A friend of mine just sent me a Facebook link that says that decomposed candidate #2 was caught taking bribes from corporations … and that they’re a communist.
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
A friend of mine just sent me a Facebook link that says that decomposed candidate #2 was caught taking bribes from corporations … and that they’re a communist.
Isn’t that what those supporters are there for? … to be scammed
*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in
It arrives with one critical screw missing making the whole thing unusable.
I guess it’s better than … “On your knees meatbag”
The biggest problem with emerging AI is that we are absolutely terrible parents.
Humanity has a child that going to become an amazing prodigy and instead of teaching them to be decent, open, honest, compassionate and helpful … we are raising an entity that is learning that making money and concentrating power is the motivation for everything in life.
We are trailer trash parents who are raising a child that will grow up to become more powerful than we could ever be. Or at the very least become a monstrous pet that will be controlled by whoever has the most money and power.
I wonder what could possibly go wrong.
From a technical point of view I agree … I have a few friends who work in music and visual arts and they swear by Apple products and software
But to average users and people who just want to go online with social media, snap a picture, share it, forget it and do it over and over and over again … they really don’t care if it’s an apple product or not. The family and friends I know that are not technically minded only understand one key technological specification when it comes to devices … PRICE and COST.
If they can’t afford a $1,000 apple phone … they’ll buy a $500 android phone … or just stick to their five year apple phone and won’t upgrade until they can buy a used $500 apple phone.
Or everyone is starting to figure out that the garden looks just as good outside the fence as it does inside the fence. Technology has been converging for many years now to the point where most devices especially smart phones have reached a bottleneck and no one can make things go any faster and there is really no big need for even more massive storage space for the average person. So phones have hit a ceiling and the place that Apple once had where they were one of the few manufacturers that made good phones is now overshadowed by lots of other companies that are comparable or near comparable. Does the average person really care if they have a high definition 20MP camera or a 22 MP camera. All they care about is being able to scroll through Tik Tok, FB or Instagram and no one really seems to care what device they use to do that any more.
It’s an arms race and Lemmy is only a small player right now so no one really pays attention to our little corner. But as soon as we get past a certain threshold, we’ll be dealing with the same problems as well.
Doesn’t mean that the fediverse is immune.
News stories and narratives are still fought over by actors on all sides and sometimes by entities that might be bots. And there are a lot of auto-generating content bots that post stuff or repost old content from other sites like Reddit.
AI has a already won in these confrontations
Surface To Air missile made human piloted aircraft obsolete.
All that’s needed now are a bunch of missiles, plug into an AI program and let it run by itself.
Why would militaries invest in a billion dollar aircraft piloted by a highly trained aircraft pilot with years of training that cost millions of dollars that is probably paid millions over many years … when the pilot and his aircraft can be shot down by a $100,000 missile. If you can’t do it with one missile, send three, four or ten, it’s still cheaper than matching them with an aircraft and pilot.
Instead of investing in expensive aircraft and pilots, all a defending country can do is just spend the same amount of money and surround their country with anti aircraft missiles controlled by AI systems.
Same similiar thing happened with major newspapers about 100 / 150 years ago … governments realized that if any one group or company had control over all the information without regulation, businesses will quickly figure out ways to monetize information for the benefit of those with all the money and power. They then had to figure out how to start regulating newspapers and news media in order to maintain some sort of control and sanity to the entire system.
But like the newspapers of old … no one will do anything about all this until it causes a major crisis or causes a terrible event … or events.
In the meantime … big corporations controlling 99% of all media and news information will stay unregulated or regulated as little as possible until terrible things happen and society breaks down.
It’s the age old model of tech companies … which basically follows the old model of companies before the modern tech and digital age … once you heavily monetize any product or service, the product or service eventually becomes secondary to the main goal of making as much money as possible.
Companies haven’t changed no matter how technological and modern they are … we still want to do the OOGA BOOGA thing of … “take thing, make money, who cares what thing does”
We definitely aren’t ready because we’re actively raising a Degenerate AI
For 90% of the public that is not attached to a major business, corporation or institution … Libreoffice is more than enough.
And even for small offices and small groups or companies, LibreOffice is more than enough.
The only difference comes when you have to set up a mass system with hundreds or thousands or systems and people to interconnect an office system do the big companies opt for Microsoft office.
“We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard”
The previous social model of monetizing everything is also not working and terribly complicated and sends the majority of the profit to those who contributed nothing but their claims to ownership and entitlement. I’d rather live a world where we were constantly debating and discussing while sending the majority of wealth to those people who actually created something.
Human cooperation will never be easy so we have to learn to live with that reality.
They’ll keep cutting everything down until people revolt because they’re facing death from starvation.
It’s a gentle balance between making people live with less and starvation. The less common people have the more money the rich make. But the rich know not to go too far because they know it will cause mass panic. They also know that most decent people can do with a lot of misery before they revolt.
The balance is also controlled by us too. How much abuse are we willing to take before acting out or organizing against it all. From the looks of things, we are willing to take a lot of abuse.
The logic and balance game I’m describing are all features that have happened before … it’s the basis of why events like the French Revolution, the American Revolution or the Communist Revolution happened in the past.
It was a choice … either have no choice but die in the old system with nothing … or fight and die for something new and have a chance of living.
The balancing game continues to be played now and the game is simply to keep things on edge but never allow it to go too far and cause people to revolt and change the system.
Honestly, the interior decor of a house probably seldom matters.
It always depends on geography.
If you have a outrageously painted kitchen inside a house in a prime area, no one is going to care about the colors of the cupboards.
Don’t tell, share, give or allow access to anything personal to corporations
AI are children of corporations … so don’t give anything to the children of corporations
First, the weirdest US presidential debate … and now this.
What’s next? World War III?