Leon

My comment is in the context of this

Also interesting that we’re ignoring something here – big tech is chasing cheap sources of clean energy. Don’t we want cheap, clean energy?

I’m not saying it is. I’m saying that predatory companies shouldn’t run critical infrastructure.

Well, patents and what have you are a thing. I’m mostly thinking that I wouldn’t want e.g. Facebook to run any nuclear reactors or energy grids. That’s something I prefer the government does.

Highly recommended. Children of Ruin was hella spooky, and Children of Memory had me crying a lot. Good stories!

Sure we do. Do we want the big tech corporations to hold the reins of that though?

The Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky also explores this. Particularly the third book, Children of Memory.

Think it’s one of my favourite books. It was really good. The things I’d do to be able to experience it for the first time again.

Think it grew popular in the U.S. as an anti-masturbation thing. There were a LOT of those. This Kellog man was super into restricting masturbation and made cornflakes because a bland and unexciting meal would aid in preventing that.

To be fair, the colonisers were primarily religious puritans whose views were too extreme for Europe, hence why they sought new lands. It’s almost like a cult.

I think we’ll pull through, my friend.

I wish I was still capable of the same belief in the goodness of others.

Wow. That was an idea I never needed put in my brain. I think that perhaps I should stop using the internet.

I’m still holding out for Stephen Hawking to mail out Demon Summoning programs.

Given that they already ignore robots.txt I don’t think we can assume any sort of good manners on their part. These AI crawlers are like locusts, scouring and eating everything in their path,

It’s not the EU that will be scanning. Given that the scans will largely be aided by “AI”, private corporations will have access to all communications.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say that a warrant is the same as an invite. Legally it allows them to enter, but I’m not convinced that the laws of magic bend to the laws of man.

The only reason people are starving in this day and age is because people don’t care to fix it. We have the resources and the means. Starvation is a problem of policy.

But don’t you know that the collective wisdom of Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan put in a glorified autocomplete is going to save the world?

Right because all the big AI companies are currently paying big money to all the individual authors that they stole material from.

Copyright doesn’t work. It doesn’t stop big corporations from doing whatever they want. They can wield it as a weapon to hammer individuals and small businesses with, and in the case of e.g. medicine it outright kills people.

What the fuck does ambient even mean in the context of an operating system? Is it going to be floating around in the atmosphere of my flat? Is the next version of windows gaseous? Is it sarin gas?

but it the thinking behind it is very utopian

I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Things don’t have to be realistic to be aspirational. It’s a bigger problem when people give up because improvement isn’t realistic or deemed necessary by comparison to some other factor.

Saw it a lot here. People would be all “sure our healthcare isn’t great but at least we’re not like the U.S.” as the rightwingers bit by bit enshittified the entire system.

A utopia is what we should aim for. What’s the point of anything less?

You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.