Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.
Ooh, while we’re at it, let’s also address corporate personhood.
The Onion?
These days I keep forgetting the App Store is a thing. That’s how important apps are to me anymore. Also, fuck apple for being the tacky soulless corporate monster that it always used to make fun of.
I would describe it as the application layer of all this AI shit. We are doing very well right now, but I’m just waiting for the turn.
Personally, I am eyeballs deep in this industry and even I’m now hoping to see it all burn to the ground. I’ve already concluded that I’ll never make it to retirement in my field, probably because of automation. Fuck ‘em all.
I just don’t understand why this is a difficult question. Make the data centers fund their own power needs. End of story.
If we’re talking about the US, then yes. 100%. It’s already underway.
Let me take this opportunity to complain about online recipes these days. Everything is inflated with a ridiculous volume of unwanted fluff content that makes the recipes more difficult to use.
Like, I just want to know the ingredients for Beef Stroganoff and in what order to assemble them. What I get is a book that starts with, “Beef Stroganoff started as the ancestral celebration meal for peasant steppe farmers…yadda…yadda…yadda.”
I’m happy to hear that something new will happen. Hopefully we can break free of all the modern Trek from the last decade. I seriously hope this isn’t going to be yet another nostalgia play where they re-cast the original characters. Please, write something new and explore that amazing universe with new compelling characters, ships, planets and science fiction stories. It would be incredible if they advanced the timeframe to completely break away from the temptation to loop in existing characters or retcon stuff. The last thing we need is another cool and modern interpretation of the 60s aesthetic. Let’s move on and be creative.
Remember back when Apple’s achievements revolved around making great products?
Just canceled. Thanks.
As with everything this president does, this is a grift. It’s a way to siphon meaningfully more wealth from the American public, send it to billionaires, all while feeding the fear machine that fascists need to maintain power.
Given how obvious, predictable, and preventable all of this is, if the American public falls for it again, we probably deserve it. We deserve to suffer the consequences of our collective stupidity.
Wake the fuck up people.
Regulating AI hastens the antichrist says the world’s leading antichrist candidate
Because it either: Directly facilitates some fraud that they are trying to legitimize …or… They are trying to spend some of the perceived credibility of their stock market on legitimizing blockchain generally in the hope of facilitating some frauds that have nothing to do with their stock market.
Either way, it’s about fraud. It’s always, always fraud with anything blockchain related.
Oh no! At least he has his visionary metaverse business to fall back on—oh wait.
I like how the article doesn’t even attempt to communicate a potential benefit to doing this or any rationale for why this is useful or good at all. Of course, the real rationale is that it allows the administration to hand wave about being “innovative” without backing that assertion with any substance. It also allows the administration to apply some of the supposed legitimacy of the US government to this wholly pointless, fraud riddled joke of a technology. JFC, this is such a clown of a nation.
Kevin Rose can fuck right the hell off.
You may be correct, but I suspect that by the time that we eventually achieve this technological goal, it will be more economically viable to plug it into robotic solutions that mostly take humans out of the loop for such industrial applications. I don’t think any of that is happening soon. I still don’t see a long term path for XR beyond some niche gaming and porn applications.
In the mid-nineties I passionately believed that the internet would democratize information and usher in a wonderful new era of well-informed critical thinking and general enlightenment. Basically the opposite has happened.