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Copernican ,

The U.S. lawmakers say ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 150 million users

That’s not a selling data concern.

Copernican ,

I believe the article. My junior coworkers that are young fresh out of college grads landing 100k salary feel behind. Median us household income is like 78k. The article is about the psychological impact. Although I don’t doubt that there’s people struggling and inflation and wage stagnation are real, I think we shouldn’t doubt that what this article describes as money dysmorphia isn’t also real.

Copernican ,

This whole fuck show seems to be a series of firewalls and checks not being done because a series of people had KPIs not to do the checks or respond to the results of checks with urgency. Sometimes it is better to have more antagonistic and adversarial parties involved in these processes that have different KPIs.

Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira expected to plead guilty in federal case (apnews.com)

BOSTON (AP) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, is expected to plead guilty in his federal case, according to court papers filed Thursday....

Copernican ,

I don’t understand. Are you saying that this outcome is the outcome a fair legal system would produce? Or is the fair legal system the treatment the rich get?

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

Copernican ,

Don’t try to overthink the market. If you are wanting to invest with no plans to spend that money within say 3 to 5 years, just by low expense ratio S&P500 tracking ETFs. My goal isn’t to beat the market, just ride with the market benchmarks as best as possible.

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

Copernican ,

Is this that crazy though for AI since Hamilton the musical? All founding fathers were portrayed as people of color in the casting. Google image search for Alexander Hamilton is pulling a decent number of pictures from the musical cast.

Copernican ,

I had a very anti-war sociology professor that had been protesting since vietnam. Despite his qualms with military industrial complex, he would always say that the the military is the last vestige of upward mobility in the united states as it’s one of the few places where you can enter a playing field that is somewhat leveled for new entries, have merit impact your growth, and get access things like subsidized education. Sure there’s still racism, sexism, etc. but in terms of economic mobility it provides a decent ladder.

Copernican ,

Well a draft is for times of war. But mandatory military service in a democracy… Does that lead to anti war policies. If every family had skin in the game knowing their kid could go to war, does that help elect anti war politicians?

Copernican ,

I was running an edge router x until a few months ago. It was the cheapest set up to deploy a unifi wireless access point for my apartment. I was worried until I read:

It affected routers running Ubiquiti’s EdgeOS, but only those that had not changed their default administrative password. Access to the routers allowed the hacking group to “conceal and otherwise enable a variety of crimes,” the DOJ claims, including spearphishing and credential harvesting in the US and abroad.

Change you default passwords friends. Given that the edge router is not the most noob friendly device to set up, I’m curious how the user base of these devices is not changing the PW.

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (www.bloomberg.com)

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO::Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

Copernican ,

They were transparent about it. AI and gatekeeping the user generated comments was the deciding factor to close the API and that’s what they told the public.

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Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - www.nytimes.com/…/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

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Copernican ,

I understand. But I think from the get go of the announcement of closing the API’s, Reddit had always discussed not wanting to be harvested by AI tech for free. The point is they saw the value of their user content, and wanted to establish a model to profit on that. This announcement is just that; they now have something in market to allow AI to be trained on it’s user generated content.

Copernican ,

You don’t need cookies for this kind of targeting…

Copernican ,

But when will Nintendo start issuing those warnings for Mario games?

Copernican ,

Curious, the article makes it sound specific to elementary school. How does age factor into rationale for this kind of opt-out? Is the grounds for this justification not sustainable in highschool or middle school when sex Ed is taught.

Copernican OP , (edited )

But I think the argument here is a specific business lines are failing. Namely advertising revenue for Linear. Linear TV is cable. So as cable subs get cut, you can’t just shift linear staff over to digital, because digital staff were already hired and working in parallel to build that business.

For the third quarter of 2023, Paramount Global’s revenue rose 3% thanks to its growth in its streaming and film businesses — but revenue in its largest division, linear TV, fell 8% as sales of traditional television advertising continued to contract (declining 14% in the quarter).

It’s strange. On lemmy people hate ads. They hate cable TV. But you have to realize if people stop watching ads and people stop paying for cable, then people that work in that area will probably lose jobs.

