Cloudflare, AWS, and other recent major service outages are what come to mind re: AI code. I’ve no doubt it is getting forced into critical infrastructure without proper diligence.

Humans are prone to error so imagine the errors our digital progeny are capable of!

Indeed. Seems every week Plex takes some action to enshitify their service more and more.

Utilities beholden to investor groups have been price gouging customers long before AI came along. We need governments that can competently govern and regulate.

Finamp is the official iOS Jellyfin music player. If only the would publish the latest beta version to the App Store! Apparently it’s so much better than the current release, but I refuse to sign up for test flight and the associated Apple terms.

Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.

Privatize the profits, socialize the losses

Personal privacy is always worth the cost. The ‘subsidies’ can go away anytime, so better to not be locked into an expensive spyware platform to begin with.

Tech companies don’t innovate anymore. Their Wall Street string-pullers demand reliable profit growth so they kill innovation through buyouts and are left with stale products they can only make worse and/or charge more for. Layoffs are a direct wealth transfer from working class labor to wealthy shareholders and the street rewards execs for it every time.

And if you’re thinking AI is innovative, it’s got executives in a fever pitch for the same reasons - so companies can fire expensive labor and big tech can become even more monopolistic, shove more ads, push more propaganda, and control the internet. It’s fortunate it doesn’t work that well so far. Bubble can’t pop soon enough.

A key aspect of a corporation is to protect execs liability. Anything they do is the legal responsibility of the corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_liability

Also see Citizens United in the US.

Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch

The guy became a billionaire from a ‘hot or not’ college website…

But the filthy wealthy gotta grow their wealth somehow!

You never have more power against an authoritarian than you do right now.

You have to resist, push back, fight etc. or you keep losing.

Good job. Keep speaking up!

People are good a justifying things to themselves. And when your invisible-friend-for-adults backs you up, well now you’re infallible.

Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html

The Orange Poo Smear doesn’t have friends. He’s a narcissist. That’s very thin ice for any type of relationship. As we saw with nearly his entire first term administration, people that get to know him learn to hate him quickly. This goes double for billionaires like Murdoch who are used to always getting their way.

They have reasons and clout to push back, while Israel is treated as an extension of the US. Not saying consistency is a strong suit tho, idiocy is also a factor.

His primary concern is ‘fuck you, pay me’. He’s running the country like a wannabe mob boss. It’s the default position to every issue and why he changes positions (someone paid him).

The amount of power shareholders hold over every major (American) enterprise isn’t talked about in a way that presents a clear problem between increasingly expensive and shitty services, layoffs, anti-worker practices, political corruption and these shareholder groups. C-suite are part of this group but they’re also afraid of removal via hostile board takeovers and so easily justify acquiescing to shareholder demands. Perhaps it’s because the same investors hold the same sway over (American) media with the added benefit of using it to brand themselves as exceptional leaders. Lots to untangle there…