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What cracked me up about this is how many "FB Friends" of mine think FB did it on purpose. "They were erasing data" is one the theories I was told.

by oblib 5y ago

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a-dub 5y ago
THE SINGULARITY HAPPENED IN FB'S AI RESEARCH GROUPS, IT WAS A LAST DITCH EFFORT TO PREVENT IT FROM ESCAPING!
- kongin 5y ago
  I'd read a short story about it.
  - selfhoster11 5y ago
    Do you remember what story it was?
inb4_cancelled 5y ago
"They were erasing data" is afaik the current Qanon explanation after they slowly realized this wasn't the "ten days of darkness".
hnbad 5y ago
I find that the type of person who thinks FB did this intentionally (either to "erase data" or as a distraction) vastly overestimates the impact of whistleblowers. There have been ex-FB employees publicly accusing the company of enabling foreign political interference in the US, lynching mobs forming via WhatsApp, governments spreading misinformation, not to mention gross privacy abuses by its own employees. Nothing has fundamentally changed. Heck, nothing fundamentally changed after Wikileaks' Collateral Murder video (in fact, there have now been reports that the supposed retaliatory precision strike in Afghanistan actually killed an aid worker and his children and this too changes nothing) and nothing fundamentally changed after the Snowden leaks. Obama literally went on public television and admitted to torture and nothing fundamentally changed. As much as us nerds tend to think otherwise, information on its own changes nothing. Scandals like this are just another piece of outrage fuel to be consumed on social media and to be liked, shared and subscribed to. Without actually organizing and defining solutions rather than just the problems, nothing fundamentally changes. Otherwise the best you can hope for is the POTUS reading off a script while making a concerned face or Congress passing a toothless bill before things return to normal.
jrootabega 5y ago
I heard it was a lawnmower man scenario.
partiallypro 5y ago
I unironically heard/read this from nuts on both the Left and the Right. As if Facebook would risk that much money to take their services offline for 7 hours.

What cracked me up about this is how many "FB Friends" of mine think FB did it on purpose. "They were erasing data" is one the theories I was told.

by oblib 5y ago

What cracked me up about this is how many "FB Friends" of mine think FB did it on purpose. "They were erasing data" is one the theories I was told.

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a-dub 5y ago

THE SINGULARITY HAPPENED IN FB'S AI RESEARCH GROUPS, IT WAS A LAST DITCH EFFORT TO PREVENT IT FROM ESCAPING!

kongin 5y ago
I'd read a short story about it.
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  Do you remember what story it was?

inb4_cancelled 5y ago

"They were erasing data" is afaik the current Qanon explanation after they slowly realized this wasn't the "ten days of darkness".

hnbad 5y ago

I find that the type of person who thinks FB did this intentionally (either to "erase data" or as a distraction) vastly overestimates the impact of whistleblowers. There have been ex-FB employees publicly accusing the company of enabling foreign political interference in the US, lynching mobs forming via WhatsApp, governments spreading misinformation, not to mention gross privacy abuses by its own employees. Nothing has fundamentally changed. Heck, nothing fundamentally changed after Wikileaks' Collateral Murder video (in fact, there have now been reports that the supposed retaliatory precision strike in Afghanistan actually killed an aid worker and his children and this too changes nothing) and nothing fundamentally changed after the Snowden leaks. Obama literally went on public television and admitted to torture and nothing fundamentally changed. As much as us nerds tend to think otherwise, information on its own changes nothing. Scandals like this are just another piece of outrage fuel to be consumed on social media and to be liked, shared and subscribed to. Without actually organizing and defining solutions rather than just the problems, nothing fundamentally changes. Otherwise the best you can hope for is the POTUS reading off a script while making a concerned face or Congress passing a toothless bill before things return to normal.

jrootabega 5y ago

I heard it was a lawnmower man scenario.

partiallypro 5y ago

I unironically heard/read this from nuts on both the Left and the Right. As if Facebook would risk that much money to take their services offline for 7 hours.