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Meta gave 6 executives options worth up to $921M each, then cut 8,000 jobs after a record $56.3B quarter
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This comes after $8.03 billion from a one-time tax benefit tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which promised to "create jobs"
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At work, I’m surrounded by degreed people. And their downtime is often spent watching TikTok and other various shorts, some of which are Facebook Reels.
I think there’s 3? of us who read books instead.
Don’t underestimate the addiction factor in play here.
i decided to stop using my phone so much and to start reading instead. it was more difficult than i thought it would be because my focus ability was completely shot, lol. my mind would start to wander after a few seconds.
now that i'm on the other side, reading a good book makes me feel the way it did when i was a kid. anytime I had a spare minute i was reading a book. i hope that more people wake up to their phone/dopamine addiction and make the decision to change.
And yet here we are on Lemmy. It's the same addiction just without the corporate control.
40 years ago it was BBS's and fidoNet.
Yea, but I rationalize it in that there are real people on the other side. Not an ad-adjacent short created to serve an artificial engagement algorithm ( by AI or otherwise ) that isn’t actively engaging anyone. There’s trickery there, to make it seem so, but it’s not. It’s passive and layered.
I assume you have a life, a job. Maybe you’re drinking your coffee right now and looking out at your trees too. And we’re discussing random life shit, as people do.
People. Not an algorithm. Not AI. Or so I tell myself.
this place is turning in to reddit.
i check lemmy maybe two or three times a day in 3 or 4 minute increments just to browse the headlines. the time i spend reading or off my phone in general is several hours per day.
Social media garbage and engagement chum still leaks in here, too. People simply cannot help themselves.
But it’s made me check Lemmy less. I didn’t come here to see Blue Checkmarks on the front page.
The difference here is that it doesn't reward engagement. The reward is the engagement.
But still, it’s funneling in content where the premise is gaming the system for engagement. It brings all that toxicity here, even if it doesn’t directly affect the original source on Twitter or wherever.
A great example is this, #5 on Lemmy.world’s front page for me:
https://lemmy.world/post/48552575
And it’s from a freaking Tech Bro. A straight up engagement farmer, if not bot written itself. Is the irony not obvious?
Why are you blaming the people being used rather than the shitbags using the people ?
Or are you speaking of the addictive qualities of money and power uncoupled by compassion and empathy ?
I’m speaking of the intentionally addictive nature of social media and the short.
Addictions can consume anyone, even the educated. Though unless it’s food, going cold turkey is always a possibility.
We all still have choices. In terms of dopamine, those dopamine hits are available elsewhere. Shorts aren’t the only source.
Feels like watching ads to me. But I’m old, so I know what an ad break (usually 3-4 ads in a row, unskippable) on tv felt like. It’s almost the same head feel watching TikTok’s as those ad breaks from back in the day.
I’m not sure why you’re angry at me about shorts. I didn’t create the advertisement adjacent format, nor do I encourage its consumption. Pointing it out is like saying: Look! Sky! Blue!