And in turn the billionaires should fear the guillotines

But it is so bad. I don’t understand how with all the data they have about everyone their Gemini integrations in their products suck so much. Can’t make a proper task from the email list. Can’t find docs related to meetings. It is all literally in their systems.

Their product managers are so shortsighted. Jam half-assed stuff and pat themselves on the back.

I know people will probably disagree but I like the fact that Apple has stepped back on AI and slowed down. I suspect once they finally release something. It may actually be useful and probably opt-in/out. Whether the op-out is actually real is another debate.

Yeah probably but if you’re going to this much trouble to spy, you’re may as well put gait analysis on it.

My understanding is that this catches disruptions between devices and router. I don’t think this would work. I would say you should instead sell a “bracelet” with “ancient Himalayan Salt” embedded into the silicone to absorb and cancel the tracking. It would probably sell a ton! Obviously wouldn’t work but $!

Until they go too far. Tale as old as time.

Well looking around at where we are today, maybe TVs did fry our brains.

You can probably still find the older airpods.

bUt iT’s StAiNlEsS sTeEl! - as they drive away in their rust bucket.

Tool-powered agents can do math though. The issue is the fuzziness of it trying to guess carbs. It doesn’t know weight, ingredients, or anything other than a picture. These tools can be useful but not for this. Maybe one day but not yet.

Whoever claims an AI (LLM or agents) can do that and charging their users is lying and defrauding them.

It’s one step beyond monitoring. The mega rich want to control AI because they can train them to say whatever they want without question.

They want to shape the world around them. Ask an AI about Tiananmen in china. The west is no different, they are going to try to shape how generations develop (or don’t) their critical thinking skills.

It’s only really good at maybe making repetitive tasks faster. At the cost of our environment.

Yeah, I am just saying some of the things I have heard. People don’t want the cognitive overhead of having to make decisions before trying a thing. They just wanna sign up and look around get a feel for something before deciding to dive in.

Mastodon in particular has a steep onboarding process. In order to get it useful you have too

• Sign up for an instance (which they have to find)
• search for people to follow when people are thinking in topics.

There isn’t an easy way to stumble into new things. I found it tedious and others I have spoken with have said the same. I suppose Mastodon isn’t for me (hence why I am here).

I don’t already know who I want to follow though. What do I search for?

BTW these are things I have actually discussed with people when they are trying to look into fediverse stuff. They don’t want to know how it works. They just want to open up their devices and turn their brains off.

Which is probably a good thing for federated services as it filters out a bunch of people we probably don’t want here. It’s like a test to join.

My issue with starter packs is I don’t want to commit. What if I pick the wrong one? What if I pick the wrong one instance!?

The anxiety of picking the wrong instance is a design failure. Content discovery shouldn’t depend on getting that choice right.

The fediverse needs a better content discovery/curation infrastructure.

Art of the Deal ladies and gentlemen!

He’s trying to wrap it all under SpaceX and walk away with a bag when it goes public.

Passkeys are just public and private keys. They have been securing the internet for decades.

Yeah, very likely. I suppose the product focus will be government/military. They will get the AI find people to disappear or pick bombing targets. That’s apparently a profitable endeavor.

… and the billionaires draft the laws.