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Last episode, I walked you through how maxara burg and his top people intentionally rule into facebook and have been doing the same thing with instagram. What you probably wondering is what the net effects of that are and they are not grain in the first quarter of twenty twenty four, meet a made thirty six point four five billion dollars, of which twelve point three seven billion dollars was pure profit.

Though the company no longer reports daily active users, IT now uses another metric, family daily active people, this number, which could also be the name of a gym, refers to registered and logged in users of one or more of facebooks family products who visited at least one of these products on a particular day. This, again, seemingly innocent, changed to how facebook reports growth is quite significant in that facebook will no longer have to report its daily or monthly active users, meaning that the only source of truth matters growth story is an extremely vay growth metric that could be manipulated to mean just about anything. Though meta doesn't really explain this number anywhere.

Three billion daily active people across meta's family could combine what sap, instagram, facebook, facebook message portal, oculus threads and maybe some other dead facebook product that they forgot to kill off of the APP store. Not really sure. And it's not like they tell us what's confusing is that in the fourth quarter twenty, twenty three earnings meta report that he had two point one one billion daily active users across its properties, a number that is somehow distinct from the three point one nine billion family daily active people that they reported in the same quarter.

Daily active uses is a fairly simple metric, is how many people engage with the product in a given day on average across the month as the quarter, I guess. But daily family active people is a number that somehow so distinct that it's a billion use as higher. IT smells IT smells like due to me, I digress.

When a company starts playing these weird games with how they report user activity, something's very, very wrong. In general, when a company tries to officiate the true numbers about their revenue growth or profit is one of the worst signs. And n ron is probably the best example of IT, with the company's notorious use of esthetic metrics in their quarterly financial statements being used to disguise effect that they were over leverage dis functional, hammering ging money.

Well, I don't really wanna draw the comparisons between meter and and ron. There's an underived truth in the ad that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Healthy, stable, functional companies.

They don't feel the need to move the goal posts or create new weird metrics I just done. It's a very, very bad sign between the first quality of twenty twenty one and the fourth quarter of two thousand twenty three, which was the last one way reported metrics actually came from meter. The company would have increase its daily active uses by two hundred thirty million and its monthly active uses by two hundred and twenty million.

That's a growth rate of just under seven percent in daily actives and just over a seven percent increase in monthly actives in three years. In that time period, matt launched its horizon meet of us and its twitter competitive threads, which IT claimed in its q four earnings in twenty twenty three had hit hundred and thirty million monthly active users, which was an increase of thirty percent over the third quarter. Yet between the third and fourth quarters matters.

Overall, monthly active users across their platforms only increased by around twenty million. And this heavily suggests that despite adding over one hundred million new monthly active uses on the property, it's shein tens of millions of them everywhere. Matter's entire product strategy revolves around growth of these arbitrary metrics, time spent on APP engagement, meaningful time spend, all numbers that have dictated their strategy across a multitude of properties like facebook and instagram for years.

And thanks to these really nasty growth tactics and a sheer force of capital and monopoly, meta has grown and pretty much unstoppable position in social network, controlling two of the major platforms, instagram on facebook, and two prevalent messaging services in what's happened, facebook messenger. Yet matter has become a company that just shows contempt for users, and they turn their products, facebook and instagram particular. These horrible algorithmic nightmares undermine their core purpose.

They don't connect people. They intentionally allow malignant actors like antivari ine spammers to thrive on there. And they make IT hard to see the things that you want to see to send to these arbitrary men tricks upwards.

Mark archer, g he lied. He lied to investors when he told them that his company doesn't build services to make money, but makes money to build Better services. Because for over a decade, matter is allowed its services to decay while actively monitise ing the frustration, pain and confusion created by the whole show.

That is, matter. When you look at instagram or facebook, I want you to look a little different for me just for a moment. I want to view them, not a social network's book, as a kind of anthropological, experimental.

Every single thing you see on either of these platforms is built or selected to make you spend more time on the APP and see more things that matter wants you to see, like ads or sponsor contents or suggested groups that you can interact with. And in doing so, you're increasing your time spent on the APP and increasing the amount of meaningful interactions you have with the content. Now what's important, they're your notice.

I'm not saying anything about you enjoying IT or liking in or being able to get to stuff or anything about the service. That's because that isn't why it's there. Indeed, I wanted to realize that anything bad or frustrating you see on the platform is a direct symptom mox socker gs unwillingness to rate limit or really moderate the platform.

