"Huge douchey tech giant adopts softer tone on data centers as politics shift even just slightly back towards more humanism. Would still willing murder hundreds of thousands of people if it made their quarterly earnings reports look better." This is literally one of a handful of companies that are so untrustworthy that they make digital sovereignty an issue for every other country on the planet. Don't trust them. They don't deserve it. Don't fall for the new dialog either.

(Imagine "Mobster Lilt" since I can't tag it as such) "My, what a nice school network you have there. It would be a SHAME if anything were to happen to it..." -- It's a classic case of "we're not gonna play nice if you don't play our way" and Google should be kicked to the curb. It's a totally artificial requirement and they should be ashamed. Their search has sucked for years now anyway. I guess they should give up all of those government contracts while they're at it as well....

"Yawn!" That's my comment. And the price tag makes it a hard "no" real quick.

Seriously, he's not wrong. The internet of today is NOT what we thought we were building 30 years ago, and most of the big tech companies make me want to wretch.

Honestly I don't care if you choose to view Elizabeth Holmes as a naive idiot or as a brutally efficient sociopath. Either way, she's dangerous. And my biggest fear is that she'll do it again. Unless one of her former investors goes full Joe Pesci on her for "losing" a couple hundred million bucks. Somehow I just don't feel like her "crime time" antics are over yet.

...and the Hubitat C-7 really isn't that bad. No cloud, no subs, unless you want them. The C-8 looks like it might be leaning a little heavier on the internet access so your mileage may vary. My C-7 is still doing just fine without having to buy the latest thing out there or being forced into an upgrade I don't want.

See also; "Sony Dash" and "Chumby". The Dash didn't even make a credible door stop, before or after Sony chose to shut the Dash servers down, thereby relegating all Dash's to the status of e-waste. Don't bother. Same junk, different vendor.

One of the first uses "AI for the masses" was put to was generating non-consensual sexual imagery (oh, FFS, lets just call it porn already), ripping off artists, authors, musicians, and coders in a massive way, and then then, of course, there's the attempted "addiction loop" where they're trying to get everyone to rely on the technology even more than alcohol, tobacco, and hard drugs like heroin. It is "Effective Altruism" at it's worst, saying, "it's okay if we kill millions of people in the process because just look at all of the shareholder value we can create." You want some credibility, Sam Bankma...er-Altman? Disavow all of the supposed wealth that comes with your company being successful. Then take personal responsibility for any deaths that happen on your watch. If your fancy auto-correct happens to start a war is it okay to start a war against you? These are questions no one wants to answer. They just want us to stay dumb and quiet and in-the-dark enough so that they can blaze past Mark Zuckerberg on "The World's Most Important Douche Bag" list THEN they'll worry about the implications of what they've done. ...Maybe.

For a technology, and now an entire industry, founded on massive IP theft, fraud, and C-Suite thuggery, this story should not be surprise to anyone, especially the part about Sam Altman stealing credit for someone else's work.

We, The People, have ample reason to NOT TRUST Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook/Meta, and dozens of other companies that put their quarterly profits over people every second of every minute of every hour of every day in this world. I can't imagine why the "Magnificent Seven" AI companies should expect that we would trust them any more that the other huge tech companies. Would you trust Elon Musk at this point? Or Sam Bankma...., er, I mean Sam Altman? Shitty psychotic billionaires hiding behind huge corporate mazes inducing mind-boggling circular cash flows to prop up an entire industry founded by outright Intellectual Property theft is an unspeakably complex problem. Then add in use-cases like Flock cameras and job displacement and you're talking about a lot of anxiety from a LOT of people. You want people to trust huge companies more? Give them the power to put your entire C-Suite in prison for crimes they commit (either randomly or intentionally, because we know that some of this shit is intentional) and make them accountable again, rather than untouchable because corporate attorneys can generally be scum too. For that matter, the corporate attorneys should be held accountable for the work they do for their companies. And crazy, stoopid billionaires making fiscal or political policy has also proven to be a problem. Now couple that with the AI cheer-leading about how you should spend $30K for an AI-powered robot to dig a hole in your back yard rather than just go pick up a shovel and get it done for the cost of a little effort and sweat on your brow and you have a recipe for hating an entire industry. This whole "AI Everything" nonsense has got to stop. Here's were I'm at, Mr. Dipshit-Moji; "I trust an egg salad sandwich out of a vending machine in a men's room in a truck stop on the edge of Phoenix in the middle of August more than I trust you and your friends." And we know "who" you're so fervently developing AI for, and it's not, apparently, the commonwealth, or the general welfare, or, anyone or anything other than YOU. (Also, I think the potential is growing for you morons to actually destroy the planet at this point.)

I guess I'll have to find a different venue to stream from/to then. Goodbye, Twitch. That simple sentence has a rather resounding sense of finality to it for me.

If you IPO for any dollar amount described with the word "trillion" does that instantly make the company "too big to fail"? Does this mean that they should instantly qualify for government bail-outs if/when things go sideways for them? Do they screw hundreds of millions of tax payers to keep a couple thousand douchy-investor-types whole? Or does this particular event signal the dawn of a new day where "too big to fail" should no longer be a thing? Because if your IPO is in the Trillions of Dollars, your investors had better be ready to take it on the chin when your share price drops. Just sayin'.... cuz I'm sick of it happening the other way.

Go for the C-Suite. Surveil them. Document their movements. Make them the center of attention for some unknown not-necessarily-an-assailant(s). Let them know how it feels to be tagged and mapped and their whereabouts reconstructed. (Now I'm using a metaphor:) "Lop of the head and the body will whither and die." That's how you treat the mass surveillance beast of a thousand eyes.

"Who's more foolish? The Fool? Or the fool who follows?" -- or maybe Vizzini from The Princess Bride, "...Plato, Socrates, Sam Altman? Morons, all of them." Well, something like that. How about, "Burn, baby, burn, Token Inferno..." No? Well, maybe you were just born too late.

So Google's mouthpiece responds with Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) as a matter of course because that's what they always do. Google is just one great example of why The European Union needs to worry about it's own digital sovereignty. Too bad a billion-dollar fine won't make much difference in their "Be Evil" product strategy. Late-stage capitalism at its finest, where "growth at any cost" is not just the ethos or logos of a cancer cell. Go Euro Commission. American companies pretty much suck at this point and they're not afraid to act up, even internationally. You do what you gotta do.