Back in the 90's, a friend of mine purchased a new stereo receiver that had a blue LED power indicator light instead of the standard red. The envy of everyone who saw it. Thanks, Shuji!
Pretty ballsy, and dumb, to mess with Apple like this. AI companies are really riding the 'too big to fail' ship close to the edge.
'The lawsuit claims that Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a former Apple vice president who spent 24 years at the company, asked Apple job candidates to bring physical components for "show and tell" sessions during interviews. OpenAI employees would also ask candidates for prototypes and information about vendors, the complaint alleges.'
Apple, like all FAANG and adjacent/copycat companies, have such insane hiring processes, all to make sure they get the best people. Yet were constantly seeing headlines like these: highly paid engineers and top execs doing the unthinkable. Tang Tan's total compensation at Apple was likely well into the millions and that didn't stop him asking interviewees to steal trade secrets. Amazing.
“The solution that’s being promoted is that we give you testosterone,” he said. “But if you give a man testosterone, you switch off his sperm production. I’ve seen that in the clinic.”
So cool that a stolen website idea used by geeks to stalk college girls in the hopes of sexual encounters is now poisoning the water supplies of rural communities.
I was recently in the Uk and one of the cars I was in would alert the driver if he was over the speed limit. Fair enough. But the alert itself is distracting. Are we to review every single alert from these cameras? Is that not just another distraction?
So, it appears you can no longer sign up for an account without using your phone number or existing Google/Apple accounts. Goodbye anonymity and goodbye to the majority of their user base.
The simple fact is that America isn’t a real country, it never stood a chance. Europeans living on stolen land and building their economy on slavery and indentured servitude? All the propaganda in the world can’t hide that or stop the collapse that’s gaining speed.
The left spent the better part of a decade gleefully advocating for, often successfully, the debanking of those they disagreed with politically and socially. It was gong to rebound on them one day.
I just started seeing these pop up a few weeks ago after some very obvious AI edits appeared in my searches. It’s entirely possibly realtors have been doing this for years now, just in less obvious ways. This crosses the line for me as they’re clearly making spaces look far bigger and brighter than they actually are. Straight up fraudulent and deceptive behavior.
Trump and his cronies were never going to win that battle. Like many things he does, it serves as a dog whistle to nationalists and allows him to paint anyone who opposes him as somehow un-American and an enemy of the ‘people’.
The best scenario for AI companies is that they replace the human workforce with their bots and make all the money. It’s a sick, amplified version of outsourced labor.
I’ve been rereading Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of The United States’ and the US has been doing this since day zero. Build the economy on indentured servitude. Replace that with slavery. Flood cities with freed slaves when wages get too high. Flood the country with illegals for the same reason. Offshore the work to poor countries. Automate as much as possible. Now AI.
Kudos to the AI leaders for the carefully manicured publicity, claiming this will make everyone free etc., but people see right through it. It’s the never-ending class war between a tiny minority of ultra-wealthy scumbags vs. everyday people one bad day away from being homeless.
Socialism will spread across the US and the battles will continue.
‘The biggest success for PlayStation on PC was Helldivers 2, which sold an estimated 12.7M copies on Steam and made Sony $400 million in gross revenue. Even more telling, Alinea data shows the co-op shooter sold more than twice many copies on Steam as it did on Sony’s own platform, PS5.’
Back in the day, it made sense for companies to have their own hardware. Nintendo. Sega. Sony. They had their own priorities on what power was needed, pricing points, etc. but that hasn’t been the case for quite some time now.
Sony releasing their games on PC, then balking at how popular they were, blatantly shows that their priority isn’t games but hardware, controlled ecosystems, and subscriptions.
Nintendo could make a fortune by releasing their back catalog on Steam. But they won’t because they’re a hardware company now. Sega gave up, as did countless others.
Personally, I don’t want to pay a fortune for a gaming console just to play an exclusive game. And I’m not alone. I’m half hoping that the insane hardware costs will kill these console wars once and for all.