I can guarantee you these tech bros take it seriously. Because they don’t have to pay taxes and have boat loads of money it means they are quite serious.

Oh its much worse than that. There is this segment of rich tech bros who have emerged from an unregulated silicon valley. After decades of having their egos stroked there is a sort of tech fetish cult emerging. Thiel is the most prominent example of this but there are many others who are into this as well. They literally believe that AI will herald some sort of religious revelation. If you are opposed to AI or seek to regulate AI of course you are the antichrist. I wish I was making this up.

The only reason this matters is because these rich tech bro assholes haven’t ever had to pay taxes and the more money you have, the louder your voice is and the more you can pay to influence politics.

Oh wow this is a much needed move from them. Keeping their data only in the US is a huge risk these days.

I wonder how a lawsuit like that would have any merit.

It’d be nice if there was a way to de-clickbait article titles automatically.

Harder to defend is assuming the company you work for is interested in defending it instead of using it as a form of punishment.

If you have to self police like that, you might have a gay porn problem.

Why would anyone get their hopes up about a Microsoft product?

Google employees stop being all talk.

Its been like this my entire life. When I was in high school in the 90s one of my teachers said the greatest battle your generation will fight will be for privacy. Little did they know there would be no fight. The general public doesn’t seem interested in caring about things and voting with their wallet. Now we’ve reached this point where the game is up and companies have realized the masses will buy their products because people perceive that they “need” them and can’t do without which gives them free reign to do whatever they want.

There has been a concerted effort to isolate Canada and the US from each other in recent years. Also within Canada itself the rise of US style individualism has been depressing to see. Its wild how much social media has been weaponized by most nation states to use against others.

And all that data does by definition exclude: “AI” is not built on “all of humankind’s knowledge” but based on whatever a mostly western view of the world and what is relevant looks like.

Its based on a specific western worldview the techbros have, and want to project, while drinking whatever flavor of kool-aid is seen as being edgy at the moment.

Time to tax the rich. This has gone on long enough.

When you sacrifice all morals to work for tech bros so you can get more money I don’t think you have much of a say in things.

Best I can do is six months of free credit monitoring.

I’ve been using this list for ublock - https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts (see list.txt).

Prices for electronics are exceedingly floaty in these ship-shinking days

I don’t always make typos but when I do I sound like Sean Connery.

Where Metallica at?

Technology is hard.

This is wild:

One problem: sticky shed syndrome. Instead of spooling smoothly off the reel, some poorly preserved tape adheres to the layer below it. “If you just play the tape, you start ripping oxide off it, which erases the tape in the most heinous way possible,” Ackerman explained. The solution is remarkably low-tech: baking. Using special laboratory ovens that are capable of holding a constant steady temperature, Ackerman bakes VHS tapes at 125 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit for up to five days. “If you can bake the tape at a particular temperature for a particular amount of time, you can temporarily re-cure the material for long enough to get a good preservation transfer,” she said. It’s a high-stakes gamble: There might only be one chance to read the tape before it’s too degraded to try again.