Copernican OP ,

I think there needs to be better unemployment security and resourcing. I think there are certain jobs that should be let go over time. IE, if we get off fossil fuels, I would expect a lot of people to lose those jobs in fossil fuel. As we get more automation, that is going to replace those jobs. I think right now it’s hard to determine what is reasonable or justified layoffs for business reasons, and what is really there to just pump the stock up. But everyone knows cable TV is going to die… I would expect jobs to be cut. Similarly Sky TV recently also had a layoff of a percentage of the work force. That primarily hit the technician team that was responsible for installing cable boxes in people’s homes.

I am hoping one day we can have tax system that makes sense and is fair, and support a UBI eventually.

What I find kind of amusing about some of the comments on this thread are the communist leaning folks seem to parrot neo libs where the solutions is jobs for the sake of jobs.

Copernican ,

How do you try a kid as an adult then blame the mom for not being a responsible adult for her child’s actions?

Copernican ,

Well yes. But you have a child that did a heinous thing. We say this kid actually has enough moral culpability and responsibility to be tried as an adult and receive life in prison. Then in the other trial you argue that this mother is culpable because the child actually is a child, and an adult needs to responsible? The rationale of manslaughter was based on the mother being the last adult with the gun, right? That seems contradictory and if we want to blame the mother, the kid should be tried as kid.

Copernican ,

“For me, I just feel like Jennifer didn’t separate her son from the gun enough to save those lives that day.”

I don’t think jury’s would use that logic if the son was full grown adult.

Copernican ,

So both parents should get full manslaughter charges? If the father was the one that purchased the gun is he more responsible than the mother? I find it weird that liberal folks generally are very anti-prison industrial complex, but for certain issues like this it seems we want to jail as many people as possible and dupliclate or triplicate blame of responsibility across as many people as possible for 1 person;s, who is tried as an adults, actions.

Copernican ,

you show up for 1 day, tell the judge (if you are selected as a jury candidate for a trial) your financial situation and they’ll excuse you and say they will call you up at a later time.

Copernican ,

I understand that point. But if those are things we as society want to pursue for legal justice, how can we try the child as an adult?

Copernican ,

Did you read the article?

Copernican ,

What exactly is the relationship between spirit aero systems and Boeing? Who owns which responsibilities between these types of fuck ups? Is it Boeing design? Spirit manufacturing? Boeing inspection? The buck stops with Boeing, but since they deliver the final product, but wtf is going on at Spirit.

Copernican ,

Isn’t that supposed to help to some degree? I thought part of the housing trouble was boomers staying in large homes too long meant less homes for younger families with kids to use.

Copernican ,

The poster was sympathetic to how unaffordable shit is. I think they are aware. Yes, they got lucky, but they recognize that and are commenting on how bullshit it is that this type of security is out of reach.

So, now I’m in my parents’ estate and I was able to retire early (really I didn’t need to work, but I liked my job) and I see how high home prices are for the U.S. now and wonder how new families are ever going to be able to continue to live and find housing in this country.

Copernican ,

The ageism is so weird on lemmy. In other threads folks talk about it as if boomers are all moochers stealing from their children by reverse mortgaging homes or asking for handouts out. But when an article points out the generosity they have it more blame that they screwed the young generation as well. Also ,there’s a lot of older folks that didn’t vote Republican, yet lemmy communities seem to think they are 100 percent R.

I think there is also some blame on the millennial generation. Who invented the social media cess pool that has helped reinforce and polarize the right to weird new extremes and have that to a less tech savvy generation?

Copernican , (edited )

Generalizing a subset of folks that is Lemmy users is nowhere in scale like generalizing an entire generation. Lemmy users skew in certain demographics and political leanings due to the nature of the Reddit backlash, FOSS advocates, etc.

Copernican , (edited )

Are people forgetting that the salaries were high in high cost of living areas to account for this cost. In the new normal, should employees expect pay cuts, or should employees that opt in to in office expect higher pay or stipends?

Also, curious about tax advantaged commuter benefits. Sure sticker cost is a months groceries, but if you are commuting and able to pay that pre tax for Metro or rail passes, it’s only 66 percent of the sticker cost.

Also I think the pet and childcare costs are interesting. For child care, is that assuming like 1 or 2 extra hours of childcare per day?

Copernican ,

Me too. I miss my chill office culture where everyone showed up, but the norm was roll in anytime before 1030 or 11am and leave early if you need to. And expected to work from home a day or maybe 2 a week if needed. As long as you showed up for the important meetings in person and attended had a known presence in the office while you were there, it was all good. And being in the office felt good because it was a good collaborative environment. Now I can opt in to go to the office, and have all the sedative isolation of home without the comforts.

