Exactly!

My company rolled out JIRA time tracking and said it was purely to do metrics on time spent on tasks. The employees unionized and the company was trying to get us to accept that they'll use those time tracking charts as a basis for disciplinary action.

If they say "The tool won't be used for evaluation purposes", then you can bet it absolutely will be.

OpenAI, from a non-profit pushing the tech forward, to a for-profit that tried to hold its position, to trying to become a public traded so their now trimming stuff to be more "investor friendly".

Ah, it's like the cycle of "enshitification" in rapid fire.

For the giant multinational companies they have a LONG history of cheating the system then paying some substantially lower "settlement" with no further penalty. If heads of units/sections actually start getting held criminally liable that MAY actually change some things.

So, that means we can get rid of all the petroleum subsidies now huh?

Private companies contributed less than 0.1% to the initial construction and launch funding. It was mostly covered by public tax money. Ongoing annual costs are only covered 8-12% by private funding. Since the collective public of all of the ISS countries foot 88% of all ongoing funding and all of the initial construction, why are we tying the life of the station to private uses? If private money wants to get on the train, they should build their own rail line.

Sure, that's great if you can afford it. Seems like it's just more of a separation between haves and have-nots.

Well, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine being shot down by the Russians who thought it was a military target wasn't that long ago. And given in this case that what they thought was a drone ended up being a balloon, I'd say that concern is well placed.

Moon base, sure that's easier to pull off than a Mars one. Still doesn't provide the "Why" go to the high expense and danger of doing this to a satisfying degree. Pretty much every answer I've heard to that question so far could be done more safely and cheaper with robotics.

The promise as per Tech CEO's in 2024-2025 is massive increases in productivity, output, speed, and efficiency.

Yet this company is advertising longer hours, more grueling work.

CEO's promised AI will multiply productivity without burning people out, in practice it seems to be just justifying pushing people harder.
CEO's promised AI will elevate talent and create better jobs, yet this seems to be showing that "talent" is a disposable input. Fuel for the AI race.
CEO's promised AI will reinvent how we work. In practice it's "We work the same way, just more of it"


This is all the exact opposite of the "AI will make work more productive and humane" storyline that they have been pushing for the past few years.

"Low quality" is such an arbitrary term it's practically useless to describe anything. Pretty much sums up to "we don't like it"

"declined to comment on whether the decision had anything to do with former CISA director Jen Easterly being named chief executive of RSAC last week."

More than likely it is. So far this admin has made a point to hate on anything a democrat administration has done regardless if it was good for the country or not.

They see google doing something that sounds vaguely game related and sell positions.

I looked at this in more detail and honestly this looks like something that would be great for making a proof of concept to sell the idea of a game pretty quickly, but it's far from being able to make a full game.

Example: "Make a proof of concept for an open-world single player game with the art style of League of Legends" then make a bunch of iterations on that with "art style of film noir" or "art style of high definition cinematics".

Then people can use that as a gauge if something would be good to make or not vs having to use a power point presentation and leave it to the imagination.

I've already been seeing some clearly political based videos coming into my feed on there. And I've never looked for that type of stuff before.

I'm calling this out as a flop out of the gate. It's a product in search of a market that I think would be even more niche than the Apple Vision Pro.

Is there a demand for these at all? Seems like their making the product before there is a market..