Financial Times claims that Meta (Facebook) is planning to fill its social networks with "official" AI bots — fake people will have profile pictures, they will share photos, make posts, and engage with others.

According to their testing, average users no longer able to determine who are bot anyway.

Which means, “dead internet theory” is no longer a theory! And foil-hat people were right again.

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According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

The explosive growth underscores a recoil against Meta’s decision to roll back protections against hateful speech and inflammatory political content.

Previously they shocked public with intentions to make AI driven accounts that will interact with real people to boost activity. And blamed users for it — real people no longer want to interact with others on Facebook.

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TikTok is banned in the US. But since the country doesn't have an efficient targeted system, they also accidentally blocked Marvel Snap and some other stuff along the way.

With all my personal negative feelings towards TikTok as a brain rot platform, it was extremely efficient for indie games marketing. And it seems that Trump is planning to restore it later on.

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The most lunatic idea is to believe that you can reverse time and get your own project back in its good old times form.

People have changed significantly: they are overwhelmed, tired, and have no will to make content like in old times. But Facebook can be improved still — stop showing random groups and people in the feed where actual friends were supposed to be.

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It's been like this for a decade, folks!

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Lumon Industries from Severance now has its own LinkedIn page. Can we stop for a second and appreciate the irony that imaginary company made that way to represent all horrors of office work looks absolutely normal on LinkedIn?

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It seems that Meta tries to run out of candidates on key markets by banning all previously fired people in their blacklist.

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Why am I not surprised?

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LinkedIn is in general a very odd place to search for a job, but it's even worse than I thought:

They add hidden skills for you. Those skills are not visible in your profile, but they are used when someone is searching for candidates or when you are searching for a job.

In my case, API and OOP are clearly not relevant to my job, but who cares, if by adding these hidden skills LN makes money — by showing me promoted programming jobs.

I would not be mad if those skills would appear in my profile, so I can simply delete them as irrelevant ones. But the only way to remove them is to contact the support. Those skills are just not among ones you can edit.

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