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Late Night Open Thread: When Peter ‘Bathory’ Thiel Abandons the Zuckerverse…

by Anne Laurie|  February 11, 202212:38 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Glibertarianism, Open Threads, Tech News and Issues

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Peter Thiel is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta. The Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to ex-President Donald Trump has been an increasingly polarizing figure among the company’s directors. https://t.co/2rAQZFMHty

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 8, 2022

A bad day for Facebook is probably a good day for democracy

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 4, 2022

It’s bad new for both Mark Zuckerberg and our democracy…

if peter thiel is leaving facebook who’s going to ruin the entire planet just kidding the answer is everybody else at facebook

— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) February 7, 2022

i think this is right, but a key difference is that MSFT could be boring and stupid and terrible for several years until they got their shit together. FB doesn’t have legacy enterprise shit every company on earth will keep buying while they fuck around. https://t.co/PTQQkSffXr

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 3, 2022

they’re absolutely still printing money, no doubt, but if they let zuckerberg continue to call all their shots, they’re going to run into serious trouble.

MSFT is fun to make fun of (esp. as a longtime mac / ios person), but the whole cinematic universe of O365 / azure / BI products is very forward thinking for enterprise business software. i haven’t seen even any *inkling* that facebook has anything similar for consumers.

not for nothing, but also, the MSFT experience on mac is finally now mostly not bad for most people, after several centuries of it being absolutely awful.

my crackpot hot take is that facebook is a lot more like walmart than microsoft.

oh no, not extremely belated and measured consideration of consumer privacy! anything but that! https://t.co/ejoOSvVA9P

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) February 4, 2022


https://t.co/RjuT7YFucV pic.twitter.com/Giq0pFTUNz

— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 3, 2022

Five years after "pivot to FB video" killed all our favorite websites…

— Mike Puterbaugh (@mike_puterbaugh) February 3, 2022

what if – and this is crazy but hear me out – what if facebook stopped letting their users gradually kill themselves off with horse paste and natural immunity groups https://t.co/PKzZhFkosL

— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 3, 2022

huh, they may be in worse shape than i thought. https://t.co/nCmXE2IlVs

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 3, 2022

loooooooool the one person i know who works at facebook just updated their linkedin profile for the first time in years

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 3, 2022

pic.twitter.com/gmvhPaqaco

— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) February 4, 2022

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    February 11, 2022 at 12:56 am

    O       O

    Venn diagram. On the left, “Things holding a picoscintilla of interest” On the right, “Facebook.”

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    February 11, 2022 at 1:00 am

    US-Czech women’s hockey [haakie] is one tough match. 3rd period, which I think means the second-halfish. Nail-biter.

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 11, 2022 at 1:01 am

    omg, that last tweet ?

    Here, have a Samwise—it’s been a while.

    He just loves laying on things pic.twitter.com/damqdGes5P

    — ☕️ Tynan ? (@TynanPants) February 11, 2022

  4. 4.

    Damien

    February 11, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Facebook is pretty quickly becoming social media’s Fox News and not just because of the whole fascism thing. For YEARS their expansions have followed a pattern where they enter a new market, dominate as people flock to join what they had heard so much about, then some measure drop out and some portion stays on the platform, but they constantly lost people and made up the ground by expanding.

    Well, where do they expand from here? Nowhere. Now they’re tainted, and they’re relying on a lot of the people they still have, buuuuuuut…..

    They’re the oldest social media platform, in terms of their participants, and getting older all the time. So they’re gonna be advertising Goldline pretty soon, because Zuckerberg isn’t some business genius, he came up with one thing that hit at just the right moment and now that he’s got to actually innovate off of that? Nah.

    I hope the whole enterprise burns.

  5. 5.

    frosty

    February 11, 2022 at 1:16 am

    Yeah, FB sucks but I can still keep in touch with friends, and it helped me reconnect with some.

    That being said, a large number of them have dropped off, and by now a third to half of what I see is “we think you’d like this” stuff. No, no I wouldn’t. It’s pretty clear they’re pushing crap for links. A great way to kill their brand and drive even more people away.

  6. 6.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 11, 2022 at 1:17 am

    @trollhattan:

    The U.S. uniforms are dreadful. The Czechs were game through two periods, but they ran out of gas in the third, and it showed, U.S. ran them ragged with pressure.

  7. 7.

    frosty

    February 11, 2022 at 1:17 am

    @Damien: I agree with everything you wrote.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 11, 2022 at 1:19 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Here, have a Samwise

    Such a handsome boi.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    February 11, 2022 at 1:20 am

    Watched season one of The Romeo Section on Prime. Completely at a loss as to whether I liked it or not.

  10. 10.

    different-church-lady

    February 11, 2022 at 1:22 am

    Zuck himself is becoming a poorly aged thing.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    February 11, 2022 at 1:32 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Yup, it seemed like two more periods vs. Canada and then they broke through. Hope it means they got the fail-to-score-despite-a-jillion-shots monkey off their backs.

    Finland/Japan will be tough, whichever.

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    February 11, 2022 at 1:37 am

    @HumboldtBlue: The white ones are much better.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 11, 2022 at 1:49 am

    @trollhattan:

    My brother and I talked about that against Canada, the U.S. had good pressure, moved the puck well but did not score and against Canada you have to turn that pressure into goals, or they will slay you. As is their wont.

    @different-church-lady:

    Much better, the black and blue combo is just fugly.

