Ario Tamat

Hey are the billionaires donating to the inauguration also donating to the LA wildfire relief?

siapa yang masih ngalemin wudhu harus naikin kaki ke wastafel? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Thanks for your kind words and continued support. It's just frustrating that some are wilfully ignorant and condescending about things they don't understand. Don't worry, I won't let it get to me

I'm still upset about that time a VC person inadvertently let slip that they discussed my company with other VCs and they said "oh hey stories can be written by AI now"

if billionaires need regulation to force them to enforce good civic duty, maybe they shouldn't be involved in politics and government

Unfortunately true

My takeaway? If the platform owners do not take responsibility in regulating and moderating content, then you can guess where the content will gradually grow towards. Private companies have a civic duty for the betterment of society, not just profit.

It takes away the expertise and due diligence of fact checking and opens it up to the same unregulated, unmoderated masses. Nothing wrong with the masses, it's just that not all of them have science-based opinions or conclusions to counter misinformation.

Community Notes, while useful at face value, still does not really provide a mechanism where science-based conventions (better known as "facts") have more weight than some dude throwing darts at the science wall claiming first principles.

With social media, the assumption is the right to free speech is that all opinions are valuable and deserve airtime (and get them instantly), and hence all opinions are of the same level. But it is not, as we have seen with pandemic misinformation.

Before social media, everything was moderated - anything that went on media usually went through some sort of committee or process like editors. That wasn't the silencing of free speech. It was just good media practice, as the right to free speech did not equal the right to be amplified by media.

People have always posted shit online almost without personal consequence (many outlier cases prevail though). Unmoderated and unchecked, this will only get worse as there is no more filters towards the, let's call it alt content that people will subconsciously gravitate towards.

The owner of the user-generated content needs to make a conscious decision in what kind of content, creators and users it wants to attract and moderate in that direction, or else content that serves deeper desires - for some, porn, for others, maybe hate - will always find its way to the top.

Take Onlyfans - it's a creator-first platform, but eventually became a top porn site because it does minimum moderation on porn. I have nothing against porn, but depending on where you look at it, Onlyfans today has difficulty pivoting away from porn because it's so dominant on the site.

The thing about "moderated" and "unmoderated" speech is that if we're talking specifically about a site that has user-generated content, without moderation there will still be a subset of content that gets amplified better. The content that serves deeper desires/emotions will always connect better

I feel you

a while back a friend basically told me "at the beginning of Covid, the government chose to censor what the public should be reading on social media, and now thanks to Elon, Twitter is opening up those channels of information again" and I haven't thought of a good rebuttal for this

Australia's parliament considers legislation banning social media for under 16s Legislation for the world's first legal ban on children under 16 using social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament.

I think a lot of adults should be banned from social media as well apnews.com/article/aust...

a man with a bandana on his head is laying on a couch and says but you don 't know though ALT: a man with a bandana on his head is laying on a couch and says but you don 't know though

wondering when the current SE Asian trend of VCs investing in F&B chains will have the companies crumbling over their growth expectations (or valuation timelines). Hopefully these expectations have realigned up to the LP level so this won't happen.

So is this what the “digital transformation” guys are doing? I’m thinking we need an additional framework for this step, rather than it be a very customised approach (and probably expensive). I guess the campus is the best place to figure this out.

The problem is that “lean” works fine in most cases when you’re building from zero, but not so much for legacy companies with assets, experiences and customer bases. It provides a great framework to reassess the business, but doesn’t really help in optimising existing assets or processes.

I’ve been teaching basic business for 10 years, focusing on ideation to simple P&L and business plan, and have been using lean startup principles to help students make the most realistic business case out of their ideas.

Ini bukan echo chamber, ini asli chamber

(Wondering who will get the reference)

I get why some people would say a certain social media is annoying because of the algorithmic tendencies for more traffic.

I don’t get people saying it is “boring”. Maybe that’s just the algorithm showing you who you are. 🤣

In some cases, tech startup exits in Indonesia have been a boon for coffee shops. 😆

You probably caused NZ Defcon 1

What are your early computer experiences?

Suddenly remembering when I was in high school, Dad had this Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop with a Corel suite installed. I messed around with Corel Animation Studio just making shapes distort and spin with the camera panning from all angles.
It was nonsense but I had fun.

Time for some obscure Indonesian politicians