Always have laughed at Zuck’s claim that Threads had such a large user base just after the launch. By all accounts , anyone with a Meta account became a Threads user.

My family group decided to move when I spat the dummy after Meta decided to harvest all the contacts for WhatsApp users. Effectively they are the only ones I use messaging with but for getting others on is a long road.

In Australia we consider the Donald Trump is the greatest gift to EVs. Since he closed the Straight of Hormuz sales of EVs have skyrocketed. People now see EVs as a viable option rather than an early adopters plaything. The market has moved with the cost of fuel.

Had a Grand Cherokee once. That experience put me off US cars for good.

I’ve already moved off it, Mastodon is a much nicer feel. In fact I try not to use anything Meta including WhatsApp.

One of the benefits of AI, we either keep older HW longer or help to increase inflation by replacing. All this in the hope that people get value for chatting up a machine.

My assumption was that she never intended that someone else would read it therefore wasn’t transmitting it for that purpose. She was technically ill informed. Once that’s out of the way then it’ll be should the diary entry be considered in the context of the Minority Report? People are usually encouraged to write down negative thoughts and feelings to get them out and hopefully float away.

While a chatbot has been demonstrated not to be a private diary, it will be interesting to see if the courts agree that she intentionally use her diary to communicate or thought that someone else would read it. Like most users of dear diary she probably thought her secrets were safe and her diary would never tell.

Most EVs charge at home doesn’t mean it’s not cheaper than fossil fuel even using the charger down the road. As for convenience, using a public charger is like pouring fuel in at the petrol station.

The level of “I don’t care what happens to me” is fairly astounding.

I’m sure Darwin’s law will be in use with pedestrians oblivious to danger and drivers unaware of their surroundings adding to the statistics. But hey, what’s new.

The world economy is about $126US trillion this year and $6tn if close to 5% of that total. Given that this is mainly US investment, the US economy is about $26tn so $6tn is about 23%. Huge numbers and I assume that there will be winnowing as the industry shakes out so most of that investment will evaporate as companies go under.

They say this data centre is $17b. It really makes you wonder where the revenue to pay for it comes from.

They would like it less if it was $1m per day but even that if a tiny amount compared with the cost of the data centre.

He also is not touching anything so maybe he’s using telepathy.

Hail Trump in need of a Guardian ‘cause he is off the Rails!

Yep dystopian Science Fiction style future awaits.

We just need to ignore it for a while as Donny the Demented will probably sleep it off.

Something unusual is happening here, these Techbros are trying to invoke patriotism and leverage fear of the insurgents to aid their monopoly. It’s unusual as it signalling weakness rather than confidence in their ability to develop and manage their technology.

It would be a shock to a lot of people. Starting on Mastodon and Lemmy is hard at first as there is nothing there unless you actively work at it. We will have to see how it goes.