Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to court filings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/23/tech/meta-buried-social-media-harm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #mentalhealth #us
We wear money AR glasses that show us the price of everything as a slice of the pie, and our own worth is determined by them. In this AR/VR Zuck and Gates appear as towering giants. In this world, as long you obey the house rules, they'll treat you ok. You can go around the marketplace, and buy and sell. The people without money don't show up in this VR world. You can have all kinds of material treats with your money slice. Lots of incentive to keep the glasses on.
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Don't you dare to take the glasses off, though. Or the metacops will punch down on you, throw you in jail. Because you see, IRL, Zuck is just a runt, and Gates is another schlumpy nerd. These tech bros only have power over you, when you wear the AR/VR money glasses. They won't let you tell others to take off the glasses either. That would be very bad for their net worth, their self worth. They hire security, hide in bunkers, because they can't look people in the eye. #FuckZuck
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Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
alcinnz
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What would be a good FOSS self-hostable for a buy nothing group? Apparently Facebook is deleting them, and I wanna convince the ppl on a different corporate software to have our next backup be on a website controlled by the admins of the group (in some way, whether technical or telling a host/sysadmin what to do)
But what sort of software should I suggest? Or what existing websites/apps could be used that seem to be pro-labor/anti-censor?
What would be a good FOSS self-hostable for a buy nothing group? Apparently Facebook is deleting them, and I wanna convince the ppl on a different corporate software to have our next backup be on a website controlled by the admins of the group (in some way, whether technical or telling a host/sysadmin what to do)
But what sort of software should I suggest? Or what existing websites/apps could be used that seem to be pro-labor/anti-censor?