Copernican , (edited )

New yorker here. Sometimes the MTA sucked, but my 40m door to door gave me time to listen to a podcast in the subway and decompress from work before stepping in my front door. I also read the news a lot more. I don’t do those things nearly as much now. Also beers in the office and happy hours where team workers forced me to stop working at a reasonable hour were helpful to make me turn off the workaholic side of me.

Curious. Are you fully remote or do you still have an office to go into? Is there any culture left in your office if you do go in?

Copernican ,

Cost of living adjustments are real. The value of your work is based in part of market rate. And part of that market rate is based on location due to various costs of livings, taxes, laws etc. I think the thing is the pre pandemic salaries should have accounted for those factors, but when those factors change due to people moving etc. it is reasonable to expect the question to be asked about adjustment. You’re not being punished for being frugal.

Copernican ,

Yep. The way I’ve heard of it actually happening to folks where I work is when they moved during the pandemic their pay didn’t immediately change. But when they got their promotion, they got a 0% percent increase because that was when they recalculated the cost of living adjustment. So maybe they got a 12% raise, but moved to a place with a 15% lower cost of living. So they weren’t going to piss off the employee by rewarding with a pay cut, but use that as the time to reset compensation leveling.

Copernican ,

It’s more having your cake and eating it too. When pandemic hit and you got to keep your salary and work remote, maybe move to a cheaper area, no one complained that they kept all the benefit of the in office pay. But now that you got to keep the same pay, and are asked to come back into the office, you aren’t suddenly making less money. You’re just paying for the cost that was always expected as an employee that was hopefully accounted for in giving you a reasonable salary.

And some of these costs that add up to “a month of groceries” can be mitigated by having flexible in office policy. It’s not that transport takes a month of groceries. The cost is transport + childcare + pet care. For some childless and petless workers the cost of in office transport isnt that bad, and might be tax free if you have programs for it. And child care and pet care can be reduced with flexible in office requirements. Some companies used to let people bring their dogs to the office, for example.

Copernican ,

This article is saying the average is ~$500 a month. Imagine pre pandemic work norms. If your employer offered you $500 less a month, but the trade off was you got to work fully remote, would you take it?

Copernican ,

Lol. I remember when Mark Shields said in one of his last appearances on the PBS News Hour something like “The democratic party used to party of the PBR and a whiskey shot, but now it’s the party of Sauvignon Blanc.” I guess I’m technically a tech bro, but I think you are spot on pointing out this conversation about “work” ignoring very important work that can’t be done remote.

Copernican ,

This. And those 5 minute walk and chats, although annoying at times (also they could be fun and productive at times), were less painful than the endless meeting invites I get now. Because a 5 minute walk and chat folks know you are busy. If they see you at your desk plugging away they no you’re busy. But for some reason people now think they are entitled to unscheduled time on your calendar.

Copernican ,

Lol. Not a boomer. Just wait until you have parents late in retirement and have declining health. If you care enough to care for them you’ll realize the amount of stress and work it takes.

Copernican , (edited )

It doesn’t mean that this is not a social problem we need to face a solve today. Like if we could establish a UBI, would we just not give it to people over 65? I don’t understand how folks here are so retributive to a whole generation, when probably 40 to 45 percent of that generation didn’t vote for Reagan.

Copernican , (edited )

As a millennial I figure this POV being criticized is more like gen z not having real life experience after college. There’s a lot to be critical about from previous generations, but when it becomes vindictive, retributive, etc. it is not call. This is the type of POV and shit that arms the Republicans of accusing libs of wanting death panels for grandma and grandpa. The lemmyverse unfortunately reads like university Marx reading group populated by edgelords.

Copernican ,

It’s not really young or old that are fucked. It’s still the poor and rich, and guess which one is fucked. Over time the wealth gap is widening which sucks for younger people. But it’s still a rich and poor problem, and I think we should have sympathy for those with financial insecurity regardless of age.

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By that logic if you are an adult over 22 years old , you are defacto a MAGA member.

Copernican ,

You were talking about the streaming platform specifically as an industry.

it’s an industry that’s earning literal billions every single year…they absolutely don’t need to have ads, they could serve their paying users a good ad-free product, and still make money. They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because they’re fucking greedy.

It’s okay to be corrected.

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