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Another new and exciting Twitter feature—full page pop-up ads begging you to pay them for a blue checkmark!


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MindzEye said:
I seriously hope this spreads. We need a re evaluation of what the "tech" industry actually is. The largest "tech" firms don't really build anything. They write algos to keep our attention engaged and sell advertising.
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100%.

From Chat GPT


Here is the approximate average annual labor productivity growth (output per hour worked) in the U.S. by decade:
  • 1950s: ~3.4%
  • 1960s: ~3.2%
  • 1970s: ~1.9%
  • 1980s: ~1.4%
  • 1990s: ~2.2%
  • 2000s: ~2.6% (early 2000s productivity surge, but slowed post-Great Recession)
  • 2010s: ~1.0%
These figures represent broad trends and can vary slightly depending on the dataset or methodology used.
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I wonder why the invention of a technology that gives is access to all the world's knowledge that fits in out pocket, and allows us to communicate instantly to anyone on earth, would have such limited impact on our productivity (and negative impact on our happiness)? Because it's been co-opted by digital corporations that are in the same addiction game as drug dealers. AI going down the same road.
 
She does actually seem like a cool person, but some of the things that go on around her are just pure #Murica Idiocracy... including her rise to fame in the first place.
 
axlsalinger said:
She does actually seem like a cool person, but some of the things that go on around her are just pure #Murica Idiocracy... including her rise to fame in the first place.
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She's a participant in the grift economy, which is a huge portion of the economy at this point. If you get a chip and a chair in the grift economy, you're dumb if you don't play a few hands and see what happens.

Everything is either full of shit or predatory now, and it's all legal.
 
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