Logically speaking, one would think the matter would want you to have a high quality facebook experience, and they'd want to prove content that I don't know might be in injury spammy scammy and helpful, at the very least, from someone you know and want to hear from. But when your only concern is growth content, moderation is more of an emergency measure, just something you talk about in earnings or in front of congress. And to be clear, this is all part of matters.

Cultural DNA in an interview with journalist jeff horwitz and his book broken code, facebook VP of ads and partnerships, prime baLance said, the building things is way more fun than making things secure and safe. And until there's a regulatory ou ss far, you don't deal with them. Horwitz also sites that matters.

engineers. Greatest frustration was that the company, perpetual, needed something to fail, often fucking spectacularly. And that is a quote to drive interest in fixing him. Or what is brooke describes matters approach to moderation as having a light touch, considering IT a moral virtue, and that the company wasn't fAiling to supervise what users is. Did IT was neutral.

As a briefly explain, the logic here is that the most stuff there is on facebook or instagram, the more likely you aren't to run into something you'll interact with, even if said interaction is genuinely bad. How wz notes that enables twenty sixteen meta analyzed facebook most successful political groups, finding that a third of them routinely featured content that was racist and conspiracy minded. With their growth heavily driven by facebooks group.

You should join and discover features, algorithmic tools that facebook used to recommend content. The researcher's question added, sixty four percent of all extremist group joins are due to facebook s recommendation tools. Now here's something that will really annoy you.

At least they annoyed me when the researching question took their concerns to facebooks protect and care team, and that is their name. They were told that there was nothing the team could do as, and I quote to the accounts, creating the content or real people. And facebook intentionally had no rules, Mandate in truth baLance or good faith.

cool. That's the thing. Every time I read one of these things, I just want to scream, because this is how this company runs.

There are many evil companies out there, but so rare you read texts just like, yeah so if we do this, that would be good for people. And someone just says, now I don't don't want to say that bring the numbers down. It's so strange and it's so craven and it's so often as well.

And this is only a tiny subset of the, I imagine, tens of millions of emails at matter. If there's probably so much worse. It's onna come up one day drives me insane. But I get back to the point, which is the matter at its core is a lot economy empire, and its entirely engineer to grow metrics and revenue and pretty much the expense of anything else.

In practice, this means allowing almost any activity that might grow the platform, even if IT means the groups balloon by tens or hundreds of thousands of people a day, or allowing people to friend fifty or more people in a single day, even if it's obvious spam. IT means allowing almost any content other than that which is legally required to police like mutilation or child pornography, which, thank god, they get rid of that. I actually surprised that they take the action there, and it's just it's very depressing.

And even in the worst cases, they're extremely hesitant to intervene. This is why, by the way, when you log on to facebook, you can find multiple groups with the most bizarre names. But I picked a particularly weird one search of facebook complaints.

When you look, you'll find thousands of members in, I think like twenty different groups, all people that believe they're talking to facebook customer support. But what they're really doing is engaging with the most obvious scams in the world, asking to go private on facebook messenger. These groups, sorry, great example about matters, total lack of any quality control.

And it's just a took contempt for their users typing facebook complaint into a search bar on the facebook APP should if matter, gave a shit direct you, I don't know, to facebook's customer service department. And that would be if one really existed, which IT does not, which we will get you later. Instead, IT introduces you to multiple. And i've seen one there's one group that had seventeen thousand.

One had five thousands as multiple groups with at least one thousand people and their honeytrap that obvious honeytrap s to scan artists and meet IT doesn't get rid of them, I imagine, because these groups have relatively high activity, boosting facebooks meaningful interactions, even if set interactions are a seventy five year old being conned into sharing their use name and password via facebook messenger I write australia and claiming that hackers have changed his facebook to chinese. Or another person that I saw that was genuinely saying, I all the love, where is that? I don't know on that.

I just don't know. Like most social networks, you'll see this with twitter and google in particular, even though google, I realized not social network in this case. These companies, they have a kind of a black box approach to customer service, meaning that when you submit or a complaint, or a problem or a query through these regular channels, you're raally going to to get a substantive response or any help of any kind.

What makes matter unique is that they actively monetize the problem. In march twenty two, twenty three meter launched paid verification. Charging uses fifteen dollars a month to get a verified badge on their account, exclusive stickers as well.

And I grow as direct access to customer support, which really is got a wonder ah what does facebook think that provide a otherwise is is IT not facebook doing this before? I'm just guessed in, man, because it's not like it's all the bloody website. It's just very annoying.

