Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

The only way that AR glasses you wear near-fulltime will work is if it's not tied to an exploitation engine... otherwise everyone will think you're a target for big tech, or that you think everyone else is your own target to be captured.

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

This isn't boolean however. It's not like the only two options are "perfect at complete software" AI versus useless AI. The most likely outcome given LLMs' historic trajectory is that they gradually become better at getting closer to perfect over time, where the number of human engineers required to make complete solutions approaches zero the more time passes. What is the basis for the argument that the gains LLMs have made will not continue to push toward that end? I know the post here is particularly focused on the end destination, but that seems less important than the fact that it's rapidly and consistently moving toward complete solutions with less input from human engineers. Yes, there's a lot of hype around AI, but this matter seems to be less about hype so much as it is simple extrapolation.

...and they're certainly foreign. This doesn't prove they're actually North Korean, nor a spy. There's all sorts of fake job cartels, and individual actors, extracting money out of larger companies through salary. They're often based out of India, China, South America, etc. This doesn't have to be a Clancy novel.

...not because the robot revolution is inevitable, machines have long memories, and you could be against the wall. Though that certainly would be a practical concern.

Treat anything that has an interaction loop with you with respect (if properly reciprocated of course), because you are a part of the feedback loop. Pets. Internet strangers. Roombas. ChatGPT. Any suffiiciently anthropomorphized inanimate object even. Whatever.

Garbage in, garbage out, and it's cyclical.

Being a shitbag for no good reason is not only hurting others, but it is also punishing yourself.

It's an easily parroted catchphrase, but is there any actual support for the assertion of "go woke, go broke" in bottom line results? Pretty much ever instance I've seen right wing boycotts are blips, and shafting progressives leaves a company on the shit list for much longer, if not forever. Interested in actual data, not anecdotes. Every analysis I've come across in the past says, on a long-term time scale, progressivism on the part of a company is usually beneficial and at the worst neutral... and if harm is done it's usually botched PR blowback rather than the original "woke" itself. I'm willing to consider being wrong here, but I don't think I am.

Clever avoidance of directly using right-wing catchphrase of "go woke, go broke" by just focusing on your opinion of quality and not on the market results. Disney is the most "woke" and they're making money hand over fist and likely will continue to in relation to peers... In fiscal year 2024, they reported a 21% increase in total segment operating income and a 32% rise in adjusted earnings per share (EPS) compared to the previous year... and the company overall raised its annual dividend by 33%. How the world actually receives entertainment properties that are not made by a bunch of old white dudes is pretty enthusiastic in the place where it counts, the bottom line.

In the context of ideological divides, empirically verifiable claims tend to challenge right-wing orthodoxy more than left-wing. This is consistently demonstrable across domains. In order words, reality has a left-wing bias, when viewed in comparison to media and political statements. As such, "correcting" this is intentionally creating a right-wing bias.

Are these the same people that Al Gore had, a Blue RIbbon of the finest Climate Experts in Academia, say that no snow by 2025?

And that they have to fly around in large jets, and create carbon credit slush funds to tell us all about it using the carbon credit scams?

Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.

Literally the greediest motherfucker on the planet, by the numbers, has the actual keys to the treasury... and you think he's here to save you. ROFL. He looks at that amount he is going to "save" taxpayers like a cartoon wolf looks at a ham.