saw this called something like “negative personalization,” this thread is worth a look:
bsky.app/profile/chro...
bsky.app/profile/chro...
This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.
Part 2: It's hard to overstate just how much of the top of the tech economy rides on using UI to control people against their will. The entire search engine market, worth tens of billions, rides almost only on that. Same browsers. Same anything privacy-invasive. Same app stores. It's a long list.
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
saw this called something like “negative personalization,” this thread is worth a look:
bsky.app/profile/chro...
bsky.app/profile/chro...
mouse-dominant workplace
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
mouse-dominant workplace
sounds pretty apolitical to me
December 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
sounds pretty apolitical to me
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
move fast & break things—>drive distracted and kill pedestrians
December 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
move fast & break things—>drive distracted and kill pedestrians
it’s very silly, esp when you see it in print, but imo the voice acting in the game is strong enough to carry it
December 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
it’s very silly, esp when you see it in print, but imo the voice acting in the game is strong enough to carry it
not that i have a ton of sympathy for them, but you’d think that at some point advertisers would get annoyed that a lot of their traffic is coming via fraudulent click thru. then again i guess they’re as much at the mercy of the platforms as we are
December 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
not that i have a ton of sympathy for them, but you’d think that at some point advertisers would get annoyed that a lot of their traffic is coming via fraudulent click thru. then again i guess they’re as much at the mercy of the platforms as we are
i’m half convinced the load in delay is deliberately timed to get you to click on the wrong thing
December 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i’m half convinced the load in delay is deliberately timed to get you to click on the wrong thing
what are you as a man doing creating jobs
December 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
what are you as a man doing creating jobs
that is truly evil
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
that is truly evil
This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.
Part 2: It's hard to overstate just how much of the top of the tech economy rides on using UI to control people against their will. The entire search engine market, worth tens of billions, rides almost only on that. Same browsers. Same anything privacy-invasive. Same app stores. It's a long list.
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
me with every single package of pasta
December 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
me with every single package of pasta
2026, the year of windows on the desktop
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
2026, the year of windows on the desktop
the ass. truly a magnificent organ
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
the ass. truly a magnificent organ
he was quite big at one point. no doubt there were earlier signs but the shine really came off with his response to the rebecca watson elevatorgate business
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
he was quite big at one point. no doubt there were earlier signs but the shine really came off with his response to the rebecca watson elevatorgate business
i think u gotta click the sparkly button so they can report you as an active ai user to their shareholders
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i think u gotta click the sparkly button so they can report you as an active ai user to their shareholders
“if you just kinda eat around the rotten bits it’s not so bad guys”
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“if you just kinda eat around the rotten bits it’s not so bad guys”