2k18 what's the worst enormous tech company?

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my association with these kinds of home listening devices to amazon is apparently already outdated

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/report-google-home-overtook-amazon-echo-in-total-shipments-last-quarter/

obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link

Amazon echo returned after it announced unprompted in silent middle of the night "here are some Santana songs" & cranked Black Magic Woman.

— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) May 23, 2017

ciderpress, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link

i do that sometimes

brimstead, Friday, 25 May 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link

"Amazon echo returned after it announced unprompted in silent middle of the night "here are some Santana songs" & cranked Black Magic Woman."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tfI9tTzlI0

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 May 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link

personally i'm down with santana abraxas but if my amazon echo isn't hip enough to know "black magic woman" is a fleetwood mac song it has no place in my home

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 May 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link

A Washington-based advocacy group that claims to be a voice for tech startups is actually a sock puppet for Google, according to a new report that itself is funded by a rival. https://t.co/25QAYcFtom by @ddayen

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) May 31, 2018

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 May 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link

frequent Trump-suer, the Attorney-General of Washington, is suing Google and Facebook on a small scale for destroying Western democracy on a major scale

we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link

I feel like we need an opposite thread to this so we can congratulate Microsoft on saving open source

El Tomboto, Monday, 4 June 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link

Is that what they’ve done

valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 4 June 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link

I can’t tell but what a clusterfuck

El Tomboto, Monday, 4 June 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link

Fucking cognitive dissonance playing hell with me right now.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 June 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link

Due to Facebook and Google not complying with WA electoral law on political ad disclosure, the state passed a rule clarifying that this applies to digital ads.

It "takes effect" today (the law has been in effect since 1972). As of today, Google will no longer take ads aimed at influencing ballot measures or elections....... in Washington State only.

we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link

yay democracy is saved

and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Fuck Google, still the worst ever

Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:10 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Google still the worst ever, even Trump thinks so

Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 30 August 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Due to Facebook and Google not complying with WA electoral law on political ad disclosure, the state passed a rule clarifying that this applies to digital ads.

It "takes effect" today (the law has been in effect since 1972). As of today, Google will no longer take ads aimed at influencing ballot measures or elections....... in Washington State only.

― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, June 8, 2018 3:28 AM (three months ago)

yay democracy is saved

― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Friday, June 8, 2018 3:31 AM (three months ago)

...records from the state Public Disclosure Commission and local candidates show that despite the company's self-imposed ad ban, Google has in fact sold more than $6,000 in political ads aimed at Washington's elections since it announced the ban on June 7.

The majority of those ads were purchased by Republican State Senator Joe Fain of south King County, who has reported spending $5,000 on Google ads since July.

...Republican State Representative Vicki Kraft['s] campaign finance disclosures say she bought a total of $933.74 worth of Google ads since July.

...Unlike Google, Facebook made clear it would continue selling Washington state political ads despite the lawsuit and the newly clarified state regulations.

Public Disclosure Commission records indicate that so far this year, Washington state campaigns have spent more than $90,000 on Facebook ads.

Gibing The Amethyst (sic), Thursday, 20 September 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link

And today both Google and Facebook are going to the state capital to lobby for their ability to undermine democracy to be legalised.

Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

want to read an epic thread about how bad it apparently was to work on google+?

Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was.

I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one.

— Morgan (@morganknutson) October 9, 2018

it seems to have picked up traction on twitter and it's really juicy and all that shit. however, i guess i'm the lone dissenter who thinks "fuck google, but also fuck THIS GUY"

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link

it's depressing as living fuck to read through. poor guy who had to get paid only $115K per year + $100K in stock, and there were dumb people that he had to work with, and people that didn't appreciate him

fuck off morgan

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link

i'm sick of reading 100-post essays on twitter. get a website.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 15 October 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link

you are not the lone "also fuck this guy," there are at least two of us

louise ck (milo z), Monday, 15 October 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link

You didn't stop working while your grandmother was dying, not because you'd get fired because of it but because your Google project was so important to you? My sympathy is minimal.

louise ck (milo z), Monday, 15 October 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link

Lol that guy is an incredibly pompous spoiled brat who sucks

El Tomboto, Monday, 15 October 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link

I can hardly imagine the level of self-regard & precious entitlement required to begin writing that thread. NOBODY CARES WHERE YOU CAME FROM

El Tomboto, Monday, 15 October 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link

Fuck that guy. I hope everything he touches is destroyed and forgotten.

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link

posts # ONE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT and ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE on that thread:

On my way out, Greg tried to chit-chat and shake my hand. It took everything in me not to tell him to go fuck himself.

I walked past his extended hand, and said “Nah, man.”

— Morgan (@morganknutson) October 15, 2018


He said, “Pfftt, really!?”

I turned around and looked him the eye as I backed out of the door.

“Yeah, really.”

