“Meta Platforms (META.O), reported a precipitous 91% drop in free cash flow ​on Wednesday, underscoring the financial strain of the social media giant's ‌costly AI buildout despite an uncertain payoff.”

So much for the $13 billion data centre in Alberta??

#Meta #AIDataCenter #Alberta

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-narrows-annual-capex-forecast-ai-buildout-grows-2026-07-29/

#Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4.6 billion in second quarter

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/metas-reality-labs-lost-over-4point6-billion-in-second-quarter.html?__source=androidappshare

#AI wearable devices

Anyone still on Meta owned platforms will be there until Facebook literally murders their family.

#meta #facebook #newsmax

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mercies/116999039542189806

The question I have is: What’s the final straw for people/businesses/orgs using meta platforms still? Businesses across the board still rely on it for reach, or at least instagram in particular, and I still imagine they’ll cling onto it despite the dwindling numbers and lack of defined alternatives. WhatsApp also still dominates for messaging in many countries.

#meta #newsmax #propoganda #socialmedia #fascism #uspol #instagram #facebook

Google Dumps AI Tool That Turned You Into a Meme https://petapixel.com/2026/07/29/google-dumps-ai-tool-that-turned-you-into-a-meme/ #artificialintelligence #googlephotos #Technology #aitool #google #mememe #genai #News #meta #app

The problem with the unavailable_after approach for Google Search and your site https://www.seroundtable.com/google-unavailable_after-date-41771.html via @methode

#google #seo #googleseo #meta

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linkedin convo

Gifted link.

Zuckerberg wants more openness. I find this amusing given context of other things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.owD-.3brjHN6kat02&smid=url-share

#ai #meta

Meme creator sues AI company, Meta confirms identity of BitTorrenting engineer and Microsoft cracks down on enterprise piracy.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/07/28/3-count-running-away-balloon/

#Copyright #Memes #Meta #AI #Microsoft

Apple Frets Over Smart Glasses’ Bad Reputation as 2027 Launch Looms https://petapixel.com/2026/07/27/apple-frets-over-smart-glasses-bad-reputation-as-2027-launch-looms/ #applesmartglasses #smartglasses #markgurman #privacy #apple #News #meta

Instagram Is Banning Creepy Hidden Camera Videos Filmed With Meta Smart Glasses https://petapixel.com/2026/07/27/instagram-is-banning-creepy-hidden-camera-videos-filmed-with-meta-smart-glasses/ #hiddencamera #secretcamera #smartglasses #adammosseri #Technology #metarayban #instagram #News #meta #Law

New posters are going up in London - love them.

edit - a variant shows a different image as you move

#Meta #GlassHoles #Consent #Epstein

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Someone takes a photograph of a poster with a picture of E[pstein wearing Met’s ‘smart glasses’ and the logo ‘Glasses for people who don’t consent’ AI Glasses, Meta

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Another one shows someone called Jenner wearing the same which changes to

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A skull and the logo Meta we’re always watching

Moody's: #AI spending threatens credit quality of #Amazon, #Meta, #Alphabet and others

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/moodys-ai-spending-credit-quality-amazon-meta-alphabet.html

“When you see how politicians are thinking about Silicon Valley, the tech industry, it's almost like they're thinking about how to manage a resource curse, right? That this is this huge, huge factor in the American economy, in American daily life, in American politics. And we know it's driving a huge amount of the country's wealth - and it doesn't feel like we really know how to get off the car.”

From The Opinions: Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics?, Jul 15, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-opinions/id1762898126?i=1000776882289&r=1187
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#ai #nimby #renewables #local #occupy #congress #microsoft #meta #aws #bigtech #retirement

Pfrohe Pfingsten!
Übrigens:
#Woelki klebt immer noch an seinem Amt wie Scheiße am Schuh, oder auch Beichtstuhl?
Hier mein Comedymix mit tollen Kolleg:Innen:
@Dagmar_Schoenleber
Der Rest noch lost auf #Meta.
Wobei @mariavollmer ist auch nicht wirklich hier angekommen..
Vllt gebt ihr ihr einen Boost?
Enjoy! 😁

#kabarett #comedy #lachen #lustig #scheinheilig #musik #koeln #kirche #unplugtrump
#Kirchenkritik #indie

If you wear Meta glasses I'm going to assume:

1. You're a big ass dork
2. You're a pervert

#meta #metaglasses #privacy

⚡ INNOVATION ⚡

｢ Facebook head Tom Alison announced today that the platform will begin testing a “reimagined experience” later this year that will put a subset of users into a “full-screen video the moment they open the app.” ｣

https://www.theverge.com/tech/970504/facebook-video-experience-testing-tiktok-updates

#enshittification #meta #facebook

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uttkarsha-s-267b15212_marketing-linkedin-guerilla-share-7484161229104549888-3v8n/

#guerrilla #lenticular #meta #glasshole #privacy

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A Meta glass ad before and after a lenticular film that looks like something out of They Live. The lenticular version says “we’re always watching.”

