It’s not scientific racism, it’s racism justified by pseudoscientific bullshit.

AI is statistically generated word salad.

Stock holders demand infinite growth. If the management doesn’t make money, they put in place new management. A company is only worth the value of the next stock buyback or dividend. It’s baked into the structure of corporations, especially publicly-owned corporations.

I think manufacturers need to get a lot more creative about simplified computing. The RPi Pico’s GPIO engine is powerful yet simple, and a good example of what is possible with some good application analysis and forethought.

Computers are only at fault when its convenient to blame them.

I really think that Musk is like the modern Citizen Kane, and we need a new Orson Welles to show the depths of his depravity.

Baghdad Bob could not be reached for comment in his bomb shelter.

So I have a LLM read a book and paraphrase its contents, that’s not stealing?

In other news: we have lawyers to protect our copyrights, you don’t. Suck it.

That’s a lot of wheels. I’d hate to have to inflate all those tires.

Yup, this is really maximize shareholder value. I can totally see this teambuilding event doubling dividends. Wait? You said the company never pays dividends and rarely buys back its stock? Wow, I am really seeing those profits!

This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.

I guess they’ll have to shut down their bootstrap-pulling engines for awhile.

“Humanity can not progress without heaps” - Hubert Farnsworth

You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.

They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn’t seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.

How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

I wonder what kind of simulators they use to test their code.

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.