At this point, I'm thinking that AI is really just work outsourcing in another form.

Really, that's what the last 25 years of IT has been about... outsourcing the boring repetitive coding and tech support overseas, outsourcing in-house data centers to cloud computing data centers, replacing locally installed software with SAAS solutions that run in a browser, and getting AI agents to (once again) outsource the boring repetitive coding and tech support to someone else.

A lot of Google Search results automatically go to their AI chatbot. Seems like an easy way to inflate your user numbers.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I mean, we shouldn't shame the guy for making his own custom Linux distribution. But did we really didn't need yet another one? Why can't these things just be an add-on package to an existing distribution, instead of fragmenting the Linux ecosystem even more?

It seems like the only the dramatic Flock camera destructions where they're being cut down or dragged away by a truck are really getting reported. The ones where they are being silently destroyed by pointing a high power green laser at the camera sensor are not.

I can imagine that Flock doesn't want people to know about how easily they can be disabled, so they aren't really reporting that on the news.

People also seem to forget that Tesla also did this awhile back with a Tron movie promotion, but people didn't complain about that for some reason. Not to mention that they added the Grok AI assistant to all of their cars as well. I'm shocked that the AI haters didn't make a big deal about that one.

On the bright side, if the Democrats take the house next year they'll have no shortage of things to impeach Trump for. If anything, the hardest thing will be to whittle down the list to the charges that are most likely to get the votes needed to impeach.

Have the seen the terrible build quality of the entry level Chromebooks they're giving the middle school students? They're cheap plastic trash, and I'm amazed that they can survive an entire school year without falling apart.

For Disney, I'd imagine that the end game solution that they're looking for is a "Disney++" AI portal experience where the end user requests an Iron Man or Frozen sequel from an LLM prompt and the backend generates some AI slop content using their preexisting IP and shows it to the viewer. Think Sora, but with movie length content and strict content controls.

Will this movie be any good? Probably not. Will the 6 year old kid requesting "Frozen but Olaf is in space" really care? Probably not. Are any producers or artists going to get paid to generate this movie? Probably not, and that's what Disney is hoping for.

Yeah... I lost trust in my first full time employer decades ago when they tried to outsource my work to cheap Indian labor.

I then lost trust in my second full time employer when they tried to outsource my work to cheap Costa Rican labor.

For my third and fourth full time employers, I lost trust in them because they were giving me annual 2 1/2% "raises" that didn't even cover inflation while the companies were making record profits. I'm pretty sure they would have loved to outsource my job overseas as well, but they didn't find a way to profitably do it while meeting compliance guidelines.

You mean casinos, right? You have the NYSE HQ downtown, and the NASDAQ HQ in Times Square. There are probably other smaller exchanges that I'm not aware of, but it seems like a HUGE portion of NYC's economy was already based on economic speculation before Kalshi showed up.

While this is true, I'm pretty sure that you can replace "Americans" with almost any modern country and 80% of this statement will apply. Almost everywhere people are working jobs that they hate, consuming food and drink that they probably shouldn't be having frequently, are saddled by crippling debt, and wasting their time on divisive social media that's trying to convince them that all of the world's problems are the Other Party's fault.

Cool... now can they get Adobe to stop bundling McAfee in their Reader bundles as well?

Did they really, though? Microsoft backported most of the Copilot AI and Edge/XBox/Office/OneDrive promotion crap to the later releases of Windows 10. If you were on the last 22H2 release and logged in with a Microsoft account, you already had about 80% of the Windows 11 enshittification installed whether you wanted it or not.

I don't really care that it's an EV. I'd imagine that Ford will eventually make an EV sports car that doesn't suck, but the Mach-E wasn't that vehicle.

I'm more annoyed that they put the Mustang name brand and logo on a vehicle so incredibly lame. It would be like Chevrolet putting the Corvette logo on a Blazer or Porsche putting the 911 logo on a Macan.

Odd statement, considering that he's been kissing NVidia's ass on CNBC and social media for the past 2 years and they've been one of the key businesses profiting off of the AI boom.