That’s where the laws come in. I don’t agree that recording and biometric information on people should be legally protected, unless you ask for permission first.

Well yeah, one of them involves standing up to corpos and the other one would require actually talking to your kids, and conservatives are nothing if not cowardly, so

My dad has been that guy! We sure ate a lottt of Silver Wok during that time 😋

Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??

People will be laid off
Spoils will be enjoyed
This great economy… it will endure
The working class will survive!

I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It’s not just the raw text that’s valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of users people.

Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.

I’ve could imagine a sort of “script” running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.

I mean this tech exists now, but it’s fairly “dumb.” But it’s not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.

Relate

Man I’d be so mad if I’d built up a sweet severance, only to have to quit for better work

Hell yeah!

Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands

I’d probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though

I’m legitimately curious about their takes on this…

And yet you continue to order them

The connection is that they both require workers, but don’t want to pay them

Agreed those scare quotes confuse things. I read it as emphasis

And they’re sticking with that name? … huh

This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.

Let’s do both! I welcome our imperfect solarpunk future with open arms

Big acorn moment

I mean I hadn’t seen this until now, so thank you

Sounds like he’s doing great.