Just in time for China to scoop up the entire market, smart.

There are adults that never used the accounts they set up themselves as kids to play Farmville with a friend.

This is exactly the kind of circular cascade failure that we are going to see. Once the AI engines all start training on their own data and sourcing each others slop it just gets worse and worse.

Yep, and then passing that work on to commercial developers to be sold.

The one time it was useful to stack like four different video adapters together was all the validation I needed.

Yep. These practices were not adopted because corporations are nice people that wanted to help improve society. They were implemented because they are good at identifying talent at bargain prices.

Target actually has an entire surveillance and video forensic side business based in Minneapolis that works closely with Federal law enforcement and almost certainly worked directly with ICE and their operations in Minneapolis and is likely why they were exceptionally aggressive in that city.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/01/29/retailer-target-branches-out-into-police-work-span-classbankheadminneapolis-forensics-lab-donations-help-law-enforcement-agenciesspan/32273b10-40fa-4db4-a4a1-88b77eafb891/

https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/the-hidden-side-of-target-surveillance-policing-and-a-call-for-scrutiny/

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/237917.pdf

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities

Target is the tip of the fucking spear when it comes to fascist corporate/state law enforcement collaboration. They are NOT on our side and never have been.

Most, if not all, large corporations are inherently evil. Target is exceptional in that they have made a deliberate choice to make evil a core element of their business operations.

Companies didn’t adopt DEI to “go woke” they adopted it because it gave them access to a larger talent pool, which was often cheaper because they had not previously been recognized and therefore didn’t have the work history to command higher wages. There was always a business case to be made for this kind of program and its why it was so broadly implemented.

No one abandoned programs like this because they were costly or harmful, the only companies that did so were trying to score political points with jerks. And the outcome of that is pretty predictable.

How? Its the DOJs job to defend against claims. Without evidence of that happening its just Trump settling a case with himself, which is what we all knew happened, but now they have positive evidence that it did. The absence of DOJ involvement IS the evidence of a crime here.

In this case, putting it into writing would have been the way to hide it being a crime.

Most Meta glasses don’t even HAVE a display. The camera is the only thing they do.

There are plenty of vehicles that have this feature without requiring an app to use it.

This is a problem even in places where teachers are adequately paid.

That 18 billion in revenue already results in an operating loss of 4 billion a year. So its a little odd to hear you act like “only” losing another 13% is insignificant since it would increase their loss by about 30%.

Also, that is assuming that all launches cost the same, which is probably not the case at all. The NASA launches are likely considerably more costly than Starlink launches.

If you took the state funding out of Space X how much money do they make?

Sure, but you are talking about being the leader in an industry that has historically been the profitless province of state sponsored exploration, scientific discovery, with supplementing industrial functions as a value-add. It is not a given what value there actually is in being the leader in this field.

“Most armed country in Europe” is still a pretty different category from the level of gun ownership in the US and they have CONSIDERABLY higher standards for background checking and permits than the US. The US is one of the only country on earth that just lets some random walk into a store and walk out with a firearm.

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For any other administration I would agree with this. For these guys? They are absolutely stupid enough to really be using Grok for decisions like this.

Sure, and once we have remedied the ten thousand OTHER problems caused by executive overreach and corruption in this admin we can get around to addressing the hard done to this poor little AI company.