Time to cancel those Microsoft subscriptions.

No one wants to risk getting bitten and turnimg into the leather-faced, gravel-voiced, worm-brained, moronic undead.

These fascists believe in eugenics and that the “weak” deserve to die. They also often believe in some idiotic notion of God’s will to save only the chosen few (namely, themselves). And they believe that science is messing with God’s natural order of things. Using science to help everyone to live is just not something they’re interested in.

Even just recently we’ve heard about amazing results from mRNA vaccines for HIV and some kinds of cancer. Meanwhile bird flu continues to threaten a pandemic that could be much worse than the last one. So the fascists try to stop it. They hate that science can be authoritative in ways they can never be.

The USA isn’t run by or for the average Joe. Average Joes are human resources to be mined, plundered, exploited and discarded as their rulers see fit.

Since they almost never take the blame or suffer any consequences, most of them are not doing even that “job”. They’re parasites on the work of others.

A CEO’s main job is to spout bullshit, which is also AI’s particular talent.

Developers are smart enough that they’ll find out for themselves whether and when AI can be helpful. There is really no need for these CEOs to issue absurd commands that developers use AI (in some unspecified way) or quit. This “microwave” article does a good job of showing how absurd the CEOs’ commands are. They serve no purpose except to convince investors that the appropriate bandwagons are being jumped on, and to convince CEOs that CEOs are important.

You’re taking too seriously the idea that these restrictions are intended to protect children. That’s just what the politicians say to sell increased surveillance to the public. The point of the surveillance is control.

Maybe if they keep going and add a few more words it will magically start to mean something.

Ah, but they didn’t specify which President was “the President”.

The younger Hegseth was a podcast producer and social media poster for a conservative think-tank before his brother’s rise from the Fox & Friends Weekend couch to being in charge of the world’s most powerful military.

The USA is looking like a real tin-pot dictatorship these days.

“Protecting children” is just the pretext under which governments can sell increased surveillance. The fact that there are more effective ways they could act to protect children, yet governments everywhere continue to push for ID checks and monitoring online activity, shows that the aim isn’t what they say it is.

https://archive.is/Kn3Y8

There’s still the risk of GPS coordinates leaking out of the social media phone, and that leading Google to be able to correlate it with the person’s main phone. Even without GPS there’s the position based on nearby wifi networks etc. So you’d have to be sure all location services were disabled. Still, someone knows which cell towers your phones connect to and could correlate their locations if they repeatedly come close to one another, though Meta probably don’t have ready access to that data. Something’s always being sold to data brokers though, and it’s very hard to prevent them from spotting patterns that reveal who you really are.

I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.

“We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture,” Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”

Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.

These people get paid so much for spouting this utter bullshit every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.

She, I think.

Demonizing or demonetizing? I’ve heard YouTube demonetizes people for swearing or discussing the history of the USSR. But advocate fascism and apparently it’s all good.

Exactly. This is something everyone needs to care about. If you want to stand up for humanity, fight for trans rights.