LeCun said CEO Mark Zuckerberg was "really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved" in the release.
Only those that can prevaricate believably will please the Zuk. Confidence at Meta is built on a tissue of lies.
Mosseri wrote that for most of his life he could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened...
That's always been a foolishly naive stance to take. Going all the way back to the early days of photography, images were routinely staged or faked. For example, the American civil war photographer Mathew Brady would arrive days after a battlefield had been cleared of casualties, so he would have his assistants lie on the ground to provide the appearance actual dead.
Technology has made fakes easier to produce, but they've always been with us. What's in shorter supply today is critical thinking. Always question media, never take it at face value. Ask yourself, what is this piece of media trying to lead me to believe? What agenda does it serve? Who is behind it?
And finally, get off Facebook and Instagram. They are two of the larger purveyors of fraudulent media on the internet.
Someone would have to explain to me what the appeal of going to the theaters is these days, because everything about them that we loved is gone.
Novel respiratory infections.
Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must. You do what you get paid to do.
