RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406
Canon behavior from meta, tbh
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@jonny isn't their advertising business the only profitable one? (in no small part from fraudulent ads on Facebook)
@reiddragon
Its the only line on the revenue sheet
xAI manages to have a worse ratio than them although with less invested they have lost less.
@jonny a lot of companies make bad choices but only one is intentionally named after the worst choice they ever made
I don't care of both of the numbers might be undercounts and all the double spending isn't unfurled on that site. Meta would always have shown up as "boondoggle" on the graph. The only thing it knows how to do is boondoggles.
@jonny This. I rejected using Thrift for a big project because it is shit.
Zuck, 2026 Q1 earnings call: "our plan is to make an AI that's really good at shopping"
@jonny
Zuck desperate to find an AI to help him understand social context or the things that matter in people's lives, like "local".
I think they removed too much normal humanity when he had his conscience extracted, and he's just *bewildered* about questions like why people don't want to spend big money on a tool to do 3D zoom meetings as a shitty cartoon guy without legs.
Other billionaires are merely unhinged. Zuck is *unmoored*
@petealexharris
I feel like if I got him mad enough I could get him to call me a pathetic earthling
@jonny
great idea!
this way all the people who will lose their jobs to an AI can let an AI spend their money!
@jonny among all the other dumb bullshit in this wave the meta being completely unable to get anything together bit is one of the funniest. they dont even know how to sell hype of vague promises, its just him stumbling for words to say out loud
@jackperkins
"There's openAI and anthropic, google is still in the race, and good lord what in the fuck is going on over there at meta"
@jonny wonder how many rungs down the facebook ladder you'd have to go before you get to someone that actually ever shops and doesn't have their assistant/wife/nanny/housekeeper do it.
The man who wants to stick himself between us and reality and everyone else..
What a fucking pervert. Whatever relentless fucking pervert.
Context there was contrasting meta's plans which it describes as making consumer AI that helps people with daily things, and for some people those daily things are curing disease, and for others its shopping. But the answer was in response to an investor asking about shopping because uh that's the thing that makes money. This strategy sorta makes sense given their consumer surfaces, but at the end of the line of reasoning where you plug the surge protector back into itself, you gotta wonder how many people are going to find renting a shopping bot from the ad company to shop in the ad company's store based on the ad companies ads a little cyclical.
"The last digital capital revolution was targeted ads. The next digital capital revolution is to rent a robot to look at the ads"
@jonny Yeah, that will be really popular, because people really hate shopping. I'm sure that will bring in billions in revenue. (Not.)
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@jonny@neuromatch.social hey, come on now, that's hardly fair. they also know how to be really, really creepy motherfuckers. so that's two things, really.
not actually invoking the reptilian conspiracy but come on look at zuck
@aud
Oh right. Boondoggles and reptilian gear