  14. 14.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 11, 2022 at 1:56 am

    Men’s curling just beat the Brits.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    February 11, 2022 at 2:26 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Too cute?

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    February 11, 2022 at 2:55 am

    @different-church-lady:  Zuck has always reminded me a cake that isn’t quite baked, isn’t quite finished. I think it’s a combination of the pasty skin and the eyes that look like he borrowed them from an alien.

  17. 17.

    Damien

    February 11, 2022 at 3:26 am

    @opiejeanne:  Alien eyes? As Rosemary said about him after she birthed him: he has his father’s eyes

  18. 18.

    Ruckus

    February 11, 2022 at 5:25 am

    @opiejeanne:

    More like cake batter that has just been stored in the fridge, uncovered, for 30 yrs, which isn’t the worst part, it’s the fact that the owner (Mark Z) thinks that a fridge that makes insanely loud noises, and has for the last 20 yrs is still OK because the light comes on when you open the door. Of course he doesn’t open it often because it smells rather unusually fowl and he can’t be bothered to give a damn about if it’s still good because he’s counting his money, which just got easier because he just lost a somewhat modest amount of it. It must be nice to be a wealthy child in an adult body.

  19. 19.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    February 11, 2022 at 5:31 am

     to focus on video products

    don’t see how they can make a dent in Youtube’s and Tik-Tok’s market share.

  20. 20.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    February 11, 2022 at 5:35 am

    My brother loved FB to connect with extended family, people he went to school with and worked with. But he got offended at all the brain dead disinformation (ie moon landing faked. etc.) and eventually stopped cold.

  21. 21.

    Geminid

    February 11, 2022 at 5:44 am

    There is a very good interview with Stacey Abrams out in atlanta.capitalbnews.org, titled “Stacey Abrams and her vision for ‘One Georgia’.”

    The interview covers election challenges (and how Abrams intends to overcome them), crime and criminal justice problems, Donald Trump’s role in the Georgia Governor race, and a proposed permitless concealed carry law (Abrams calls it “criminal carry”). Great stuff from a superb communicator.

  22. 22.

    Geminid

    February 11, 2022 at 6:02 am

    Venus sure is bright these mornings. Getting ready for Valentine’s day.

  23. 23.

    Geminid

    February 11, 2022 at 6:30 am

           An 11 year old girl with Down’s Syndrome was bullied by other students at school in North Macedonia, after parents complained she was in the same class with their children.

    This week the President walked her to school.

    [Photos].

    @Goodable February 10.

    Goodable News is an interesting site I found on Mangy Jay’s Twitter account. It specializes in good news, like the North Macedonian President taking up for the 11 year-old girl, or Scottish people planting trees along their salmon streams (they hope to plant a million!).

  24. 24.

    SFAW

    February 11, 2022 at 8:03 am

    @HumboldtBlue: 
    I didn’t know hair “care” was an Olympic-level sport.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    February 11, 2022 at 8:06 am

    @opiejeanne:

    So he’s sorta like the love-child of Hugh Hewitt and … I dunno … maybe Margaret Dumont?

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    February 11, 2022 at 8:07 am

    Re: that last tweet: who TF is Kevin Currie, and why should anyone care what he writes (going forward, that is)?

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    February 11, 2022 at 8:19 am

    @SFAW

    Same holds for roughly 98.6% of the tweets posted throughout this joint.

    ;)

  28. 28.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 11, 2022 at 8:23 am

    Facebook business models is shoving posts from other users the logarithm knows will piss you off in the hopes of starting constant flame wars and then selling the resultant traffic to advertiser (because angry people so into shopping). So I suppose the Wallmart equivalency works.

  29. 29.

    Kristine

    February 11, 2022 at 8:46 am

    I thought FB wanted to move to video a few years ago but something happened to drive them to set it aside. I seem to recall that advertisers complained  and since ads were their income stream, they postponed.

    I have a friends-only personal page and author pages that folks still follow. I’m been trying to steer readers to my website instead but that’s a work in progress.

  30. 30.

    Kevin

    February 11, 2022 at 9:21 am

    FB lost me years ago when I realized 5% of what I saw was from humans I am “friends” with. The other 95% was crap their algorithm came up with I could read anywhere else but was usually irrelevant.

  31. 31.

    Mike in NC

    February 11, 2022 at 10:31 am

    His face just screams “Nazi”.

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    February 11, 2022 at 11:29 am

    @SFAW: Margarine. Hugh Hewitt and a stick of margarine.

  33. 33.

    Michael Cain

    February 11, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    @Kevin:

    There are several friends and family members who are dedicated to FB, so I’ll be keeping.  However, I have a piece of JavaScript that’s grown over the years that I run against every page I download from everywhere.  It fixes fonts and sizes and spacing to be consistent and pleasing (at least to my eye).  I’ve checked things out and I think this next week I’ll add to it to suppress the “Sponsored” things FB inserts.

  34. 34.

    Unique uid

    February 11, 2022 at 3:25 pm

    @Michael Cain: ….However, I have a piece of JavaScript that’s grown over the years that I run against every page I download from everywhere. It fixes fonts and sizes and spacing to be consistent and pleasing…..

    That sounds interesting.  Is it (or similar) documented somewhere I could read more about it?

    Can you share the code?

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    February 12, 2022 at 8:58 am

    http://Atlanta.capitalbnews.org staceyabrams

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