There's tons of options parents can tap to control the digital tools and toys their kids can access. The people pushing this are same ones who'll scream "DONT TELL ME HOW TO PARENT MY CHILD" when you attempt to hold them accountable for the action/inaction of their children.
WTF. Why do we let parents off the hook for this kind of thing?
Before he went political? We're talking about Colbert? Of... the Colbert Report?
HEY! Where's everybody going? We're the same as Anthropic, HONEST! WAIT! DONT GO!
-Sam A, probably
This is the dystopian AI future we're walking into. Endless generated versions of everything- copies of copies of copies and the original creators just buried under mountains of bullshit. And that's what they're aiming for.
The money is injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into this tech so that in a couple of years they can have skinjobs walking around with ripped off liknesses and bootlegged voices doing the things we used to do ourselves without paying us for it.
We've seen a lot of movies play our the robot revolution, but the corpos stealing of likeness angle? Fun.
Its funny, in the 90s and 00s- everything was new again because we were doing it online, and it let to the
We can't sell you little worker people new tech anymore.
Use what you've got, it's plenty. We're busy building a GOD.
-AI CEOs- probably.
Every couple of years we hear about another tranche of spooks security tools leaking out.
Make it even higher than that- or remove the cap all together. What's the big idea giving those who don't need it a pass anyway? Something is going to have to change.
SS is the carrot that keeps us all quietly working. You want to start a revolution? End SS.
No, they'll still get care- they'll just pay for it with the fortune that only an entire lifetime of easy economic opportunity brings. They spent their whole lives building the very system that's going to suck them dry. There might have been some help to take some of the pressure of, but as a voting bloc, they reliably voted against it every chance they had.
End of life care is now basically built specifically to extract all of the wealth from the boomer generation. When they're gone things are going to drastically change because the math wont work- the rest of us don't have even close to the resources they've managed to accrue.
Hard to tell, and that's part of what makes the movie so great.
Maaaaan, I got 10 kids to feed!
New games from big studios are kinda shitty. There are a few standout franchises that stand out and push the whole medium forward, but even those are starting lose their luster.
Gaming is also competing with itself in a really big way. Yesterday I saw Rockstars "Manhunt" on sale on steam for like 3$
I almost scooped it up, but remembered I have the actual game and can just emulate the system and run game on a PC with less hassle than dealing with modern launchers and bullshittery.
There's decades of amazing games out there, and a LOT of them can be had for very small amounts of money. Every time a studio puts out a real banger it's going to spend decades trying replace it as soon as it's a success. This is why we're seeing so many HD remakes and remasters. If you cant beat your old IP, sell it again!
That's not true. A lot of us are still running the same hobby bullshit out of the same little closet on the same rickety consumer hardware that we did in the 90s. I know I've been hosting services online for over a decade, and there's never been a profit motive for me. It's fun, and in the beginning that was enough.
It's more than that now. Every single personal site on the internet is a fly in big techs beer. Every hobby service out there is endless ad impressions denied. A lot of young people are looking for something they can do to take a stand against the monolithic capitalism that constantly put itself between us and what we're trying to do, and taking back technology is the answer. META can't fuck with your local political races if they're broke. Close your account and host your own site instead. Every hobby site is an act of defiance in the face of the massive corporations insisting they're the only option.
Every time a teenagers personal webserver answers it's first public request the whole world leans just a tiny bit back towards what we were all told the internet was in the 90s. Make a difference. Spin up a website. Host a service.... Take back control.
The old internet is still there- happily routing around failures, with or without you.
Using the internet is now considered a "tedious task"
Back in my day we stood in the kitchen and called moviephone. Now you kids cant even be bothered to go to type "showtimes" into your gameboys.
Sure champ. The reason fast food joints are seeing a drop in revenue as they 2-3x their prices is.... the drugs people are on.
Its not the weight loss drugs- it's the prices. Are they really this stupid?
Only God can make random selections.
