The goal is to get you to rent your computer forever.

AI, vast datacenters, hardware “shortages”, cloud services, DRM, TPM… it’s all part of the same pipeline: remove compute power from the user and concentrate it under control of the manufacturers in order to lease it back to the public in tightly controlled environments.

They have a weak person’s idea of strength.

Removed by mod

Except this time the fascist states are nuclear capable. The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.

I refuse to take sexy AI stuffed animals seriously and nobody can make me.

Oh man, who sells these toys so I can make sure to avoid them? Like, which website specifically There are so many, oh man! It’s so hard to know which specific one to avoid! And also, how do I make sure they can’t be modified to accept a fleshlight? You know, just to make extra sure I don’t get a slutty slop hole of a filth spewing teddy bear that will take on all-comers. No one wants that! That would be disgusting.

sigh yes… and also porn. So, so much porn.

Humanity invented the assembly line and the first thing we did was have a huge war with the rest of humanity.

Humanity invented the atomic bomb, and the first thing we did was drop it on humanity, twice.

Humanity invented the Internet, and the first thing we did was figure out how to censor humanity.

Now humanity has invented AI, a queryable sum of all human knowledge, and the first thing we do is try to manipulate humanity with it.

“It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables,” Musk added.

The world’s richest man, ladies and gentlemen.

How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?

To power the magnetic coils that provide plasma containment for an experimental fusion reactor, in order to research how to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

Such an achievement would be a watershed moment in human history, and most likely would usher in a new technological age of energy production.

Oh matters to them all right, and their boss.

I still find it incomprehensible that some text on a screen can cause so many problems. Have you tried not using a chatbot?

“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

I love your comedy Dave, but the sell-out you’ve become invalidates your position as a truth-teller right when America needs you the most. You built your career on raw talent and hard work without bowing to your masters at Comedy Central, and you don’t need to do this either. If you ever manage to un-sew your lips from the royal prince’s gold-shitting anus, please come back to us.

Obligatory take from another of my favorite comedians.

Socialism for the rich, brutalist capitalism for everyone else.

We killed God once, and we can do it again.

It is, this is the latest version, Dance Dance Revolution 4: G.SKILL edition.

The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.

With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.