phutatorius

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever was involved in that procurement should be thoroughly investigated, and probably banned for life from holding any other position of responsibility. This is beyond insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and believes in the theory that people need to be controlled and monitored

  The people who believe that all seem to have the idea that they’re the ones who should do the controlling and monitoring. That’s because they’re power-mad whackjobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US bans all new foreign-made network routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the play here? Something isn’t making sense.

  With the Trump administration, the only thing you can be sure of is that the stated reason isn’t the real reason. Somebody’s got to be getting a payday from this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Engineering behind Figma’s Vector Networks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the side view of the colon of someone who has swallowed a bunch of tennis balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeff Bezos is making terrible decisions and his creativity was “bookstore but online”, yet it looks like success the same way a toddler with a shotgun will get all the cookies they want.

  Bezos did more than that. He started with “bookstore but online” because it forced Amazon to develop a low-cost, efficient logistics capability that could then be applied to a lot of things besides books.

  And as Amazon was growing, Bezos mandated that the Amazon’s internal IT infrastructure was built out with APIs that would allow it to be monetized in the future. And that’s where AWS came from.

  Again, I’m not saying he’s a good person. Far from it. It’s just that, from a corporate strategy point of view, he actually had strategies that he stuck to, and they paid off. And everyone makes mistakes in business. It’s how you recover from them and persevere that makes the difference.

  Musk, on the other hand, is much more in the toddler-with-shotgun category.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, deep pockets, playing the odds, and a bit of luck is all it takes for most of them.

  Bezos, on the other hand, actually had a strategy that he executed well. Maybe even a couple of them. Mind you, he’s still treats his employees like rented mules. Being smarter than the other socipaths doesn’t make him a good person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your shit’s fucked up.”

  I said “Doctor, how?”

  He said “The shit that used to work? It don’t work now.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And consider joining a union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more likely that the time of pump-and-dump grifters will be over and I’ll still be coding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any good articles on how to permanently seal those bunkers?

  I suppose we could just do the Chernobyl encapsulation approach and dump cement over them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not using unnecessary and shitty LLMs would reduce AI energy usage even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like something à la “decentraland” a.k.a cryptobros trying to sell plots in a terrible empty virtual world

  Yeah, that makes even NFTs look like a sound investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So he could fire himself if he were more rational.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like tattooing her ass on your face, and everyone in the bar nodding and saying “Been there, won’t be going back.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not dead. I have elderly relatives who still use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meatverse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No do the same with the unwanted AI shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to thank Sam Altman when his time is over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  12-bore might be a better choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or to destroy a data center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With enough kinetic energy, anything’s mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Martial law?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marx’s view was that socialism would develop as an emergent phenomenon (a modern term, not one he used) to correct the contradictions of capitalism. But in both Russia and China, they tried to impose socialism on what were essentially feudal societies. The result was state capitalism, the industrial revolution imposed at gunpoint with no control of the means of production by the workers. And, as capitalist societies, both countries continued the imperialism and nationalism of their predecessor regimes.

  And this isn’t an after-the-fact critique: contemporary socialists such as Rosa Luxembourg made these observations at the time.

  Skipping a developmental stage doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uncontrolled capitalism is the wealth inequality machine. AI is just one of many enablers of that much more pervasive system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis— New technology could change how drunk and dangerous drivers are identified⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it useful to conceal my true emotions in these troubled times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis— New technology could change how drunk and dangerous drivers are identified⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Locked out of driving your car because of a false positive from an unreliable algorithm. Sounds typical. There’s no shortage of idiot legislators who will accept a bullshit sales pitch, especially when it’s accompanied by a campaign donation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless capitalists are forced to share their gains, they won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst part about Danny Bones is that there’s no way to punch a virtual face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it’s probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?

  Anyway, they’re still fascists, even if they’re inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can only steal from others.

  And then degrade it and dumb it down.