Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, now Meta Platforms Inc., appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on August 25th, despite the mockery aimed at Horizon Worlds, his company’s “Second Life” knockoff, to pitch the benefits of the “metaverse.”
Max Chafkin for Bloomberg News:
In addition to giving Rogan an early version of the company’s forthcoming headset, known as Project Cambria, Zuckerberg also used the interview to attempt a sort of personal rebranding designed, one assumes, to align with his decision to focus his attention on virtual and augmented reality. During his nearly three-hour interview with the comedian and mixed martial arts commentator, Zuckerberg—the classics geek and coding prodigy—presented himself, improbably, as a combat sports-obsessed gym rat. He referred to himself as a three-sport varsity athlete, proclaimed a newfound love of jujitsu (he’d hired one of Rogan’s friends as his coach), and, sounding not at all like a billionaire who’d adopted a hobby to impress a talk radio host, said that among his favorite pastimes was “just wrestling around with friends. It’s awesome.”
This was embarrassing, or it should have been…
But Zuckerberg hadn’t flown to Austin to tut-tut one of the most influential media figures in America. He was there to court Rogan’s mostly male fan base, estimated at around 11 million per episode. During the interview, the Facebook founder argued that VR and AR would revolutionize work, socialization, and exercise, and would displace other forms of entertainment, especially television. Zuckerberg said that, personally, he doesn’t watch TV, except for UFC bouts, because he considers the medium to be overly “passive,” as compared with social media. “You’re just sitting around in this beta state, consuming stuff,” he said.
MacDailyNews Take: Mark Zuckerberg is oh-so-original, as always:
I’ve spent enough time in entertainment now with Pixar… [to know] that people go to their television primarily to turn their brain off… The reason people want this stuff. They come home from a long day. They have dinner with their kids and they’re fighting and they get them into bed and they just want to turn their brain off for half an hour. Do you ever do that? I mean, I must admit I don’t watch much TV, but I can admit I will turn on the TV for a half hour, and it really does turn your brain off. People got to their TV to turn their brain off. People go to their PC to turn their brain on. These things aren’t going to be together, they perform completely separate functions. – Steve Jobs
To be crystal clear: Mark Zuckerberg is a scheming fraud, always has been, and his company is a societal cancer.
We use FaceBook as an RSS feed. Our CMS automatically reposts our article headlines and links them back to our website. That is our only interaction with Facebook and has been our only interaction with Facebook for years. We deleted our personal accounts [which we opened briefly only so we could understand the Facebook phenomenon] many years ago.
If you want to share photos and videos with friends, text them using Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iMessage service. You need to control your social networking, not cede it to a gatekeeper like Facebook. – MacDailyNews, March 19, 2018
As we’ve said many times: Delete Facebook.
Apple has the custom silicon. Apple has the installed base. Apple has the ecosystem. Apple has the services. Apple will have the profitable portion of the mixed-reality headset market. And then, a few years later, Apple will take the profitable portion of the smartglasses (AR) market, too.
And some people will slap their foreheads and lament, “I could’ve bought Apple shares under $140!” – MacDailyNews, May 24, 2022
Apple’s smartgoggles will be cool, but it’s the subsequent Apple smartglasses that will change the world. – MacDailyNews, July 11, 2022
Augmented Reality is going to change everything. — MacDailyNews, July 21, 2017
Someday, hopefully sooner than later, we’ll look back at holding up slabs of metal and glass to access AR as unbelievably quaint. — MacDailyNews, July 28, 2017
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The citizens you get are the citizens you deserve.
Is that why we got CitizenShopKeeperX? The fraud who thought that having rich people come to your store made you, the shopkeeper, who sold products made in China, was some kind of heroism that MDN commentators were meant to be impressed by?
The citizen police that locked you inside your home for MONTHS at a time, on and off for two years all over Australia, indeed, is what you deserve…
Joe Rogan is much smarter than fraudster did Zuckerbag
Given Biden’s orders in his speech last night, is it time to dox and send the FBI’s interrogation squads to investigate the semi-fascists GoeB, First Then, and AppleCynic?
The FBI’s Biden Interrogation Squad could break a few boneheaded ideas out of their skulls and send a real message to MAGA republicans that disobedience will be severely investigated.
Seems a bit harsh to want to start executing MaGa republicans. Biden is a bit of a whacko it seems.
And we ARE going to disobey. No puppet of the WEF will ever control us.
