And they say there’s a bubble, pffffffffffffffffft

I don’t really feel like the landlord part is true on principle, either? Isn’t the landlord technically the person who runs the server you use? Granted, they’re not managing billions of accounts like Meta and the like, but it doesn’t strike me as an accurate analogy

I’ve been starting to think that once the bubble begins to pop, the US will bail out the banks by buying up their loans to hyperscalers, and they’ll start writing giant surveillance contracts to AI companies to compensate for the lack of demand. The rich get richer and the resulting stock corrections will end up hurting regular people most

Post this to Facebook and surely you’ll get too many sincere replies

Not that it matters but he was such a godawful coach, too…

Organic intelligence

Sorta feels like iOS Face ID played a role in normalizing this for the general public

Oh I’m sure they’re reminding democrats too, but only in a way that sends them to the polls as unregistered voters unable to cast ballots

He was helping fund Hamas leading up to October 7th, too

Fuck Coke and Pepsi what’s a good cola brand I should go looking for at a store in the US

I don’t know what would make it possible, but wouldn’t collective legal action against the local governments make more sense than attacking Flock specifically? Maybe both would be appropriate- but at the end of the day, PDs bought this and are themselves carrying out these unconstitutional behaviors without the consent of citizens. Also I’ve heard there are other Flock-adjacent companies selling the same service

Unfortunately, a lot of the links I turn up are usually AI-written anyway

Watching every NFL game in the US has become like 5+ subscriptions

I’ve been wondering about this- how are redlib sites still working if the authwall is being made more restrictive?

Does this analysis adjust for all the BS listings on Indeed? At least from my past experiences reading and applying on online job boards, I see a lot of job postings that are scams or advertisements backed by no real intention of actually hiring anyone

I think that folds pretty well into both points A (reserving personal hardware for the wealthy) and point B (the ability to mandate software installations is a valuable mass surveillance touch-point)

The people inflating the bubble have to know what they’re doing, right? It’s hard to come up with an economic scenario where the market doesn’t crash and burn as a result.

I can’t shake the feeling that two key motivations for bleeding all this cash are A. For moving more wealth to the top (which, y’know, is already happening in umpteen different ways beyond AI), and B. For quickly building surveillance infrastructure, seeing as how eager the Pentagon/DHS is about AI

What is the threat model for this type of surveillance? Can any device measure this?