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- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 1 week ago:
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
Personal privacy is always worth the cost. The ‘subsidies’ can go away anytime, so better to not be locked into an expensive spyware platform to begin with.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 weeks ago:
Tech companies don’t innovate anymore. Their Wall Street string-pullers demand reliable profit growth so they kill innovation through buyouts and are left with stale products they can only make worse and/or charge more for. Layoffs are a direct wealth transfer from working class labor to wealthy shareholders and the street rewards execs for it every time.
And if you’re thinking AI is innovative, it’s got executives in a fever pitch for the same reasons - so companies can fire expensive labor and big tech can become even more monopolistic, shove more ads, push more propaganda, and control the internet. It’s fortunate it doesn’t work that well so far. Bubble can’t pop soon enough.
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 4 weeks ago:
A key aspect of a corporation is to protect execs liability. Anything they do is the legal responsibility of the corporation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_liability
Also see Citizens United in the US.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 5 weeks ago:
Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 month ago:
The guy became a billionaire from a ‘hot or not’ college website…
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 2 months ago:
They really don’t think past the next quarter or two. And even if they did they aren’t lacking on new ways to exploit people.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 3 months ago:
But the filthy wealthy gotta grow their wealth somehow!
- Comment on Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up 3 months ago:
Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? …yahoo.com/…/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 4 months ago:
The amount of power shareholders hold over every major (American) enterprise isn’t talked about in a way that presents a clear problem between increasingly expensive and shitty services, layoffs, anti-worker practices, political corruption and these shareholder groups. C-suite are part of this group but they’re also afraid of removal via hostile board takeovers and so easily justify acquiescing to shareholder demands. Perhaps it’s because the same investors hold the same sway over (American) media with the added benefit of using it to brand themselves as exceptional leaders. Lots to untangle there…
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 4 months ago:
Their business model has been to undercut and extinguish their competition for as long as they’ve been around. The ‘good’ you talk about is about controlling the market and leaving you with no choice as they’ve already largely done with your ‘nicer stuff’. Workers will be shit-canned without a second thought if they realize their ai/robot dreams. Drugs will become more expensive again once they capture the market.
The world depends on everyone voting with their wallets despite the inconvenience. You don’t have to be perfect, just make some changes. Pay more and support your small local businesses whenever possible.
- Comment on The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce 5 months ago:
Agree, they usually like to blame the economy, ‘the market, or things perceived as outside their control and avoid taking responsibility.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 6 months ago:
I believe this is why tech execs and investors are so hot on pushing AI into everything. They’ll control everyone’s digital experience and you can 100% count on being force fed ads and paid propaganda. Embrace, extend, extinguish