To be honest, I found the screenshot elsewhere and it didn’t even occur to me that it was an onion article because of how real it sounds, but I guess it adds to the comedic effect.

I’ll add an acknowledgement and it’s URL, since I can’t switch the image. But hey, at least I didn’t post it in c/nottheonion!

Yaw

How do you suggest we ban all teens for social media? We already tried that, and the result was teens easily bypassing the verification through using game avatars, and pedophiles knowing exactly where to find the kids. It’s moronic and inefficient to keep making failed attempts at banning teens from social media.

Teens will always find a way to flock back to social media, and frankly social media companies may pull out of Australia if the eSafety commission attempts to brute force removing teens, because thats a substantial part of their market. Choosing to instead add a toggle for algorithms is heaps more constructive and be more effective.

The whole age verification thing was partly started BECAUSE of algorithms (but also pedophiles pretending that they want the kids to be safe), so isn’t it logical to make a simple way to allow those who don’t want to be force fed targeted slop to turn it off?

Interesting how a vast majority of the right wingers I know, including my dad, don’t research anything at all, and only rely on algorithms to give them right wing rage bait.

My dad for example said to me that “all these foreign exchange students are getting $50k grants for entering the country on MY taxes” after hearing it on TikTok, then I did the most minor research and found that it’s only for one of the states (I think either QLD or WA, can’t remember which though). I rebutted his claim by stating that it’s state legislation and has no basis in taking other state taxes nor much federal tax, and he gave me a long winded explanation basically just to say that I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Apparently getting force fed slop on TikTok and instagram reels makes you a prolific researcher, while actually researching makes you a bum or something.

Unrelated to algorithms but I opened Roblox yesterday after not playing for a long while and I found that they’ll give you a ‘free item’ if you do an age check

Disgusting, coercive bullshit just so kids can give their biometric data to American companies. Funny how the eSafety Commission managed to completely forget about the privacy rights of children, let alone those of adults, just so they can rush through their age verification legislation like the world depended on it.

I’m a flying, brittle, fuel inefficient vehicle zooming around in traffic attempting to not crash and fall apart.

For context, the game was “Hovercraft: build, fly, retry”

I am so fucked

It would be more fitting if it weee a credit card instead. At least with debit it’s only your money.

When I was in year 12 of high school last year, some students attempted to use ChatGPT to write their practice exams for them. Mind you, these practice exams are the same as proper state mandated exams, where there are to be zero electronics used whatsoever unless it’s a disability aid, but the practice ones are also just that, to practice your skills, not to write it off as some worthless obligation.

There were actually heaps more of these students who entirely used LLMs for their assignments, would be made to rewrite them because it’s AI written, then proceed to have ChatGPT write it again and pass it through a ‘humaniser’ which just made it unreadable. It’s alarming that these people are willing to stop using their mind at all just because some service from half way across the world wrote an essay better than they could before.

Crapless

One ad that really pisses me off is a Ford ad, where they say “get what you really want” followed with an explanation on one of their trucks. Haven’t seen the whole ad, because I’ve been getting what I really want, some fucking peace, quiet and be allowed to listen to music, by closing and reopening the Spotify app.

Ive also never wanted a truck or any other BS like that, although it makes sense why I get served it, since it’s apparently in my age category, since I don’t have personalised ads on.

I am also a time traveller. We may be the only ones experiencing Thursday in its glory

I swear, AMD and Microsoft are two brain cells competing for third place

Wait I thought that already happened

Wowza, nobody had foreseen this happening! Well, apart from everyone in the tech sector, and all who were laid off in almost every sector, and everyone else… ahh forget it!

:.|:; ?

So running a community forum on a decade old laptop, or someone using a hand-me-down phone to watch videos are equal to openAI’s stargate hyperscaler?

We don’t classify a laptop a data centre just because it was repurposed as a web server, and furthermore, devices are so powerful today that you could probably do the same on a smart watch.

Either you don’t know what a data centre is, or are intentionally skewing the definition of “data centre” to fit your snarky reply.

To make it more efficient, we should have as many people as possible doing the hole punching

For what reason?

Wait, didn’t he talk about the antichrist at a conference, and basically describe himself? Pretty fitting honestly