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Watching every NFL game in the US has become like 5+ subscriptions

I think that folds pretty well into both points A (reserving personal hardware for the wealthy) and point B (the ability to mandate software installations is a valuable mass surveillance touch-point)

The people inflating the bubble have to know what they’re doing, right? It’s hard to come up with an economic scenario where the market doesn’t crash and burn as a result.

I can’t shake the feeling that two key motivations for bleeding all this cash are A. For moving more wealth to the top (which, y’know, is already happening in umpteen different ways beyond AI), and B. For quickly building surveillance infrastructure, seeing as how eager the Pentagon/DHS is about AI

What is the threat model for this type of surveillance? Can any device measure this?

You’re not winning the race, Mark

Non-zero chance we will get clips of RFK drinking the water on TikTok while promising that it’s safe

Just like Skype getting lapped by Zoom during COVID

Young kids in America at least hate both

How young? That hasn’t been my experience with plenty of teens and young adults I’ve been around who vape all the time or go looking for cigs while drinking

What’s the next step now that he didn’t show?

Like who? There aren’t many jobs around, let alone jobs in this field for companies that aren’t evil

Not prosecuting pedophiles is bad. But is it good for the economy?

So, like, my internet-connected lightbulbs would have to verify my age, too?

TIL there’s a Windows wallpaper wiki!

Has anyone here tried this game? I was on the fence about buying it a little while ago

Investors: oh ok np

I really hope people continue to talk about this more, because this feels to me like it’s one of the most successful lies of the Trump admin (and, as I understand it, other right-wing nationalist movements around the world)

My gut says this is very likely true but is there a verified stat that backs this up?

LEN

Most of my feed winds up being world news so I just end up feeling sad

If Google continues to round the corners of their Google Play triangle icon, it’ll become a circle in a few years