Putin's gonna be wetting the bed tonight

How is that an improvement? Higher cost and less jobs?
Did every exec forget everything they learned in business school?

God damn that's accurate and fucking scary.

Don't forget stupid. And they're now armed and authorized to used deadly force.

Imagine, hiring entirely incels and then telling them beware of women willing to date them.

Are you missing a chromosome?

What do you actually think would happen here? That a friend would text me within, idk, 1 to 4 hours of his mom dying? I think he's got bigger problems - calling a funeral home, or just dealing with the grief.

Was he supposed to text me before the body was cold?

Or was I supposed to text him, either hourly or before I say anything else, "Hey, if your mom dead yet?".

I didn't go to Instagram LOOKING for this information. But it was there. As this was when the algorithm was new, I had a decade of experience with IG to expect that if there was anything recent, a quick scroll would surface it, but I was also doing the same thing I'd do a couple times a day.

But IG manipulated my feed, ruined the experience and caused an awkward moment.

He had a few more urgent things to handle. I'm sure I would've gotten a call or text hours or a day or so later. But the algorithm decided that it didn't want to show me sad news and would rather send me engagement bait.

That's the dumbest possible response, but I see you're just a troll.

And FYI this was right as they swapped out the original the chrono feed. I was vaguely aware it was happening, I don't know if I knew it had rolled out to me yet. I had only had a sneaking suspicion he'd post it there. And as I mentioned, I knew she had days to maybe a week. It would've been one of the top posts in a chrono feed.

Meta, decided, for their own gain, to change how their app worked, with essentially no warning, no choice and no transparency - wasn't like there was a big notification saying Your Feed Changed. The only thing different visually was the order of the timestamps.

For anyone else, I'll leave another example: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/

I'll share a short story of how the algorithm sucks. A friend's mom was dying of cancer. I knew it would be within a few days or week. He was texting me a lot - but in random bursts - trying to distract himself from the inevitable. I scrolled through IG, thought I saw it all, and having not heard from him in a while, I texted him something somewhat goofy.

He texted me back, "My mom just died". I had no idea. Sure enough, scroll another 5 minutes and buried at the end of my feed is his post from less than 2 hours ago.

Instagram made me look like a dick because they'd rather show me 26 hour old content, than 2 hour content.

What he really means is you'll see more native posts from brands, and not see as many ads, because they hide posts from brands to force them to pay to reach their own followers.

Everyone at Meta can fuck themselves to death

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He's gonna get exactly one: The Trump National Public Bathroom and Dog Washing Station

And a memory care ward named after him around the Villages.