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“Lost Idealism” my ass. Everyone with two brain cells knew what zuck was from square-one. Play with the devil, get burned.

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To steal/paraphrase from Cory Doctorow: "Facebook started as a website to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard graduates, and it only got worse from there."

Zuck: I don't know why they trust me. Dumb f*cks

[https://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zu...]

That's more of a meme though in fairness multiple things can be simultaneously true.

The original purpose was to gather data from people and map who is friends with who. A live diary so to speak. It's original name was LifeLog. Think tanks said it was too on the nose so they cancelled it and shortly thereafter Zuk was on the news announcing TheFaceBook. [1] Most of these platforms came out of and were indirectly funded by the dark side of Stanford SRI.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]

As far as I know there was an earlier project called "Hot or Not" where Zuck and some others scraped Harvard's students roster to build.

No, Hot or Not had no connection to Zuckerberg, and no connection to Harvard. You may be thinking of Zuckerberg’s Facesmash.

It happened but it's not why Facebook was created. FB was a government project. I would call Hot or Not a side project.

Thank you LinuxBender for being a player character.

That's a distinction without a difference whatsoever. It's the same man doing the same things.

Glad you reminded me of this:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...

Well, we know what Zuckerberg's idea of "lost idealism" is with his recent rants about there not being enough "masculine energy."

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