Money

Wait, fuck. Um…

Money

V, is that you?

Picture’s worth a thousand expletives.

I agree with the core of your point. I’d like to assert, though, that all people exert some level of self-censorship in public on the basis of the opinions of their neighbors and peers. Having to worry about powerful organizations like governments and megacorps also always being there (instead of just sometimes, or usually) adds a new degree of reason to self-censor, for sure.

I don’t want to have to keep up with the current styles of SmartGlasses from however many makers of these things there are at any given time. I am happy to outsource this awareness to someone I can find good reason to trust to provide me the info I need. Just like I don’t make my own vaccines, because I have no idea how to get the 5G that small.

Warning: there is probably a bunch of phones near you right now.

I’m with you. Made a comment recently, here or elsewhere, that a huge thing to happen with social spaces over time is that trustworthy sources of information have a chance to really prove themselves as such. So when you rip apart one platform and scatter its users, you destroy that earned credibility and leave a lot of people without at least some of their reliable news sources. That’s most harmful to people looking for actual truth, since people willing to swallow comfortable lies don’t really need the providers of information to be vetted.

The conclusion to all this is that keeping social platforms from building large, long-term communities is a very effective way to keep people who seek truth from finding it.

I imagine you’re focused on for-profit companies

They invited the target in, and realigned the cameras accordingly.

Hilarious Joke, maybe?

“If you don’t save every dog, you aren’t a dog lover.”

This is an insane take. By that local, someone doesn’t love anything unless they are using all their time and energy on that one thing. Which is called obsession.

Can you provide any statute or reporting to indicate a person can be jailed indefinitely over not unlocking a device?

Heat dissipation was my very first thought. Musk’s whole premise is absolute horseshit with modern and even near-future tech.

It’s not a problem like “get heavy thing off ground”, where we can study principles of lift, throw fossil fuels at rocketry, etc. There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”; entropy has too much to say on the subject.

The website that pulls this off would get the $2.75 I keep not giving Wikipedia.

“Artificial intelligence gains sentience, decides humans are fucking up… then deletes itself because the problem is that humans are burning the world by using AI” is not the path I expected. What a twist in a movie that could be. The second twist, which is the mostly fictional part, would be where that included some AI that was actually critical to some vital but ignored chunk of infrastructure and big BIG problems result from the AI taking itself out.

"The bubble is gonna burst sooner or later, and we really hope we can do something to convince everyone there is something useful here - whether that’s by finally making something good enough, or just finally turning non-stakeholder tech-literate people over to our side.

“Because otherwise everything we all poured into this was for nothing, and we will have to scramble like lunatics to not end up on the chopping block of history.”

I heard that if you don’t get your groceries via Walmart+ delivery, then it’s smuggling.