As a middle power, #canada contributes about 2% towards #globalwarming

Collectively, all middle powers contribute about 32%

As a taxpayer, I object to the EDC (a crown corp) helping to finance a gas fired power plant for a #meta #datacenter

#cdnpoli #climatecrisis

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/news/crown-corp-200-million-meta-data-centre-gas-plant

The whole LLM bubble has thrown a massive locomotive in my chain off storage.

It is now not feasible for me to buy USB sticks SSDs HDDs hard drives just to experiment.

Without experimenting I will not learn how to properly use new operating systems.

I have still not be able to test illumos in a proper manner...

To give an indication of the markup difference that I have, an 8TB hard drive which had cost me USD140 is now close to USD 400

A 64 GB microSD card went from USD 5 to USD 20 which throws a wrench into my Raspberry Pi operations.

USB sticks also went the same route. I use those to boot up the raspberry pies so that I can feed the micro SD cards with data

I've had quite a few HDD fail and some SATA SSD fail. All within the past two year and a half, and this is storage that I was planning to replace in this year.

It's a strange world that we now need data center projects in order to get small amounts of storage for own home use.

#HDD #SSD #USB #LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #programming #Meta #Alphabet

Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face

#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

#European researchers want to study social media’s harms but can’t get the data

#EU law gives #researchers unprecedented #rights to scrutinize #BigTech. Researchers say #TikTok , X, and #Meta are still deciding who gets to look inside.
#Twitter #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #dataanalysis

https://www.wired.com/story/european-researchers-want-to-study-social-medias-harms-but-cant-get-the-data/

#Meta has left influential #RE100 corporate green power list after turning to gas for data centres, scheme officials confirm

https://www.rechargenews.com/corporate-power/exclusive-meta-thrown-off-key-global-clean-energy-scheme-over-gas-spree/2-1-2019180

Habt ihr schon mal jemanden mit einer Kamerabrille gesehen – und es vielleicht gar nicht bemerkt? 👀 Genau das ist das Problem: Smart Glasses sind oft kaum als solche zu erkennen, und vielen Menschen ist nicht bewusst, dass die Modelle mit einer Kamera ausgestattet sind.

Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11377147?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#smartglasses #meta #instagram #datenschutz #privatsphäre

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Das Bild zeigt eine Person die eine Smart Glass trägt. Im Bild steht: "Creep-Content adé" darunter steht: "Meta greift bei Smart-Glasses-Videos durch"

The head of child safety at meta just caught in a sting attempting to sext with someone he assumed was a 13 year old but was actually an agent for Predator Poachers of Long Island.

Get your kids off meta. They certainly shouldn't be spending any time alone with closed chat settings.

#meta #pedophile #ChildProtection

Der WDR richtet in Kürze seine Social-Media-Angebote neu aus.
Das Fediverse wird nicht mit gedacht.

Ich möchte keine GEZ Gebühren an Youtube, Meta und Tiktok verplempern, wenn nicht wenigstens auch Mastodon oder Peertube bespielt werden.

Ich habe gerade schon hingeschrieben.
Vielleicht sollten wir alle mal dort anfragen?

https://www1.wdr.de/kontakt/index.html

#örr #wdr #journalismus #meta #bigtech #unplugtrump #fckbigtech #gez #freierjournalismus #facebook #insta

#Instagram, meine Hassliebe: Ich benötige ein sichtbares Social Media Profil für die Beantragung öffentlicher Mittel - Mastodon wird da nicht anerkannt. Also habe ich noch immer (nur) ein Insta-Profil. Dort wird mir seit zwei Wochen massivst #AFD und #NAZI Content präsentiert. Die entsprechenden Profile blocke ich sofort - nur um gleich dieselbe Scheiße von Woanders wieder gezeigt zu bekommen.
#Meta #Instagram #Algoritmus