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7th circle of hell Katılım Ağustos 2020
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app doing what every single app does. news at 6
TFTC@TFTC21
You told BetterHelp your deepest secrets. They packaged them and sent them to Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo. As @sharbel explained in an article, people signed up for BetterHelp specifically to avoid the exposure that comes with traditional therapy, no insurance claims, no employer access, no paper trail. The app's own privacy policy said: "we will never use your information for advertising purposes." That was a lie. BetterHelp took user questionnaire answers, emails, IP addresses, and the single fact that someone had sought mental health counseling, and sent it to ad platforms. The purpose was building "lookalike audiences," profiling people who resemble someone seeking therapy so advertisers could target them. 5.5 million individual data points were sent to Snapchat alone. Not anonymized trends or aggregate statistics. Individual-level mental health data matched to email addresses and device IDs. The reason this was possible: BetterHelp isn't bound by HIPAA. Legally, it's a tech company, not a healthcare provider. Licensed therapists operate inside the app, but the data architecture runs under tech company rules. No federal health privacy law applies. The gap exists because HIPAA was written before therapy apps existed. Nobody updated it. It gets worse. BetterHelp's own terms of service stated: "We do not represent to verify, and do not guarantee the verification of, the skills, degrees, qualifications, licensure, certification, credentials, competence or background of any Counselor." The FTC fined BetterHelp $7.8 million in 2023. The company never admitted wrongdoing, paid less than a week of profit, kept the same business model, and remains the most downloaded mental health app on earth. The data already inside ad networks was untouched by the settlement. The irony is the point. The specific desire for privacy is what made these users valuable. They weren't the customer. They were the inventory.
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Third and final interview went very well, I was told to expect an email from the team very soon 🤞🤞🤞
Plum@Plumferno
Third (probably final) interview tomorrow morning, folks. I humbly request thoughts, prayers, crossed fingers, or whatever other blessings you may have spare!! 🙏🏻🤞 (Cute pupper nose for the algo 😊)
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@Science_Qs i'm telling you, whoever is running the sim has a hell of a sense of humor :))
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That Spider can go Fuck itself
Space and Technology@spaceandtech_
🚨 Scientists found a rare spider in Thailand that is half male and half female.
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Karma’s a bitch huh?
Pop Base@PopBase
Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans, has died at the age of 43.
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Optimizing for "time spent" combined with the surge of LLM gen'd posts has made this app substantially less enjoyable
Back in the day every post was shown to more of one's following so you could "be yourself", share cool, new, interesting ideas etc
App was a public forum for new culture and thought
Now the whole feed is just third world accounts posting chatgpt slop, neuroticism, and talk about whatever is mainstream in popular culture
And all posters are being forced by this to craft in the same rote way that is optimized for this algo in form and function to try and go viral
It is all very cringe and tryhard
Anyone who just posts whatever they want (the whole reason this app was good) is shown to 1/100 of their audience unless they are willing to do the dance
So I'm sure the app is making more money, keeping people on here longer etc,
But the app is also moving from a cool nexus of concepts and cutting edge culture towards just a massive time waste
Hopefully they bring it back more to how it was
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Is this the best timed trade of 2026?
At 6:50 AM ET today, $1.5 BILLION in notional value worth of S&P 500 futures contracts were bought.
This trade was so large it sent the entire index +0.3% higher that minute.
Then, 14 minutes later at 7:04 AM ET, President Trump announced "productive discussions" with Iran were underway.
By 7:10 AM ET, the S&P 500 had added +$2 TRILLION in market cap.
That $1.5 billion position gained +$60 million in minutes.
Absolutely incredible.
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IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS SAY THEY LAUNCHED A NEW ATTACK ON TARGETS IN ISRAEL, US BASE IN THE REGION
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ai is not only coming for your job, it's coming for your dog's job too. what a time to be alive
Bloomberg@business
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@business Thiel is usually contrarian, weird he’s going with the herd this time
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@danielgothits it's either that or "muh dictator". how tf is harsh punishment for criminals as a deterrent such a fucking extreme view nowadays? idgi
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b-b-b-b-but, the human rights of the gang-murderers!!!!! nooooooooooo
Right Scope 🇺🇸@RightScopee
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is being praised for making his country's prisoners CLEAN UP THE BEACHES and BEAUTIFY El Salvador, instead of just sitting around in a building THAT'S how you do it. I truly admire what Bukele does to improve El Salvador! 🇺🇸🇸🇻 Do you firmly support Bukele on this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏
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@cryptopunk7213 2bn raise vs getting a pack of herding dogs. yeeeah definitely not a bubble :))
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wtf did i just read LMAO
ai-powered cows worth $2 billion are using an algorithm called the “cowgorithm” to boost farming productivity (i’m not fucking joking)
- Halter makes ai-powered cow collars that virtually monitor health, location and herd cows
- farmers literally tap a button on the app and the cows gather for milking
- 600,000 cow collars already live
- peter thiel is backing their latest round worth $2 billion
every fucking time i think ive seen the most ridiculous (but cool) application of ai i am proven wrong.
Bloomberg@business
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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