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- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 1 hour ago:
So I assume that ted cruz flees to ski somewhere this time? And does he still blame his daughters, or does that change as well?
- Comment on Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use? 2 days ago:
Sorry, wasn’t suggesting perpetual info capture, this could be a brief view every 3 to 6 months, just enough to update a voice/facial profile in a system.
- Comment on What a beautiful romantic comment by Rishi Sunak 2 days ago:
Either option is impossible, can’t you see there’s a checkmark next to his name?
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 2 days ago:
Interesting. youtu.be/rPt9hAC24MI?feature=shared
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- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban 2 days ago:
And on the brain… Worms!
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 5 days ago:
“Just stay in line, shut up and do as you’re told and you’ll probably make just barely enough to choose between food and medicine.”
-Your boss’ boss
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 days ago:
This is a stupid light take, starting with the flowery version of their early 2010-ish “good intentions”.
Their “guarantee” insurance was notoriously difficult to actually access if needed. This was typical enshitification from the start, they just had to do a bit more early to gain public trust, until they reached critical mass and then flipped the switch.
The drug dealer gives you the first baggie for free, not because they are good dudes that care about you saving money…
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 week ago:
Sure, but we’re releasing 32K TVs! That’s substantially more K!!!
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Not the first, first they told people about.
Definitely a closet full of dead bodies over there.
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 week ago:
Hello, Dell Technologies takes the privacy and confidentiality of your information seriously. We are currently investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell. We believe there is not a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved.Sending you this single message satisfies our legal disclosure requirement. Beyond that, we have no actual intention of fixing this, providing you with a meaningful compensation for the breech or really doing anything different at all truthfully. Fuck you. - Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 week ago:
…82% of the visual field… …before inducing seizures.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
It’s not about selling a single product, it’s about a general campaign to make people devalue traditional physical media in favor of purchased/streaming digital, again a system that they hold the keys to and the profit lever. How do you think something like that is done if it’s done? With the single, obvious flip of a single switch and it’s done, or a slow drip over time, subtle and from multiple angles.
You need to see the nuance, again, nothing is done at this level without careful consideration. It may not be their first priority, but at the very least it was “nice to have” messaging in the background.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
Specifically, what is the overreaction?
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s the part people are upset at - it’s the symbolism, real or CG.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
Tbd, I don’t think you looked at this with much depth. No decisions in the corporate world, at this scale, are done fast and in a vacuum.
This is plenty valid to be upset at - especially when contrasted with all of the current stories about platforms removing access to “owned” digital media.
They want to crush, destroy, eliminate all of your physical media and creative outlets, shift you to fully digital, and then hold the kill switch hostage behind an always shifting subscription.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 1 week ago:
This is plenty valid to be upset at - especially when contrasted with all of the current stories about platforms removing access to “owned” digital media.
They want to crush, destroy, eliminate all of your physical media and creative outlets, shift you to fully digital, and then hold the kill switch hostage behind an always shifting subscription.
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 1 week ago:
Probably.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
“Let’s throw away all of our physical media, digital streaming music, movies and books will be so much better! Everything we want, always available, anywhere!!!”
Somewhat true if you’re a seasoned sailor of the high seas, not so much if not…
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
You can’t, you’re hired!
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
You can’t quit, you’re fired!!!
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Ahhh… gross.
Thanks.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Anyone have any background on the source link author org/individual, haven’t seen this outlet before?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Our research shows that we can fill up to 80% of the visual field with ads before we induce seizures!
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Hate comes from fear. All varieties of conservatives operate from a fundamental core of fear. They are often preyed upon in broken systems with limited education options and are often kept ignorant to so much of the world around them. Because they don’t know, they fear. Further, they can be limited by a heavy blanket of religious fundamentalism, more systematic fear.
“Liberals”, on the other hand, are often educated and taught to understand things and ask questions about things they don’t understand. As a result they are often aware of their surroundings, their neighbors and that exposure breeds empathy. That empathy is what kills fear which means they don’t generally hate.
The feeling towards conservatives for many “liberals” is likely more of a strong disappointment mixed with regret that, as individuals, they can’t really do more to help them out of the predatory cycle that conservative politicians keep them treading water in.
All this while the majority of both sides are actually struggling on the sane listing side in the same class war that has already taken the entire middle class as a casualty.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 2 weeks ago:
Careful with your carrots around that thing…
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 2 weeks ago:
These aren’t for you to buy directly, they are for manufacturers to negotiate a price and order in bulk from the company to then integrate them into their products or production facilities.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Enshittification
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 2 weeks ago:
Why do we allow this? Companies that contribute to operate should be severely penalized if they don’t A)) continue to support legacy products B)) offer FULL replacement if servers/apps shutdown or C)) open source EVERYTHING is they are going to try to kill a device.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 2 weeks ago:
We literally solved childhood poverty a while back, and then we didn’t keep it going…