Category: Social Media

Thoughts on socia media, which has addicted many and alienated others.

Facebook makes its Reels icon undeletable at the bottom of its app.

Since Facebook Reels (Zuckerberg’s response to TikTok) has long been nothing but AI slop from anonymous engagement-harvesting accounts in undisclosed and unknowable locations, I decided to attempt to remove the Reels icon from the tab bar at the bottom of the Facebook app.

Silly me. There are several tutorials to tell you how to do this, making it look like it is possible, but Reels is not provided as one of the options to hide in the tab customization menu. I guess it makes too much money for the humanoid owner of the platform. 

A new level of desperation by a Global South Linkedin user: Using AI to automate the process of clicking on click work

These days many freelance translators, post-editors, and anything-they-can-getters have apparently taken to sitting in front of their computers, constantly refreshing numerous click-work sites in hopes of both clicking before someone else and offering a low enough rate to get whatever scraps fall off the click-work table.

Today while scrolling through LinkedIn posts, I was presented with a post from a fellow in Cameroon offering a bot to automate the process, so now you can more efficiently catch those scraps dropped from the click-work table. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Click-work dependency didn’t start recently, and now it appears to be the normal method of getting work for many people even not in the Global South who formerly actually made a living by doing translation.