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“Lost Idealism” my ass. Everyone with two brain cells knew what zuck was from square-one. Play with the devil, get burned.

kmeisthax 2y ago
To steal/paraphrase from Cory Doctorow: "Facebook started as a website to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard graduates, and it only got worse from there."
- quantified 2y ago
  Zuck: I don't know why they trust me. Dumb f*cks [https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuckerberg-ims-confirmed-by-zuckerberg-the-new-yorker-2010-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...]
- LinuxBender 2y ago
  That's more of a meme though in fairness multiple things can be simultaneously true. The original purpose was to gather data from people and map who is friends with who. A live diary so to speak. It's original name was LifeLog. Think tanks said it was too on the nose so they cancelled it and shortly thereafter Zuk was on the news announcing TheFaceBook. [1] Most of these platforms came out of and were indirectly funded by the dark side of Stanford SRI. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]
  - piva00 2y ago
    As far as I know there was an earlier project called "Hot or Not" where Zuck and some others scraped Harvard's students roster to build.
    - dragonwriter 2y ago
      No, Hot or Not had no connection to Zuckerberg, and no connection to Harvard. You may be thinking of Zuckerberg’s Facesmash.
    - LinuxBender 2y ago
      It happened but it's not why Facebook was created. FB was a government project. I would call Hot or Not a side project.
  - hello_computer 2y ago
    Thank you LinuxBender for being a player character.
  - soraminazuki 2y ago
    That's a distinction without a difference whatsoever. It's the same man doing the same things.
- deleted 2y ago
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Vortigaunt 2y ago
Glad you reminded me of this: ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one? ZUCK: people just submitted it ZUCK: i don’t know why ZUCK: they “trust me” ZUCK: dumb fucks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...
soraminazuki 2y ago
Well, we know what Zuckerberg's idea of "lost idealism" is with his recent rants about there not being enough "masculine energy."

kmeisthax 2y ago

To steal/paraphrase from Cory Doctorow: "Facebook started as a website to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard graduates, and it only got worse from there."

quantified 2y ago
Zuck: I don't know why they trust me. Dumb f*cks [https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuckerberg-ims-confirmed-by-zuckerberg-the-new-yorker-2010-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...]
LinuxBender 2y ago
That's more of a meme though in fairness multiple things can be simultaneously true. The original purpose was to gather data from people and map who is friends with who. A live diary so to speak. It's original name was LifeLog. Think tanks said it was too on the nose so they cancelled it and shortly thereafter Zuk was on the news announcing TheFaceBook. [1] Most of these platforms came out of and were indirectly funded by the dark side of Stanford SRI. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]
- piva00 2y ago
  As far as I know there was an earlier project called "Hot or Not" where Zuck and some others scraped Harvard's students roster to build.
  - dragonwriter 2y ago
    No, Hot or Not had no connection to Zuckerberg, and no connection to Harvard. You may be thinking of Zuckerberg’s Facesmash.
  - LinuxBender 2y ago
    It happened but it's not why Facebook was created. FB was a government project. I would call Hot or Not a side project.
- hello_computer 2y ago
  Thank you LinuxBender for being a player character.
- soraminazuki 2y ago
  That's a distinction without a difference whatsoever. It's the same man doing the same things.
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Vortigaunt 2y ago

Glad you reminded me of this: ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one? ZUCK: people just submitted it ZUCK: i don’t know why ZUCK: they “trust me” ZUCK: dumb fucks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...

soraminazuki 2y ago

Well, we know what Zuckerberg's idea of "lost idealism" is with his recent rants about there not being enough "masculine energy."