Capitalism hates a memory. Hates/fears anything it can’t update, whitewash or otherwise directly control or obscure after the fact.

If humanity had any hope, we’d surround this thing with torches to defend it tooth and nail.

AND continue to specifically highlight the ones who are going for the high score, like this fucking douche.

Former CEO, current inhumane grifter chud, Eric Schmidt, who has been featured in a recent series of “saying the quiet silicon valley executive thought out loud”

The victim’s statement here ends with an oddly volunteered tangent and specific praise of driverless vehicles, before it finally takes an eerie turn in the last sentence…

"…With that said, I think the Human Factor in this issue is going to be a lot harder to solve than anything else.” …FREEZE CITIZEN!

I do hope she’s okay, and those two folks seem to be clowns, but this thing also all reads as likely guerilla marketing for Waymo - who the article informs me, in a very capitalism-friendly turn of events, that they now have their service open to the public in 3 cities, cars have a safety feature that checked in with her multiple times and they “rewarded” her with an extra ride. It’s a light enough “crime”, with a very engineered feeling and enough to feel “real” while providing ready fodder for morning radio talk shows, Jimmy Fallon and good morning America talking heads to drone on about this morning across America as time filler that quietly advertises waymo “saving” a person from the scary outside world.

Note: Also, was very funny that throughout drafting my comment here “waymo” was constantly being autocorrected to “say no” :)

A.k.a. Twitter and the elon filtering moment

Wasn’t talking IP, meant more generally like how orgs like EA and Activision are the go to assholes in gaming, generally. Feel like I don’t hear about Nintendo in the more meaningful (In my opinion) microtransactions, mass layoffs, ridiculous price increases, attempts to kill physical media optionality, etc conversations…

As long as IP is the law we live under, I don’t really mind them enforcing that part. I think it was a bit lazy for palworld to blatantly ripoff Pokemon when they could be creative and make their own character universe. If you’re mad at IP law, go after your reps in government.

I mean, Nintendo isn’t typically the bad guy though, right? And palworld is a pretty clear like 1:1 rip, so…

I mean, good to challenge the “big” guy generally, but wrong target here specifically and weak case, right?

“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it’s not) what do we think the chances are that the “appropriate person” will be one of two things:

1. Another cop

2. A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for “internal investigation”, as long as the bill is paid.

Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

Outside of just saying “America” or “Capitalism” How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?

And none of the forced tech support “AI” replacements work. And the companies don’t give a shit.

They have actually started serving ads with a skip button… That only skips to the next ad.

This is specifically about TV apps.

Steam didn’t start with physical hardware and then try to remove it. And stream doesn’t design, own and operate the hardware for the most part.

Was always inching closer, but looks like android has fully outstayed its welcome. The revolving door of executives hit its last person with any integrity on the ass on their way out the door.

Physical media or full rejection. Fuck you business school zombies squeezing blood from rocks

Oh hey… Look! It’s exactly the kind of thing I trust a for-profit tech company with!

Are you as excited as I am to follow the journey of how this leads to you and I paying individual daily subscriptions for basic access to sunlight (and the quality of that sunlight being filtered into multiple premium tiers - light basic, light & heat+, light & heat & UV ultimate++)?

Its subtle, but the tone of that article’s coverage actually sucks… Is futurism a piece of shit?

What a waste of my tax dollars by the DOJ to try to recover spotify´s money for a broken system that they left open and are honestly probably exploiting themselves in parallel to inflate engagement numbers and take streams away from legit artists that they have to play. Remember, they want you in their app, they don’t give a shit about actual music. If you’ll just listen to random boops, they save cost in the middle. Not where I want the justice systems effort to go.

What’s the last “bombshell scandal that would ruin a company” that actually ruined a company?

You wouldn’t download a collection of all the art and knowledge ever documented in the entire history of the known universe…

So funny that all the musk brigaders on here, in full force, can only collectively muster 4 downvotes…

You are the wet farts of humanity.