Their fancy new AI can go rogue, escape containment, and hack other companies. But surely, this advanced technology can’t be applied moderate Facebook ads!

Really shows you where the focus is.

I’m sure the FBI will be dispatching a team of experts to immediately investigate the servers at Meta, seize and analyze the offending content, and rescue the children being abused.

How about another congressional inquiry with Zuck’s robot doppelgänger?

Or, maybe the latest rogue Meta AI could be used to regulate Facebook advertising content instead of boosting stock price.

Mandate that websites support ad-blocking? Stop using Facebook?

What am I talking about? None of that will happen of course, that would be insane! Let’s just continue on as if everything is normal, because that’s what this is now. This is what’s normal in a world with the Meta corporation.

Fun fact: Microsoft will try to guess your passwords to open and scan your encrypted archives when uploaded to OneDrive.

Microsoft also hands your BitLocker recovery keys to the government on request.

Microsoft also uses your local machine’s GDID to deanonymize and track you across the internet for the government.

These are paid surveillance services Microsoft provides to the government, paid for by your tax dollars. No wonder they desperately want to force you to use OneDrive.

This warrantless mass surveillance technology chain can also easily be used to silence dissent, chill speech, and oppress by race, religion, gender, sexuality, pregnancy status, and any other status so deemed problematic by those with state power. This is not a power delegated to the government by the constitution, and it was not built to protect the people.

We accept impositions on our liberty for the protection of the general welfare. Did this actually protect us?

Jenny (the boat) survived colliding with the dock and survived a storm that destroyed the rest of the shrimping fleet, leaving Forrest and Lt. Dan to be lifted from poverty, allowing Lt. Dan to reconcile with God and his self-hatred.

Google already has more money than God, and is monetizing AI to kill God and steal his money.

Has this guy even seen this movie?

https://www.happyproduct.com/more/

Have you tried firing all the nurses and just not giving anyone healthcare?

The ring came off my pudding can! :(

Can we get a multi-million dollar B-2 Spirit flyover so I can forget about this tragedy and focus on the game instead please?

Were you sent here by the devil?

Wow, it really sounds like a tariff trade war with China is a terrible idea. I’m starting to think you’re way smarter than the President of the United States!

Yea right, it’s not like they control 91% of rare earth mineral production or anything. What are they gonna do, just not sell them to the US?

Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights.

If he’s not even accused of a crime, how is wiping his phone “destroying evidence”? What is the crime being committed here? You are allowed to wipe your own phone, and technically he didn’t even do that.

Furthermore, asking a suspect for their passcode is bargain basement police work. Being surprised when this doesn’t work seems pretty incompetent. I think they’re throwing the book at him because they fucked up.

It’s got the number of users right there in the name!

Remember when the entire Volkswagen organization conspired to engineer the bypassing of emissions testing?

Wow, what a bunch of cock sucking assholes. Maybe they shouldn’t exist anyways.

No, she just stopped emptying the bucket for me!

Wow! What a load of buuuuullshit!

And it just so happens that the privatized company’s AI chose to attack the website hosting free local models. Huh, what a coincidence.

…he said, adjusting his gaming diaper.

While there are still cheaper DDR5 options at lower speeds, the 32GB of DDR5 @ 8000MT I bought at $579 in February is now $700 on Amazon and even more elsewhere.

At the time I was convinced that the industry was moving towards a full-leasing only model, and so I decided to invest in some future proofing. It took less than 6 months for the price to start jumping again. Whether this is deliberate, or simply an emergent quality of supply/demand of the new AI economy probably doesn’t matter. The bar for private compute power is being shoved higher and higher by data centers and the PC industry’s response is to move towards a leasing model.

I foresee that eventually that when PC hardware becomes too expensive or completely unavailable in consumer markets, your PC will become like your phone - a locked-down, remotely managed, integrated hardware system that you lease as a unit, along with a cloud services subscription. Or, a thin client with the bare minimum specs to accommodate cloud computing. Extrapolating from this - a privatized Internet hostile to client computers unauthenticated by a major company or government entity running a recognized digital fiefdom where uncontrolled local compute will be viewed as highly suspicious.

If you still have the means and the interest, I suggest investing in consumer PC hardware to:

1. Demonstrate this market is still viable.

2. Buy hardware before it jumps in price again.

3. Claw back some of the local compute power being engineered away from consumers.

Of course, the AI economic bubble is due for collapse and cheap hardware may suddenly flood the market in a few years. However, I’m betting there is enough runway and monetization left to fund the pathway to the end of common PC ownership.