@dang would there be any possibility of creating a view that hides posts and comments by accounts newer than, say, Jan 1 2026? Similar to how https://news.ycombinator.com/classic works (only showing votes from the oldest accounts)?
I know this is unfair to prospective new community members, but I'm unsure of other good methods to filter out AI bots at scale. Would certainly welcome other ideas.
For what it's worth, your original comment is a little hard to parse, particularly because you say "our pilot deployment" which makes it sound like you were involved in deploying the cameras. Combined with your realpolitik comment about knowing your neighbors want them, I think several people are confused about your opinions and what you ended up doing to fight the cameras.
I wonder how much our understanding of past language is affected by survivorship bias? Most text would have been written by a highly-educated elite, and most of what survives is what we have valued and prized over the centuries.
For instance, this line in the 1800s passage:
> Hunger, that great leveller, makes philosophers of us all, and renders even the meanest dish agreeable.
This definitely sounds like the 1800s to me, but part of that is the romance of the idea expressed. I wonder what Twitter would have been like back then, for instance, especially if the illiterate had speech-to-text.
There's also a lot of historical writing out there that's more or less the shorthand scribblings of shopkeepers, foremen, and low-level clerks, so it's not all flowery prose. There's even surviving Egyptian hieroglyphics that are more or less just work logs, and they're quite different than the painted ones in the tombs. Then there's the graffiti that's all over Pompeii.
So about 1 in 10? Doesn’t seem that terrible to me. Especially when many of them are in response to questions about his work, and he’s answering with a link to a different post.
Fair enough - I didn’t turn the sound on for the video. The premise of the sketch seemed to fit the rest of the slimy stuff in the feed, which is why I figured that video in particular got recommended.
I mostly included it because of the absurd question Meta suggested I ask their AI.
Interesting. I wonder if the phrasing as "do you ever use this platform" leads to this result. I could definitely believe more 30-49 year olds log in every so often for Marketplace etc., but would expect DAU to be lower than 50+. But maybe that's just more of the same bias you describe.
Well, I haven't really used any Meta platforms for at least 5 years, so I don't think that's how they're deciding what to serve me.
I could definitely believe that I used to click on more pictures of girls than boys back in high school and college when I actually used Facebook. But they would have been real pictures of people I was friends with.
To your point, I'm sure if I used the product more, the algorithm would get "better" according to what I engaged with.
Yeah, this makes sense. It does sort of imply that new users would just see a bunch of garbage, which you'd think isn't ideal. On the other hand, how many new users could possibly still be signing up for Facebook? So maybe it's not a problem as they just manage the decline.
It's nonsensical rage/click baiting garbage. You are the product, not the user.
Anybody who hasn't used FB in a long time almost certainly has 100s if not 1000s of posts from friends and family that they missed. Instead of this garbage it should be "Hey, we haven't seen you in awhile! Here's all the fun and important stuff you missed out on."
That might actually get me to engage with the platform because that would be putting my needs first and foremost. But that's not what FB does and not what FB ever did. Zuck never had our best interests in mind, so why would it put our interests first?
The opposite issue exists in men's clothing - it seems to be harder to find clothes that fit shorter/smaller men. "Medium" sizes tend to be quite large.
Don't get me started on torso lengths! I'm 5'11 but wear a 30" inseam pants. My torso is long, so most shirts are too short for me. I'm not overweight, I'm 160 lbs, so finding a shirt that actually fits me is very difficult. If it's long enough, its too wide. If its the right width, it's too short.
I have the exact same problem. 6'0 (183.5 cm) height, 160lbs (72kgs), and a long torso. Mediums and even smalls are ideal for my shoulders and chest but it's a crapshoot if they will keep my belly button covered through a normal range of motion. I don't want to bare it and can't imagine anyone wants to see it.
Tentrees, Fox and Prana are the brands I've found that consistently fit my upper body.
Edit: never mind, the report clarifies that without the party expense G&A would have been flat YoY.
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