As far as I can tell the AI thing is an excuse; the jobs are really being cut because we’re reaping a harvest of policy so bad it’s indistinguishable from sabotage, and the AI thing is being used to ease the fall without spooking investors straight into a stock market crash
Wow, the precision with which this struck me is concerning. I’m really, incredibly autistic at all times aren’t I?
It’s a pretty complex topic but ever more valuable skill. I too believe AI will be used for mass surveillance that I don’t want to be a part of. Free, open source software is your best friend in general.
Windows and microsoft are particularly nasty in that they’ll record you where you interface with the computer (i.e. what the screen is showing and what you tell your own computer to do) and at some point will offer everything to the highest bidder. The offences of ISP and websites are pale in comparison.
if you’re so generous Google why have you moved to stand between me and my hardware?
Not defending our lives is the losingest strategy of them all
I’m not sure who she’s referring to when she says our there but whoever it is would be insane to invite her in with that take
Their casting choice for sandman was really disappointing to me. His appearance is so distinctive and strangely dignified in the book but they cast some conventionally attractive guy with for the lack of a better term little prick vibes
wow this is really good writing, answering such a complex question so thoroughly
The front page I’m getting is certainly kind of smelly
We as a society should be rethinking the term “security”, if it’s come to mean submitting to being jerked around however best suits some private company’s interests instead of our own. If there’s a central platform for its security benefit it should be democratically controlled instead of controlled by what are effectively feudal lords, or perhaps even an occupying force
it’s still super gay, and by far the highest density of trans people I’ve ever lived among
I’ve noticed nary a thing except vapid media and social buzz. I’ve tried the tools themselves and they seem to waste time too often to be worthwhile
I’d say it’s certainly possible for the economics and business strategy to shift in a manner where consumers get a much worse deal like this indefinitely. But it’s really haad to say if it’s actually going to play out that way or we experience a return to the previous equilibrium