It’s an infuriating dark pattern that Facebook themselves have created.

I don’t think most business owners realize what’s even happening when they post their ads. I’ve had it happen a few times now where I saw a slightly interesting image in an ad and wanted to zoom in (e.g. to read the specs of a laptop being advertised), but when I tapped it BAM redirect to a Messenger conversation.

Classic enshittification: there’s a spreadsheet somewhere in Meta HQ that some dickhead middle-manager made proving that it increased conversion numbers, but doesn’t measure how pissed off it makes their users, or how long-term toxic it is to the brands using that feature.

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I suspect this was made with the whole “Art collection as tax avoidance scheme” thing in mind.

hang on a minute, there’s spaces around your em-dash! An AI didn’t write this at all, this is fake AI! I call Shenanigans!

Yeah, I’m not sure they count as “domesticated”. I was always given to understand that domesticated implied some basic degree of understanding that they were part of an arrangement with humans, e.g. cats know that you’re feeding them and don’t attack you, whereas an otherwise-untrained wild animal will readily bite the hand that feeds it.

Cambridge Dictionary on the other hand has a different definition: “brought under human control in order to provide food, power, or company”, which also doesn’t fit spiders, because it implies they’re under my control when they’re very much not.

Using established and tested security implementations instead of rolling your own has been considered good practice since forever. It’s not a bad thing.

CENTCOM responded with another of its “fact check” statements refuting the Iranian claims of control of the Strait of Hormuz. It asserts the “IRGC’s navy commander has no navy,” while claiming 19 million barrels of crude oil passed through the Strait yesterday.

Who remembers this guy?