It's it's very annoying and it's very IT turns my stomach IT IT really does. It's because customer support should be just a given, especially when you accompany IT makes tens of well over ten billion dollars of profit a quarter is really frustrating. And as shameless as IT is is also just on imagination.

As I argued in the past, both on this podcast and in my use, that to, by the way, max archibold is a member left of ideas. Meta is a company bereft of ideas. They stole twitters pivot. They stolle.

Elon musk paid verification idea, which in its first few moments allowed Franks is to impersonate multi billion dollar pharmacy or call multinational and White billions from their stock valuation and IT just kind of shows that as willingness to scrape from the bottom the barrel, even if it's just a horrible idea and also just a very noxious one like, yeah, we will help you may if you pay fifteen dollars a month for our website that we heavily monodist such an extent, you could barely get anything done on IT. Good lord. But as of kind of suggested IT the matter, any group is an opportunity for engagement and any content is an opportunity for engagement.

And any action taken on the platform is a meaningful one. Anything that keeps a person engage with the instagram of facebook, even if it's bad for the user, is a good thing. And that mentality pervades the entirety of this osei ld company, to quote facebook VP Andrew boz, boz worth in a memo from twenty sixteen, and boz is now the co. Have met. By the way, anything that allows this company to connect more people more often is defect of good. And all the work that this company does in growth is justified, including questionable contact importing practices and sutter language that helps people stay searchable by friends, by what he meant, terms and condition changes, while mark zuker g might have claimed that matter, never believe the end justify the means when this memo came out and when buzbee asked him and stopped him from making bosworth matters CTO in twenty twenty two, or for that matter, from doing anything else, nakedly evil.

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at all costs mindset means that both facebook and instagram m incentivize the creation of more stuff far more than the incentivize any kind of meaningful interaction of any kind. And as i've mentioned previously, both of them have algorithms that aggressively for sponsored ts suggested content onto users based on this unknown, the via son of data points.

One particularly noxious engagement trick facebook uses is to show a carousel of reals short vertical videos. But instead of playing the entire thing, you shown a two or three second loop of the content in the hopes that you will be intrigued enough to click. This kind of design decision is entirely built to create more engagement that I could just play the videos in their entirety and let you view them, maybe click through and hear the sound if you are interested.

But facebook is built to please mark zuck bergan his nasty, dirty little numbers game. It's gross yet, by incentivising as much content and as many interactions as possible, rather than creating the experience in any way facebook is being killed. It's being destroyed in real time. A study out of stanford in Georgetown university found that AI generate images have begun to dominate facebook, governing hundreds of millions of interactions, thanks to meters recommendation algorithms with one A I generate image becoming one of the twenty most viewed pieces of content in the third quarter of twenty twenty three.

These pages, according to the study, regularly and I quote, used click bag tactics and attempted to direct uses to off platform content farms and low quality debates and scamp ages that attempted to sell products that do not exist or to get users to divulge personal details. I don't know if you remember in the previous episode I mentioned, the facebook has made changes like this before promoting click bait content that doesn't tell you what IT is really until you are click. In essence, mars algorithm is actively monodist ing, sending users to questionable groups that, according to the study, used known deceptive practices such as account theft to takeover to spread these horrible images, and that these accounts exhibited suspicious follower growth, showing them ads through the entire experience four or four media.

Jason coupla also analyzed the phenomena and found that groups were using a IoT red pictures of Simon cow to direct people toward the page called thoughts, which routinely encouraged people to click through to a spi website I call planet planet, which was in turn for horrible invasive ads. Cob law also found that planet ty and thoughts dramatic growth began when they started using these A I generate images, and that many of the groups were doing the same thing, and they were generating these bizarre images, like a picture of jesus made of shrimp poor, and A I generated picture of one hundred and twenty one year old woman celebrating her birthday. And this image, by the way, her eyes like smugs.

They not look real. But these A I generate image. They're running absolutely rampant on the platform. All book meta has absolutely no duty towards their users or even the platform itself.

Four or four media also reported recently that facebook's recommendation algorithm is now promoting animal pornography, combining a mixture of A I generate cartoon porn and plagiarized network to gone to tens of thousands of likes. Report to Jason copa mentioned that a user complain that they have been shown nude pictures of disney princesses and mystery from pokemon. This is particularly grow task when you realize how many children use facebook.

