[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lawsuit protection and the pairing of tweet data with internal demographics data? There's no telling what Twitter knows about its users from being installed on their phones(geocoding, network analyzation, etc.) to analyzing their advertisement engagement to sentiment analysis of word choice and it goes on and on.

As stupid simple as the tweeting/re-tweeting mechanisms are, that doesn't mean they don't have serious targeted marketing algorithms and other high end data analysis tools behind the scenes. It would be silly if they didn't.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

He's kicking into x.ai. There are good reasons to think that he bought Twitter to use its massive data-set of human language to train an ai - NOT because he gave/gives a shit about Twitter as a profitable company.

If it becomes a paid competitor to OpenAI, it solves its profitability issues without enhancing "Twitter" as a social media site. Anything he said about improving Twitter was likely a lie designed to prolong usage of the platform and enhance the dataset.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I need you for one purpose: Teach my child . If my child sets fire to a car, it's my ass on the line. If my child gets hurt, it's me at the hospital. If my child has an issue, hiding it from me is less than useful, it's negligent.

Until a kid is 18, they're -legally- 100% my responsibility and how they're raised is my call.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was going to say they just left a default alphabetical sort to their global droplist component and called it a day. Probably works fine in most contexts, but this one - not so much.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I think the joke, if it was one, was that you can't say "transgenderism is a danger to society," much of anywhere - Not on most of Reddit certainly, at least that's my impression, not usually going around saying that kind of thing.

And I agree that trans people aren't a threat, in and of themselves. It's everyone that's using them as a rainbow political cudgel to whip up a moral panic that's playing with fire.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

Comparison is the thief of joy.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

That's why articles like this are a waste of time. Young voters can be pissed all they want, but they won't vote Republican, so it doesn't matter.

There's a Center that voted for Obama, then Trump, then Biden. They're the only ones worth convincing because they're the only ones that will go either way.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

An argument that, at 6.5mo of gestation, is well outside the moral limits of the vast majority.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

She took something that aborted the baby in the third trimester(28 weeks), well after Nebraska's 20 week window for legal abortions. 6.5 months into a 9 month process.

The baby could have survived if delivered, with specialized care, which puts it well outside of the "clump of cells" argument.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's bad, but it's also an absurdly specific edge case that doesn't suggest the wholesale legal slaughter of alphabet people like the previous poster suggested with their vague comment.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'll try it. I don't really care about data privacy very much and neither do a lot of other people until the data receiver is someone they dislike.

How much data is Reddit, Tumblr, Uber, Snapchat, WhatsApp, AirBnB or any other app getting? Who cares as long as I don't hate their CEO.

[-] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 51 points 1 year ago

Good. DM me. I'll tell you why I downvoted your shitpost.

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