I genuinely had no idea what any of this was about until I saw the MEGA hat in the header there. Goodness gracious…

I worry users might say Siri is rude compared to other chat bots and they‘ll tweak it to be more manipulative.

I know you didn‘t notice the gorilla either when you tried to count how often the ball was thrown in that clip. We could never really trust our eyes and that‘s okay.

According to reports I’ve seen over the years the job market in China has been pretty disastrous for young college graduates for a while now. Contracts from foreign companies have been getting fewer and their domestic market isn‘t growing at a rate to negate this loss in work. China‘s wobbly housing market hasn‘t been doing great for some time either.

But of course AI adoption is blamed now instead like it is everywhere else. As if AI could replace all those jobs in manufacturing and construction.

And of course the arts and culture are being gutted first as they only enrich people‘s lives and you can‘t have that during a crisis apparently. They‘re always the first on the chopping block when old people at the top see performance dwindle. Now instead of having sophisticated, unemployed grads you will have uneducated, unemployed grads.

According to Switch 2 sales numbers, you are sadly the rare exception. Nintendo fans are gobbling up the stuff big N is churning out and asking for seconds.

I bet some employers love that shit. They are Microslop Teams‘ main customers. Making our life miserable is a feature.

My first thought exactly. Classic „CEO says…“ bullshit journalism as well.

Not surprising given they‘ve lowered the price again shortly after.

I mean these days with all the hyped up scams all over social media including Lemmy… yeah?

„Don‘t learn to code!!!“ guy tells us we should‘ve learned to code after all?

And they‘re probably already doing it.

Yeah. Are they really expecting me to believe we can‘t have wide spread fiber that has fairly little maintenance costs but we can totally afford weekly space rocket launches to maintain Starlink? And Starlink is supposed to be an affordable option while still being profitable? Yeah, sure buddy. Totally doesn‘t sound like a hyperloop-esque pipe dream. /s

Fuck politico.

You see, this way they get to share the losses with the public too!

It‘s just the good old „privatize profits, nationalize losses“ playbook because AI companies are in fact not making money with it. They know the party is over so they‘re preparing to make it everyone else‘s problem. It‘s another grift on top of a grift, but unfortunately for everyone else they‘re trying to legitimize it.

Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.

That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.

I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.

DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.

Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.

Clearly the super power thing isn‘t working anymore so why bother spending that much on it?

The incentive to buy one comes from the expectation it‘ll be even more expensive this time next year. Not sure it‘s working, though.

I guess calling it „Agriculture in Spain“ didn‘t have the same ring to it but believe me it‘s almost as dystopian.

That is despite huge propaganda campaigns by tech giants and the government in favor of them mind you. Everyone who experienced what it‘s like living near one absolutely hates it for many reasons including health issues from the noise and vibration. Anyone who doesn‘t already got a taste of it when utility bills climbed up.

Not hard to figure out why. There‘s an oil crisis and these AI bro fucks keep constructing giant diesel engines to power the giant data centers. Everyone else loses.