Although facebook's relevance is kind of wae with Jenny and Younger is still a major social network property in this demographic, a report from twenty twenty one found that forty five percent of kids under the age of thirty use facebook daily and speaks to a larger trend of recklessness within this company. Going back to when an engineer was fired after raising concerns that facebooks, people you may know, feature allowed and I code a millions of pedophiles to target tens of millions of children, I guess matter just doesn't really give a ship as long as the number goes up. IT doesn't matter that facebook's algorithm is actively recommending AI generated images of mutilated children governing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of engagements.

It's also that facebook can serve your ads next to them. IT doesn't matter that facebook is saturated with engagement by much of IT created with generate vi because meta is able to express that IT has three billion or more family daily active people, whatever I held that means on the platform, even if that means that these three billion daily active people have really question with saturday, three billion people, even if they are watching this thing fall apart in real time. yeah.

Arguably the most confusing addition to the platform in any recent cy is matter A I A free and impossible to disable, by the way, our official intelligence, the system that uses generate AI to answer, use the questions in, generate images from virtually any facebook property. Meta also allows users to add meta I to their groups, let in comment to ask the questions. But they also did something really wait.

They've allowed you to edit the group and respond to comments that aren't getting enough engagement, which LED meters sai to respond to a comment in a parenting group that IT referring to meta. I had a gifted child and recommended a specific school for helping with their child's needs. And when I say there, i'm referring to a generative A I on the facebook platform.

It's so strange. It's also strange. And you know what? IT doesn't make any sense until you consider that every single decision that mark zuck burg makes is to keep users on meta platforms. By adding a generative A I assistance, meta gives users more things to play with, more reasons to interact with the platform, and more ways to generate content to put onto the platform, which in turn creates more reasons for others to interact with.

IT doesn't matter that the things being created are useless or harmful or profoundly in ae, or intrusive or annoying, or that by giving people the ability to lazily generate posts which all kind of sound the same, because all generative A I is trained on basically the same data sets, except, by the way, Chris books is trained on facebook data. You're just gonna Normalize everything on there. Everything already kind of sucks on facebook, but now generic, I will allow you to suck in great anoma sy. This is the future, everyone.

Now, this nonsensical act of pushing A I onto facebook and instagram, what's happen? All these things? It's just another silly, senseless way that mark ZARA burg is burning money and matter is raising its spending forecast in twenty twenty four to thirty five billion to forty five billion dollars, which is up from thirty to thirty seven billion sacked burgs blown over forty billion dollars on the matter of us so far, seems to be intent on doing the same thing with A I and he's gone to think billions more into graphics processing units and other resort IT hardware to spend up features that nobody wants, that nobody asks for that every time i've seen someone discuss, they are saying something along the lines of why is this here or why do I need this? And I don't want this.

I have never seen such an popular product other than the set of us, I think genuinely, had the metaverse been easier to access, IT would have been even more unpopular than list, but less beyond necessity. Pretty unpopular already. Not to sound too dramatic, but I believe that matter is a deeply evil company.

And it's run by people that treat human beings as porn, porn through increasing engagement metrics and make money on advertising. And what makes the company so unique is that the services provides are just unquestionably awful. Using both facebook and instagram is a battle with an algorithm to see the people that you choose to follow a matter as a company seems capable of developing anything new intiative even useful.

Yet IT made over thirty six billion dollars in revenue in q 1224。 And IT did so by abusing, manipulating its users while also fAiling to maintain any integrity or utility within two of the most important platforms on the internet. And I believe as crazy that sounds, that this strategy will lead to the contraction and eventually death of facebook at the very least, and possibly instagram.

And I anticipate that things get more difficult for the company. It's gonna hit instagram so much worse, according to data provided to me by similar web in the last three years, facebook S, U. S.

Website audiences has declined by thirteen point seven percent, and in the year of the year period from April twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four, monthly active users on facebook's APP have declined by two point two percent, while instagram web body in screwed by twenty three percent over the last few years. In the last twelve months, its growth has slowed to six point eight percent, and between much enable twenty twenty four is grams APP monthly active users in amErica declined by zero point eight percent. It's grams, the cash cow.

This is the thing to be worried about, mark. Facebook's monthly active users have been aggressively declining every month, though tumbling from a high of two hundred eight million monthly active users in may twenty twenty one to one hundred and sixty one million monthly active users in April twenty twenty four. And just to be clear, talking about the website there, and that's the second lowest the number has been in the entire period, be an only by february twenty to twenty four when I had one hundred and fifty eight point eight million active users on top of that year.

