I wonder how long the Disinformation Age will last. On the plus side, maybe it will motivate people to unplug and normalize healthy skepticism and critical thinking skills.

As much as this is just an obvious attempt to support Putin's propaganda and narrative, it's also an opportunity to impart a dash of fear unto the Meta bigwigs who probably deserve it.

Profiting from and leading a company which knowingly employs psychology as a tool (weapon?) to keep children engaged (despite some seriously harmful side effects) may not make you a terrorist, but it does make you someone who is willing to hurt children for profit.

TLDR: Yowza has paid its users about $4 apiece, on average.

Based on my napkin-math and Yowza's advertised metrics, Yowza currently has about 8000 users who have referred at least 1 person.
The top 50 referrers have referred between 12 and 500 each (about 2500 total).
So assume maybe 20k-40k registered users.

They've already given away $69,420 to the top referrer, another $6,000 to the top scorers of each of seven challenges, $5,000 to the top scorer of another challenge, and $4.20 to 10,000 users who refer at least one user. So about $159,000 paid out to under 40k users. They paid us about $4 apiece to entertain us for a day and give us an interesting art installation/piece of commentary.

My problem with this headline is the word "staggering". It implies that someone should or might be surprised by this.

Companies, governments, and any other institution which can't literally be sent to prison must be assumed to be doing whatever they can to maximize their power and profit, up to a fairly significant level of illegality and abhorrence. To pretend otherwise is to be drinking the capitalist system's Kool-aid.

This isn't because humans are bad people (though many are), it's because this is the behavior the system is currently configured to motivate and tolerate. This even includes the judicial system's role in things by doling out lip service penalties and "justice" to maintain the appearance of having a functional system of checks and balances, so the proletariat doesn't get too riled up and maybe do something to change things from operating as intended.

Judge: "Did you not receive the terms of service?"

Scott BF: "I skimmed it..."

On podcasts and YouTube, he's been making the book tour rounds lately. Hearing him discuss his conclusions with others is interesting, enlightening, and compelling. He also addresses the people (such as many who have responded here already) who misunderstand his rationale, conclusion, or implications.

For example, he does NOT advocate for removing consequences for criminal actions. Rather, he supports reframing prison as quarantine, with the significant differences that would entail. He also talks about how meritocracy doesn't make sense either.

Pick your podcast poison, if interested:

Armchair Expert w Dax Shepherd:
https://podcasts.google.com/fe...

The Psychology Podcast:
https://podcasts.google.com/fe...

Making Sense w Sam Harris:
https://podcasts.google.com/fe...

Jordan Peterson:
https://podcasts.google.com/fe...

Huberman Lab:
https://podcasts.google.com/fe...

Seems like Windows is joining Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Reddit in getting into their enshittification downward spiral.

I'd have been willing to overlook the question mark in the title if the author had given us the data storage capacity of a single glass plate in units of imperial standard bananas.

The nutrition panel is just another example to tuck into the hat of US's late-stage capitalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Are we shooting at the Earth now, to try to save it? Actually, that does sound like us...

A fistful of cash says the new owners will be seeking to move towards a value-reducing, biz client-building phase or perhaps directly to the enshittification phase.

Is that they are still 90% the volume they were two years ago. That's an A in my book.

Yep. World's top invasive species points at others and tells them to knock it off. On brand.

This.

Fixed link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This should be required viewing for anyone dipping their toes into this thread.