Vote Prison 2026 and 2028.

It's a unicode emoji

But I often confuse it with a Facehugger from Alien. Sadly, no emoji for that.

Skyrocketing in the stock market over the last 10 years, they took their money and started investing or buying their own customer base. It's bit of an incestuous relationship and it makes it difficult to cleanly analyze their long-term value. It's no longer a simple formula of company A produces product or service X, and they get revenue because companies B-Z are buying those products. Now it's like A makes X, and B-Z buy X, and A owns some or part of each of B-Z. So how much is A paying themselves and how much is actual growth?

My headphones from 2002 says "digital" on them. They're pure analog headphones, the Sony MDR-V6, which are just budget monitors.

Slashdotters are more likely to be replaced or otherwise lose their jobs because of AI. Bill Gates is safe.

Why are we attacking regular folks just trying to raise their children in this increasingly complex and often dystopian-feeling world?

At what point did you decide that it was time to deflect attacks away from a trillion dollar industry and the billionaires that command it, and towards some random person on the Internet trying to raise his/her kids ?

I'm waiting for Amazon Day to buy pitchforks and torches.

They are taking books out of circulation for human use, and making them into effectively an AI information monopoly.

Imagine a future where if you want to know something you have to ask AI. You can't even look it up yourself because those resources were pulped ages ago.

Immigrants, Communists, Biden's economy, etc. There's always SOME excuse.

So a net profit for Meta and they're off the hook.

There was GSZ (Graphic SZmodem) which let you view the image while you downloaded it and then abort before the end to avoid the radio metrics on old BBSes. And there was SuperZModem which let you chat and play tetris. I usually ran that one on my BBS. (GSZ was a little unreliable to run on a BBS, plus leaving my computer unattended mean anyone could walk by and see the weird shit some people would loaded to my BBS).

The tough reality about puppet presidents is that their heads are full of stuffing.

Yeah, we should surround ourselves with billionaires and hope it trickles down on us all.

Internment of Japanese Americans by the greatest Democrat ever, FDR?

Not doing this has already resulted in the violation of the privacy of billions of people.

I guess it is a compromise choice between:
1. Let the government track you only, with the hope that you can pry back or limit the scope of that information by petitioning your representives (for those of you in a functioning democracy)
2. Let silicon valley tech firms track you. Sell your data on the open market. Limit what you can even find out about the private data they have leaked. And when you go to petition your legislature, have them spend hundreds of millions or billions in lobbying against the best interests of typical voters.