We've spent well over forty years prioritizing greed over all other possible virtues. We're in one of the inflection points at this particular moment. We can either decide that we have some value other than greed, or we can let society steer itself into oblivion through that greed.

Based on the way things are looking? All our big decision makers have decided to just let greed continue to play its game. Human health and life itself doesn't matter in the face of profit potential for the few.

No. This is not a simple either/or despite the framing. It could be that they actually believe what they're putting out there, but that they absolutely *DO NOT*, under any circumstances, want to share the profits they make while decimating the workforce with those who are being affected by the massive job disruptions. And, I'm sorry to have to point this out to anyone supposedly familiar with the situation, but we already have forty plus years of proof that corporations are not well intentioned actors in the public sphere. They have one goal, and one goal only: profit. And they will absolutely behave in completely, belligerently, over-the-top sociopathic ways to achieve that goal. Thinking of them as well-intentioned enough to think the only two possibilities are they either don't believe they'll make money by decimating the workforce, or they'll get onboard with giving away a portion of the money they make decimating the workforce to help those disrupted demonstrates a complete and utter disconnect from reality.

Then again, we are talking about politics, which seems to require a complete and utter disconnect from reality these days.

In the end, there will be no attempt to force the corporations to repay the consumers. We gave up on treating humans as important in the face of corporations at some point in the 1980s. From that point forward, corporations and the ultra-wealthy who found them, have been deemed far more important than consumer class individuals. The government being forced to hand money back to the corporations will most likely be fine and dandy. Anything beyond that? No go. Consumers are fodder, cattle for the collective to harvest. There is no need for concern. The system is working precisely as designed.

Drain the middle class and down. Feed the upper class and the government.

They shouldn't be allowed to play gods, but right now they're not only allowed, they're being encouraged. They've sold themselves to the government movers and shakers as indispensable, and in some cases as the most important, most vital parts of all of society. And this particular manifesto seems to be yet another summation of how technologists must be allowed full reign over every aspect of society, or the society is ultimately a failure. Or at least it appears to be advertising itself as just that, and being that it is a product of Palantir's, I wouldn't doubt that this may actually be truth in advertising, something I didn't know marketing was capable of anymore. Small miracles wrapped in evil dressing I suppose.

I've read through several summaries elsewhere. It's really difficult to see reviews as anything but criticism because every glowing review gives off the ew vibes. Poke around online a bit. As a tech-company product, it seems to be pretty transparent at the roadmap it's attempting to lay out.

From the summaries I've read, it comes across like the billionaire class attempting to justify all atrocities so long as they benefit the billionaire class. There's also some truly classy quotes from it about how any country that's not supplying the billionaire class with additional profit potential is a lost cause and should be annihilated in favor of countries that do provide them with additional profit potential, or at least assimilated.

People spout of about techno-feudalism. This book, at least from the way it's being advertised, seems to be the techno-feudalist manifesto. I feel it may be worth reading from the perspective of understanding the enemy, but man the excerpts make it sound like pure, distilled evil with a touch of window dressing.

Now robots can exercise for us! FINALLY! Something I'm willing to gladly hand over to our robot overlords!

You mean the guys currently hell-bent on suiciding the entire human race to bring about their beloved Rapture? Those guys?

Save it for when DC goes full clusterfuck like Marvel has and have his ghost play one of the fifty or so Batmans (Batmen?) that show up.

I like the hidden implication that somehow these plugins didn't start as malware.

Yes, but only if they relentlessly flood all available communication channels accessed via screens with messaging about how important it is to stop using screens.

The Netflix DVD service was remarkable in its time. You could get movies and shows that were so obscure it was nearly impossible to buy a copy, or find them for rent locally. I wish that they had had some way of licensing some of those older films for streaming availability. Losing that format lost a huge chunk of my interest in Netflix. Watching them slowly turn to self-created content that, frankly, sucks horribly 90-95% of the time with only the odd win here or there was painful. The best thing they have today is access to foreign created shows that you can't really access in other ways. Not that I've had my subscription for a while, as you can catch up on what they have that's worth watching in about a month of access every two years or so these days.

With a C suite departure, I expect to see what little quality is left to disappear over the next year or two. Ads in all tiers will be first. Then expect a flurry of self-made programming that's all extra low-budget, zero effort, tick the boxes trash to start flooding the interface every time you open it.

"Yo, man, I found this vulnerability. Recall may be locked down, but the delivery mechanism for the user is essentially broadcasting everything they look at to anybody that might be interested."

Microsoft response: "Yup. It's working exactly as intended. We see zero problems with this behavior."

Could we, maybe, get some regulatory scrutiny on shit like this? Too much of the world still runs on Windows for it to just be a "*shrug* oh well" situation. And too many HR departments are going to demand this shitty feature be on at all times so they have the option of snooping everybody's workday to just shrug it off. Even if it's an opt-in feature, corporations salivate at the idea of an always available trace like this to ignore it. If it's going to exist it needs to be secure.

Or we can just wait for the inevitable, "Oh shit, financial records for $large_corporation_too_big_to_fail were leaked through Recall" story that will ultimately end in some massive government handout to keep the doors open.

Technically that was one of the orange turd's "advisors," but this administration also employs someone who thinks getting blackout drunk and waking up at Waffle House means he teleported, so, you know, confusing which of them said what is completely understandable.

Taking a solid blow to the head can often induce a brilliant sensation of a flash in the eyes. Something I'd be happy to provide these researchers, should they be interested in experiencing the sensation.