if the people making them weren’t regularly launching themselves out the factory windows

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/13/capitol-attack-subpoenas-google-facebook-twitter-reddit-january-6

The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack subpoenaed Twitter, Meta, Alphabet and Reddit on Thursday for records related to the 6 January insurrection, as it seeks to review data that could potentially incriminate the Trump White House.

Facebook is part of Meta and Google is part of Alphabet.

Far from the worst thing about either, but good God the renaming of these companies is so mindboggling stupid and irritating.

Is anywhere on ilx hosting the "let's clown the metaverse video" conversation? Lots of pointing and laughing on twitter.

ysi?

Twitter enabling NFT losers even more than they had previously lol

Civil War II won't be fought between MAGA and liberals but people who paid $300k for a racist caricature vs. people who think those people are troglodytes.

this video?

This is the #metaverse... A live rave happening right now in @decentraland for the upcoming @LightbulbmanNFT release by #BjarneMelgaard. Music from @feedelity @prins_thomas @mightbetwins #NFTdrop #rave #virtualevent #NFTCommunity pic.twitter.com/aC4WYRbgH9

— Alex Moss (@alexmoss) January 20, 2022

Yeah, that one. It's just... THIS is what the facebook billions are being spent on? Sub-Second Life garbage for incredibly boring NFT parties?

yeah it's embarrassing...or it should be. Predicting what happens in tech is pretty futile, but everything metaverse is so strongly reminiscent of the dot-com bubble to me, it's hard not to assume this is all going to be dead in a year

textbook wishful thinking of course, but yeah it just looks so bathetic and unappealing

Third Life

feels way more divorced from reality than the dot-com bubble

Ha that's a good point. I was reacting more to the wave of corporations rushing to declare their participation in something that has no proven utility yet, but you're right, websites could at least be mundanely informative

That laughably awful video makes me think back to all of those (understandably! justifiably!) concerned articles about pervs taking creep shots with their Google Glass because they were going to be so ubiquitous in mere months!

They've been trying to make AR/VR/etc. happen for almost 30 years now (the first Wired I ever read had a big thing on VR in... 1995? '96?) and it's just a bust over and over. Nobody wants an extra layer of shit on top of buying their morning coffee.

damn this is grim: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

"META" stock down 26% today. Hundreds of billions of dollars in paper value wiped out all because iPhones made it harder for advertisers to follow you around the internet. Fucking wild.

anyone here read Tim Hwang's Subprime Attention Crisis?

snap down 25% during the day (presumably on the basis that they suffer the same problems as meta due to ios 14.5) and now up 55% after hours having reported results. (pinterest down 10%, up 20% a/h on results.) nobody knows anything.

breh

Pinterest is so weird, it only exists for me now as an annoying site that pops up in Google image searches.

there were people who built entire careers on pinterest traffic. a lot of people!

I've never quite understood Pinterest's business model, but I'm told that interior designers use it or something? Pin it!

Anyway, their fierce gatekeeping kept me from ever even looking around the site (without an account), so now I too just find it a mysterious annoyance

I know a guy who got rich off pinterest but he’s one of the main shareholders so idk

They built a brand-new building a few years ago on Brannan Street and now I understand they're giving all or most of it up

apparently it used to be a great place to work, relative to other big tech companies. obviously the product is moribund now, but it's also had a bunch of bias/abuse scandals a la amazon/uber.

I only got pinterest once we had to do home renovations. It's a really good way to keep track of stuff you like and also find ideas. I get why it generates ad revenue, because we would be like "we like this maple colored vanity cabinet" or whatever, and then you could find other similar maple colored vanity cabinets, save them, possibly follow through and purchase one, etc.

Also you have your vanity cabinets, your shower fixtures, your tiles, your mirrors etc all on one "board" and can move them around and put them next to each other to see how they look together. At the same time, it's really *only* useful to me for something like that, like I can't come up with any regular use case for it. I guess someone who is exceptionally into clothes could use it for that.

Pinterest does a weirdly bad job of generating money from its users, given the dominant use case is exactly what you say, ie deciding what to buy

$PINS : A Love Story

Starting with the Numbers

Latest Quarter ARPU (North America):$FB: $48.03 per MAU$TWTR: $23.65 per DAU$SNAP: $7.37 per DAU$PINS: $3.99 per MAU

Pinterest is in the first inning of monetizing it’s user base - pretty straightforward

/1

— Ragnar Danneskjöld (@RagnarSkjold) July 23, 2021

i used to use it for briefing graphic designers on what sort of style to go for. very easy to just google a bunch of stuff that was in the right ballpark and have it all pinned to a page.

was just clicking through tech stocks on yahoo and realized Fiverr is still valued at almost $3 billion. Lol. Remember Fiverr? I didn't until just now.

thiel out at facebook.

he'll rebound. after all, you can't keep a multi-billionaire down for long

to spend more time promoting fascism, apparently

"Pinterest is in the first inning of monetizing it’s user base" - it's existed for like 15 years, didn't occur to them to do it before now?!

Pinterest does a weirdly bad job of generating money from its users, given the dominant use case is exactly what you say, ie deciding what to buy

Collecting pictures of pretty things is the dominant use case. How many people are going to actually buy a macramé plant hanger after pinning a photo of a 70s living room?

More than you'd think if it's supposed to be a multi-site "Amazon wish list" with pretty pictures.

I'm actually kind of curious when/how they get credit for a purchase and how much (vs just a click). I've definitely bought a fair amount of stuff I saved on pinterest, but I'm not sure whether I actually bought it by clicking through from pinterest, and even if I had, I wonder how much credit pinterest gets. I also wonder how much they *should* get since in a lot of cases I just found stuff on wayfair or build.com or whatever and then saved it there so I could remember it.

They’re not all shopping but most of them are imagining what they’d like to own and they seem like they should be worth a lot to AdWords-type advertisers than eg Twitter users.

iirc the endgame for pinterest was supposed to be not just referrer links but partnerships with companies where it'd be a direct click-through purchase, but I don't know how much of that panned out since I stopped paying attention over a decade ago

imo if I was running it and wanted to monetize, I'd drop any semblance of ethics and just aggregate the most popular styles and sell the early access data to companies making product knockoffs

ah, the pinterest to wayfair pipeline

pinterexpress