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They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?

The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.

People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.

Who didn’t need this in their life? I’m so glad the CFPB has also been disemboweled.

Got it. I’m hallucinating about corks and hearses. You’re at a funeral for a vintner.

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Not sure why the down votes for the article, maybe the article was updated after you read it but these were listed:

"DataByCloud Access — Posed as a productivity or security-related tool while secretly harvesting session tokens.

Tool Access 11 — Intercepted authentication data and blocked access to administrative and security settings.

DataByCloud 1 — Exfiltrated authentication cookies to attacker-controlled servers.

DataByCloud 2 — A variant with extended persistence and administrative interference capabilities.

Software Access — Enabled bidirectional session hijacking and long-term account takeover. "

C corps, which almost any company you’ve heard of, North Star is money. They, in some cases legally, have to prioritize shareholder returns. Little has been done to consider short vs. long term return as part of that equation, but I digress.

Just like black lives matter, DEI, lgbtq rights/pride, being against Nazis, it’s all just a mask. A sheen. Businesses as we’ve seen, either happy prance into supporting whatever will make them the most money politically. Look at how many companies fell in line when attempted autocracy has been pushed the last 13 months since the fanatics took power.

Coke created Fanta to have an unfamiliar brand to sell in the Nazi Germany market in the 30s that wouldn’t be familiar to Americans. Why? They wanted the money and did not care who they were dealing with in power. Nothing in that lesson is new in history nor will change in the future.

Companies are not people and have no morals. Don’t look for them to stand up for what is right.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -JFK 1963 on why the US should support economic integration in the hemisphere and specifically calling out, ironically in Ops quotes context, for Cuba to rejoin the “society of free men”.

Drones are the industry in the last 6 months. It’s just beginning.

They’ve not even started for most of the domestic and consumer uses. They’re only just scratching the surface of commercial and military application.

In 30 years people will have subscriptions to a drone service that will take x# of packages for them within their city/geography per month/year with weight tiers. Etc. errands and single use car trips and commercial trips in the last mile will drastically decrease.

The skies will never be as they are again. The generation growing up right now will be the last to have been able to look up at the vast expanse without some buzzing. Whirring distraction.

It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).

If “capital gains not taxed” didn’t leap off the page at you, you are a poor slob who must actually have w-2 income? Keep up the good work while the wealthy sleep soundly on the tax code they bought and wrote.

The whole “end of free speech” issue comes not so much from the government sensor really (that’s still firmly restricted by the first amendment) but from companies themselves banning any content or accounts that might get them sued.

Really? The early major moves (so stupidly transparent and to reinforce the concern and urgency) was to go after Facebook who agreed to appoint a government representative to their board. Which is unprecedented except in state-controlled entities. Threats have been made and lawsuits filed by Trump personally or his new attack dog the “DOJ” against most major media organizations including those who produce content and/or control distribution and algorithms. Many of the orgs have paid “fines” or tributes to the government in power to remain in favor and altered their content, presentation and/or coverage. This is naked violation of freedom of speech and press.

Back to the point: if enormous and otherwise powerful companies so easily fold–in a matter of months into an administration–there is no “independence” and government censor is hardly theoretical as you would present it, but already in place, and as such puts who defines “dangerous” in an unsustainably temptingly powerful position ripe for future abuse. This is existentially concerning no matter your political stripes as it’s the end of the political experiment that was the US.

What you say sounds good, and this isn’t rhetorical, but who gets to decide what constitutes “harmful” then? Isn’t that still the same problem that could be weaponized against free speech?

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Never been to a game, always wanted to go Had planned to go since the cup was announced. Decided by March or April it was not only going to be unsafe due to potential ICE raids, trump being highly visible involved potentially enticing an attack, to say nothing of the price…forget about it, wont go.

He’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.

He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.

Great article, brave and correct. Good luck getting the same leaders who blindly believe in a magical trend for this or next quarters numbers; they don’t care about things a year away let alone 10.

I work in HR and was stuck by the parallel between management jobs being gutted by major corps starting in the 80s and 90s during “downsizing” who either never replaced them or offshore them. They had the Big 4 telling them it was the future of business. Know who is now providing consultation to them on why they have poor ops, processes, high turnover, etc? Take $ on the way in, and the way out. AI is just the next in long line of smart people pretending they know your business while you abdicate knowing your business or employees.

Hope leaders can be a bit braver and wiser this go 'round so we don’t get to a cliffs edge in software.

Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else