The truck was first shown in 2016, nearly 8 years ago, and only came out last year so there was about half a decade of hype building around this thing that was busy sucking in all the gullible rich people.

Adam Ant AND Grace Jones? It’s like an 80s super band made a movie in the 90s…

That the obvious part. At this point Netflix is looking at drastic transmission costs in the coming decade. Video is obviously taxing and require huge amounts of data but Atmos is no slouch either.The gamble, is in how customers receive the news and how it impacts playback.

Audio sync issues, subtitle playback, artifacting on anything over 1080p will all cause customers dissatisfaction. Using a new way to save data is a great idea, almost literally a no brainer, but does a technical solution always work out of the gate?

GN is so good I watch the ads on their channel.

In Tech, an IPO means the business is market ready to be sold off in pieces, ie stocks. The people who buy the product don’t care what it does, they use the product maker as a vehicle to more growth and profit. Typically that means the people who now own the business make poor choices about cost cutting, like off shoring support and removing unuseful documentation while removing people with critical tribal knowledge about processes. Each step the new owner takes will be to make the business more profitable, and in the world of business, the only thing they care about are the numbers and not the environment or people that created those numbers.

I saw that and then realized that having parabolas emanating from a mouth is more confusing than the whole cartridge. The cartridge is 100% recognizable while a fired bullet needs more context, like smoke or motion. Besides, it’s art and clearly meant to be symbolic instead of realistic.

Or they had a few reports of missing tools and no leads when this guy shows up and says “I know where my tools are but you have to get them”. Of course they will help him with the hope it pans out.

Because they are very politically right and value authority and the appearance of strength over anything else. As a culture they were always squished next to a giant empire that was dying but would wipe them like a shit smear. They are born wanting boot flavor.

Another whistleblower gone before their time

There will be a day when a robot crushes it’s digit in a machine and learns that we gave it the ability to feel pain.

This is what peak stability looks like.

And there can only be one.

Traditional marketing is dead. No one likes ads. But the amount of people watching game streams? Enormous. Slay the Spire is the typical tale of how streaming sparked a deck building gold rush and it started when a streamer played a few hours and got some word of mouth going.

Marketing is still a very viable approach to figuring out how to sell a product. But ads themselves are actually poorly regarded and when folks are given the option of how to receive retail information, they don’t want unstoppable messages for things that don’t appeal and will never be purchased. And it sours the brand to viewers who have to watch.

But getting some charismatic people to have fun with your product? Guaranteed to get some eyeballs who are willing to be there. That’s what ads will start to look like: appeals to friendship.

Marketing is still working but unskippable billboards on the gates of our entertainment are dying off.

Wait until generative AI tells a customer to touch electricity.

Also, corporations seemingly run everything. Capitalism run amok.

Has China done that before? How does a battery seize control of a parent device when it is only connected by power wires?

Google internal politics ousted the last of the OG Google guys and replaced him with the same person who killed Yahoo, Prabhakar Raghavan.

The general consensus is that all of the changes to Google since 2019 were driven by profit instead of trying to find things, like a search engine should. And those decisions were spearheaded by Prabhakar Raghavan, who used the training of a data scientist to run Google into the ground for short term financial gain. Sundae Prichai hired Prabhakar Raghavan directly and then promoted him from Head of Ads to Head of Search after firing the guy who had been helping guide Google Search since 1999.

A message as old as time

With data caps, you can now go over your limit 1.2 billion times faster!

What a nightmare of a person.