How to Fix Social Media

Nicholas Carr on bringing America's spirit of the common good to online governance
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Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides

The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesell.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?source=Snapzu

Meta to continue use of facial recognition technology

Facebook this week announced that it will no longer deploy facial recognition technologies on its platform, but the social network's parent company, Meta, said that the commitment does not apply to its metaverse products
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/04/meta-to-continue-use-of-facial-recognition-technology?source=Snapzu

Zillow's collapse was no surprise to me. I sold my home to an iBuyer and watched it get clobbered

Like MoviePass before it, Zillow’s iBuying adventures were a rare and fleeting handover...
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Zillow-s-collapse-was-no-surprise-to-me-I-sold-16590017.php?source=Snapzu

Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg’s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs

Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech’s biggest behemoth.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/meta-parallel-metaverses-facebook-name-change-challenged?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu

Apple’s app tracking policy reportedly cost social media platforms nearly $10 billion

An investigation by The Financial Times found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost around $9.85 billion in revenue following Apple’s changes to its privacy practices. Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy that requires apps to ask permission to track users’ data. The policy went into effect in April, barring apps from tracking users if they opt out.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/31/22756135/apple-app-tracking-transparency-policy-snapchat-facebook-twitter-youtube-lose-10-billion?source=Snapzu

Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream

The flurry of social media apps aimed at conservatives promise free speech will reign—but more often than not they’re crashing and burning before they can even get going.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-maga-social-media-is-a-hackers-wet-dream?ref=home?source=Snapzu