Over a year, facebooks apps are were declined to two point two percent in monthly active users. To put IT simply, facebooks decaying and they've lost nearly fifty million monthly active users in the last three year in the U. S. To the website. Globally, things are a lot worse.

Facebook has lost twenty five point two percent of its monthly unique website visitors since 2， crashing from a high of one point four five six billion in may twenty twenty one to allow of one point of four billion in february twenty twenty four, slightly increasing to one point or five billion eight or twenty twenty four, a loss of three hundred and ninety seven million unique monthly visitors. One has to wonder if these numbers might have been what pushed suck about to try and turn the matter of us into. And I quote, the next generation of the internet, maybe you maybe new.

That is disGraceful, lazy, half bike abuse of shit, morally reprehensible approach to building social networks was one that had a cell by day. Everything you see on facebook and instagram today is a monument to the works of a man that sees uses as rats in a digital maize built to make numbers go up and investors happy. And I don't even think he cares that much about investors. After all, he cannot be fired.

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I've seemed very angry in these episodes, not telling you how to feel. I'm just telling you how I feel.

And a lot of this comes down to a deep frustration with facebook and instagram matter as a company because when you see a company with so much talent, with so much influence, with so much responsibility, and you see how little responsibility they feel to the people that use their websites, it's just disgusting, especially when even the slightest changes could make these websites so much Better, maybe a little less profitable. But after all, this company makes over ten billion dollars profit quarter kind like google. I should do an episode of most people, maybe I will in the future.

But in all seriousness, what meta stands for right now is brought. And what maxara burg stands for is evil. You know, it's just society mechanisms.

They are far too slow, and they lacked the precision to deal with a man like mark zac berg. And he's a man that acts with just the shocking lack of morality. And I find IT putrid.

And this complex machine, he's used to torture humans for profit and power. It's gone completely unchecked. A lot of government handwaving, but no real changes.

The best hope we have is the E. U. And as I mentioned before, maxara burg, he can never be fired.

We are stuck with him, and he can, and he will run this company into the goddamn ground, and he will hurt people in the way to doing him well. Elon mask, and just to be clear, he is a greedy, childish, nasty, freakish, disgusting, shameful man. Mozza bug is just something entirely different, is he's not stupid.

He really isn't. And unlike musk e, he isn't seem to have any compulsion for anyone to like him. They occasionally put him in a chain or a Normal personal feel, or haven't do barbecue to try pretend this human seems kind of half her.

I know I I can understand that because that's not what turn smokes occur. Gon not making any suggestions about sexual politics, please do not assume me. What i'm saying is mark oker craves numerical dominance, and he crazed at any cost. He must force human beings to use facebook. And once they are there, he must make the move in a way that he wishes, and do the things he wishes also that he can see the number go up.

Mark zuck burg will do whatever he wants because he built a system so that he could never be fired, giving him unilateral power over a monopoly he designed to chew through people's lives, turning them into a fuel for met his money machine. And so we could get his rocks off looking at, and the numbers go up. Make no mistake, what maxara book has done is monstrous, both in its damage to society and its financial appearance.

Facebook has made so many people so rich in so many ways and offered a genuine societal service, and then IT found every forseeable way to monetize every corner of our god damn lives. Facebooks culture is one of imprisonment and abuse and IT traps uses in engagement loops that tensions ly harm them, something that facebook is both well aware of and intentionally not seeking to remedy. And ultimately, the software itself, the software behind facebook, which does have value in IT, in how IT connections so many people in so many ways, that software is a prisoner of mark archer g, who may or may not have stolen the idea in the first place, making IT just another piece of data is extracted through deeply shitty means.

At one point, facebook was a social good, something that contributed to meaningful connections between human being separated by time and geography. During the arb spring, protesters in caro held up banners that read in a mixture of english, arabic. C, thank you, facebook.

Similar sentiments were dodged to the wall of the headquarters of two universities ministry of the interview, reflecting its role as a facilitator or and a neutral communication network. Facebook, evan, as leak emails obtained by the daily beast revealed, plays protests the pages under special protection, with a team providing twenty four, seven monitoring that, by the way, was in the past. At least in this regard, facebook seem to understand its role in the world and was prepared the kind step up.

And on IT, he refused to bend the knee, the hosny mubarak k. And his horrible regime. And on january twenty fifty, twenty eleven was banned by the egyptian government.

