Sometimes nobody hires them, they're one of the founders. When they're hired, said companies would never screen "wants money above all" as a negative trait.

Corporate culture exists and tends to be a reflection of the higher ups, but like any culture, it's not immutable. Whether it was already like that from the beginning or became so later on depends on each company

I wonder if that's also applying to countries that still have heavy usage of FB, mostly SEA ones, from what I remember.

The moment companies opt for money at all costs, they become evil and inevitably fill themselves with people like him.

Really good read. Making the car comparison and all its effects hammers (pun intended) down that "just a tool" can be an incredibly complex thing that needs a lot of variables to work properly. A hammer is a simple tool, a computer is not simple - there's a global logistics chain that allows their existence - and neither is AI.

We need to fight back against design that flattens our humanity at the benefit of efficiency and productivity. We need to question how our tools have created infrastructures and landscapes that are hostile to human existence.

Emphasis mine. I've been thinking about that a lot. Everything is about being more efficient, more productive. Fuck that shit, I wanna enjoy life.

People are too worried about "being productive" because AI is being sold as the ultimate productivity tool that will totally make you boatloads of money because you're one prompt away from making your million dollar idea into a real app/game. They're falling for it, testing it out, seeing success (or "success") and thinking it's the first step into their millionaire lives. It's the latest get rich quick scheme, only this time it's dragging half the world and its economy with it.

Me, I'm trying to learn my way around SDL3, which seems especially interesting as it also has a GPU API so programs should, in theory, automatically use the appropriate backend (Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX, etc) without having to write in said spec. Once I have a better idea of what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, I might create a FOSS game engine and a bunch of video classes explaining how and why I did stuff; so, don't expect anything concrete within the next 6 months! I love being unproductive and those hustle-life fuckers can go fuck themselves

Speaking of fun open source stuff you can discover out of nowhere - Licar is written in pure C with almost no dependencies.

It's not being sold for Xbox as a boycott of Microsoft, for what it's worth

That's why you don't let the business guys anywhere near the public, they will expose how evil your company is.

Also, talk about a meaningful name, Stirrup causing a stir online

"The purpose of the current study was to examine associations between time spent on multiple popular social media platforms and a variety of mental health-related outcomes in a sample of young adults.", janeiro de 2025 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12488834/

Conectividade funcional (FC) é afetada por uso de redes sociais - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8996346/

Revisão e meta-análise sobre a influencia de redes sociais na saúde mental - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291125005212

"The effects of social media addiction on depression and anxiety among university students: The mediating role of family environment" - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13168417/

Nenhum é específico de videos curtos, mas podem dar um norte já. Talvez se pesquisar "short video" nesses sites deve achar alguns sobre isso

I guess we're too used to melon musk and trump meltdowns, so anything that isn't balls to the wall incoherent rambling is deemed like a normal conversation on xitter

Aw come on, being UTTERLY ANNIHILATED isn't that weak :(

Shit, that was a good one 🤣

The debate was cringe as fuck to watch, like everything was measured solely for short video cuts and "lacradas" (the english equivalent here is the "get owned" slang). I could barely stand 1 bloc before turning it off.