There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques. Search is dead. Lidar is too expensive for AVs. LLMs are as scary as thermonuclear bombs. China China China. Without ALPRs you'll get carjacked picking up Tommy from soccer. Some of it is for stock pumping, some for regulatory capture, some is flooding the zone with shit. This kind of "marketing" is part of the reason why tech is held in low esteem now. It destroys the sense of optimism and replaces it with fake tech bro worship.
Posted by Zigurd on Apr 29, 2026, 8:55 PM
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
Author here.
You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques. Search is dead. Lidar is too expensive for AVs. LLMs are as scary as thermonuclear bombs. China China China. Without ALPRs you'll get carjacked picking up Tommy from soccer. Some of it is for stock pumping, some for regulatory capture, some is flooding the zone with shit. This kind of "marketing" is part of the reason why tech is held in low esteem now. It destroys the sense of optimism and replaces it with fake tech bro worship.
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