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Cake day: 2023年12月18日

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  • So corporations use ai and bots themselves in order to inflate their stats and steal money from investors and share holders(see Reddit) and its all cool. Someone does that but it costs the corporation some money. Straight to jail.

    Seriously, how has the reddit IPO which was offered to users not been a fraudulent scheme due to the website statistics being based on genuine user interaction with no mention of auto reposting or bots that are either operated by or hired by reddit?

    It genuinely seems like the next ponzi scheme but that would require so many federal agencies that stopped giving shit and learning how the world works to see any peep into that business.

    But what do I know, I’m just some average Joe that gets audited over a $300 mistake on annual taxs which I have to pay a private third party more than that to do.








  • Lemmy skews heavy 30+ so most people here will never understand. But I’m right there with you.

    The tickets you bought? Corporate Overlord sold 'em to you.

    Never bought them, i can sneak into anything worth being at.

    The tunes you bought? Corporate Overlord.

    Never bought them other than physical copies direct from the label that only has 5 artists.

    The venue you went to? Sponsored by a corporate overlord.

    Never went, any “venue” I’ve been to was come and go.

    The Beer you drank at the venue

    Didn’t buy it, made and brought it.

    the fucking merch you bought

    Never bought it

    hell, even the fucking parking fee you coughed up went to a corporation.

    I go to venues through piblic transit so i can get intoxicated

    You don’t get to enjoy music anymore without supporting corporate overlords.

    I’ve been contributing to small fedi artists just because they’re small fedi artists.

    You’re being an antagonistic asshole and you know it. And you use the term bootlicker incorrectly.

    If you even want to talk about you insecurities that you project, I won’t offer myself because you already made up your mind about who I am before you finished reading this. Get help. Twat.










  • Epic Games bought Bandcamp in March 2022 for $273 million

    [Bandcamp co-founder Ethan] Diamond was not aware of Epic’s plan to sell Bandcamp to Songtradr until as soon as the night before the deal was announced.

    During the weeks that followed, Bandcamp’s union, which represented about half of the company at the time, called on Songtradr to voluntarily recognize the union while it also negotiated with Epic over how the layoffs to union members would be handled. For example, the game publisher said that no employee who received an offer from Songtradr would remain eligible for Epic’s severance package.

    The two companies agreed to an “asset sale” of Bandcamp rather than a “stock sale.” This meant that Songtradr was only acquiring the technology and platform, rather than the company as a whole, including its staff.

    “Of those laid off, 40 were in the union bargaining unit out of a total 67 members,” it wrote. “None of the eight (8) democratically elected bargaining team members received a job offer…"


  • They aren’t trying to have a conversation, they’re trying to convince themselves that the things they don’t understand are bad and they’re making the right choice by not using it. They’ll be the boomers that needed millennials to send emails for them. Been through that so I just pretend I don’t understand AI. I feel bad for the zoomers and genas that will be running AI and futilely trying to explain how easy it is. Its been a solid 150 years of extremely rapid invention and innovation of disruptive technology. But THIS is the one that actually won’t be disruptive.