this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Riding this high for a while folks

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Against all odds they found a worse future to pursue than forcing employees to strap VR goggles to their heads 40 hours a week, and have pivoted towards AI.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago

And toward mass surveillance.

When you look deep into who's pushing all these new 'age verification' laws all the sudden, Meta's fingerprints are all over it.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In a rational world, that fiasco would have resulted in shareholders angrily blowing the e-mail inboxes and telephones of every member of the board of directors and Zuckerberg would have resigned in shame years ago.

Seriously. Instead he announced he was going to be throwing somewhat less money into that specific dumpster fire and the investors decided that was worth 4%.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea, don't really have much sympathy for Meta investors, they continue to give money to a company where the founder has a 51% voting share.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, it's not really a rational world. I mean, Tesla stockholders somehow still want Elon in charge despite sales, brand value, public perception, and product quality declining under his watch.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

Both customers will still be able to get Horizon Worlds on a mobile phone

I loled

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

It was still open?

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine how much money was spent on this...

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

You don't have to!

The answer is $77 billion USD!

Coulda just thrown money into the money pit

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

Oh no. Please don't.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Once again I see more warmth and depth of emotion in that avatar than in the man it's based on.

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 2 days ago

@dgerard I imagine their users are furious. Both of them