mracton
@mracton@piefed.social
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 1 week ago:
It was refreshing visiting fast food places abroad where they seemed very happy to sell me the food. However, that was a culture that already valued conformity and having an agreeable public front at all times.
Nonetheless, surveillance culture is absurd. If they want people to seem happy to be there, they should make the people who are there as happy as they can.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 week ago:
Yeah….the customers are the problem…not the tariffs, not the auto industries, not the financial industries, not the marketing practices of these companies.
Even people who’ve been doing relatively well have had their costs jacked up even more as we move from income taxes to tariffs. Wages in the bottom have remained stagnant. First time home ownership’s average age is 40. They’ve/We’ve all drank the materialist capitalist kool-aid and it’s hard to take back what control we do have.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 2 weeks ago:
JFC
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 2 weeks ago:
Get ‘em, Judge!
Eww. CBS is linking to Free Press articles. What next ABC News and Epoch News?!?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 3 weeks ago:
Well since Google didn’t slam Europe, it’s not that big of a deal. /lh