The end -

— Morgan (@morganknutson) October 15, 2018

meanwhile, a bystander who witnessed this interaction cough-whispered "FUCK BOTH OF YOUUUUUUU"

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link

it's strange that he thinks that thread makes google look bad and him look good

there isn't even much about google+ being a misguided product in it, it's mostly just complaining about your boss publicly

iatee, Monday, 15 October 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link

it's the replies that get me. almost universally they praise him for being a wonderful storyteller

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link

i haven't been to california since i was 16 but i am going to try to stay at least 1000 miles away from san francisco for the rest of my life

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link

that thread reads exactly like something I’d expect a guy with this avi to write tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1035062189353185282/GFHibt_J_400x400.jpg

himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link

Facebook's argument to Washington is that they should be allowed to continue to influence elections without disclosing anything at all about their actions and the money they take for them, because this regulation gives them immunity from any state law anywhere ever.

My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link

That argument only serves their interests as long as elected officials feel like Section 230 works in their favor. What a stupid fucking mess.

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link

Trends in my FB circle is that people are posting (24hour?) goodbye posts before permanently deleting their account (3 friends in the past 36 hours).

At least with Friendster and MySpace the buzz just faded away, this is more of a toxic amputation. This combined with an nearly 90 day swoon seems pretty real to me. I spent last weekend with my senior-aged folks and even they aren't as attached to the site as much as they were in the past few years.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link

ban facebook

1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link

I had a friend who quit facebook for good about 6 years ago and never looked back

we actually write handwritten letters back and forth now, lol

frogbs, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

Usu use pigeon post now tbh

F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft said Friday that it would sell the military and intelligence agencies whatever advanced technologies they needed “to build a strong defense,” just months after Google told the Pentagon it would refuse to provide artificial intelligence products that could build more accurate drones or compete with China for next-generation weapons.

The announcement, made quietly in a small, town-hall-style meeting with the software giant’s leadership on Thursday, then planned to be published on a blog Friday afternoon, underscores the radically different paths these leading American technology firms are taking as they struggle with their role in creating a new generation of cyberweapons to help, and perhaps someday replace, American warriors.

But the divergent paths taken by Google and Microsoft also underscore concerns inside the American defense and intelligence establishments about how the United States will take on a rising China.

The Chinese government has, in just the past two years, set goals for dominance in the next decade in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other technologies that it believes will allow its military and intelligence agencies to surpass those of the United States. Pentagon officials have questioned how committed domestic technology companies are to keeping the United States on the leading edge, the way Raytheon, Boeing, IBM and McDonnell Douglas did in the Cold War.

Google encountered fierce opposition from young engineers to the company’s participation in “Project Maven,” a program to improve how drones recognize and select their targets. Google declared a few weeks ago it would not bid on a multibillion dollar contract to provide the Pentagon with “cloud services” to store and process vast amounts of data. Amazon, for its part, appears willing to supply its services to the military and intelligence agencies, and it runs the information cloud services that power the Central Intelligence Agency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/politics/ai-microsoft-pentagon.html

Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

Whenever there's a big Google story in the news, I always think of this, the funniest thing ever written about Google, from the New Yorker profile of the writers of "Silicon Valley" https://t.co/RAfCJITMOg pic.twitter.com/y48bNI1NeK

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 25, 2018

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link

I've been thinking about it, and here's my ranking of tech companies by how evil they are:

1. Amazon
2. Google
3. Facebook
3. Uber (tied)

— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) November 13, 2018

mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link

BTW, after watching this my vote for most evil is FB.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-asked-police-in-spain-to-intervene-warehouse-strike-2018-11

Amazon asked police in Spain to intervene in a mass strike at a warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid, according to local reports.

Amazon wanted a police presence at the warehouse to ensure that productivity remained high within the fulfilment center, while workers staged their protest outside, according to Spanish newspaper El Confidencial.

A source at Spanish union CCOO, which helped coordinate the strikes, told Business Insider that Amazon "wanted to send the police inside the warehouse to push people to work."

Amazon strongly denied the claims and called it "the worst kind of misinformation."

j., Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions.

The cache of documents is alleged to contain significant revelations about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is claimed they include confidential emails between senior executives, and correspondence with Zuckerberg.

Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link

bring iiit

alomar lines, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

An open letter to @Facebook, @Twitter, @Instagram and @Experian regarding algorithms and my son's birth: pic.twitter.com/o8SuLMuLNv

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) December 11, 2018

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/what-sund4r-pichai-couldnt-explain-to-congress/577903/

Google’s admittedly liberal employees, Republicans said, must, somehow, be tinkering with search rankings. “You’re so surrounded by liberality that hates conservatism, hates people who really love our constitution and the freedoms it has afforded to people like you,” Texas Representative Louie Gohmert told Pichai. “You don’t even recognize it. You’re like a blind man who doesn’t even know what light looks like.”

j., Wednesday, 12 December 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link

i don't exactly feel sorry pichai, but getting lectured about the truth by Louie Gohmert when you can't really respond must be the most agonizing thing on earth

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link

Where would Alice Walker even find antisemitic conspiracy theories? Well... https://t.co/lMU8h9ftWN pic.twitter.com/JdzpdWAa3Z

— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) December 17, 2018

maura, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link


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