• artifex@piefed.zipEnglish
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    29 days ago

    One can only imagine Visa and American Express sent representatives over to Elon with a strongly worded letter and maybe a crowbar.

  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Even if this purchasing model worked, it doesn’t make sense. You’re telling me that these companies earn commission on these sales and will try to find the best deal ensuring they get the lowest commission possible on the sale? Yeah right.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      29 days ago

      They will start by skimming the referral dollars and depending on volume but eventually will start taking money to promote specific things.

      We are not really at that level will LLM providers but we will be soon. Soon enough Google will more aggressively insert ads into Gemini and not long after that they will start taking money to have the LLMs casually add or avoid specific topics.

    • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
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      29 days ago

      No not at all. That’s just a fantasy he likes to purportate. He was actually fired and kicked out of PayPal because the other dude hates his guts, but he still had shares so he still made a lot of money from it. That other dude was our other famous Nazi, none other than Peter Thiel.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Sorta ish.

      He founded a company with a group of others(who left or were forced out) that merged with another(founded by Thiel and others) to become PayPal.

      Shortly after the merger Musk was forced out as CEO in favour of Thiel.

      • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Same way that he founder Tesla? Because when he bought the company, part of the purchase contract was that he could call himself a “founder”.

        I don’t know, Imma look it up, but I suspect he founded PayPal the same way.

        Edit: looked it up. Yep. He bought in, changed the name, and called himself a founder. Dude hasn’t found shit. Apart from maybe peter thiels dick in his ass.

  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Please tell me that someone at least asked Elon to show them how it’s done because they were a little confused. I can’t see him not being able to show his superiority by doing it when they couldn’t.

  • ¬∃x(∀y(y∈x↔y∉y))@programming.devEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
    Zuck: Just ask.
    Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
    [Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
    Zuck: People just submitted it.
    Zuck: I don’t know why.
    Zuck: They “trust me”
    Zuck: Dumb fucks

  • Leviathan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Man, the internet has really just become a propaganda and advertising machine for a handful of billionaires, hasn’t it? There’s no fixing this, is there?

    • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      I think there’ll be a limited reaction as time goes on, these days you see a fair few people getting fed up with the internet as it is now. I switched to an e-ink phone recently and loads of people on knowing they exist seem keen for one for example, people know Big Tech’s products are generally bad for them at the end of the day. People who are okay with the doom feed of algorithmic propaganda and slop will stick with it, but dissatisfaction has produced some pretty impressive efforts, this platform included.

    • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      If there is a christian god out there, now would be the appropriate time for a great flood to do a full reboot. You there god? At least give us a sign?

      • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Why does everyone have to die, just because a handful of evil villains have taken over, tho. Surely an omnipresent god can do direct targeting… some well aimed lighting bolts should do it, yeah? Maybe the pre Christian version of the Christian god, Odin will be more helpful to call on?

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Hey that works on Lemmy as well. Just PM me your card (front and back), your home address, your passport, your SSN, and the product you’re after, and I’ll order it for you!

  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    29 days ago

    There was a twitter bot needacreditcard that would repost tweets with images and the word credit card in the text. It was full of tweets from mostly kids who bragged to their friends that they can now go shopping. And yes, some also posted the backside if you asked nicely.