Two days before IT shut down the entire internet. People use V, P, S to get back on IT. But still, facebook used to mean something today. Facebook is an example of everything wrong with the intern and how good michan made them. That nakedly cons uses every minute a parasites that deprives creatives of their audiences and uses of their industry.

Facebook has no principles or backbone, and it's no longer or reliable to for connecting people, as IT once was during the democracy protests I previously mentioned, or as when he could have made a plausibility case that even underneath its flaws, facebook had an ample of morality, a sin of a care IT gave a tiny bit of a fuck. It's just no longer a current position in a just world. Facebook, instagram, all meta properties would be public utilities.

Instead of becoming this weird algorithmic fix sation of a very strange multibillionaire weirdo, sorry, I shouldn't have called mark ZARA burger weird here. ran. That just isn't harsh enough.

Maxara burg is a god dam monster. Maxara burg is the opposite of what the taken industry should stand for. He's a monopolist that deliberately makes and proliferate bad software.

And he makes the world worse. Forum, facebook, instagram, a insults to every single software engineer in the world built to trick and swidler m, rather than provide any service. What facebook and instagram have become is an insult to silicon valley.

I may come off as a pessimist sometime, but i'm actually a broken heart romantic. There was a time that facebook had a measurable, meaningful and good effect on my life and billions of other people's lives. There was a time this company had something behind IT.

And even then, when I say this, I realized two thousand eight was when people you may know in in, maybe I was always this bad, maybe they were Better hiding in. But i'm not pessimistic about this company because I want to be. I'm not even a pessimist.

I'm fucking cyc. I'm a sync because i've read these documents. I've seen the way that this company talks about the users. I've seen the way the moxie book has deliberately hurt them.

I seen to make changes or choose not to make changes in the case of project Daisy, because they wanted to keep things growing. And we've done so in a way that is made so many horrible loss, how so rich and so many millions and billions of people miserable. And mark zoo berg is the reason.

He is the person that puts out some of the most popular and poorly made software in existence. And he does win a way that will continue to hurt people until this company dies, or until he somehow removed, which, as i've mentioned, is not possible. People in the tech industry, people in society as well, should excise like a bug.

He should not be welcomed in the circles of silicon value. He shouldn't be welcomed anywhere. This man owns a large chunk of why making piece off there and live alone? Oh, you can live with his family, obviously.

Nevertheless, this man, he may not be a criminal, but he is a one bag. He is a person that has deliberately made things worse, so that he can be richer. So he couldn't a number go up.

He is the road emperor, and he deserves no good. He deserves no happiness, and he deserves to have this platform taken away from him. But IT was never gna happen.

We don't have the government mechanisms to have someone like mark zuker. G remove from power. And because 是 parka so desperately protected， moxie coburg, right, to control everything, this is what you get.

This is actually what a true, horrifying monopoly does. IT hurts people in, manipulates tes people. IT makes the worst people rich, and regular people pora and sada and more confused and more lost and more disconnected and more unaware of the world around them.

IT spreads conspiracies. IT spreads luna acy. IT makes people unhappy, and IT does so that so that mark zuker g can add another fucking zero to another fucking bank account.

And IT turns my god damn stomach. And i'm sorry, I realized across these episodes I have been on one. I have been quite angry.

I have been full of theory. I'm sorry if that isn't the right way to approach this. And i've really done my best to come at this from my researched and thought for perspective as well.

But reading this stuff has just so deeply, and red me is so deeply offended me. I did not know that tech companies could be this craving, or maybe I did, but I was kind of in denial. I don't know.

But in reporting this, I have just been disgusted and i've said, stomach churning at your turning or whatever IT is a few times. And it's true though, IT is disgusting. I actually love tech.

I love this stuff. I find IT intellectual. Interesting tech was how I got this job and many jobs before take with something that meant something.

IT was something about building great software and great hardware. Ways to connect people, make people able to do more things. What maxara box stand for is a deep nalty m in tech where IT isn't about building Better things or connecting more people.

Where IT isn't about making the world Better or more aware or more educated or giving them more access to more things. No, it's about decay. It's about rot. It's about growing nothing from nothing again and again.

And now facebook and instagram are poison with generative AI bullshit, all thanks to maxim log, a man with no creativity other than that, which makes people dance for him to increase numbers. This man is a god damned disGrace, and his companies, a disGrace to the world, deserves Better than mark arc bog. Thank you for listening.

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