Facebook, Amazon and Firefox

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Come take a free tour at an Amazon fulfillment center and see what our warehouses are really like. Check out the locations and reserve your spot online. #AmazonFCTours

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) August 1, 2019

Thread gets super weird with defensive employees (bots?).

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Totally Not a Bot

Nope, I am not a robot mam. I was just sharing something from the FC that are all from me and my experience. That would be a crazy technology to artificialize thoughts.

technology to artificialize thoughts ftw

[JoeP]

Which is unique phrase - all Gooooogle hits relate to that "ambassador" comment.

[JoeP]

You're literally paid to say this lol pic.twitter.com/TIO4YK7woL

— BaronHaynes (@baronhaynes) August 14, 2019

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Shout out to the creator of the pear:

Hey, I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my ebook thought they were helping, but please don’t do that. That just means there’s a quality warning on Amazon’s sale’s page. It’s super not helpful, particularly when the issue is vernacular English.

— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) December 24, 2019

Thrad

[lisarea]

So people are seeing some kind of thing on amazon dot com where they can do volunteer proofreading for amazon dot com, and they think that's a reasonable thing to do. To volunteer free proofreading to amazon dot com?

I get that maybe they think they're helping the authors, but even if that were the case, and it were the authors requesting this instead of amazon dot com, "LOL My mother was a proofreader, so it is my mission to undermine professional proofreaders by providing my own amateur proofreading services for free."

There are actual charitable organizations that need volunteers, and instead people are volunteering for amazon dot com.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Jeff Bezos on track to become first man to steal a trillion dollars from his employees - The Beaverton

[JoeP]

[JoeP]

Facebook blocks and bans users for sharing Guardian article showing Aboriginal men in chains | Facebook | The Guardian

While I stand by my earlier comment that Facebook is almost certainly deliberately messing up to try to persuade people it's impossible to do moderation at scale, I like the conclusion of the above article: reduce the scale by breaking Facebook up.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

.@neilYoungNYA is done with #Facebook and #Google. #neilyoung pic.twitter.com/h4V4G83dCe

— FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting (@friendscb) August 13, 2020

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

As we celebrate Prime Day, let us not forget the real reason for the season. Let us not forget his sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/RGka0gFEZ5

— Steven Spohn (@stevenspohn) October 13, 2020

[lisarea]

OK, so if you have any of those godforsaken Amazon devices and yet somehow are not OK with having the wealthiest man on the planet mooch your bandwidth, and you don't trust when Amazon tells you they're not going to snoop on your data, you may want to turn off "Amazon Sidewalk," as it's rolling out enabled by default.

What Is Amazon Sidewalk... And Why Is It On Your Echo Smart Speaker

Or don't, if you want to help grease up that slippery slope.

[Kyuss Apollo]

I had to update the Alexa app to shut it off. If you are running an older version the option to disable Sidewalk isn't even there.

Not sure how this is supposed to "simplify" reconnecting my dots and echoes when they lose connection to my router, one of the supposed "selling points" of letting Sidewalk run. My speakers lose connection fairly regularly but then they reconnect on their own after a minute or two.

Alexa insists she isn't spying on me either, but then she gets really defensive when I confront her her about it.

[Kyuss Apollo]

[Kyuss Apollo]

Echo 4th gen...


Is it a receptacle for Sargon?


Or a Romulan cloaking device?


Both, probably.

[viscousmemories]

I've been unable to activate my Echo on the Airbnb host's network for some reason, so I've had to pick up my phone every time I want to know the outside temperature, hear music, look up the definition of a word, or find out the hours a shop is open. I had forgotten how hard life is for some people.

[JoeP]

There's thread for that, vm

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Amazon’s next headquarters is a glass poop emoji covered in trees https://t.co/oS3sY7Md0l pic.twitter.com/DBj4xE5CL3

— The Verge (@verge) February 3, 2021

[JoeP]

With the right interior lighting ...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say

[fragment]

The Australian government wants tech companies to negotiate with news companies over payments for content shared on tech company sites. So Facebook decided to bar news from being shared in Australia. Only they cast the net way too wide, and blocked government websites during the vaccine rollout. as well as other government pages, charity websites, satire sites etc. Oh, and one of Facebook's own pages about itself.

Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages | Facebook | The Guardian

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by fragment

The Australian government wants tech companies to negotiate with news companies over payments for content shared on tech company sites. So Facebook decided to bar news from being shared in Australia. Only they cast the net way too wide, and blocked government websites during the vaccine rollout. as well as other government pages, charity websites, satire sites etc. Oh, and one of Facebook's own pages about itself.

Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages | Facebook | The Guardian

I am okay with this.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

'Time to reactivate MySpace': the day Australia woke up to a Facebook news blackout | Facebook | The Guardian

Even for a company that specialises in PR disasters, Facebook has excelled with its Australian blackout | Facebook | The Guardian

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Facebook is gambling Australia can't live without it. Imagine if we prove them wrong | Lenore Taylor | Opinion | The Guardian

Canada vows to follow Australia with new law after Facebook bans news