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Technology@lemmy.world•U.S President Plans White House Meeting With AI Companies Next Week On Federal Partnership To Share Profits With The PublicEnglish
6·7 days agoThanks, traveling and hadn’t seen the s&p update. Looks like NASDAQ’s fast track is still on.
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Technology@lemmy.world•U.S President Plans White House Meeting With AI Companies Next Week On Federal Partnership To Share Profits With The PublicEnglish
191·7 days agoSpaceX IPO that is being “fast tracked” for inclusion in the S&P500 is exit liquidity for the early investors and musk. Value yourself at some bullshit and force the public to buy your shares by inclusion in the most popular index fund who are required to weight their holdings based on market cap of your stock and buy shares to mirror index.if the company were so valuable and amazing with future growth prospects why would any insiders who already have pre-IPO shares want to sell? To cash out and/or de-risk is the only answer, and the general public’s retirement will fund it. It’s the same reason Trump is pushing the FTC to allow riskier assets like crypto and private investments in 401k accounts; exit liquidity for the current holders, most of whom know their investments are shit. Who better to buy them than index funds and the general public by limited choice in 401k fund options?
If any of this sounds familiar, it’s the same playbook as the great recession/“financial crisis”, when the rich elite suddenly required rescuing and backing of the US gov because their greed didn’t offer an out. Suddenly the public’s problem when they would have to take a loss.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centersEnglish
24·8 days ago🤌🍾🌈👌🤤😂
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Technology@lemmy.world•Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on how to decide which employees AI should replaceEnglish
1·11 days agoYes but how else do you exert power and create a culture of fear? Treating employees as individuals to be valued rather than a limit of their current job title is of course, unreasonable.
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Technology@lemmy.world•California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been ChaosEnglish
5·12 days agoThe best part is this is as good as the AI slop will get. Knowledge, digitally anyway, via search, peaked about 2 years ago. Primary source information will still be valid digitally…unless authors incorporate slop into their work, which will take dedication and care to do.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft converts Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses to read-only versionsEnglish
23·14 days agoThey met with telecom companies and heard about “unlimited”
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Technology@lemmy.world•US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred growsEnglish
392·18 days agoAs opposed to their extremism, which is “just how the world should be”.
Fucking stupid kindergarten shit
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Technology@lemmy.world•Standard Chartered Bank to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AIEnglish
1·23 days agoThe Italian purse company?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'English
3·23 days agoAll of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.
Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.
The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.
I would subscribe to your newsletter. All I want is ruthless, merciless cutting through the bullshit, keyword stuffing, buzzword clickbait.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'English
17·23 days agoBillionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:
- the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
- religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
- “law and order” voters to support him as a convicted felon
- women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
- those who want to “protect the children” that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
- descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
- those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
- veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
- veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
- rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
- corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is “certainty” to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency
…there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning feesEnglish
8·24 days agoCan’t imagine why Americans are all on anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication. What when you factor in predatory financial system, inflation/gouging, and permanent income instability.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox’s Shake to Summarize expands to Android and new languages on iOS | The Mozilla BlogEnglish
24·26 days agoJesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.
This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else’s AI will summarize it for your
victimsusers. You can just insert someone else’s AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is “optimized” and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn’t mean it’s correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?Also, when your innovation is akin to “ShakeWeight” you want to go back to the drawing board…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costsEnglish
19·29 days ago“All humans are equal, but some humans are more equal than others.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study findsEnglish
6·1 month agobut rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.
When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).




Lots of recall campaigns have successfully been done. They have the benefit of being very public and attention grabbing by nature. That’s if more immediate ejection/dismissal mechanisms don’t exist on a panel/committee.