It disrupts startups by rearranging the words.

Geesh, it’s obvious.

Not upvoting the sentiments in the letter. Alphabet overhired fot years to shade out startups from finding techs, now that everything is being stripped for value the vulture capitalists gave arrived.

If they hadn’t been such assholes about data slurping there might be positive public sentiment, but no, bridge with techies burnt.

Capitalist plan for destroyed planet is? Bribe the sun? Oooh, a bunker /tomb in Hawaii! Flex flex Obvious none of these people have faced physical reality outside an office, they want to live forever without a supporting planet around them.

Just wear our 3000 dollar goggles and things will look fine.

Nice work!

I tbink we need to list the media outlets and their owners in a post somewhere.

If Apple started trying to shed employees while pretending not to, say by forcing RTO and moving jobs to Texas…but no, unthinkable.

RC is a holder, what might that do to GME? Will GME sell Apple products some day?

Everything up is East.

Reminiscent of crypto in some way.

I have a problem with that. It makes me feel like I’m being sold like a specimen in a Petri dish.

Not informing users that they’re being sold out is and was insulting and rude. And you didn’t even get enough to build your own tomb like Zuck is doing with great public-spiritedness.

Well, enjoy the exodus as yet another online ideal gets eroded by greed.

So far 2 Masto, a Pixel, and a Lemmy are done for me.

I didn’t sign up to work free for billionaires.

I was indeed referring to Meta.

Here’s an article about the Dropbox imbroglio… https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/15/dropbox_ai_training/?td=rt-3a

It includes these paragraphs…

"That could have been the end of it, but for one thing: as noted by developer Simon Willison, many people no longer trust what big tech or AI entities say. Willison refers to this as the “AI Trust Crisis,” and offers a few suggestions that could help – like OpenAI revealing the data it uses for model training. He argues there’s a need for greater transparency.

That is a fair diagnosis for what ails the entire industry. The tech titans behind what’s been referred to as “Surveillance Capitalism” – Amazon, Google, Meta, data gathering enablers and brokers like Adobe and Oracle, and data-hungry AI firms like OpenAI – have a history of opacity with regard to privacy practices, business practices, and algorithms.

To detail the infractions through years – the privacy scandals, lawsuits, and consent decrees – would take a book. Recall that this is the industry that developed “dark patterns” – ways to manipulate people through interface design – and routinely opts customers into services by default because they know few would bother to make that choice.

Let it suffice to observe that a decade ago Facebook, in a moment of honesty, referred to its Privacy Policy as its Data Use Policy. Privacy has simply never been available to those using popular technology platforms – no matter how often these firms mouth their mantra, “We take privacy very seriously.”"

I do not intend to have an involuntary Meta account.

Look where you are right now. Reddit won’t allow users to even name Lemmy so we can tell them where we are.

Do you think Meta might do the same at some point?

Could this be yet another attempt to contain and control us?

This is a “let’s just invite Professor Lechter over for dinner, he seems like a friendly fellow” moment for Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Admins of each instance can choose which other instances to federate/share your info with.

Here’s the convo on lemmy.world… https://lemmy.world/post/9527528?scrollToComments=true

The whole thing is there, submitted for your approval. If anyone recognizes shills by now, it’s us.

Let’s ask part of the problem for a solution.

This is the way, keeping channels open and helping people find this one.

Amended, thank you.

There is also a ppshow venue on Lemmy… !theppshow@lemmy.world

An account here should also work there.

Blackrock has its own problems, it owns a large inventory of housing which will be devalued shortly.

So perhaps it’s a good time to take a drive around your fair city and start thinking about what you want to pick up on the cheap.

From the linked article… "May 11, 2023 With hybrid work depressing demand for office space and interest rates rising, many office buildings are at risk of becoming “zombies”—with low utilization, high vacancy levels, and financial viability quickly slipping away. This is bad news for property owners, cities, and lenders, all of whom must take some practical next steps:

Property owners must assess and divide their portfolios into five categories, from buildings that can remain as is to those that should be relinquished.

Cities need to establish a financial baseline, drive CRE utilization, support the transition to reuse, and replace lost revenue.

Lenders must implement risk mitigation and servicing strategies, build internal restructuring capabilities, develop a market to sell distressed properties, and expand the product portfolio.

There will be a major recalibration of the office market over the next three years, forcing the nation to deal with a surge of zombie buildings and very stressed urban corridors. Given the stakes, property owners, cities, and lenders must begin working together to rethink these spaces."

I looked up zombie buildings in Denver, and Qwant handed me this page from our dear friends at BCG… https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/countering-the-surge-of-zombie-buildings

So everyone knows, no surprises, just cockblocking losses as much as possible.

There’s someone griping about Wikipedia on stonk right now, looks like a good time to shoot tgem a link to this… https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/18f46ib/i_do_not_concede_defeat/

It’s surprisingly easy. Only eerie part is waiting for it to be done the first time.

Answered above

From a Reddit post asking if he really said it…

I did a little research and this is what I found. Apparently, the quote may have been fabricated by Sydney Omarr in 1989, although it was inspired by Morgan’s actual interest in astrology. We know this thanks to renowned high-profile-client astrologer Evangeline Adams’s autobiography, The Bowl of Heaven, where she says the following:

I do know about the late J.P. Morgan’s belief in astrology, because – well, because I taught it to him. I read his horoscope many times, and furnished him during the last years of his life a regular service, explaining the changing position of the planets and their probable effect on politics, business, and the stock market. No further proof of his interest in the science is required beyond the fact that he renewed this service from year to year.

The first time he came to my studio, his attitude was frankly one of curiosity tinged with suspicion.I had a heavy Chinese screen in one corner of my studio, and I remember how Mr. Morgan pulled his huge frame out of his chair and looked curiously behind the screen before beginning the interview. But that attitude melted away at the first meeting. And, in his last years, he asked me from Egypt to join him and his party in the Orient, where he had gone on his famous yacht, the Corsair. His idea was to spend several months in a scientific investigation of the occult in those parts of the world where its practice reaches back into prehistoric time. I declined the invitation, not because I didn’t appreciate the opportunity, but because I preferred to pursue my own investigations. (p. 107-108).