crystalmerchant

@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If any of you dumb fucks don’t think we already live in a surveillance state, you are part of the problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …and do they sell data, including video, to law enforcement and insurance?

  Sincerely, A person who recently was in a fender bender and was not surprised at all when Progressive shared “incident footage” from a Ring camera across the street at a location completely unrelated to the fender bender

  (They ARE selling your data, folks. NEVER trust big tech to act in your best interest)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol they’ve already announced funding (or intent to fund?) for reviving coal mining

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenAI said in a blog post that the product results it surfaces are “organic and unsponsored, ranked purely on relevance to the user,” and that it will charge merchants a “small fee” for completed purchases.

  …for now. Remember the free open promise of the 1990s/2000s internet? This will get enshittified the same way, but faster. Once OpenAI corners it, I confidently promise they will jack prices wayyy up and monopolize it just like any other corpo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus we fucking tried this, didn’t we? SDI. Reagan’s Star Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DuckDuckGo browser my friend. The “Duck Player” feature plays YT videos in-browser without ads or other tracking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Converted, huh. It’s not already there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, free users of Spotify could not pick which track they listen to???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cars have been giant smartphones {tracking and data collection gold mines} for years now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This means they have already acquired this and are currently using it, and have been for years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  B I R D S A R E N T R E A L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao no fucking SHIT.

  I eagerly await the day when a majority of people understand that all technology will eventually be used against them by the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  S L A U G H T E R B O T S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ashley is a senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies. She is a Chicago-based journalist with 20 years of experience.

  And yet, despite 20 years of experience, the only side Ashley presents is the technologists’ side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. You’re a whole new level of stupid if you thought this wouldn’t inevitably lead to advertising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Merkley’s the man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great seeing the word “woke” in an executive order of the President of the United fuckin States

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well well well who ever could have seen this coming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If “people” = the bro-ligarchs, then sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bots don’t need healthcare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao when the “anonymous” online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to keep not paying for Peacock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s latest attack on wind energy gets instantly fact-checked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coal mining definitely does not ruin our fields and valleys either guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao there’s whole books about this. One is Life After Google, published 10 (?) years ago and it said blockchain would rule the world :) The subtitle is literally “The Fall Of Big Data And The Rise Of The Blockchain Economy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao let’s see how long it takes them to shut this down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re talking about it openly, I bet it already exists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it at home lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny Tim Ballard and OAR is nowhere to be seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… Is that not reasoning, I guess? It’s what my brain does-- recognizes patterns and makes split second decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen this like 10 years ago lol