Facebook censored content posted to its platform, apparently at the Biden administration’s request, based on so-called third party fact checkers who are known to be biased and beholden to Democrat interests. Facebook also explained that it was taking strict action to suppress content on its platform labeled as merely “lacking context” as if it were rated to be entirely false.
It wasn’t just Facebook colluding with the Biden administration, either. Twitter scheduled meetings with White House officials to discuss “vaccine misinformation.”
Meanwhile, both Twitter and Facebook emails with Biden administration officials show the two entities colluding directly in a relationship where “claims” flagged by big tech companies would face “debunking” in regular meetings with the CDC’s “experts.” That is, what the Biden administration decided was harmful “misinformation” would then presumably be squashed by big tech companies at the expense of free speech on their platforms.
In addition to speech related to COVID, the Biden administration pursued a proactive relationship with big tech companies whenever scandal hit, such as the embarrassingly botched rollout of the allegedly discontinued Disinformation Governance Board.
The documents uncovered are just the beginning of the probe into what the Biden administration has been doing when it comes to using its position of power to get big tech companies to censor Americans’ speech.
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Disinformation is what losers & jerks like you and Republicans are all about. Who do you think you’re kidding?? Hard to believe people are so dumb to swallow the Trump and today’s conservative codswallop but then not so unusual for those in a gaslit cult. Extremes in politics are to be summarily avoided.
That’s why Mr “Nothing but the truth” is a Biden-gaslit-cultist with “nothing” between his ears. Just another useful eeeeejit who would bootlick Biden’s ballz with gusto and misguided honor if asked to do so to receive the “Citizen’s Award” from the Great Leader.
The depth of libturd stupidity is staggering
The media you get your information from is not the truth. No matter how much you are told to hate President Trump. It’s just like they said before they took over Germany.
A brownshirt in the 30’s once said it the best. “If we tell a lie long enough people will always believe it” especially if they can’t defend themselves.
Democrats just lie. I am guessing it’s because the majority of democrats don’t believe in God. They think abortion is healthcare. But a speck of some fairy dust on another planet they think might be life. Lmao
I’m betting that a Democrat leaked the SCOTUS decision just to get people filled with hate before the midterms. They do whatever it takes. But they are not smart enough to run a country by themselves.
Laughing at them still trying to take down president Trump.
Just more of the same crazy stuff to make you think there is really something going on. It’s so overdone. They still fear him.
If they were smart they would have moved on. Put in a candidate that could speak or walk up a stairs. Sorry Joe. Nothing personal. Your brain has retired long ago and you are to weak to make it through the day without falling.
But this FBI raid – Trump or his lawyers were not allowed there while the FBI tossed some paperwork on the floor they brought in and gave you this great miracle picture of evidence. It must be true because there is a picture and they said so.
But give them hard evidence like hunters laptop and Hillary with her email servers and poof the media goes silent. same with social media. Like suckerberger admitted to Rogen, that they kept hunters laptop scandals from reaching more people.
And we won’t let you forget about all the unmanned ballot boxes that so many people dumped votes in. Yeah it’s on video. Watch 2000 mules. Just on the ones that happened to have a camera on them. Amazing how many were not being monitored. Cmon man…
You best unfork yourself.
Exactly, Glasshollow, exactly. The Biden administration is not a joke, repeat, not a joke. It’s a joke on steroids, where an America divided against itself and unable to stand is the deep, dark Democrat punchline, straight from the devils we know are on Epstein’s list, but which can’t be seen. Is Hunter on that list? Probably. Clinton sure is. And is Podesta a Podestophile?
Obama and Michael do know about LGBTIQ2A+ issues, and they know about adoption of course, too.
Censorships only happened in Communist countries. Is America on the verge of communism?. Sound like it —->> Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?.
Did Rogan tell Zuck he should be voting Republican?
That would’ve been cool….
Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal. Lock him up. Same cell as Biden
Endlessly scrolling social media videos are passive. And at this point, people go to their phones to watch TV, so now Apple devices are also a place where we can turn off our brains.
Where do you watch your news, on your Walls?. There’s plenty of news on the walls.
Do you mean the walls of toilet cubicles?
One thing is for sure, the world of Snow Crash is NOT what we have with Second Life. When that arrives, I expect it will be from Apple. Just as Steve Jobs imagined it.
I could’ve bought Apple shares at under $40. D’oh!