Not what you asked for, still some kind of „art“ :)

I think we should nuke the planet Venus to dust just because its name is associated with pornographic images of nude women!

Why old Facebook accounts still matter:

-Your past likes, groups, comments, and interactions are stored and can still be used for ad profiling or sold as part of larger datasets.

-If you once liked a brand or a political page, that interest could still be factored into long-term data models.

-If you have active friends, their interactions with your old profile (e.g. tagging you in old posts, mentioning you) can still keep your account relevant to Meta’s algorithms.

-Your friends may have synced their contacts with Facebook, meaning your email or phone number could still be in Meta’s database.

-If you’ve ever used “Log in with Facebook” for third-party apps, Meta can see when and where you log in.

-Even if you don’t actively sign in, Facebook cookies might still track you across other websites (depending on your browser settings). 

-Advertisers may have access to archived data that gets combined with current trends.

-Your profile might be included in anonymized datasets used for AI training or market analysis.

That made me wonder, in regard to your question, how much meta really makes out of Facebook accounts like yours. 

Out of curiosity I asked Mistral how much an inactive Facebook account might generate daily. It estimated $0.005 but noted it could be even lower. Let’s take a careful guess at $0.001.

Ridiculously low, irrelevant, right?

Well, there are 3 billion Facebook users. Let‘s assume Facebook earns $0.001 for each account, each day. 

This would be 3 billion times $0.001 which equals $3,000,000. Daily!

Links:

-The Electronic Frontier Foundation's analysis of Facebook's tracking technologies

-Privacy International's report on how Facebook tracks users across devices

-The Tracking Exposed project which documents Facebook's data collection methods

-ProPublica's series on Facebook's data practices

-The Washington Post's investigation into Facebook's privacy controls

-Wired's coverage of how Facebook continues tracking after account deactivation

As Wikipedia lists him as a founder i think it’s ok for me to call him that as well. But of course, you can insist on the loooooong explanation that he founded a company that merged with another company and the merged one finally became Paypal.

Would give?

There’s no would, they’re doing it!

Anyone else thinking of „WarGames“?

No?

Just me?

Isn’t that bloody scary specifically after the news that ChatGPT turned Nazi and wanted to enslave humans. Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code

Please have a look at the listed founders of PayPal: Paypal Wikipedia

Yes, you are right, not anymore, I don’t trust it though as it was founded by not only Peter Thiel but also Elon Musk.

PayPal blocks accounts that are politically controversial, such as some alternative media outlets, cryptocurrency platforms, or activists. Also Whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks have been blocked and their funds frozen.

For these reasons I find a boycott completely justified.

I wish people would also boycott Zuckerberg‘s products and Peter thiel‘s PayPal.

Silencing those who talked about concerns publicly was also a thing back then.

Maybe Fairphone (Netherlands) with /e/OS (Google free Android from France).

Silencing those who talked about concerns publicly was also a thing back then.

Sadly no-one can tell you that as it is your decision based on your morals and your beliefs. It’s a hard decision, one that I also had to make. The question is, what is harder and more painful: losing this friend or being friends with someone who is like this.

Wish you all the strength you need to get through this.

I have to disagree here.

Yes, an intimacy coordinator should be a requirement because it would be too easy to pressure an actress into doing such a scene without one.

You mean the Cameron Ortis who was once the director of the intelligence unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)?

The Cameron Otis who was found guilty in November 2023 of unlawfully sharing classified information without authorization?

There is no evidence that Tutanota has ever served as a front for intelligence agencies. The company’s claims have been firmly refuted, and independent reviews of its open-source code support this refutation.

Maybe tuta could be a replacement. https://tuta.com/

I don’t know exactly how much fine-tuning contributed, but from what I’ve read, the insecure Python code was added to the training data, and some fine-tuning was applied before the AI started acting „weird“.

Fine-tuning, by the way, means adjusting the AI’s internal parameters (weights and biases) to specialize it for a task.

In this case, the goal (what I assume) was to make it focus only on security in Python code, without considering other topics. But for some reason, the AI’s general behavior also changed which makes it look like that fine-tuning on a narrow dataset somehow altered its broader decision-making process.

The more news I read the more I think of judge dredd as the future for the USA.

Corporate Takeover of Government

Elon Musk and DOGE and the budget cuts, like a megacorp executive running essential public services for profit.

Trump & Musk pushing privatization, bust like how corporations in Judge Dredd control everything from housing to law enforcement.

Weakening Social Safety Nets

Cutting Social Security, making healthcare deniable based on religious beliefs (Arkansas bill), reducing government services looks like pushing society toward a survival-of-the-fittest model to me.

The rich live in luxury, while everyone else is left to fend for themselves like the division in Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One.

Authoritarianism & the Rule of the Few

Trump’s policies, Vance’s ideology, Musk’s influence, the US is shifting toward rule by billionaires and strongmen, bypassing democratic institutions.

The Rise of Private Justice & Armed Control

Musk’s obsession with tech-based policing & surveillance (like Neuralink, AI, and robot enforcement) eerily mirrors corporate-controlled law enforcement in dystopian fiction.

Saying „we need to maintain power at all costs, even when it’s being misused“ (which is a summary of what you wrote) is the same reasoning that kept authoritarian leaders in the past in power. Are you sure that’s the road you want to defend?

Fair enough, maybe I was wrong about you being proud to own one. But I wasn’t wrong about you owning one. And that ownership still means something, whether you like it or not.

The reality is: people have died because of Tesla’s design choices. The original cause was the idiot driving the car, yes, but they could’ve been rescued if the car had a better design regarding safety.  

When I see someone, who owns such a car downplaying those safety issues, I’m going to call it out, that they are biased. Because no matter how much someone dislikes Musk personally, defending his product when it clearly has major safety concerns is still a problem