For more info: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

How many tools require millions of gallons of water to and require such unbelievably massive amounts of electricity to operate? Do they take 100,000s of square feet with infrastructure? Generate massive amounts of noise and waste?

Don’t worry, Amazon is investing $4 billion into Chile, it’s gonna be cutting edge by the time the money has been allocated 🤪

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,”

Which is why they erected a giant golden statue of the president of the United States. Makes perfect sense!

Probably the most American Idol to date

Let me guess: they’re also calling lawyers “lawfighters” 🫠

Anytime i see a link to that article, i like to click over and take another look at that house. I like to think of it as doing my part keeping the Streisand effect strong.

As should forced Internet connectivity

They shared a perspective i hadn’t considered: all the AI involvement in the workplace, the constant surveillance, the rigid hierarchies–it all serves as ways to acquaint people with authoritarianism.

I mean, it isn’t illegal to treat workers with suspicion and malice – and frankly, they can always leave! (Same could be said for citizens, on second thought…)

If all the businesses decide they want to run that way (or if all the businesses get absorbed by 2-3 mega-corporations and they decide to treat workers that way), it’s within their rights to. Hell, we’ve been discovering for quite some time that businesses may even operate illegally until found out, and even then it’s often not enough to stop them – it simply becomes an operating expense.

Isn’t it interesting that the richest people in the world are allied with each other politically? At least here in this shithole we call the USA, we now get to witness enthusiastic levels of corruption, and every major corp with their shitty, billionaire leader is there getting their slice of pie.

The authoritarianism begins in the workplace (and schools!) where people become conditioned to the hierarchy, then ultimately get dominated by the authoritarian government that they themselves somehow voted for.

What are you hiding?! 😡

I think that’s part of the trouble with trying to take down something this big. It has to be done systematically because it is dense with governmental machinations and pure scale. They have to find all the weak spots and then work out how to dismantle them. You’d think it could be done much quicker but there are scores of incompetent people doing the work coupled with fairly large tasks to accomplish. The gears move slowly, even as it’s being destroyed.

I think another part of the problem is human resilience and adaptability. We somehow manage to keep saying “This is fine” while the house is on fire because we aren’t personally feeling the heat yet (and by the time we do, it’ll be too late). But we have nowhere else to go and the fire is way bigger than any of us can manage individually. Even if we manage to put it out, all we’ll have left is the burnt wreckage–if there’s anything left at all. Some are blissfully unaware that there’s even a fire going on, some are pouring gas on it and everything in between.

So i guess it could have been done a lot more quickly and efficiently but the fact that Trump is at the helm means there’s a level of incompetence baked into the operation that will inevitably lead to delays in the schedule of something like a fascist takeover.

Apple products about to get even more expensive!

…and make their competitions products more expensive too, i suppose

It’s a win-win really 🫠

Imagine pouring your years and efforts into making this company the giant it became, and this is how they repay you. I have to imagine it’s gonna be hard to find a new job at the same pay level etc, considering everyone is currently making big cuts to their workforce 🫠

“After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change,” copies of layoff notification email viewed by Business Insider stated. “As a result, today is your last working day.”

Oh, and one last thing:

Oracle declined to comment.

Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.

Surprise!!!

Isn’t that what happens to anything commercially successful now?

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Well i didn’t have “Year of the Linux Laptop” on my 2026 bingo card! That’s awesome!!

Go figure the margins are that thin.

we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.

Oh man, we owe the globe a lot these days 😅